http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog BE@NAB Tue, 06 May 2008 18:34:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year, Broadcast Engineering offered unprecedented coverage of the NAB Show:NAB Update e-newsletter: We send the latest announcements from the NAB and companies to your inbox each week for 10 weeks leading up to the show and for five weeks after the show.Broadcast Engineering TV: We captured all the action. ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/25/wraping-up-nab/ For a quick rehash of NAB 2008, I went to the BE-Roll. Here are links to what attendees of the show are musing about: Viewfinder BLUES: NAB 08: Lessons Learned and NAB 08: The B-Roll Bash The Editblog: 5 Things I learned at the Photoshop for Video class and 5 things I ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/23/what-others-are-saying/ My blogging photog friends who Broadcast Engineering features on the BE-Roll were out in full force on the NAB show floor taking video. Here are a two clips that they posted to b-roll.net, an onling photog group: http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/22/a-view-from-the-be-roll/ My last day at the show, Thursday, was more relaxed without back-to-back prearranged meetings, so I had a chance to wander round, seeing new products. Most impressive was the new video monitor from Barco. Although still in the design stage, the pictures were stunning. Both Barco and Sony have shown ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/19/monitoring-and-dam-rescue-at-hand/ You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone not pleased that today is the last day of this year’s NAB show. Not that the show was bad or anything. It’s just that the intensity needed to bring off such a monumental event wears on participants. This year’s show attendance fell by 6,000 ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/17/last-day-whoopee/ At the Tektronix NAB2008 booth, the company introduced a 6lb. HD waveform monitor designed for stations launching actual high-def electronic news gathering operations. The company developed the WFM 5000 after listening to its customers who needed a basic monitoring device that would satisfy the need to maintain the level of quality ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/17/new-tektronix-waveform-monitor-addresses-hd-eng/ There’s always one question asked in any conversation an editor has with an NAB exhibitor, “So, what have you seen that’s new?” This year, my answer was “Not much.” That’s not to say companies haven’t introduced new, even innovative, products at this year’s show. It’s just that in some years, there are ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/17/wheres-the-wow/ http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/17/more-photos-from-nab-2/ The Las Vegas Convention Center is undergoing (another) renovation, which will impact next year’s NAB convention. Stand by for construction signs, dust, noise and logistical problems. What’s interesting from this editor’s viewpoint is that the company in charge of the electrical, mechanical, plumbing for the upcoming LVCC renovation is based ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/17/kansas-city-connection-to-las-vegas-convention-center/ At the MRC booth, I had a little fun ribbing Paul Furman, systems application engineer, about his badge which proclaimed him to be “The Greek God of Microwave.” The tone went from jocular to serious when the conversation turned to the integration of IP technology into digital microwave links, however. MRC ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/blog/2008/04/17/mrc-amg1000-addresses-ip-eng-station-return-channel-challenge/