Boots on the ground at NAB-RTNDA
Steve Safran April 15th, 2007
I arrived in Las Vegas Friday night, and Cory will be here this morning. You can follow our brief, brief notes via our twitter coverage (An LR first) or our slightly more substantial coverage here at LR. Convention goers: The Hilton coffee shop has free (unadvertised) WiFi, ya’ll. It’s $12 in the room (wired and hidden behind my TV on the opposite side of the room as my desk) and God knows how much on the convention floor.
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1. Dave Zatz | April 15th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I never travel without 3G for my laptop… I don’t trust I’ll find WiFi, that it’ll be free, that it’ll be secure. During CES (as a blogger) I successfully tethered my Sprint 6700 in many area of the Convention Center (and hotel) with had good reception. This time around (as industry) I’ll be using a company-provided Verizon EVDO card and also expect good results.
I’m actually in the airport now on EVDO waiting to board my flight to Vegas. I’ll be demo-ing at ShowStoppers/Piero’s Monday night and would love for you guys to drop by and say hello!
2. Michael Rosenblum | April 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I am up in my room at the Hilton and just paid the $19.95 or whatever it is for 24 hours but I am hardwired as the wifi just does not work….. Hard to believe that there is no free wifi at rtnda/nab.
3. Stephan | April 15th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
12.95. on the convention floor and it is SLLLLOOOOOWWWW. I just tethered my Treo700w. Now why didn’t I do that first? ($25 later..)
4. Stephan | April 15th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
And Safran… use Alamo next time. I actually rented the vehicle Saturday at about 7pm from home, prepaid. When I got off the plane in Vegas three hours later, walked to the shuttle, got off the shuttle, walked straight to the car (got to pick which midsize I wanted) and drove off…
5. David Kennerly | April 15th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
“The Hilton coffee shop has free (unadvertised) WiFi, ya’ll.”
Calling you out on your spelling; “Ya’ll” would be a contraction of “You will.” The correct spelling, “y’all,” is a contraction of “you all.” You is to Y’all in English as Tu is to Vous in French. Yes yes, y’all.
6. Safran | April 15th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
I’m from Boston. We don’t do “y’all” well.
7. Charles | April 15th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Sidenote: I do find the somewhat popularity of Twitter interesting. The ability to embed a status on your site is interesting, but, I can easily check out my friend’s status on Facebook. But, thousands of people can’t be wrong, right? (Unless you factor those who go to movie theaters, or vote for Sanjaya.) I have to figure out some other minute function from a social networking site and make it it’s own brand. (Would LR be able to use an embedd from a dedicated “poking” site?)
8. Dan | April 15th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Game changing apps introduced by Apple today.
Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Server and by AJA,
the iO-HD.
There are going to be some major effects to the big box
hardware boys from this one. It’s not revolutionary
but it’s a big evolutionary step that will most definitely
help get work out the door more efficiently and allow
creative folks and clients to work together easier.
And it all happens at a cost factor that’s much less than competing products, even if they had the same
feature set which they do not.
Do you guys cover the technical aspects of NAB
or just the new media stuff?
I’ll be on the floor early to ask questions of
the manufacturers and see actual picture quality from
the new stuff and follow work-flows to see if they make
sense. But I’m not at a station anymore, so I’ll be
doing this from a director, writer, editor, product creation and production facility aspect. So if you guys
bring up products you see, I’ll probably add my two cents. So far this looks to be quite an interesting NAB.
Dan
9. Mister | September 15th, 2007 at 6:16 am
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