12-03-08 Government Expo

I knew that I was going to make multiple post's this week as this is the work part as opposed to the tour part that I posted yesterday.

I was not sure what to expect as the show floor was not really all that large.

The only larger booths that were there were Panasonic and Sony. Avid was about out size and Adobe didn't show up at all. (I heard that had really large layoffs today)



In our booth we showed the Indigo Switcher (12 to 15K), The Infinity Camera (35K with a decent lense), and the Kayak Switcher ($45 to 250K)





I was not in our booth as one of our dealers wanted to have me showing EDIUS in thier booth. We were right across the walkway so I could see our folks and I was only about 20 feet away from them.

I was VERY busy and I probably talked for 5 of the 7 hours I was there!! (One hour of that was lunch!) I talked to well over 50 people today and gave out about 40 demo disks. I did see a couple of folks I know in the area and enjoyed some time catching up with them.

I saw Case Marsh walking by. Case used to drive me crazy on the forums for years. He really mellowed out the last few years and we finally met face to face last year and it was a nice visit.

http://ediusforum.grassvalley.com/forum/index.php (The forums I have helped run for 10 years. I am known as GrassValley MD on them)




This is my pod in the Digital Video Group's booth








After the show floor closed I went to dinner with Chuck Davidson (My old East Coast Salesman) and some of his co-workers. We went to a place called Bobby Vans and it was quite good and EXPENSIVE!! :)

I had a Bison Steak and it was not half bad.




Bobby Vans in Washington DC. This picture is from their website as I didn't take the camera with me... It was dark and all of those plants were dead... It is COLD here! :)