Archive of the Affordable HD Category

Look carefully. The picture that appears on the front page of tomorrow’s Chicago Tribune may not be a “photograph� at all. It might be a frame-grab from a high-definition digital video camcorder. Either way, readers will not be able to tell the difference, and there is no reason they should need to. A great, high-quality picture has value because of its content, not because of the camera that captured it. As valuable as that image may be, however, imagine how much more impact it can have when it is not only seen in print but also displayed as part of a motion-video sequence on that newspaper’s Web site.
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Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) has developed a faster-than-real time direct file import option with Pathfire to increase the high-definition (HD) content management capability of the Grass Valley™ K2™ Media Server platform from Thomson. The new K2 “Capture Service�™ software application enables the fast and easy handling of HD programs as digital files and eliminates the need for any third-party intermediate solutions that can slow the file-handling process considerably—in many cases to much slower-than-real time—saving organizations significant time and money. more

Bitcentral‘s Precis end-to-end digital newsroom solution goes live at nine news broadcast stations in nine weeks; sweeps across country from Hawaii to Florida

IRVINE, CALIF. – Oct. 24, 2007 – Bitcentral Inc., a leading provider of news production, archiving and distribution solutions to local television stations, has fully installed and gone live with its revolutionary Precis end-to-end digital news production solution at nine TV stations in the last nine weeks. The complete uprooting and conversion of the nine traditional news broadcast stations from tape to digital is unparalleled in frequency and thoroughness. more

Düsseldorf, Herrsching, 22. October 2007 – At IFA this year Sigma Düsseldorf, the well-known system vendor for professional presentation technologies, installed the media technology for the Panasonic booth. For the Multi-Screen presentation of Panasonic‘s new plasma displays Sigma decided on nine ClipRecorderAV‘s from DVC. The ClipRecorders can playout uncompressed Full HD providing the best possible image quality. more

New Primetime Newsmagazine Show Uses POV Camera To Capture High Definition Bullfighting Footage

Santa Barbara, CA: October 22, 2007–Iconix Video, manufacturer of the world‘s smallest professional quality HD video camera, today announced the use of the Iconix HD-RH1 camera system to capture bullfighting footage for ESPN‘s new multi-themed primetime newsmagazine show, “E:60.” more

SECAUCUS, NJ (October 18, 2007) – Peabody Award-winning Director of Photography Mark Smith traveled with the 70th Anniversary Amelia Earhart Expedition to the remote South Pacific island of Nikumaroro this summer, armed with AG-HVX200 P2 HD camcorders to document the group‘s archeological research.

The 14-member team traveled under the aegis of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), an organization that contends that famed aviator Earhart landed and ultimately died on Gardner Island – now known as Nikumaroro. more

Mammoth HD

Stock Footage Saves the Day and Schedule

In spite of all the best planning and scheduling, producers will occasionally find themselves up against an immovable deadline, frantically scrambling for those last few stock clips needed to complete a project.

Recently Kate Raisz, a producer with Moore Huntley Productions in Sudbury, Massachusetts, found herself in such a spot while making a show for the National Geographic Channel on Alaska. The program dealt with Alaska’s geology and weather, and how extremes in the Great North affect other places around the world. They had great footage from Alaska, but were coming up short on “the rest of the world”; things like geyser activity in Yellowstone Park, for instance. more

HOLLYWOOD, CA–As HD has become a standard medium for producing television shows, show creators are increasingly finding new and innovative ways to use the medium to create new looks, enhance action and deliver a more entertaining experience for viewers. An example of this is Spike TV‘s new eight-hour miniseries The Kill Point, which is produced in HD, and where the producers are using aggressive editing and camera work, mixing different varieties of HD media, and testing the limits of HD as a medium for special effects, in order to keep viewers riveted to their seats. more

NetBlender has recently announced a new High Definition training series aimed to provide hands-on education and practical experience for DVD developers making the leap into HD DVD and Blu-ray disc production. Called the “Expert Series,” the training will be conducted by leaders in the field who have produced numerous commercial HD titles.

The series will launch in Barcelona, Spain on November 14-15, 2007 with a course on HD DVD development. Dubbed “ES07:Barcelona,” the two day session will consist of both demonstration and hands-on development. more

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., October 2, 2007 – Capturing widescreen High-Definition video in a tightly confined radio studio was the challenge faced by the YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country, which launched a 24/7 HD channel earlier this year. YES, which televises the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets and also simulcasts WFAN Radio‘s top-rated “Mike and the Mad Dog” show live daily, met the challenge by selecting four of Canon U.S.A. Inc.‘s revolutionary DIGISUPER 22xs Compact Studio lenses, which deliver the performance of traditional “box-style” HD studio lenses in a size scaled for portable HD cameras. more