Distribute Tools: Alcorn McBride Digital Binloop HD By Dan Ochiva
If you need to spec a design that involves multiple streams of HD playback, simply stacking up playback decks or even employing a standard video server...
Shoot Tools: Sony HDR-FX1000 and HVR-Z5U By Dan Ochiva
Sony keeps the options, and models, proliferating with two new tape-based HDV camcorders: the prosumer-oriented HDR-FX1000 handycam and professionally...
Shoot Tools: Canon EOS 5D Mark II By Dan Ochiva
You had to expect it was coming, but it wasn't until this past September that Canon made its first EOS digital SLR camera the EOS 5D Mark II that offers...
Distribute Tools: Tandberg Television By Dan Ochiva
By the extensive HD coverage used throughout, the Beijing Olympic games became a part of sports-television history as the first beginning-to-end high-definition...
Edit Tools: Boxx Technologies By Dan Ochiva
It seems you can't get around the fact that the Red Digital Cinema Red One camera controls a hunk of the what's hot market, with production- and post-oriented...
Distribute Tools: HaiVision Systems By Dan Ochiva
Flexible transmission gear that can handle multiple formats at once might be key to the growing telepresence and streaming markets. With the release of...
Edit Tools: Avid By Dan Ochiva
In early June, Avid announced it was shipping its new HD editing systems and VideoRAID storage products. Originally announced during NAB Show 2008, the...
Distribute Tools: TVOne By Dan Ochiva
Whether you work in a facility or in a fixed venue, added switching I/O can solve production needs for signal distribution. TV One's S2-108HD switcher...
Distribute Tools: DVEO By Dan Ochiva
You might want to distribute multiple streams of HD video at one location, but how? Sure, there are a number of high-end solutions, but how can you do...
Shoot Tools: Panasonic By Dan Ochiva
The Panasonic AG-HMC150 camera shoots HD formats that include 1080/60i, 1080/30p, and 1080/24p. Sporting a Leica Dicomar zoom lens (it opens to a relatively wide 28mm equivalent—that’s in 35mm film terms), the HMC150 records 1080i and 720p at 13Mbps, which the company claims is comparable in quality to current HDV compression formats with bit rates of 25Mbps....