The Pre-CES Hype vs. The Rainy Tuesday Reality Next week, Las Vegas will turn into a neon shrine for CES 2026. You’re going to see “Agentic AI” that can order groceries for you, holographic displays that float in mid-air, and transparent OLEDs that look like something out of Minority Report.
Let me give you some context before I start ranting. I’ve been in the trenches of media technology for 25 years. I was writing code for Set-Top Boxes (STBs) when “on-demand” meant walking to Blockbuster. I built the architecture for the first DVRs that let you pause live TV. I have worked on engineering the streaming pipes that allow you to binge-watch in 4K without buffering and to figure out how to connect a second screen device to a Satellite Pay TV system.