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  New Lightning storage products certified by Intel and Apple to work with Thunderbolt compatible devices   JMR Electronics, Inc. a leading manufacturer and systems integrator of scalable storage solutions has announced the general availability of their new line of Lightning Thunderbolt 2 to PCIe equipped storage products. Of the new Lightning product family, the LTNG-XQ and LTNG-XQ-8 Thunderbolt 2 ...

With the KH 805, Neumann.Berlin [AES booth 527] has adding a new active subwoofer to its string of acclaimed studio monitoring products. Based on the excellent acoustical performance of the KH 810 subwoofer, the KH 805 is the optimal choice for stereo set-ups in combination with the KH 120 or KH 310. As Wolfgang Fraissinet, President of Neumann, pointed out, “The KH 805 is the answer ...

The action on-screen in Paramount Pictures’ new “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension” may be scary, but the production behind the scenes was anything but horrific.  For this sixth installment in the supernatural horror film franchise, which opens nationwide today, director of photography John W. Rutland and his team set out to create a new type of look while maintaining the ...

Thu. November 12| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | 1A23-1A24 Program: General Sessions Registration Package: All-Industry Core Package Keynote Speaker: Steve Mosko, Chairman, Sony Pictures Television Mosko’s conversation with Carter will take a look at the current television landscape from the perspective of Mosko, the chairman of a 360 degree global television business at one of Hollywood‘s largest studios. Mosko will ...

Thu. November 12| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | 1A23-1A24 Program: General Sessions Registration Package: All-Industry Core Package Keynote Speaker: Brandon Berger, Chief Digital Officer Worldwide | Ogilvy & Mather With media changing at such a rapid pace on a global level it’s essential for companies to stay ahead of the curve. Brandon Berger has been at the cutting edge ...

Although the show doesn’t officially end until tomorrow, this (essentially) is the LAST DAY of one of the most awesome media conventions around!  Sure, perhaps NAB (usually held in Las Vegas) is bigger, but the true internationals travel to Amsterdam every year for THIS particular showing!  There has been many opportunities for video interviews with those who make things happen, ...

Day THREE of the IBC 2015 Show! Three down, two to go! And they saved the best for today!  Sunday is always the day that the industry creatives can “hang loose” and let loose with more secrets and tidbits they’ve been holding back on… and today had no shortage! Since the mid-80’s, ACCESS has been making a name for itself ...

Day 2 at IBC 2015 was a busy day – at least for our own Janet West!  As you can see from the following, she was all around the Show Floor today… it’s all about Janet today! Avid brought some special guests along with their impressive products. Emmy-Award-winning sound editor James Mather (the supervising sound editor of Mission Impossible 3), ...

The 2015 Amsterdam IBC Show’s first day (second if you include Thursday’s conference-only day) was kicked-off with a huge helping of information and fun at the Amsterdam RAI Congress and Exhibition Center. Hail, hail the gang’s all here! The big players and the up-and-comers are here to ply their wares for their friends in media: Arri, Audio Network, CueScript, Forbidden ...

Blackmagic Design one of the most innovated manufacturers in our industry today, announced that it will make the optical fiber connections on both the HD and Ultra HD studio cameras a user installed option which allows for the company to drop pricing for their award winning studio camera models! Many customers provided feedback as to if this extra cost option ...

The Broadcast Beat Magazine story just continues to get bigger, better, and faster in providing cutting edge information that puts the reader and professional ahead of the learning curve! The BEAT has morphed into not only a leading digital trade magazine that provides industry news, technical white papers, industry related articles, and a directory of over 40,000 professionals, but now it ...

Don’t miss out on all the action that is going to be taking place at Adobe MAX2015 Conference on October 3rd-7th in Los Angeles, CA! The speaker line up is sure to “spark” interest with a long list of presenters including Actor, Writer Nick Offerman and Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann! There are literally hundreds of sessions, labs, and creativity workshops being ...

Canon Live Learning is presenting an EOS Destination Workshop entitled: The Art of Dramatic Landscape and Action Photography with Canon Explorer of Light Tyler Stableford who is world renowned for his adventure and commercial photography! The workshop will be held at the Maroon Bells in Aspen, CO on September 30 through October 1st! The Art of Dramatic Landscape and Action ...

Adobe Anywhere in the Cloud delivered by Aframe is remarkable workflow platform that enables your teams to work together no matter which locations they are “camping out” at, just as long as there is network connectivity. The unveiling of the Aframe cloud platform hosting Adobe Anywhere took place at NAB2015 and was one of the show’s big hits! Now Aframe will showcase the ...

The Canon 4K Cine-Servo  line of lenses is quite impressive and they’re coming to IBC2015! Here’s a quick rundown of what Canon has to offer in the CINE-SERVO lens line! The CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm T5.0-8.9 PL or EF provides 4K performance for the Super35mm large format sensor cameras and can accommodate either broadcast or cinema-style production due to its removable Digital ...

LA-based Premier Digital, one of the largest encoding and distribution service companies in the world, has purchased multiple Telestream Vantage media-processing systems which are running on GPU-accelerated Lightspeed Servers  that creates a future-proof workflow! “Typically, we receive masters from our customers, encode the files into our house format, store them into our digital asset management system, and on request from ...