Panasonic Solutions Company showcased its new AG-3DA1, a professional-quality, fully integrated full-HD 3-D camcorder offering SD media card recording.
Panasonic booth (#C3712) visitors will be able to view 3-D video content shot with the 3DA1 during show hours. Also on display will be Panasonic’s recently announced BT-3DL2550, a 25in professional-quality 3-D LCD monitor for field use, and the AG-HMX100, a professional HD digital AV mixer for live 3-D event production. more…
NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith delivered his first NAB “State of the Industry” opening keynote during the 2010 NAB Show. Below are his prepared remarks. more…
Avid announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Euphonix, a producer of large-format digital audio consoles, media controllers, and peripherals. With the acquisition, Avid will deliver a broad range of audio and video control surfaces and consoles designed to meet the needs of customers ranging from the independent professional to the high-end broadcaster. Avid plans to continue to support and sell both Euphonix control surfaces and Avid’s existing ICON solution, enabling customers to leverage existing investments in industry-leading hardware. more…
There’s a new mobile video standard coming, according to Jay Adrick, vice president of broadcast technology for Harris Corporation. At Sunday night’s press conference, Adrick revealed Harris’ latest technological innovation developed in cooperation with LG Electronics: mobile digital television delivered in Scalable Full-Channel Mobile Mode (SFCMM).
The new system enables as many as 16 different video programs to be sent in the same 6MHz bandwidth used by a TV broadcaster. SFCMM has been proposed for ATSC standardization. more…
At Saturday night’s press conference, Omneon unveiled new components and enhancements across its product line and several collaborative partnerships.
“Our customers are being driven by business realities to simplify their workflows and leverage their video infrastructure more effectively in producing and distributing content,” said Geoff Stedman, senior vice president, marketing and business development at Omneon. “Supporting the production workflow in its entirety, the Omneon platform offers the best of Omneon storage and processing technology, as well as the interoperability to support the strengths of tightly integrated third-party systems. A series of enhancements to our products and ongoing work with both clients and partner vendors have contributed to the refinement of the Omneon production platform and its value in today’s demanding media workflows.” more…
For Chyron, the news is about software. Michael Wellesley-Wesley, president and CEO, reviewed the company’s new graphics solutions and software today. Focusing on hyperlocal applications, Wesley illustrated his point by talking about how station KOMO-TV was applying the technology. The station has 52 neighborhoods in its hyperlocal coverage. He said that such performance capability is possible through Chyron technology and “resource recovery” provided by the company’s platforms. more…
VCI Solutions is calling on the media community to support the Build 2010 House Project taking place during the NAB Show in Las Vegas April 11th – 14th. VCI Solutions, Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas, and NAB Show have partnered to frame a house during the NAB Show in three days. Volunteers and donations are needed to complete the house for a family in the Las Vegas area. Show attendees and vendors alike are all encouraged to participate in the building and donating to the project.
There are multiple two-hour time slots available on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday during the NAB Show to volunteer. The times slots with the most need of volunteers are in the afternoon on each day. more…
Engineers, traffic professionals, and managers from all over the U.S. gathered at the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas last week to share with peers and hear about PBS plans for 2010 and beyond. The group of around 500 heard presentations on issues including file-based workflow, loudness, compression, traffic issues, grant writing, video quality monitoring, cloud computing, and more. Attendance was up from last year and sponsorships were sold out, pleasing all and allowing PBS to offer scholarships to personnel from a number of stations around the country.
A major focus of the conference is the status of PBS’ NGIS non-real-time distribution system, now in alpha testing by stations. The system will ultimately replace a large portion of its real-time distribution, which requires much of the national content to be locally recorded for later playback. NGIS will deliver content as files to a highly redundant IT-based system deployed by PBS at all 177 of its affiliates. PBS has developed a sophisticated automated workflow (Station Services Platform) that communicates directly with the station’s traffic system. Content is delivered to stations at least 48 hours before air dates, and the system will hold the content for 10 days afterwards to allow stations to copy the content to servers or archives for future playout. more…
L.T. Martin is investigating broadcast 3-D at NAB this year. Will this year’s show turn a skeptic into an evangelist? Follow Martin at the BE on 3-D blog.
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Panasonic Solutions Company showcased its new AG-3DA1, a professional-quality, fully integrated full-HD 3-D camcorder offering SD media card recording. 
