HotHardware Demos Samsung's Smart TV, Dave Makes Cameo Appearance

Although most of our time is spent hunkered down in the labs running benchmarks, taking and editing pictures, compiling data, working on page layouts, and of course writing, on occasion some of us actually get to go out into the real world and interact with people. I know. It’s crazy. But it does happen.

Fortunately for us, our fearless leader Dave spent some time with the folks at Samsung on one of his jaunts outside the lab. And wouldn’t ya know it, they ended up shooting a commercial...


Yup, that’s HotHardware’s own Dave Altavilla demoing the Explore 3D feature, available on Samsung’s newer 3D TVs. For a first-timer, I think Dave did a bang-up job. Heck, he even got the guy on the couch to get up rock out with some air-guitar action! Watch out ShamWow Guy--Dave's coming for you!

What do you all think? How’d Dave do in his commercial debut?
Marco Chiappetta

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com