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- Live 95: The Report
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- Defacto
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- Live95, The UK`S premier consumer electronics show held at Earls Court,
- London. Did it live up to the hype?.
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- Me and a couple of mates left for Live95, on Saturday 23rd September, and
- decided to go by train, as parking space would be a bitch. When we
- arrived we were greeted by the usual Earl`s Court building which was
- dressed up for the event with Live95 plastered all over it. We went in,
- through the ticket holders entrance into the main hall. There all the
- usual people were there including Sony, MicroShit, BT, Kenwood, Panasonic
- and all the other major companies. Sony Again had the biggest stand, and
- it was like like a city in there. They had lasers beaming away massive
- speakers pumping out the usual sony propaganda etc and they had all there
- products sorta lined up there, they looked kewl, especially the sony
- ladies!. It took me about 30 mins to get out of the sony complex and
- back into the main hall, there microshit were showing there latest
- operatiing system for the peecee, windoze95, and giving a short seminar
- to lamers who thought this was the future for computers, yeah sure!. I
- tried to go to a representative and ask for details about Win95 and then
- started to get into Workbench vs Win95 etc, the people were lamers, and
- gave me responses like, `No but it makes your computer faster` and `Now
- you can be more productive and use 32bit applications, a first in
- computer history`. At this point i was about to put the record straight,
- but then i saw a nice looking woman dressed up a a demon, so i decided to
- follow her ;).
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- I eventually ended up at the demon internet place, and there stand was
- sorta like in a corner and two ladies were `rapping` to promote demon
- internet, they weren't bad either!, the funny thing was across the floor
- was pipex`s stall which was promoting local call rates to 80% of the uk,
- and demon were there proudly showing off 100% local call rates to the
- UK!. The Pipex stall actually allowed you to use the internet, but i don
- think Demon did, shame really.
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- Next i checked all the `super consoles` and played on all of them,
- including the jaguar, i personally thought that the playstation was the
- best, even though the Saturn had slightly better sound. In the corner
- was future publishing`s stall and they two new A1200`S there!, they were
- only two Amigas in the whole place and in a little corner!, these 1200`s
- were the batch from AMiGA technologies, they has the AMiGA magic pack
- there and proudly showing off, `Seen for the first time in the uk` i
- picked up a Amigatech leaflet which was ok but not spectacular, they
- somehow managed to spell `graphics` wrong and spelt it `grafic`, that
- gives a good impression of the company doesn't it?.
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- Anyway after i decided to and just browse there were many stalls
- including from apple some lamer was trying to play a flight sim and
- showing off the graphical abilities of a mac as well all the usual
- productivity stuff they have etc. Again this stall had some nice looking
- women. I carried on and ended up at a BT stall were Micheala Strachan
- from the really wild show was there plugging live95/BT etc, she was on a
- stage with some no-name dancing and getting the people in the audience to
- dance away to but i think she got blanked as no-one did!. All the usual
- radio stations were there capital/Kiss etc. Capital radio london had Kim
- Wilde there on there stage singing and dancing. I then noticed a large
- line of men queuing up for something. I got in the line too, and it was
- page3 model Michelle Collins signing autographed posters for a company
- called tornado that does car stereo speakers, and the usual stuff. i
- managed to get a poster off her and got it signed, she looked kewl!.
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- Eventually i got to see all the `MultiMedia` Peecee`s etc and they just
- basically peecee`s that had a ridiculous amount of hardware stuffed in em
- to show what a peecee can do! yeah right with about a million pounds
- worth of cards, peripherals etc.
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- Anyway about this time i got bored and decided to fuck off home, i had
- all the usual leaflets and stuff from everyone the only thing i didn't
- get was the microshit bag which being handed out to everyone at the start
- of the exhibition, i decided to go upmarket with my sony bag.
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- Was 8 pounds really worth it?, well if your into hype yeah maybe, with
- the internet and peecees and new audio equipment etc, yeah its good, but
- i recommend you try and get a discount cause its not worth 8 quid, i went
- for 5 quid cause i had a discount voucher!, for 5 quid i cant complain.
- I personally think the women looked much better than the hardware!.
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