The National Association of Broadcasters today released its attendance figures for the 2010 NAB Show, the world’s largest electronic media event covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. more…

There is a new player in the 3-D space and it’s Sensio Technologies. Sensio develops and markets stereoscopic 3-D digital compression and display formatting technologies. Sensio 3D allows the high-quality distribution of 3-D content through conventional existing 2-D infrastructures and playback/monitor on any 3-D display device. The Sensio 3D format is compatible with existing DVD and Blu-ray players and game consoles. While Sensio is not exhibiting on the show floor, you’ll be hearing more from this solutions company as 3-D further enters our space. More information is available at www.sensio.tv.

I almost want to tell you where the yearly Miranda Technologies press conference will be held, just because company CTO Michel Proulx is so entertaining and educating. I learn more about technology and solutions at his press conferences than all the others combined. By the time the press conference was over, I better understood a range of 3-D terms: over/under, side-by-side, anaglyph, and interaxial adjustments and about a half-dozen other common 3-D labels and technology, but I digress.

As if to emphasize his company’s 3-D expertise, Proulx did a portion of his press conference using 3-D displays and 3-D Web screen captures from the Masters golf tournament. How’s that for nifty? more…

At the Wohler press conference, company marketing director Carl Dempsey highlighted several new products for this show. Two deserve review here.

The first was the Wohler AMP2-16V, a 16-channel audio-video monitor. This SDI-centric audio mixer and router has a full range of tools for managing signal loudness, Dolby program streams, transmission chain audio insertion, and emergency troubleshooting. more…

Yep, you read correctly, Dolby has just released a professional reference monitor. I got a peek at the display in the Dolby booth with David Yang, marketing guru. This once audio-only company is showing the PRM-4200 LCD monitor. The monitor accurately shows true and deep black levels with higher contrast across the entire color spectrum. It offers high luminance range and level. more…

I stopped by for a brief visit with Cindy Zuelsdorf, Marketing Czar at Ensemble Designs yesterday. Two items caught my eye. The first was the BrightEye 72 converter that takes a 3 Gb/s, HD or SD SDI video signal and converts it to an HDMI signal that can drive most consumer monitors. The converter allows broadcasters to use off-the shelf monitors in high-end broadcast applications.

(Check out BE TV’s coverage of the BrightEye 72 here.)

“Everyone needs an affordable way to verify closed caption data for SD and HD signals,” said Cindy Zuelsdorf, Marketing Czar at Ensemble Designs. “Just about any HDMI monitor can now be used in a station or post house and do everything an engineer needs.” BrightEye 72 also that enables users to verify 608 or 708 closed-caption content. more…

We have our first batch of videos from NAB ready for you to view. Visit the BETV @ NAB 2010 page for our coverage.

Getting to Las Vegas on Friday night allowed me to attend sessions and classes over the weekend before the official opening of NAB, and it was well worth it. This weekend alone I was able to learn about stereopsis and how we perceive our 3-D world as well is issues facing the creation of 3-D video. We heard what it took to convert the movie Clash of the Titans from 2-D to 3-D in just eight weeks. Attendees saw a live demo of a 3-D camera and how the different adjustments affect the stereo picture.

In another session, we learned about progress on EAS and CAPS and what the 180-day window means as well as when it will begin. CAPS will address alerting all kinds of devices and EAS is now just a part, but a very important part, of this much larger national alert system. more…

Avid announced that CBS News has selected the new Interplay Media Asset Manager module to streamline content-related workflows and improve visibility into its asset library. Through a tight integration with its existing Avid Interplay Production and Avid Unity™ ISIS systems, Interplay Media Asset Manager will enable CBS News to easily identify available tape and digital library media assets for use in its own broadcasts or make them available for sale to third parties.

Interplay Media Asset Manager enhances content-related workflows by allowing media enterprises to collect, index, catalog, manipulate, retrieve, and distribute rich media. Customers can gain greater visibility into their assets, work across teams and geographies, and build business processes adapted to their specific needs.

Maybe you couldn’t make it to Las Vegas this year, or maybe you were stuck minding the booth. In either case, if you missed Panasonic’s press conference, you’re in luck. Panasonic has video of its conference, and you can watch it on the company’s Video Showcase page.