I just watched a demo at the Maxell booth (C8428) for the new iDVR. I spoke with John Eulberg about the product. The unit connects via a bidirectional USB or eSATA adapter to a camera capable of delivering 10-bit, 4:2:2 master-quality video and native full HD video. It can store 160GB of data with a transfer rate of 540Mb/s.
John says that the unit was create to pass military toughness specifications. It has a drop protection of up to 4ft thanks to a hard plastic shell and specially designed shock isolation systems.
Sunday is always the exception to the rule of my typical NAB experience. For the past 20 plus years, I spend Monday through Thursday running from appointment to appointment spread throughout the massive Las Vegas Convention Center that makes the convention –to me- more like a marathon than an industry gathering. But Sunday is different –particularly Sunday morning.
For the past several years, back-to-back press conferences are held in one specific meeting room on the upper level of the north hall of the convention center. Every hour on the hour, a new press conference put on by a different vendor begins. No running around; no frenetic activity. Just sit there and let the information flow. more
Solid State Logic today announced the successful integration of their Gravity NLE with Omneon’s Spectrum video server providing a streamlined workflow for media operations. The Gravity system oversees all asset management of media, tracking and facilitating the workflow from ingest through production editing while the Omneon media servers provide ingest and playout functionality.
Solid State Logic’s Gravity system is a comprehensive production asset management system that features a picon based - format independent, cataloging, indexing, editing, and playout system with capabilities of local or remote encoding, transcoding and database management. Gravity enables demanding media operations to automate and streamline the movement of content through their operation, and in large enterprises provides the ability to easily manage and repurpose content as necessary through the production workflow.
Space in 2GHz band is becoming tight, but Link Research wants broadcasters to knot that they’re not stuck. 7GHz is just as good as 2GHz in most applications, says Mark Anderson. I met with him and Newlin Warden to talk about Link Research’s current offerings: the L1050 HD/SD MPEG-2 encoder, the XPu mini transmitter for on-board applications and the L1500 wireless camera transmitter introduced last year.
Front Porch Digital has launched several new products at NAB. After all, as Dave Polyard, the company’s senior vice president of sales, says, “If you can’t find it, you can’t use it. And if you can’t use it, you can’t monetize it.”
To that end, the company has introduced the DIVAworks family, a range of plug-and-play content storage and protection solutions. The family is available in three configurations designed to suit a range of workflows and budgets: more
Solid State Logic announced that its new Gravity interfaces with Apple’s Final Cut Pro editor. The integration provides seamless transfer of Final Cut Pro compatible files from Gravity to an FCP editor without rendering.
Gravity is Solid State Logic’s new remote collaborative, proxy-based, video production editing environment. Gravity comes with media asset management capabilities. It is designed to pull together an entire production and distribution workflow into a uniform, consistent, user friendly interface. The system is targeted at news and sports applications.
Gravity features a picon based - format independent, cataloguing, indexing, editing, and playout system. Officials also said that Gravity supports increased use of high-definition video by supporting web-enabled, proxy-based access to content over low-bandwidth links.
At my meeting with Utah Scientific this morning, CEO Tom Harmon showed me the UTAH-400/XL. The router offers a 1056 x 1056 matrix in a single equipment rack while using industry-standard BNC connectors. The router is readily scalable from 288 x 288 to 1056 x 1056 and beyond using a single family of matrix building blocks.
The company also has introduced two new additions to its master control switcher product family. The MC-4000 delivers two complete signal processing channels in a 3RU package, offering larger broadcasters a fully integrated system for demanding on-air operations. For smaller applications, the MC-40 provides a standalone package that integrates the company’s MC-400 channel branding board along with an eight-input board that allows the MC-40 to be used separately from the UTAH-400 routing switcher.
There’s a new player in the broadcast space from a company well known in the broadcast space. The new company is AmberFin and it’s part of Snell & Wilcox.
This morning (Sunday) Joe Zaller, VP of corporate development for Snell & Wilcox announced the formation of a new division called AmberFin. Know what AmberFin means. Nothing, it’s just a name we were told at the press conference.
Simon Derry, the company’s chief executive, said Amberfin represents a software platform based on Snell & Wilcox’s iCR hardware product. One key difference between iCR and AmberFin’s application is that the AmberFin platform operates as a file-based workflow and processes content on a non-real time basis. Tag line for the venture is “AmberFin iCR delivers the ultimate multi-platform video content experience.” The new company’s brochure has a headline that’s sure to catch your attention; “Make money in your sleep.” Sign me up.
AmberFin currently has about 40 employees. Derry said the company is focused on three key client needs: helping them increase their revenue, control their production costs and enabling them to produce fast-to-market solutions.
At Sunday’s “Networking for the Digital Facility” session, presenter David Bigelow, owner of Gray Matter Entertainment, discussed why post facilities should have a network. He pointed out that Sneaker Net — moving files between systems with your sneakers — is obviously wasteful and takes editors away from the next task they could be doing. In addition, Sneaker Net is prone to clutter and technical damage, and it is disorganized because it leaves copies of content all over the place. more
Rumors were that attendance would be down at this year’s NAB. From early unofficial views, might be true.
I checked both the South Hall and North Hall main entrances just before 9am this Monday morning. No huge crowds.
This is quite unlike last year’s opening crush at the 9am starting gun last year.
Are folks just sleeping in?
Are fewer people coming to the NAB show?
Official attendance figures won’t be released until Thursday, but this morning’s view says attendance is lower than last year. One vendor estimate (okay, consider the source) was that we’d see 20,000 fewer than last year.
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I just watched a demo at the Maxell booth (C8428) for the new iDVR. I spoke with John Eulberg about the product. The unit connects via a bidirectional USB or eSATA adapter to a camera capable of delivering 10-bit, 4:2:2 master-quality video and native full HD video. It can store 160GB of data with a transfer rate of 540Mb/s.
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Sunday is always the exception to the rule of my typical NAB experience. For the past 20 plus years, I spend Monday through Thursday running from appointment to appointment spread throughout the massive Las Vegas Convention Center that makes the convention –to me- more like a marathon than an industry gathering. But Sunday is different –particularly Sunday morning.
Space in 2GHz band is becoming tight, but 
The company also has introduced two new additions to its master control switcher product family. The MC-4000 delivers two complete signal processing channels in a 3RU package, offering larger broadcasters a fully integrated system for demanding on-air operations. For smaller applications, the MC-40 provides a standalone package that integrates the company’s MC-400 channel branding board along with an eight-input board that allows the MC-40 to be used separately from the UTAH-400 routing switcher.
Rumors were that attendance would be down at this year’s NAB. From early unofficial views, might be true.
