“NAB has always been the broadcast show,” Paul Hawxhurst, senior technical specialist at Canon USA, told me at the show this year. “For a little while there, it was cinema, cinema, cinema. Right now, it’s going back to broadcast, broadcast, broadcast.” On the floor in Las Vegas, that shift is hard to miss. As I made the rounds on the final day of the show, I asked vendors how business had been, and nearly all described a quieter year. Some companies reduced their footprint or skipped booths altogether, opting instead for smaller presences as a sponsor within NAB’s Cine Central […]
by Caleb Hammond on May 7, 2026
IBC Show was back in full swing with its familiar multi-day in-person event, with more than 37,000 smiling faces eager to attend the festivities. The Amsterdam gala is like no other trade show in the industry, pinning studios, media entertainment companies, tech innovators, software providers, filmmakers and creators under one roof. You can literally have a meeting with Google or Amazon AWS in the morning, then learn about the latest offerings from Canon, Sony or Avid in the afternoon. Similar to this year’s NAB Show and Cine Gear Expo LA, the future of technology was a buzzy topic on the […]
by Daron James on Sep 19, 2022