Author Archives: Mike McCarthy

About Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy is a technology consultant, with extensive experience in the film post-production industry. He started posting technology info and analysis at HD4PC in 2007. He broadened his focus with TechWithMikeFirst ten years later.

Everything You Need to Know About LTFS

LTO stands for Linear Tape Open, and was initially developed nearly twenty years ago. It records any digital files onto half inch magnetic tapes, stored in square single reel cartridges. … Read more »

IBC 2018

The International Broadcast Convention is taking place this week in Amsterdam, and there are a variety of new products and announcements at the show. AJA released the Kona5 with 12G… Read more »

NVidia’s New “Turing” Architecture Announced

Over the last week or so, NVidia has announced a number of new graphics cards, all based on their new 8th generation “Turing” GPU architecture. This replaces the previous generation… Read more »

Large Format Camera Workflows

In the last few months, we have seen the release of the Red Monstro, Sony Venice, Arri Alexa LF, and Canon C700 FF, all of which have larger, or full… Read more »

PNY PrevailPro Mobile Workstation

I have been given the opportunity to test out the new PNY PrevailPro Mobile Workstation. PNY is a company most recognized in the business workspace as the manufacturer of NVidia’s… Read more »

HP Dreamcolor Z31x Studio Display Review

HP sent me their newest high-end monitor to review. The Dreamcolor Z31x Studio Display is a 31″ true 4K color critical reference monitor. It has many new features that set… Read more »

NAB 2018 Conclusions

My second day on the show floor allowed me to follow up a bit more on a few technologies that I found intriguing the day before. The move to IP… Read more »

NAB 2018 Exhibits

These are my notes from the first day I spent browsing the NAB Show floor this year in Las Vegas. Further information from the Exhibition will be posted once my… Read more »

Pre-NAB Releases From Intel & Adobe

There have been a number of significant new product releases the week before NAB. On the software front, Adobe has new updates for the video apps on Creative Cloud. Intel had… Read more »

GTC 2018

I had the opportunity to attend GTC 2018, NVidia’s 9th annual technology conference in San Jose this week. GTC stands for GPU Technology Conference, and GPU stands for Graphics Processing… Read more »