[BC] NAB???

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 05:41 pm, Xmitters at aol.com wrote:

>  What I truly would miss though, is the opportunity to meet and greet people I 
>  talk to regularly on the phone. It's also a good place to make new 
>  professional contacts. And there is the social aspect of NAB that makes it enjo
>  yable. 
>  Not sure how we could emulate all of this activity over the net. 
>  
>  The other thing I would miss is the opportunity see all of the newest 
>  equipment.

 I go *primarily* for the face time.
 There is no place else where one can meet, chat with, etc. as many people
 in broadcast as cheaply as at the spring show.

 Yeah, I check out the equipment, but that's secondary, and ONLY
 because I'm there for other reasons.

 Do it on-line, and I'm out-a-here. No face time on-line, now, or ever.
 "Texting" and e-mail are not the same as sharing a drink, dinner, lunch,
 or any other personal contact.

>  I have a truly rabid dislike for LV. Of course this year, now that LV is not 
>  making their usual killing, good accommodations can easily be found. I Could 
>  not care less about gambling; I go to the show for business. As for LV itself, 
>  it can go sink in the mud for all I care.  If I want a vacation, I'll take 
>  one. 

 I dislike Vegas in much the same way, and probably for the same reasons,
 just not rabidly. I'm there for business reasons, and to renew friendships with
 folks I'll not see anywhere else, but were it to move and be as "big" I'd move
 with it.
 Were it to simply not happen, I'd be at the next biggest broadcast event, for
 the same reasons I go to the spring show.
 ( that might be better, as anyone I'd want to see would probably do the same,
 and we wouldn't have the spam problem that is NAB )

 But, for a vacation, Vegas is not even in my top 200 choices.

-- 
Cowboy