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The author of this QJ article must be blind as a bat not to be able to read that image. I can read it fine. I will post a transcript of it soon.

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Continued From First Page …sic player when Chris Stephenson, general manager for global marketing at the company’s entertainment business, opened a box containing the device during a news conference in September. Photographers shot the unveiling, and the video became popular on the Web. “It wasn’t really purposefully done as an unboxing video, but what was really interesting about the whole thing was how viral it became.” Mr. Stephenson says. The videos are every bit as prosaic as you might imagine. Typical is one made by Vincent Nguyen, who launded unbox.it. He opens a box containing the highly coveted Nintendo Wii videogame console. After tearing away red and white snowflake gift-wrap to reveal the box, he slowly examines it and then pulls out every cable, remote control and instructional manual. Finally, he gets to the console itself. “Lets unveil it, let’s take our time here on the big baby that we just now are getting in,” he says. George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications for Nintendo of America, says he hadn’t heard of unboxing videos. “It doesn’t strike me, as a marketer, that it would be fascinating for someone to open the packaging,” he says. “People are fanatical” about unboxing videos, says Web videogame executive David Abrams, whose clip of a PS3 box opening has been so hugely popular on YouTube. “They want to see what is in the box. Just being told isn’t enough.” In the days before he managed to find a store with the Wii in stock, Detroit high-school senior Nick Bailey clicked on several unboxing videos on the Web. “They just get you excited, thinking ‘Oh this is going to happen to me,’ ” he says. After waiting nine hours at a Toys ‘R Us store, the 17-year-old took a Wii home, whereupon he taped a video of himself taking the console out of the box and displaying each of its components. He later posted his video on YouTube. Some are calling the fad “geek porn.” Chad Stoller, Organic’s executive director of emerging platforms, says, “It’s the culmination of lust. There are a lot of people who aspire, who want to have something they may not be able to afford, and they can’t buy it yet. They are looking for some way to satiate their appetite.” Big technology companies have long believed that the ritual of removing a product from its box is part of what makes it attractive to consumers. ***** it. Get the rest yourselves.

easy to read

well... its easy to read the article... maybe the author of this article had a little too much beer as he said it was "fuzzy" hehehehe ^^