NAB day 3

Wow, there's so much going on and so much to see that the days here seem very long. Things that happened this afternoon feel like they happened yesterday.

I wrote down a list of things to look at today and promptly lost it. I have a whole stack of papers and catalogs that serve as a fairly good overview of the booths I visited today. I didn't get to see Kevin Adamson again. I guess I'll have to take a trip to VA Beach to do that.

The demo at the JVC booth reinforced the thought that the camera we bought for work was a good choice. They have a couple more models that can be used for live HD production with a wireless transmitter or in a studio configuration. They also have good features for movie makers (like an adapter to let you use 16mm camera lenses) as well as adding the ability to do 60p.

Panasonic was showing off a 103-inch plasma screen. That was really cool, but I totally missed it yesterday because of all the other displays around it.

We ate lunch in the Alladin's shopping center. Matt R and I had relatively cheap sandwiches at Max's Café while most of the rest of the gang ate at a sushi buffet.

On the way back to NAB Ena got a call telling her that she won the drawing in one of the booths and got 2 tickets to, I think, a circ du soleil show. After the expo closed, Ena and Tim went to the show. James B, Unc, Mike, Gus and I went to a Final Cut Pro user group super meeting or something and wasted money on raffle tickets for some really cool prizes.

Tomorrow, we'll go back to the exhibition hall and do whatever else looking around we need to do. We may leave early and go see the Hoover Dam. James B, is having us over to his house tomorrow night as well. Then after all that we have to get up and go to the airport super early so we can get through security in time to board our 6:15am flight. The sad thing is that I may be just about acclimated to the time zone difference.

I really only took one picture today and that was of an LCD field monitor sitting on top of a CRT field monitor with a light pointed straight at it. The CRT was so washed out that the picture was barely visible. The LCD was plain to see.