T.H.E. Blog @ The Home Entertainment Show

Here is a reprint of the interview by Richard Beers, President of T.H.E. Show.

As T.H.E. Show or THE Home Entertainment Show enters its 10th year, we anticipate many milestones being reached and surpassed within the next 2 years.

As you know, CES moved out of its long-time home for high-end audio, Alexis Park Resort last year and relocated to various locations within The Venetian Hotel and Casino, the Sands Convention and the Las Vegas Convention Center. The reaction, from what I have heard and read has been “mixed.” Some individual rooms “up in the tower” were a hit, for some, but still there remained complaints about long elevator waits, limited hours and extra fees. As everyone knows, the rooms in the Sands Convention Center connecting to The Venetian had many complaints including enormous sound leakage problems between rooms.

We at T.H.E. Show, upon hearing and observing all of these difficulties decided to expand our convention, signing a long-term agreement with Alexis Park, in addition to retaining our on-going contract with the St Tropez Hotel. We can now offer individual exhibit rooms, convention space, large Board Rooms, as well as reasonably priced accommodations, all within a short walking distance.

We also made the decision to keep the majority of exhibits all on Ground Level… offering a “flow-of-traffic” plan that makes “getting around the exhibits” much easier than in the past and certainly much easier than roaming the meandering and splintered lay-out they have to live with at The Venetian.

[complete interview]