Back From NAB
I'm back and just starting to dig out from under the backlog from last week. It was positively the busiest and most fun NAB I've ever had. For those of you who missed out on the fun we've posted a few on-demand video webcasts. The first two videos are from our Monday night event and show a demo of the CS3 apps as well as a preview of the new Adobe Media Player. The other videos are interviews with some of the Dynamic Media staff straight off the show floor talking about some of our announcements.
The Adobe Media Player was the great surprise of the show for many people. We had announced this project (codename Philo) back at the MAX conference last October and it had kind of flown under the radar. Or, for folks (like me) who saw it just greeted it with a "huh." and moved on. But with the preview the excitement from the content creators in the audience was palpable on the show floor as they saw what this could mean for them. I was watching the demos with the rest of the audience and was personally excited that I might have an easy way to put my TV shows on my laptop for travel some time soon. :)
My other observation of the show that I wanted to point to was already written about by Steve here. The number of podcasters, vloggers, bloggers, and other "new media" types covering the show was boggling. I"m not sure if it means a virtualization of trade shows, but it sure does make a lot easier to keep up on what happened even if you didn't attend. On that note, there's been a ton written about Adobe at NAB and I'll try to link to some of it soon.