NAB 2007 Highlights

At NAB2007, 108,000 professionals from the US and around the world had the opportunity to experience for themselves, on over 50 PNY partner booths, why the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX by PNY professional graphics boards are the industry standard for HD broadcast, television, film and video production.

High-end HD digital cameras created a buzz at NAB2007. To take advantage of these new cameras requires a completely new digital workflow. Several PNY partners were showing, in suites and on the show floor, Digital Intermediate (DI) solutions that provide efficient and stable digital workflows for handling color finishing and visual effects for motion pictures and TV productions.

Incorporating the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5500 SDI by PNY, these 2K real-time DI solutions enable real-time color correction, real-time HD-SDI playback as well as color accuracy and have already proven themselves in the production of award-winning blockbuster movies.

Broadcasters and producers also witnessed on PNY Partner booths how the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5500 SDI by PNY combined with leading applications can enhance HDTV broadcast programming with real time live studio HD graphics for sports, news, traffic and weather.

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FX Networks' DVD on TV uses NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5500 SDI
  by PNY to deliver real-time virtual sets



Image courtesy of Film Syndicate

Photo by Jamie Thompson
When Film Syndicate needed a real-time virtual set for their weekly movie program which airs on the FX network - DVD on TV –, they turned to virtual studio specialist Chris Mapes, founder and president of State of 8.

Mapes is always looking for innovative ways to deliver exactly what his clients need. For DVD on TV, he knew that executive producer Bryan Johnson wanted to create an interactive 3D DVD-like environment, generated in real-time, without having to resort to costly post-production. The solution the production team came up with includes the use of a repeatable telescopic crane, the Panavision® Technodolly; Brainstorm Multimedia’s virtual set software and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI by PNY graphics board.

“We combine the Technodolly’s information, which provides the camera’s viewpoint, with a real-time rendered background. The live video input is played into Brainstorm’s virtual set environment and rendered in real-time - thanks to the speed of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI by PNY graphic board, and then sent right out to tape ready to be aired,” explains Mapes.

With uncompressed HD-SDI output and an exceptional 1GB frame buffer memory, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI by PNY is the ideal solution for DVD on TV’s demanding quality and real-time needs.

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Spotlight on: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI by PNY

Adopted by major television networks and film companies, NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI by PNY has been integrated with numerous broadcast and video applications to enable high definition live-to-air 3D graphics, broadcast news, traffic and weather graphics, 2k digital film playback and digital intermediate uses.

NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI by PNY graphic boards also allow film production, post-production, and finishing professionals to preview the results of compositing, editing, and color grading in real time on high definition (HD) broadcast monitors. This graphics-to-video-out solution delivers uncompressed 8-, 10-, or 12-bit SDI from programmable graphics, enabling a direct connection to broadcast monitors, switchers, tape decks, or SDI projectors.



NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600G / FX 5600G by PNY available now

Featuring frame lock, genlock, and swap lock functionality, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600G by PNY & NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600G by PNY deliver unprecedented levels of industrial realism, visualization, and collaborative capabilities by enabling advanced multi-system and multi-device visualization environments.

These ultra high performance professional graphics boards feature a new unified architecture, Shader Model 4.0 technology, large frame buffers, and GPU computing for visualization technology.



New - The NVIDIA Quadro® Plex VCS Model IV

Introducing the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model IV – a new version of the NVIDIA Quadro Plex visual computing system (VCS), which incorporates the unified architecture and GPU computing capability of NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 GPUs and the G-Sync II.

This new Quadro Plex Model IV pushes visual computing to new extremes, boosting workstation, HPC server and cluster performance for a wide range of high-performance, graphics-intensive styling and design, oil and gas, scientific and immersive applications.



NVIDIA Honored by EE Times for Industry Leadership

At the EE Times ACE Awards Gala on April 3, 2007, NVIDIA was honored with the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award for Company of the Year.

NVIDIA earned the EE Times ACE Award for "Company of the Year - Large," which recognizes a company with more than $750 million in sales that exhibits the highest degree of professionalism, staff development and retention, customer focus, technical excellence, and profitability.

The EE Times ACE Awards were created to recognize the people, companies, and products that show leadership in the electronics industry, honoring those who are leading the way and making positive contributions - the real innovators of technology.



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