October 2018 – Following IBC 2018 in Amsterdam, we had a chance to run the new Dell Precision 5530 Workstation through its paces. The unit we had was configured for the mobile content creation application with a 6 core Xeon processor, Nvidia P2000 Quadro graphics card, 32GB of ECC Memory and a UHD compliant 4K…
April 2018 – At the NAB 2018 show in Las Vegas, the constantly increase resolution levels for video content have been bringing challenges on the production and distribution flows to create them and deliver them in a timely fashion. In this episode of Advanced Broadcast Technology, we highlight technology from AJA, Blackmagic Design, Newtek, ATL,…
September 2017 – To go along with the refresh of the Z series desktop and ZBook mobile workstations, there was a refresh additionally to the Zeries professional displays. The lead on the product launch is the HP Z38c. This is a curved single screen 4K display featuring a 10bit color depth and 3840×1600 resolutions. For…
February 2017 – Webcams have been an integrated part of mobile computing and an add-on for desktop computing for several decades. These cameras have been increasing in performance over the years for image size, resolution, frame rate and color clarity. They have been bounded by the interface speed of USB2 which limited the capabilities for…
December 2016 – We recently had the chance to spend a full month with the Blackmagic Design Teranex Express format converter. We tested out the product in a production studio that was broadcasting both SD and FHD content on air and for streaming. The studio features both production shows and live in-studio broadcast using a…
November 2016 – Over the start of the holiday season, we had a chance to test out the new AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 Professional Workstation Graphic Card. The WX7100 represent the marketplaces first single slot 4 x 4K display capable graphics card with 8GB of on board GDDR5 memory. The graphics card uses the WX7100…
August 2016 – In a briefing at Intel Developer Forum, they provided an overview of the new generation of laptop and desktop computer Core Processor chips that form the i3/i5/i7 series of devices. The new generation, the 7th in the Core series line, uses the improved design rule version of the Intel 14nm process that…
August 2016 – This year, the Flash Memory Summit featured an entire panel track that was focusing on Media and Entertainment. One of the panels discussed the growing use of flash memory for HDR, UHD and 4K content capture and editing. The panel was moderated by Lidia Paulinska, Editor in Chief of Bright Blue Innovation…
July 2016 – At the StudioXperience area at SIGGRAPH HP workstations was showing their Z series computing and display products for the professional content creation space. The start of exhibit area was the DreamColor professional displays, then the desktop workstations and finally the portable workstations which now can have integrated DreamColor displays. HP DreamColor Professional…
April 2016 – At the annual NAB show, Blackmagicdeisgn once again announced over a dozen new products. New and unique this year, are two products that were standouts on the show floor. The first is expanding the broadcast marketplace to include the IoT world. The second is a product targeted for the live performance marketplace….