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'Zombies' Hit Trade Show to Encourage TV Recycling

by Chad Mumm on January 15, 2009 at 04:01 PM

As TV manufactures galore loaded into the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES 2009, something began stirring deep in the bowels of the Earth. Whether it was black-magic or the alignment of the planets, we're not sure, but scores of undead walking television sets descended upon the Las Vegas pavement to extract revenge on their manufacturers.

Or at least that's how the 'story' goes.

In reality, we were just being treated to a piece of performance art by the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, which was on hand with said band of 'zombies' to encourage television manufacturers to establish recycling programs for their old analog TVs in preparation for the DTV switch over.

We took our camera out and scored an interview with the group's leader, Robin Schneider, as well as some of the zombies themselves, and narrowly avoided having our brains eaten.

Check out the video after the break to get a taste of some of the hot, 'Thriller'--style dancing, zombie TV action.

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