NAB 2008 – Digital Cinema (Film Archiving) Report

Film Scanners
One of the areas that I spent a lot of time looking at this year was the area of high end film ingest, restoration and film recording. In the area of ingest I looked at scanners manufactured by Image Systems (Golden Eye), the ARRISCAN Film Scanner, Thomson’s Spirit 4K® film scanner and FilmLight’s Northight [...]

NAB 2008 – Audio Report

Marshall MXL Mic Mate Microphone Preamp and USB Interface
I didn’t spend a lot of time at NAB looking at audio given that I plan to do more of that at Infocomm this summer. However I did like the Marshall MXL Mic Mate Microphone Preamp and USB Interface I stumbled across. This pocket-sized device converts any [...]

NAB 2008 – Compression (and non Compression) Devices

KDDI
Compression and recording images electronically seem to go hand-in-hand these days. KDDI is one of the companies that had some impressive displays at NAB this year. One was their real time HD software based MPEG to H.264/AVC transcoding software.

More challenging was their software based real-time 4K encoding that employed a commercial PC to bring it [...]

NAB 2008 – Camera Report

Supacam DVD Streaming Camcorder
Over the past few years NAB has become the ultimate show to look at video and film related cameras. Judging by the lineup at the B+H Photo booth this year the market appears hot. While the “big iron” cameras often get the lions share of press at NAB, there appeared to be [...]