NAB product highlights
Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM
More than 30 pages of must-see new products at NAB2009.
AUDIO CONSOLE
Wheatstone D-8
Surround-sound audio console for medium and smaller market stations, remote trucks, or secondary on-air/production rooms in larger facilities; features 24 motorized input faders, surround, four submasters, two main buses, two aux sends, and extensive processing (four-band parametric EQ, filters, compressor/limiter, de-esser).
252-638-7000; www.wheatstone.com
Booth: N7612
MEDIA SERVER SYSTEM
Omneon Spectrum
Enables broadcasters to migrate from analog to digital, tape to disk, SD to HD and from single- to multichannel operations; incorporates open, advanced architecture; includes MediaController, MediaDirector, MediaPort I/O modules, MediaStore storage arrays and SystemManager.
408-585-5000; www.omneon.com
Booth: SU7217
ADJUSTABLE-BEAM FLUORESCENT LUMINAIRES
Videssence Power Key
Feature adjustable mounting yoke and lever at the back fixture to adjust each lamp cell; allows adjustments from 60 degrees to 90 degrees beam spread; reflector refocuses the light without the need for additional accessories; use 55W Biax lamps; P055-155BX is 55W, P110-255BX is 110W and P220-455BX is 220W.
626-579-0943; www.videssence.tv
Booth: C8428
SERVER
360 Systems MAXX-2400 HD
Plays up to four HD video streams at once, or can record two streams, while playing two others; also can be used as a graphics store, with linked key-and-fill capability; standard features include HD-SDI video I/O with frame synchronization for recording wild sources like tape and satellite feeds; audio formats include embedded audio, and your choice of AES/EBU digital or balanced plus four analog.
818-991-0360; www.360systems.com
Booth: N4120
STORAGE
Bycast StorageGRID 8
Virtualizes information retention and access over a range of storage devices from high-performance disk to archival media, distributed over multiple sites; features the new Distributed File System Gateway (DFSG), a high-performance clustered file system front-end; provides a unified solution to manage the storage of digital data and images from primary storage to deep archive.
866-217-6813; www.bycast.com
Booth: SU6925
CONTROL AND MONITORING SYSTEM
Pro-Bel Morpheus Control & Monitoring (MCM)
Seamlessly integrates with systems from two new manufacturers; new MCM routing configurations also offer users the capability to control and monitor more features within the company's recent routers, and to display status at a glance; new features include advances in the rules engine, customer-defined logic functions and a tie-line engine.
631-549-5159; www.pro-bel.com
Booth: SU12710
LCD VIDEO MONITOR
Wohler RM-3270W-2HD
Measures 3RU in height; features two 7in widescreen LCDs, each with 800 × 480 resolution and 16.7 million colors.
510-870-0810; www.wohler.com
Booth: N1102
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