Re: [Avid-L2] Whither NAB?

My feeling is that cancellation is the only prudent thing to do.

The Industry will go on. Adjustments will be made. There will be pain.

But, as bad as humans are at it, the greater good needs to be put before short-term advantage.

Cancel NAB 2020.

David

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On Mar 10, 2020, at 2:27 PM, David Zimmerly <djz@affinityproductions.tv> wrote:

Now that AJA, Nikon, Adobe, Ross Video and others have pulled-out, it seems like only a matter of time before NAB itself is cancelled for 2020.  I'm guessing we'll know by Friday.

For those who are still holding out hope, or clinging to some kind of obstinate defiance, I would submit this:  we're supposed to be reasonably intelligent people in our industry, including thought leaders, journalists and learned engineers and academics.  Is it not an increasingly bad and very public look for us to pretend that everything is magically going to be ok by mid-April and that as long as we're armed with tankers full of hand sanitizer that NAB should plough ahead while other major conferences, concerts, sporting events and political rallies are cancelled?

Call this off-topic if you must, but I don't think it is.  Someone needs to address the elephant in the room before we all end up looking, and behaving, very, very dumb.