Our resident image capture expert Phil Rhodes offers up his own personal impressions of the technology he encountered walking the halls at the 2025 NAB Show.
The University of Notre Dame has successfully implemented Riedel’s RefBox solution, part of the company’s SimplyLive Production Suite, to streamline the way referees review plays and make critical decisions during on-campus sports events, including lacrosse and soccer, with a view to expanding to baseball and softball in the future. The university’s decision to adopt RefBox stemmed from the need for a flexible and easy-to-use replay system.
Ritsumeikan University, one of Japan’s leading private institutions, has taken a bold step in redefining media education with the installation of Genelec’s monitoring solutions. With a focus on immersive audio and hands-on learning, the university’s School of Film and Media Studies now features multiple high-spec facilities equipped with Genelec’s The Ones coaxial monitors and GLM calibration software, providing students with a professional-grade sound environment.
The Blackmagic 2110 IP UpDownCross 12G is a new standards converter for live production and broadcast that lets customers convert between any SD, HD or Ultra HD video format via 12G-SDI, HDMI and SMPTE-2110 IP video connections. This new converter has a rack mount design with a front panel LCD for video and audio monitoring plus menus.
Blackmagic Design announce ATEM 4 M/E Constellation 4K Plus, a massive sized Ultra HD switcher with 80 standard converted 12G-SDI inputs and 48 independent 12G-SDI outputs. This new model is twice the size of our current largest 4 M/E model and it also includes 16 ATEM Advanced Chroma Keyers, 4 Ultra HD media players, 4 independent Ultra HD multi-views, 2 SuperSource processors and more.
Here we look at the science of using a matched pair of microphones positioned as a coincident pair to capture stereo sound images.
In response to the global increase of live video production and the desire for cost-effective, flexible production platforms, FOR-A introduce FOR-A IMPULSE during the NAB Show. The next generation solution consolidates functions provided by FOR-A products into one host machine, removing the need for multiple dedicated devices to produce high-quality live video.
Studio Technologies, manufacturer of high-quality audio, video, and fiber-optic solutions, unveils three new announcer consoles that feature ST 2110 support at NAB 2025. The new announcer consoles each offer advanced features but differ in the number of talkback sender (output) channels, with the six-talkback-channel Model 5536, four-talkback-channel Model 5534 and two-talkback-channel Model 5532.
