Digital Content Producer October 2008
Story and photos by Bill Miller
If the broadcast isn't going out to 20 million people, you haven't directed live television. So starts my interview with veteran television director Lawrence...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Cynthia Wisehart on SMPTE’s move to standardize the mastering and packaging formats for content distributed over broadband networks....
Reviewer: D. W. Leitner
It’s virtually unprecedented for a manufacturer to release a follow-up product hard on the heels of the original, which highlights the fact that the Sony PMW-EX3, despite a successive product number, is not a successor to the PMW-EX1 but rather its matched complement....
Reviewer: Jan Ozer
Panasonic’s AG-HPX170 delivers groundbreaking new usability features in several key areas, along with excellent color and relatively noise-free video....
By Dan Ochiva
Camera support gear is pretty much a matter of taste: Some don't like to use anything, some want to try the latest innovations to see if they can find...
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...
By Dan Ochiva
Getting ever more capable audio gear on the road becomes an option with new generations of compact processing gear. Take Metric Halo's Mobile I/O 2882:...
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...
By Dan Ochiva
While they've become more popular due to the flexibility they bring to a production, portable field microwave links can still have drawbacks, such as...
By Dan Ochiva
For those determined to go on shooting no matter the weather, Petrol offers the PRC-EX1 raincover. Specifically designed for Sony's PMW-EX1 and HVR-Z7U,...
By Dan Ochiva
Over the years, Snell & Wilcox has garnered a top reputation for its gear; a number of breakthroughs came via R&D conducted with the BBC's best engineers....
By Dan Ochiva
While many of us might not be going out tomorrow to buy an enterprise-scale media-asset-management system (MAM), techniques, technologies, and workflow...
By Dan Ochiva
Multipurpose gear is a good buy whenever you can find something that fits your production needs. Telestream offers one possible solution with its Pipeline...
By Dan Ochiva
The battle for media-format domination of the Internet a fight among Adobe, Microsoft, and others is heating up. At IBC 2008, Adobe introduced Adobe Flash...
By Dan Ochiva
Microsoft continues to push corporate buy-in for its .NET technology, a network application aimed at providing the framework to build all manner of advanced...
By Dan Ochiva
Media-asset-management systems are designed to allow you to do more with what you already have. Vizrt developed Viz Link, for example, as an extension...
Reviewer: Jan Ozer
Inlet Technologies Fathom is a batch-encoding and file-analysis tool with extensive automation capabilities, great support for H.264 and VC-1 advanced...
By Dan Ochiva
Thin is in. While LCDs have thinned down over the past few years, now it's plasmas' turn. At September's CEDIA Expo, Hitachi demo'd a prototype model...
By Dan Ochiva
Digital signage can be pricey to get into, so it's an interesting move when a large manufacturer in the consumer realm decides to move into the business...
By Dan Ochiva
Big is in, too. Besides Panasonic, which has been announcing sales of its 103in. behemoth PDP, NEC recently announced its own best effort. In this case,...
By Dan Ochiva
The move to larger, higher-res HD displays for public installations is picking up speed as screen brightness improves even as prices drop. Sony's recently...
By Dan Ochiva
Although Microsoft has trumpeted its Touchwall multiple-touch large LCD-screen technology like the iPhone, you can work it with two hands at once for...
By Dan Ochiva
Why not get the latest when doing a commercial installation, including a built-in TV tuner and built-in loud-speakers? That's what Samsung touts with...
By Dan Ochiva
It's that time of the year again when companies begin flooding the airwaves with items designed to draw out your credit card for holiday spending. While...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Luke Eberl rolled his Panasonic AG-DVX100 as Denver police shot pepper-spray bullets into a crowd of street protestors calling themselves Recreate '68....
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Common Goal
Shoot Review: Sony PMW-EX3 
Shoot Review: Panasonic AG-HPX170
Shoot Tools: Anton Bauer Stasis Flex
Shoot Tools: Sony HDR-FX1000 and HVR-Z5U
Shoot Tools: Metric Halo Mobile I/O 2882 
Shoot Tools: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shoot Tools: RF Central RFX-NLL-II
Shoot Tools: Petrol PRC-EX1
Edit Tools: AmberFin iCR 4.0
Edit Tools: Dalet Digital Media Systems
Edit Tools: Telestream Pipeline HD Dual
Edit Tools: Adobe Flash Media Encoding Server
Edit Tools: Xytech Systems MediaPulse
Edit Tools: Vizrt Viz Link
Distribute Review: Inlet Technologies Fathom 
Distribute Tools: Hitachi UltraThin 1.5
Distribute Tools: ViewSonic DSM3210
Distribute Tools: NEC MultiSync LCD8205
Distribute Tools: Sony FWD-S47H1
Distribute Tools: MultiTouch Cells
Distribute Tools: Samsung 460CXn
Better Production Ideas
Dream Job: Capturing Change