I'll be there, but the UEFA semi-finals are Tuesday and Wednesday (and in the middle of the day) so I don't know if I'll make it over to LVCC. HAHA.
NAB has become less important for me as I venture out of the video world (I used to be a video editor) and into event production management.
The thing I like about
NAB is that it is so massive that you don't get confronted by people at every corner trying to sell you some product. There's too many people attending for that to effectively work. I pass a booth, may stop and look for a second from the aisle to see if it's worth my time, then move on. It seemed at
LDI like everybody was trying to hock their wares into the aisles, selling me some "
Ultimate Focus Tool" or something which I could care less about.
I usually go to get ideas for things and see what's out there, not to make final purchasing decisions. So I can rush in and rush out. I can easily visit all the halls in a day, stopping only at the booths which I think have something unique. I don't really ever trust salesmen, and if I want to know which products will work for me I can
call industry friends and get their opinions. But if you're all into video & primarily broadcast, this is definitely the place to be. The first time I went was such an eye opener as to what is out there. You might be on an email list and find out about about a new product, then find out there's 10 other vendors offering a very similar product, which you would never know if you didn't attend.
