April 2012 – The Rock Band game packs are still being supported by Harmonics, however the hardware – guitars, drums, keyboards, etc are now being designed and made by MadCatz. We recently had a chance to test the “pro” series guitar that supports the full guitar mode – not just the 6 button interface. In [...]
May 14, 2012 – In a discussion with SGI, we discussed their new Intel Xeon platforms using the latest E5-4600 and E5-2400 chips. These are the latest in the Sandybridge architecture line for the Xeon platform and are targeted at the upper end of Shared Memory Design. The new E5-4600 chip is the hart of [...]
April 2012 – At NAB this year, Nvidia was showing a number of new GPU applications in their booth as well as their Maximus video solution. The Maximus GPU solution is the combination of a Quadro video card and a Tesla CPU computing card in a single system. This combination allows for very high performance [...]
April 2012- At NAB this year, long time broadcast partner Level 3 was showing new features of their VyVx system. The on-floor demo was highlighting the challenges and solutions for second screen access. Second screen has several solutions for VOD and archived content, but it presents several new challenges for live broadcast. At the show, [...]
May 2012 – With the launch of the new Intel core processors including Thunderbolt (TB) as a native interface, the availability of the connector and socket is rising. Intel identified at least 100 TB products by end of year 2012, and a quick rise in 2013. To address this market and the power constraints brought [...]
April 2012 – Intel announced their first launch of their new Core series microprocessors under the IvyBridge architecture and 22nm FinFet process. The new processors – 13 models of the i5 and i7 series all of which are quad core devices. These are the first processors built on the 22nm Tri-Gate 3D transistors and represtnet [...]
April 2012, One of the most talked about announcements at the NAB 2012 show was the release of the Autodesk Smoke product on the Mac platform for $3495 for a perpetual license with an optional $525/yr for maintenance with updates, in addition to the traditional Unix/Linux version that is still available. The product is being [...]
April 2012 – Long time test equipment provider Tektronix introduced a number of new products to address new challenges in the broadcast industry. The challenges include validation of content that is in digital form for playout, high resolutions such as 4K and 12bit color, 3D and increased frame rates, and multi-channel sound. These issues have [...]
April 2012 – At the NAB show, Maxon discussed advances being made with their products for motion graphics. Their current product line has enjoyed a 46% growth in 2010 which continued at a 26% WW level in 2011. This growth includes the shift of the Cinema4D tool from scene creation and character sequence creation to [...]
April 2012 – Facilis was showing their multi-platform storage solutions at NAB. The new system the TeraBlock V5.5, supports Mac/Windows/Linux workflows and data storage for most major tools, with a shared file system. The system uses 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s Fibre Chanel for an interface and can also support 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet. The storage solution [...]
