Archive of the Digital Signage Category

Executives at the massive Harris Corp. (N2502) booth just clued me in about their plans to better interlink their numerous broadcast content management technologies with the company’s growing digital signage initiatives, built around its InfoCaster digital signage solution.

The notion is that Harris is working right now to port many of its broadcast tool sets into the building of new out-of-home market digital signage solutions that could, down the road, pave the way for more revenue opportunities for businesses and municipalities and, potentially, broadcasters themselves. more

It was a busy NAB. Of course any show is busy, with hundreds of vendors and thousands of products to consider. But even compared to the usual convention (this is my 20th NAB. Yikes!), NAB 2007 had significant new products to consider, with cameras, storage arrays, and NLE gear just three examples of product areas with significant churn. One prime motivator behind all the new technology seems to be the commoditization of formally high-end–read expensive to manipulate–technology. Now, innovative entrepreneurs living just about anywhere have a chance to introduce potentially significant products, right up there with the established players. With so much to cover, I can just offer a final quick look- in no particular order- of some of the more intriguing products I came across, both new and significantly upgraded. (Be sure to check out NAB wrap-ups in upcoming issues of Digital Content Producer and Millimeter): more

Blackmagic Design is excited to make three announcements at NAB 2007 and will show these products all week at NAB in their booth SL 11020: Multibridge Eclipse.

The world’s first editing system with 3 Gb/s SDI, HDMI and analog video capture and playback, 16 channel audio, and 2K film via SDI resolution capture and playback, for only US $3,495. Multibridge Eclipse is most sophisticated editing solution available, with the new 3 Gb/s SDI standard connections, it allows twice the SDI data rate than normal HD-SDI, while retaining compatibility with normal HD-SDI and standard definition SDI equipment. Read on at The Briefing Room: 2007 NAB Newslink