April 19-20, 2013 – Continuing the global expansion of gaming and game development, we visited the Digital Dragons 2013 European Games Festival held in Krakow, Poland. The electronic games market is the fastest growing sector in the entertainment industry and is expected to reach 60 billion euro in 2015 (IDATE prediction). Poland has been getting [...]
April 23, 2013, Atmel released their latest development tools platform for programming all of their micro-controller families. The increasing amount of software in embedded designs calls for better tools for code development. Although the tools can be critical to project completion, the main purpose for their existence is to encourage more MCU adoption. This release [...]
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Avid about their latest tools. The latest creative tools start with Media Composer 7 for nonlinear editing, now available starting at $999 USD. The new version features accelerated and simplified file-based workflows including optimized HD delivery from high-res source material and automated media operations. [...]
April 8, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Black Magic Design about their latest product releases. The company has new products in all areas of audio and video. To address the forthcoming 4k workflows, they have upgraded their products to be 6G-SDI capable, a format that does not have any standards. New [...]
April 8, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Maxon about their latest product releases. The main item was their tool integration with Adobe tools. They revealed the strategic alliance with Adobe, aimed at delivering a new level of integration between its 3D application CINEMA 4D, and After Effects. Two MAXON technologies will [...]
April 8, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with AJA about their latest product releases. After 20 years in the business, the company is still cranking out new products. They have a number of converters on hand including the Hi5-4K, a quad 3G SDI to 4k HDMI, and the ROI, a DVI and [...]
April 9, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Ian Valentine from Tektronix about their latest releases. Tek has been around the broadcast industry for a long time, so their announcements tend to be important technology statements. The evolving industry standards for interfaces and file formats need tool for checking infrastructure. At the [...]
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, las Vegas—We talked with Chyron-Hego about their various products. Their products are integrated across all platforms and allow xross discipline edit, render, etc. for graphics. The advent of blade servers and cloud services facilitates image analysis and production. All of their products are based upon their Lyric system [...]
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcsters, Las Vegas—we talked with Ross Video about their latest product releases. The inception of social media is changing the nature of broadcast, and the underlying equipment has to change to meet the new requirements. Social polling is showing trends and history in many areas. The analytics and visualizations [...]
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with IncrediBuild about their acceleration platform for software developers. They have the technology to improve Make and Build cycles through sharing of CPU cycles in game development and other vertical markets. By using the Net and parallelism, they emulate a high performance compute network. Most of [...]
