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Poll: do you like piano black products?

Piano black is the new ... black, and every manufacturer makes at least one product decked in it. But do YOU like it? Let us know in CNET.com.au's poll.

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TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.
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  • Ty was nominated for Best New Journalist at the Australian IT Journalism awards, but he has only ever won one thing. As a youth, he was awarded a free session for the photography studio at a local supermarket.
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Enough is enough. After having unwrapped our -- give or take -- one millionth gadget which features a piano black finish, we have decided to take a stand. Do people actually want this finish or not?

We've seen phones, iPod docks, televisions, keyboards, cameras and everything else designed to be touched come in this hard-to-keep-clean finish. When reviewing the HP Verve laptop, Associate Editor Craig Simms was quoted as saying: "#$%& %@^&# %&^@#%^&@".

But it doesn't have to be this way.

We're taking it to the polls! Have your say. Does piano black give you the irrits like it does us -- with it's inability to stay clean and its tendency to scratch -- or do you think it's the best thing since café-sliced raisin bread?

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