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Posted by: gary April 6, 2012 2:41 PM
AJA Video Systems announced immediate availability of UDC, a broadcast quality Up/Down/Cross-Conversion Mini-Converter that can convert between SD, HD and 3G video formats. Leveraging AJA’s industry-leading conversion technology, the UDC provides very high quality conversions in a small and cost effective package. (Read More)
Posted by: gary December 14, 2011 1:17 PM
It’s taken me a while to finish this review as I’ve been pretty busy. While preparing it I posted various frame grabs that I pulled from the Samurai and the Gemini on a couple of blogs and forums and these have created a bit of a stir that was never intended. Anyway, what about the Samurai? Well to be honest I was impressed before I had even turned it on. When you buy a Samurai, not only do you get a neat little video recorder, but you also get a flight case full of everything you need to use (Read More)
Posted by: gary September 8, 2011 12:22 PM
Matrox MC-100, a dual SDI to HDMI mini converter that supports a wide range of display resolutions through 3G, Dual Link, HD, and SD-SDI will be introduced at IBC2011 on September 8. This single portable unit can be used as an HD-SDI switcher, a distribution amplifier, a multiplexer, and a 3D processing unit, making it the most versatile mini converter on the market (Read More)
Posted by: gary August 16, 2011 2:02 PM
The Grass Valley™ ADVC® G-Series of affordable, multi-purpose digital video converters are at the leading edge of technology, and the latest additions to the renowned ADVC family. Housed in a practical and compact 1/3 RU form factor, these four converters tackle a variety of different A/V tasks and are particularly well suited to events and staging, corporate AV centers, and broadcast display applications. All ADVC G-Series converters include a frame synchronizer (FS) and full format support. (Read More)
Posted by: gary April 18, 2011 11:42 AM
The Grass Valley™ ADVC® G-Series of affordable, multi-purpose digital video converters are at the leading edge of technology, and the latest additions to the renowned ADVC family. Housed in a practical and compact 1/3 RU form factor, these four converters tackle a variety of different A/V tasks and are particularly well suited to events and staging, corporate AV centers, and broadcast display applications. All ADVC G-Series converters include a frame synchronizer (FS) and full format support. (Read More)
Posted by: gary April 7, 2011 11:52 AM
Last week, I was fortunate enough to receive a visit from my good friends over at Marshall Electronics. They stopped by the studio to let me try out the brand new monitors they have been developing for greater ease of use with HDDSRL camera systems – The V-LCD56MD 5.6?, V-LCD70MD 7?, and V-LCD90MD 9? (pictured above). These monitors are going to be of great interest to HDDSLR users because of the combination of features they offer – some new and some we have seen on other Marshall products – bu (Read More)
Posted by: gary March 28, 2011 2:23 PM
Matrox stunned the market last year by offering the world's first HD-SDI scan converter with genlock at just $995 Matrox Convert DVI was an award winner and an immediate hit with broadcasters and A/V integrators in houses of worship. For 2011 we’ve taken the product line a step further with this new product that features the most-requested enhancements including more comprehensive region-of-interest support and background color selection capability to facilitate downstream keying applications. (Read More)
Posted by: gary January 28, 2011 10:12 AM
Matrox stunned the market last year by offering the world’s first HD-SDI scan converter with genlock at just $995. Matrox Convert DVI was an award winner at both NAB and IBC and an immediate hit with broadcasters and A/V integrators in houses of worship. For 2011 we’ve taken the product line a step further with this new product that features the most-requested enhancements including more comprehensive region-of-interest support and background color selection capability to facilitate downstream (Read More)
Posted by: gary October 28, 2009 10:52 AM
The Matrox MXO2 LE is now shipping. It brings you all of the power, performance, quality and the features of the award winning MXO2, for under $1,000! The only difference is you get a little less audio I/O, but all the great cross and down conversion capabilities. This makes the MXO2 LE simply the best SDI equipped I/O solution for Final CUt editors for under $1,000!! (Read More)
Posted by: gary October 27, 2009 2:16 PM
"Matrox MXO2 LE is more than just an I/O device," said Alberto Cieri, Matrox senior sales and marketing director. "Not only does it meet content creators needs for input, output, and monitoring, it also speeds up delivery to today's digital formats. Creating Blu-ray discs and video for the web and mobile devices is much faster than ever before with Matrox MAX H.264 encoding technology." (Read More)
Posted by: gary September 11, 2009 1:46 PM
Io Express is an ideal Mac or PC interface for video professionals looking for an inexpensive monitoring and mastering solution when working with Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), XDCAM HD, DVCPRO HD and more. Io Express bridges the computer and video worlds, providing professional I/O options to laptops such as the Apple MacBook Pro or to desktops such as the Apple Mac Pro or HP workstations. (Read More)
Posted by: jim April 21, 2009 3:59 PM
The Videoguys' Techs and Sales team met with AJA Video Systems at NAB and are pleased to announce that we will now be offing their complete line of professional broadcast and post-production products - including the ioExpress, Ki Pro, Kona and Xena products as well as their complete line of HD and SDI converters. (Read More)
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