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Platform1 – FREE Exhibition and Seminars

Once again, we’re bringing back the hottest technologies from NAB and presenting them in Platform1 – our annual two-day programme of seminars and product demonstrations. This year’s theme is: “All you ever wanted to know about file-based workflow – but … Continue reading →

Nvidia GPU Processing Power at NAB

Geek Alert! The following article contains material of a geeky nature and should not be read by persons who are sensitive to discussions which are written by nerds or geeks. One of the developments in computing which are making a … Continue reading →

DVS with Avid

DVS Digital Video Systems announced their new multi-channel and multi-format Venice. The form-factor has been reduced to a very neat 2u. The Venice has native support for DNxHD, XDCAM, DVCPRO, AVC-Ultra and Apple Rro ProRes 422. It can record & … Continue reading →

NAB, the smaller announcements!

There’s been quite a few announcements at this years NAB, some have been well reported (Blackmagic’s cinema camera, Smoke for $3,495 /£2,207 running on a MacBook etc) and some that haven’t. Maybe they’re aren’t as big but worth a mention… XenData … Continue reading →

Avid Media Composer archiving with XenData and Marquis Broadcast

XenData were showing a great simple user driven solution to help with the common problem which editors and facilities battle with on a daily occurrence, over full editing storage. In conjunction with Marquis Project Parking software running on a XenData … Continue reading →

DVS VENICE enhances file-based production at Pinewood Studios

At NAB 2012, DVS announces that the internationally renowned Pinewood Studios Group has enhanced its equipment offering with 8-channels of DVS VENICE broadcast server. This will form an essential part of Pinewood Television’s upgraded TV Studio facilities. Alongside VENICE, Pinewood … Continue reading →

NAB 2012- Day 1 overview

Well we finally finished our full day on the show floor. The overheated, frantic press release driven first day is behind us, and we can try and look back at the first days worth of highlights. The Black Magic Stand … Continue reading →

Space introduce LTO to their range

GB Labs launched LTO archiving within Space at this years NAB. They’ve introduced two LTO devices, LTO Space Mini & LTO Space. LTO Space mini offers a single LTO 5 (1.5TB) drive in-conjunction with their well known Space storage (2TB). … Continue reading →

Avid to Increase Storage Capacity for ISIS 7000

Further to Joel’s post on Avid’s release of ISIS v4.0 software earlier in April, Avid have announced at NAB 2012 that they will soon release a 4TB Storage Blade for their ISIS 7000 Shared Storage system. This means that the … Continue reading →

The 1u racmountable Mac server is back!

Sonnet are showing their all new xMac mini Server at NAB. Bringing the power of the Mac Mini into a rack-mountable format. It gives you the option to populate the two PCIe 2.0 slots (powered from the single inclosed power … Continue reading →