The recent NAB fair in Las Vegas left us with a series of surprises and an unmistakable feeling of vertigo. Never the industry, not even in the slow years of At the beginning of this decade, it ceased to be on the move. But the Speed that has acquired in this 2007 is amazing.
TV and Video reports on NAB offer an overview of the event and the review of some products, selected at our discretion, as the most significant of all those who presented at NAB during the four days that the fair lasted. About them we will continue informing in the next editions of the magazine and in our www.tvyvideo.com portal.
As we report in our electronic newsletter of April 19, produced from the same place of the facts, the three most important trends that Mark the path of the industry in these years are:
- The adoption of technology solid-state as recording media by several camera manufacturing companies, makes it foreseeable that this will be the technology of the future. True, they remain still several years of tapes, many new products on optical media (such as holographic storage) reported in this issue) and hard drives. But in the field of news capture or field production, the Solid-state memories have a big advantage. Only manufacturers need to achieve greater capacity at a lower price. But Moore's law on the advancement in the development of integrated circuits allows to anticipate that this problem will soon be solved.
- The battle of the different digital television standards to be adopted in the different countries, it is fought on both political terrains as technological. Samples of new devices capable of capturing digital television ATSC standard in motion, they are a sample of the efforts of the creators of this standard to solve some aspects that he was criticized. The announcement of a new version of the European standard, DVB-T2, could be considered as a response from the other side.
- The presence of the internet in all aspects of the business is another trend that, although it is not exclusive to the television, is the field where perhaps more opportunities Business is being generated all over the world. Like this the new business models based on IPTV, the Internet television, the technologies of infrastructure that allows video contribution over IP or send HD feeds remotely over public networks, appeared on NAB everywhere.
Most of the novelties that we find in NAB responds to some of these trends and they will also mark the editorial orientation of our magazine in the coming months.
