The 2009  NAB convention ended yesterday in Las Vegas.   With 25% of this year’s attendees coming from outside the US, and with terrestrial/cable /satellite television organizations together only representing 24% of this year’s exhibitors, maybe the name “National Association of Broadcasters” is a bit misleading – but nevertheless, the NAB show remains a major perennial media event.

Like this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (also held in Las Vegas), NAB 2009 saw attendance down about 20% due to the current economic climate – still, almost 84,000 people attended.  On the internet video front, Adobe’s announcement concerning its intention to get its ubiquitous Flash web video platform onto consumer electronics devices such as televisions and set-top boxes seems to be the big story.  In my opinion, though, while these analysts were covering the right company, they were covering the wrong story: by limiting their focus to the frankly old news (already mentioned several times here on digitalmissive) that Adobe had plans to embed Flash onto CE chip sets, they missed the gradual transformation of Adobe into an open source software  company.
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