Hearing representatives from different technology vendors to describe the likely future of in-home digital entertainment was a little like listening to the blind men of fable describe an elephant.... »
Stockholm-based Net Insight, whose U.S. customers include Boeing and Savvis, offers products that aim to guarantee quality of service while also maximizing network utilization for video. We asked the company’s founder and VP of business development, Per Lindgren, to talk to us about the market for digital TV and mobile TV both inside and outside the U.S.... »
Recent 3D Imax releases including Monster House and Superman Returns have proved there is, for the moment, a market for 3D content in movie theaters. But what about at home, or in retail spaces?... »
Superman Returns wasthe first major effects picture to be shot using the Genesis camera system from Panavision. Does that make a difference to a VFX studio? We decided to ask around.... »
Video can be compressed using three or four major codecs led by MPG4 and H.236. Audio can be subjected to over a dozen, including AAC, MP3, LAME and AMR narrow-band. Compression specialists are learning that bandwidth determines everything.... »
WGBH became a beta tester of Avid's new Symphony Nitris system as the first step in moving some of their programs to high-definition in 2007. Tim Mangini, broadcast director of FRONTLINE, oversees the Outpost, a facility that posts FRONTLINE and other client projects (usually documentaries). Mangini's Avid Symphony editors took the WGBH system for a test drive, and the Outpost ended up buying three. We talked to Mangini about the Symphony Nitris, HD delivery formats, and building a new post workflow.... »
By Ari Zohar Klingman, Engineer, Guava Studios/Freestyle Collective/Nice Shoes
Engineer Ari Zohar Klingman on deploying storage technologies at Freestyle Collective, Guava Studios and Nice Shoes, including Apple Xserve, Quantum SDLT, and Maximum Throughput Sledgehammer and Xstoner2... »
NAS v. SAN. Ethernet v. fibre-channel. From the ISIS to the Sledgehammer, decisions in the shared-storage space aren't getting much easier to make. ... »
