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NAB 2012 Into The Future
The annual NAB Show continues to be the world’s largest electronic media show covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums, with an estimated 90,000 attendees from 151 countries and 1,500+ exhibitors. This year’s event, April 14 to 19 in Las Vegas, will focus on the theme ‘The Great Content Shift: Deﬁning Your Evolution’ addressing ‘how new paradigms in consumption are forever changing the way we create, manage, deliver and monetise content’. These changes are forcing industries, businesses and individuals to re-evaluate expectations, technologies and strategies for the future. In a presentation titled ‘Making Sense of the Great Content Shift’, Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future, will discuss the seismic shifts that are impacting the modern digital world as people demand content anytime, anywhere. Gorbis will outline the top ﬁve trends that will shape the future of the broadcast and telecommunications industries on both an organisational and individual level. Attendees will then be invited to engage with Gorbis directly in a Q&A session live via social media. The many changes in media technologies will once again be reﬂected on the exhibition ﬂoor. A serious number of developments and technologies will be making their global or US debuts, while prototypes seen at recent gatherings such as IBC in Amsterdam, will be shown in full ﬁghting trim. While much remains under wraps until the show opens, here is our sneak preview of NAB 2012. RTW from Cologne is holding a special event to celebrate the official shipping launch of the company’s TM3 Touch Monitor, the latest addition to their successful TouchMonitor range. The TM3 includes features of the larger TM7 and TM9 versions and is controlled using a touch-sensitive display. With its budget-friendly base price of less than €1000 (basic stereo version), its 4.3” touchscreen, and its stylish exterior allowing for horizontal and vertical placement, the TM3 is a highly appealing alternative, for example, for editorial oﬃces, edit suites, and small control rooms, says the company. Shipment of the TM3 is expected to start in the second quarter of 2012. Calrec will demonstrate Artemis Light, the newest member of its Artemis family of Blueﬁn2/Hydra2 audio consoles. New for NAB, the Artemis Light introduces a new compact processing rack dedicated to delivering digital signal processing (DSP) and routing capabilities in a 4U enclosure. Calrec will also highlight its Hydra2 Operator, or H2O, a remotely accessible management

Jim Evans

NAB always features many surprises and new twists on what was accepted wisdom, Jim Evans looks ahead at some of the latest innovations that will feature at the 2012 event.

RTW TM3 Touch Monitor

Wohler DVM-2443 showing PID table detail

system that enhances the ﬂexibility of the company’s Hydra2 network router. The latest version of Camera Corps’ award-winning Q-Ball compact remotely controlled pan/ tilt/zoom HD/SD camera will be launched into the US market. Demonstrated in prototype at IBC 2011 and now in full production, Q-Ball Pre-Set allows 18 shot settings – each comprising pan angle, tilt angle, zoom and focus – to be stored prior to a live or realtime recorded shoot. “Many operators have requested
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