HP Professional Display and Workstation Updates
HP has a couple of new products to show at NAB that are relevant to digital film makers. The most significant one by far, is the new UHD Dreamcolor monitor,… Read more »
Category: Industry Status
NAB 2014 Wrap Up
Blackmagic Design had a variety of new products on display at NAB. The single most interesting one from my perspective is their new film scanner from recently acquired Cintel. Everything… Read more »
4K Video Over 6G-SDI Connections
We began seeing the first products supporting 6G SDI announced at NAB this year. I heard this was coming, but didn’t fully grasp the significance of it until looking around… Read more »
Act of Valor
So Act of Valor, the big project that I have been working on for the last four years, finally was released last month. It has been pretty exciting to see this… Read more »
NAB Coming Up Next Week
In case you hadn’t noticed the huge deluge of promotional emails over the last few days from every media company on the planet, NAB is coming up next week in Las… Read more »
Options for Stereoscopic Preview
Viewing stereoscopic media in realtime requires that the combined stream be transmitted to your display in some form. Originally this was accomplished with two independent streams going to two separate output devices,… Read more »
3D Display Technology
It seems like just about every week there is a new 3D technology being announced or released. This is due to the fact that there are so many possible ways to… Read more »
Stereoscopic Video
3D Movies have been all the rage ever since Avatar came out and made a ton of money. “3D” has risen and fallen in popularity multiple times in the past, but… Read more »
Shared SAN Storage Solutions
SANs are a hardware solution that allows multiple systems to share access to the performance and security offered by large high speed disk arrays. A single array of disks can… Read more »
Post Production Media Storage and Drive Arrays
After my last article explained why USB3 is not ready to be used as the interface for primary media editing drives, this has led to the question of: what interface… Read more »