Nab 2008

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srproductions

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Hey Guys!

Anyone know when details for NAB 2008 will be announced? I have some things coming up early next year and I would like to make sure that I get to go. This will be my first time going. I have a few questions though...

1. How much does it cost to go to NAB?

2. Are there places to stay within walking distance, or do you have to rent a car?

3. Do you get coupons/discounts on the new items that release at NAB?

Thanks guys!
 
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April 12-17

1) Depends on what you want to do. If you just want to walk the exhibit floor, you can always find plenty of places to get free passes.

2) :) It's Las Vegas. More hotel rooms than anywhere else on the planet. Gobs of transportation options no matter where you stay.

3) Depends on the vendor.
 
Depends on what you do. You didn't have to sign up in advance to see the PJ Red short, but you did have to wait in line for a few hours. But the free exhibit pass was enough.

A full-access pass to everything usually runs in the $450 range.
 
Question... If I goto NAB can I purchase new equipment for Demo prices? Or, does DEMO pricing only go directly to Distributors and Dealers of the product in question for purchase?
 
There's very little being sold at NAB. It's not a market, it's a show. Sometimes you'll find a special here or there; I bought some Matthews equipment there because they were offering 25% off and, at the time, I lived there so there was no shipping. B&H publishes a catalog of "show specials", usually amounting to 5% or 10% off certain equipment. But for the most part no, people aren't selling lots of equipment on the show floor at cheap prices.
 
Last year was my first time, and we had a laundry list of stuff to see. We didn't get to half of it because we kept finding new stuff to see (some of we didn't even know existed).

For us, the exhibit pass was enough just because of the size of it all. We spent no time in audio, and hardly any in the post-production exhibits, and we still ran out of time (2 days on the floor). The great benefit was actually seeing, touching and having demonstrated things that we had only heard of or seen pictures of.

Besides I got to meet TC, Barry Green, David Jimerson, Mikko, Jarred, Jan and a bunch of other people in person. Oh, and seee kick-ass RED footage.

We plan on going back this year, but spending more time. Last year we drove and stayed at the Hilton, because it was supposed to be close. It is right next to the convention center, but both buildings are so huge that it still took about 20 minutes or so to get from our room to the stuff we wanted to see.

If anybody has any experience with the hotels on the other side of the convention center, that would be appreciated. I checked the Embassy Suites (which was across the street, IIRC), but they are already booked the first half of the week.
 
The Hilton is far and away the closest, being physically adjoining to the convention center. But that's not such a big deal, because most any of the larger hotels will be on the "bus line", meaning that you can walk onto a bus and get dropped off at the front door of the convention center. There's also the monorail which runs to many of the major hotels, but that gets extremely crowded during NAB week.

There are some hotels within a somewhat reasonable walking distance, like the Riviera, but overall I'd recommend that people look into the NAB shuttle bus system as probably the best/most practical way to find a hotel that provides reasonable (and free) transportation to the show floor.
 
Thanks Barry. Do all of the hotels on the NABshow site participate in the NAB bus service, and are they the only ones?
 
Did anyone hear that Avid will not be there? No booth, no presence, nothing. Completely absent. Their interim CEO issued a statement that's filled with a lot of non-speak. If I were a shareholder, I'd be making serious demands, or dumping about now. FCP and Vegas are just killing them, and they need to do something major.

Avid reminds me of Quark. Anybody remember them?
 
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