DV Expo West

Coursedesign wrote on 12/7/2005, 6:29 PM
Just got back from the show. Very sparsely populated, few booths and few visitors.

No Sony booth, just Sony resellers.

Biggest draw was Panasonic HVX200, seemed very nice actually.

JVC's HD100 didn't seem to pull nearly as many people, but then they had a fairly basic booth for a major vendor.

Canon's booth was very odd, seemed more focused on showing their Realia projectors actually.

Only thing worth driving across town for was Lynda.com offering One Year Premium Access for half off the regular $375. I looked at a bunch of their training programs online, saw that they were very high quality and signed up immedately. They are the only training company to offer training in all Macromedia Studio 8 applications, and they had it 2 days after the launch!

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p@mast3rs wrote on 12/7/2005, 7:26 PM
Did Lynda.com finally move to HD resolutions for their tutorials? I know Total Training has already started their migration and I know Lynda.com was supposed to be starting the higher resolutions soon as well.
Spot|DSE wrote on 12/7/2005, 7:28 PM
Course, were we at the same show? Panasonic has a good showing, no doubt. Slow attendance; agreed. Canon? Nice set (very new for them, first show AFAIK with this set) and 6 XLH1's set up for users to play with, that's more than JVC has on their booth and Panasonic has in theirs.
Total Training has all the Macromedia 8 studio stuff too, I bought a set this afternoon.

This show has definitely declined in attendance. I sure miss when it was at Long Beach though.
Coursedesign wrote on 12/7/2005, 8:26 PM
Total Training has had Dreamweaver 8 training, in "HD", since not long after the launch.

I preordered it immediately and it is truly outstanding. It is not a video DVD, but high resolution computer video that lets you really see the user interface details.

Total Training won't have Flash 8 and the other Studio 8 components until early 2006, better look in the box you bought :O).

Panasonic had also placed a number of HVX200 cameras in other vendor booths.
The camera as such seemed quite nice, I just couldn't stomach paying their prices for P2 storage. They justify the price with need for speed, ultra-selected flash memory chips, etc. I don't see how that makes sense at this point, as super high speed flash that should be able to handle 12.5 MB/s with plenty of margin sells for about $60/GB even in the more expensive form factor they use.

Lynda's online training is high resolution computer video.