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Scenarist Says Packaged Media is Far from Dead

by Chris Chinnock

Scenarist is a company that develops packaged media authoring tools to help with the authoring, replication and distribution of DVDs, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray disc. At NAB 2018, they told us that DVDF …

Postium Shows 4K/HDR Grade 1 Monitor

by Chris Chinnock

Korea-based Postium showed their new reference grade 4K/HDR monitor at NAB. The OBM-X310 is a 31.5” monitor based upon the dual-panel design from Panasonic. The monitor goes for the fixed (i.e. non dimmable) backlight …

Panasonic Pitches 8K Sports Acquisition

by Chris Chinnock

Most of the Panasonic booth was about cameras, but one use of an 8K camera caught our eye. In Panasonic’s view, sporting events can now be covered with only three 8K cameras instead of …

JVC Adds HDR Monitors

by Chris Chinnock

JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKenwood USA Corp., used NAB to announce two new 4K studio LCD monitors along with four new FullHD monitors. The 28″ DT-U28U and 31.5″ DT-U31U feature native 4K …

Ikegami Thinking about 8K

by Chris Chinnock

Ikegami says they now have HLG installed on all their broadcast cameras plus support on some for PQ and SLog. Their 8K camera, the SHK 810 is in its fourth generation as a cooperative …

Hitachi Shows HDR/SDR Camera Out Capability

by Chris Chinnock

Hitachi used a darkened room to show off what its new SK-UHD4000 broadcast camera can do. The camera can acquire using HLG (600, 800 or 1200) or PQ, sending the signal over SMPTE fiber …

Flanders Shows HDR Monitors

by Chris Chinnock

Flanders Scientific was at NAB with a big booth full of monitors, but they mostly wanted to talk about the new 2000 cd/m² reference monitor and the 65” OLED client monitor. The XM310K is …

Eizo Shows Two HDR Monitors

by Chris Chinnock

Eizo’s top end grading monitor is the Prominence CG3145, a 31.5” LCD monitor that uses the Panasonic dual-panel architecture. However, the backlight does not include zonal control in this implementation leading to a peak …

Canon Debuts Two New Monitors

by Chris Chinnock

Canon announced the 24” DP-V2421 and the 17” DP-V1711. These augment, but don’t replace similar model DP-V2420 and DP-V1710. The 2421 and the 1711 has been upgraded to add a new input board that …

Bitmovin Using AI for New Encoding Approach

by Chris Chinnock

Bitmovin is a video delivery company. The way the company explained its encoding process is that it is somewhat analogous to the way data is divided into packets and delivered from source to destination …

Atomos Shows New 5” Monitor/Recorder

by Chris Chinnock

Atomos has had a very popular line of their Ninja monitor/recorders that are seeing wide use in TV/Film production, especially with mirrorless cameras, as an efficient means to monitor and record content. At NAB …

Tags:Field Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 15

NAB 2018 Introduction

by Chris Chinnock

NAB 2018 was as busy as usual (about 100K attendees), but there was little new from the display perspective. Clearly, 8K continues to be a topic of interest with an 8K displays from Sony, …