NAB, Las Vegas—We talked with Active Storage about their video optimized storage platforms, that are focused on the ingest through near-line editing and production. Content needs are increasing as broadcasters move to multiple screens, while the time available to show that content is dropping. The company is trying to address these issues by making products [...]
We talked with Rakesh Agrawal from SnapStream about a metadata-based content search system that organizes storage and search functions. The system can handle 10 channels per unit, and units can be cascaded for greater capacity. The system uses closed captioning and time codes to generate data streams for search. This equipment can be integrated into [...]
NAB, Las Vegas—We met with Fraunhofer Alliance Digital Cinema and talked about the research organization and its work in next generation technologies for video. The organization has an international presence with the main research facilities in Germany, in Erlangen, Berlin, and Ilmenau. Other facilities are in the US and in Asia. The four main institutes [...]
April 17, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—We talked with Simon Frost and Fabio Murra from Ericsson Television. The company has been supplying equipment to the broadcast industry for many years. They produce a number of product lines to address all phases of broadcast operations. Now they are helping networks move TV into a full digital flow [...]
April 16, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Blackmagic Design introduced a host of new products for video capture and production. The highlight was a cinema-quality camera for $2995. The Cinema Camera touts a 13 stop dynamic range, 2.5K sensor, built-in SSD recorder, and Canon EF or Zeiss ZF lens mounts. Other features include a Thunderbolt connection, and [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Snell announced a number of new software and hardware packages for broadcasters. First, Momentum is a software tool for media asset management, workflow automation, and resource planning. The software has a unified interface across all users and departments. The software includes analytics to provide a picture of operations and real-time [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas– Harris Corporation is releasing a multiplatform head end platform that changes technologies and integrates the web, new media, broadcast, and rights management. This unified approach flows through trafficking and billing. The highly automated workflow provides enterprise level content management with common data to a single database through the addition [...]
April 16, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—AJA Video Systems introduced a number of new products and product enhancements at the conference. These additions to the product lines provide capabilities that allow customers to work professionally in increasingly high-end formats using their desktop computing systems of choice. AJA has been working to bridge the gap between invention [...]
We talked with Samsung about their various memory product lines. The constant drivers for changes are the demands for higher performance, higher capacity, and in of growing importance, lower power. The specific product lines we discussed were DDR three, SSD, and mobile memories. At the high performance and of the spectrum, DDR-3 memories are used [...]
March 29, 2012, Sensors in Design, San Jose, CA—Karen Lightman from the MEMS Industry Group described the organization’s functions and organization. MIG functions include standards development, reliability studies, and sharing of information among its 140 members. The semiconductor industry has had its leaders change many times over the decades. Now the top 30 suppliers are [...]
