http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab BE@NAB Thu, 14 May 2009 19:08:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To be honest, the last day of the NAB Show was creepy. Product and marketing managers seemed to be milling around, anxiously waiting for anyone to stop by. The halls were much quieter, and I was even able to take my time stopping by my last few booths because I ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/24/just-because-there-were-tumble-weeds-doesn%e2%80%99t-mean-it-was-a-ghost-town/ My subjective thoughts on the show: We know that the numbers were down, somewhere around 20 per cent, but that is nowhere near as bad as some predictions. I talked to people at many booths and most said that they had useful meetings, a very few said it was very ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/24/show-wrap-up/ Despite the lower attendance at this year's NAB show (the NAB announced that there were about 83,000 attendees compared with last year's 105,000), the show was still successful for many exhibitors I talked with. Though the economy affected the number of people at NAB 2009, the quality of those people ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/24/nab-show-ends-on-a-high-note/ The sky didn’t fall at NAB The first question at every booth visit I made was, “What do you think the attendance is?”. I guessed about 65,000. Other ranges I heard from exhibitors was 40,000 to 80,000. NAB says 83,000 “registered”. Yes, and I can tell you they counted me twice ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/23/i-came-i-saw-i-left/ Christie Digital arrived in Las Vegas for the NAB Show with the next step in the evolution of rear-projection DLP cubes –removal of the spinning red, green and blue color wheel. In its place, the company is using three separate red, green and blue LEDs –something Christie ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/23/christie-digital-replaces-dlp-color-wheel-with-leds-in-latest-rear-projection-cube-design/ Miranda Technologies (SU2807) is showing a full line of new modular products based on the Densité platform. The platform includes many solutions, including the Densité LGK-3901. This is a modular 3Gb/s/HD/SD branding processor capable of inserting up to five independent layers of graphics. Three of the keying layers can be ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/23/miranda-densite-lgk-3901/ Bycast Is “cloud storage” where storage is heading? Annette Saliken, director of marketing communications for Bycast, is confident that it is. For almost seven years, Bycast has been providing its GRID “business model,” as Saliken put it, but only now are storage experts really starting to talk about it, she said. ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/23/the-future-of-storage/ Rich D’Ambrise, director of technology at Maxell, was super excited about this year’s show because Maxell was releasing a product that’s been two years in the making, the iVDR-Xtreme. The iVDR-Xtreme is easily portable at only 6.1oz and fits in a shirt pocket (they did that on purpose, he told ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/23/maxell-offers-%e2%80%9cfield-tough-media%e2%80%9d/ At the NAB Show, Audio-Technica is unveiling the BP896 subminiature lavalier mic which is designed to provide high-quality audio pickup with an unobtrusive profile. The mic, a subminiature omnidirectional condenser lavalier, is enclosed in a low-profile housing designed to minimize noise and comes in three colors: white, ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/23/100-insurance-policy-can-rescue-a-shoot-when-wireless-goes-wrong/ Smaller frame, more features The Snell (SU1917, SU1717) Kahuna 1 M/E HD is Snell’s latest addition to this popular line of production switchers. The new Kahuna 1 M/E HD delivers the multiformat performance of the leading Kahuna production switcher, and does so in a 3-RU mainframe. The Kahuna 1 M/E HD ... http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/nab/2009/04/23/new-kahuna-production-switcher/