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Farnsworth said: “Studios that use Red One, Red Epic and Canon and Nikon pro digital cameras will fi nd the CF4 delivers fast ingest speeds for increased effi ciency.” It costs £300.
HARMAN UPDATES VISI APP
Harman has updated its Soundcraft ViSi Remote iPad app to allow control of the com- pany’s Vi Series range of consoles. The new version of the app, which is available from the iTunes store, enables a single iPad to control multiple consoles from the Sound- craft Vi Series or Si Compact range on a single wireless network, letting users input channel levels and mutes.
Number of CPU cores that can be installed on the Red edition Z820
16 RED TURBO-CHARGES HP Z820
Red has teamed up with HP, Adobe and Nvidia to build a turbo-powered version of HP’s Z820 workstation. Designed for on-location or in-post users of the Red fi le format, the Red edition Z820 is able to take up to half a terabyte of RAM as well as 16 CPU cores, and features dual Red Mag card readers, internal Red Rocket acceleration cards, Adobe CS6 suite installations and Nvidia Quadro 5000 GPU. It is priced at £6,500.
JVC ADDS DT-X TO MONITOR RANGE
JVC has launched the DT-X series of portable ProHD LCD monitors. Designed for fi eld and studio applications, the seven-inch AC/DC monitors offer 1024 x 600 resolution with a 160-degree viewing angle and can display 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p video signals at a variety of frame rates. There are three models in the series: the DT-X71C model offers one HDMI and one composite video input, while the DT-X71H adds two HD/SD-SDI inputs and an HD/SD-SDI loop through out- put. The DT-X71F includes an additional
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HD/SD-SDI loop through output and one HDMI converted to SDI output. Prices range from £430 to £1,220.
SONNET LAUNCHES CF READER
Sonnet Technologies has launched the Qio CF4 professional Compact-Flash (CF) media reader. It is a four-slot CF memory card reader with support for concurrent fi le ingest at aggregate ingest speeds of up to 400Mbps, with the
ability to connect to external storage sys- tems. Son- net chief executive
Robert HAIVISION GIVES VIPER MORE BITE
Haivision has released Viper 1.1, the latest ver- sion of its dual-channel HD encoding, stream- ing and VoD system. With the new release, the company has also introduced Viper VF, a companion to the Furnace IP video distribu- tion system. “The Viper was conceived to address the specifi c challenges of institutions that need many rooms to record multichannel content actively at any time, without relying on networks or central server resources,” said Haivision chief marketing offi cer Peter Maag.
OXYGEN DELIVERS HAND-HELD TEST
Oxygen DCT has launched the OxTPG 1000 3G HD/SDI test signal generator, which offers broadcast signal analysis tools in a hand-held unit. Managing director Steve Hathaway said: “This ground-breaking unit is capable of generating all the signals broadcast and fi lm engineers need, regard- less of the format or standard they are work- ing with. It comes with a selection of moving test patterns to test links and monitor per- formance, and users can personalise the unit by loading their own test patterns.”
CLARIFICATION
In the ‘Playing By New Rules’ feature about gameshow technology in the May/June issue of Broadcast TECH, we referred to the creator of The Cube’s game-freeze tech- nology as Peter Jackson, from information supplied by Objective Productions. We are happy to clarify that his name is actually Pete Johnston.
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