The Centennial Edition of the NAB Show will take place April 15–19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The NAB Show is the world’s largest gathering of electronic media professionals and innovators. The show draws creatives and new technology from all over the world.
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Great Things in 2020
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Four Teachers
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Book Review: ‘Churchill’s Shadow Raiders’ by Damien Lewis
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Bringing Ron Home
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I got a surprise today. It was the last stop on a journey that began on March 18, 2016. I was at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas. Things were wrapping up and I was looking forward to spending a couple of days in Houston with my sister-in-law Mary and her kids. Then I got the message from home. My son Ron had fallen. He was vomiting blood. The doctors said he had a stroke.
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Adobe MAX: Cultivating the Creative Spark
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Adobe MAX 2016: Inspiration, Education, and Quentin Tarantino
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Concert Review: Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival 2016 Rocked Las Vegas with Toby Keith, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, and Luke Bryan
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The Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival brought joy, country music, fun and surprises to the Las Vegas Strip, September 30 to October 2. The three-day event provided excitement each day, taking place at the MGM Resorts Festival Grounds, giving it the feel and experience of a traditional music festival like Stagecoach but enabling you to sleep in a Vegas hotel instead of your camper.
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Adobe Teases New Features at IBC in Amsterdam
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Getting On Board with Acting – Part 2
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E3: Games, Doritos and Wiz Khalifa take over LA
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This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was bigger and more virtual than ever. In recent years, the event was confined to the Los Angeles Convention Center and the sidewalks outside. This year it expanded to the street between Staples Center (home of the LA Lakers) and beyond into the popular eating and entertainment district, LA Live. The expansion made elements of the show available to not only attendees, but also casual passersby. And this year, there were dancing Doritos chips.
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E3: Driving Games Drive Me Crazy – Can Virtual Reality Help?
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This year E3, The Electronic Entertainment Expo, overflowed the Los Angeles Convention Center, spilled onto Chick Hearn Drive and into Los Angeles’ favorite downtown meeting place, LA Live. I had accepted an invitation from Thrustmaster to see their new driving game controllers. Somehow, I found booth 2705.
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E3: Games that Don’t Go Boom, but are Fun Anyway and Have Bacon
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E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, invaded the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 12-16, and left craziness and delight in its wake. I’ve never been a great fan of the shoot’em up games. Instead, I searched the humongous displays in the Los Angeles Convention Center for build’em ups. I found two: a relative newcomer, Farming Simulator, and the newest iteration of a classic, Sid Meier’s Civilization.
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Getting On Board with Acting – Part 1
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Interview: Ayla Brown at Concerned Vets Rally 2016 – Country Music Is Not Just Country Anymore
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Country singer Ayla Brown is the whole package – singer, songwriter, and owner of her own music production company, Ambient Entertainment. And that’s not counting her previous careers as a college basketball star at Boston College and a correspondent for ‘The Early Show’ on CBS. She was also an ‘American Idol’ finalist.
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Music DVD Review: Alan Jackson – ‘Keepin’ It Country – Live at Red Rocks’
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PlayOn Makes It Easier to Cut the Cord
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“Cord cutting” means getting your news, sports and entertainment direct from the Internet, rather than through a cable company. PlayOn software makes this task less daunting by pre-populating its interface with almost all the popular online programming sources. On top of this, it gives you a software based digital video recorder (DVR), they call a Streaming Video Recorder (SVR).
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NAB Show 2016: ‘In a World…’ – The Secrets Behind Successful Film Trailers
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NAB Show 2016: Ang Lee on Pushing the Limits of Cinema
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Ang Lee’s last film was created in High Dynamic Range, 4K, at 120 frames per second and in 3-D. In English that means that, compared to your big-screen HD TV, the film has more colors, four times the definition, four times the frame rate, and depth. This is the most technologically advanced feature film ever made.
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NAB Show 2016: Batman versus HDR – You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
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Eighty-nine years ago, Al Jolson said to the audience watching his film ‘The Jazz Singer,’ the first film with synchronized dialog, “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” After viewing the demo of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video and Dolby ATMOS sound at the Future of Cinema Conference in Las Vegas, I can confidently say, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”