Digitaljournalist.org Website Review

As soon as I slowly walked into the Las Vegas Hotel after my flight from Hawaii at 12:30am I found him. Elvis was standing there waiting Once again I was among the Thursday walking techno-zombie dead. But the last day of NAB is actually a good day since 75% of the people have gone home. The floor is wide open and you can actually get some personal time with software managers and the folks who build the gear. The National As*ociation of Broadcasters, or NAB, calls itself The Best Show On Earth. Held April 6-11 in Las Vegas, it is the world's largest electronic media event, covering film, entertainment, and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. With more than 90,000 attendees from 151 countries, and 1,600+ exhibitors, NAB is the ultimate marketplace for digital media. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms and countless nationalities, NAB is home to solutions that surpas* traditional broadcasting and encompas* content delivery to new screens in new ways. It is the ultimate video geek toy store! Read More I wanted to devote this post to the Super Meet, which in the past got a paragraph at the end of our annual NAB reports. To me, it's the best night of NAB week. The annual meeting of the editors tribes. Michael Horton and his crew do a ba*g-up job and work their bu*ts off each year. Last night was wonderful and not a technical glitch to speak of. It was perfect. Hats off to the tech crew that worked the Rio Roger and I bought some gear to test. We used Dirck's credit card - hope that was okay. Lots to report from the NAB exhibit floor this year. You'll get the full story over the next four days, if I survive. I walked at least 27 As Roger and I wait for the doors to the NAB Exhibition Hall to open tomorrow morning at exactly 9am we are thinking about what may be the star of the show. Some new software update like CS7, some new camera, a plug-in that makes your editing life easier or a piece of gear you