April 2013 – In the content creation world, the transmedia market is now opening up the development to professionals working on projects that are sharing both files and completed content assets. One of these areas of convergent is the gaming and broadcast industry. We had the opportunity to meet with Content Creation Specialty VAR ALT [...]
February 22, 2013 – In San Jose and Barcelona, Maxim integrated circuit introduced their new MAX2580 single-chip multi-standard RF to Bits® small cell radio transceiver. Aimed at the growing microcell and femtocell marketplace, the MIMO (2×2) radio design brings a single part solution with a minimum of external components to the system designer. This will [...]
January 2013 – Following a very busy showing at CES, Gibson brought their new Min-ETune device to the NAMM show for the professional musician audience. Follow in the line of the robot guitar, bringing multi-tuning options to a few seconds from minutes, they have released a new module that sits on the headstock of the [...]
January 2013 – Headphone manufacturer AudioFly made the long trek from Austrailia to Anaheim for the NAMM 2013 show. Designed by musicians and engineers with a passion for music, the products are targeted towards the high fidelity music audience. At the show, they were showing the early announce of thier pro-series that have enhanced crossovers [...]
January 2013 – Since the 1970′s, the Canare Company has dominated the Japanese professional and live venue market with over 80% market saturation for cabling. Their products for both copper and optical cables and associated connectors & accessories (tooling, repair, etc) have been the staples of the industry. The group has now opened a direct [...]
January 2013 – At the NAMM 2013 event in Anaheim, Casio introduced thier new flagship digital stage piano the Privia Pro PX-5S. The portable device (a mere 24 lbs) is a full 88 weighted key stage piano, and also a fully programmable keyboard & synthesizer as well as a 4 zone master control unit for [...]
October 2012 – At the AES Convention in San Francisco we had a chance to swing by MXL and Sony microphones and AKG (part of the Harman group) headphones. MXL Microphones – MXL had a number of their professional studo microphone, many of which were released earlier this year at NAB. The new microphone for [...]
October 29, 2012 – In San Francisco, AMD held a press conference announcing thier licensing of the ARM 64 bit core IP to be part of the Opteron product line. Planned to initial introduction in 2014, the ARM architecture is to be a supplemental tool in their server solution space. AMD x86 ARM Opteron Architecture [...]
October 2012 – Silicon Image gave an update on several of the new products addressing the MHL 2.0 specification. These parts support full 1080p video at 60 fps including 3D displays and content. Thier mobile transmitter product now includes a 4:1 mux to allow for multi-application for the single connector interface which is typically a [...]
October 2012 – At the San Francisco Oracle Open World Conference, CEO Larry Ellison pontificated about the new hardware architecture using the latest Sparc64 cores for supporting big memory configurations. The new hardware can support up to 32TB of DRAM in an SMP architecture, and as a result, they have redesigned the database to support [...]
