Digital Video - September 2007 - (Page 8)

news Reporter’s Notebook Observations from across the DV landscape. tal clips of every play. Clips can be moved quickly and efficiently over the arena’s gigabyte network, rather than having to wait for re-digitizing. “Our whole way of working has really been transformed,” Mitchell says. The Ikegami HDK-75EX can be converted for studio use with either 5” or 9” viewfinders and full studio lenses with the SE-H700 System Expander. Incorporating a next-generation digital-process ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), video signals are digitalized with 12-bit A/D conversion and up to 38-bit internal digital processing (quantization) circuits. A detail correction system—including digitally processed horizontal, vertical, and diagonal correction signals for red, green, and blue video—is incorporated into the HDK-75EX camera head and achieves noise-free full-resolution HD picture quality even when the camera is used in standalone configuration. above: HD images at the Boston Garden’s Mitsubishi Diamond Vision Screen captured by Ikegami’s HDK-75EX cameras. Ikegami in the Boston Garden As the home of the Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, and elite entertainment events throughout the year, the TD Banknorth Garden hosts 3.5 million annual visitors. A state-of-the-art 19,600-seat arena, the TD Banknorth Garden is equipped with three private restaurants, 104 executive suites, 2,400 club seats, a multi-million dollar video scoreboard, and a giant 360-degree high-definition video display. The arena recently chose two Ikegami HDK-75EX full-digital portable HD camera systems, which feature a full-digital design and an integrated fiber adapter, to capture images for its massive screen. “The look of Ikegami cameras on our Mitsubishi HD Diamond Vision screen is absolutely stunning,” says John Mitchell, director of audio/video for TD Banknorth Garden, Boston. “The performance is amazing, achieving a crisp picture even in lowlight conditions. And now that our workflow is completely digital, our Ikegami cameras have made life much easier for our in-house editors. Once we integrated [the cameras] into our setup, we loved the fact that they can go SMPTE fiber straight upstairs to our high-definition control room and five NLE systems.” The Garden now captures first-generation digi- A thousand HD indies Microsoft has teamed up with Amazon.com to bring up to 1,000 independent titles to highdefinition distribution. Spearheading the HD indies operation is Amazon unit CustomFlix, which will provide the filmmakers free authoring and setup services to make their movies available to be distributed in HD DVD. The setup and authoring for HD DVD discs usually costs $499, but Microsoft is covering that charge by accepting the filmmakers into the program. Microsoft did say, however, that there would be above: Amazon.com offers “at least 30 percent off” all HD DVD titles. 8 DV SEPTEMBER 2007 «« http://Amazon.com http://Amazon.com

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Digital Video - September 2007

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