April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Panasonic released a number of new products for the broadcast industry. After reporting the award of a technical Emmy, they announced many new equipment and software releases. Panasonic will be covering the Olympics in HD and 3-D as one of the official video equipment suppliers. Some of the 3-D content [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB Conference. We met with EVS to hear what they are doing in broadcasting. Sports and other live content is growing at a high rate. The equipment for a typical sports event must now include some high-speed cameras for the ultra slow motion that consumers demand. A soccer game might require as [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas– Avid announced new tools for staged transitions in workflows to keep them in parallel. These software upgrades and changes take advantage of increased storage capacity and higher performance computer systems. The storage and asset management software has increase capacity for more access, including online. These tools allow real-time media [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Alfonso Cuaron, award winning director, described the influence of technology on creativity in cinema at an Autodesk event. Movies have evolved from silent black-and-white, to movies with sound, to color and through many other changes. Now we have color, 3-D, surround-sound movies that can hide the underlying technologies. Today, films [...]
April 12, 2012 Mentor Graphics User2User Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Sameer Halepete from Nvidia projected that super phones will become the driver for compute power rivaling that of a supercomputer. The integration of al of the functions into a single chip will be the impetus for the trillion transistor SoC. GPUs are getting bigger and the [...]
April 12, 2012, Mentor User2User Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Wally Rhines from Mentor Graphics opened the conference with a talk on ” doing what others don’t” in his keynote address. Hs was trying to counter the conventional wisdom that in the EDA industry, the big companies continue and the small companies innovate, then get acquired. Mentor [...]
March 2012 – We recently had a chance to test the Akitio MyCloud Mini Personal Cloud Server. The product which supports DLNA, UpnP, eSATA, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, and USB 2.0 is designed to be a central connection and NAS controller for a home/small business media network. The compact device (~12cm X 12cm X 3cm ) has [...]
