2019 has been an important year for companies in the video editing business to stake a claim. Avid is still a staple for editing in TVs and movies, but it has gotten a fierce competitive challenge as the company struggled to keep up development amid a wide range of initiatives. A changing and utterly exploding video market has redefined the … Read more
Wretched Excess: Sony’s 6K x 3K Crystal LED display at IBC 2019 is a contender for new large-format movie theaters. It’s beautiful, and almost hard to imagine in a movie theater. Can a screen be too bright? (Source: JPR) Audiences in North America might have to do a little traveling to see Gemini Man in 3D at 120 fps, … Read more
The International Broadcast show covers absolutely every aspect of broadcast including small screens, mobile screens, big screens, and real real big screens. Last year there was plenty of talk about the end of stereographic 3D. This year is all about its rebirth thanks in part to the arrival of new formats for movie theaters. Beyond 3D, theaters are not only bigger, they’re brighter, audio is immersive, and the seats are comfy.
The International Broadcast Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam is about what to see and how to see it and much of what we ran into was cinema: new cinema, big cinema, and great big screens for the small screen, i.e., TV. He’s big in China: Will Smith is Gemini Man, a character who is forced to confront his younger, faster, cloned … Read more
At its annual DevCon event held this year in Milan, the Open Design Alliance brought its membership up to date on the significant development the organization has been doing at its members' behest. Established in the 90s by a group of companies competing with Autodesk in the CAD field, the ODA’s charter was to create an open option of DWG, … Read more
AMD came to IBC, full of confidence after a successful Siggraph, increasing interest from Hollywood for Threadripper, and automatic cred from Apple with the upcoming Apple Mac Pro. At the show, AMD showed off its range of products including a sleek little MacBook Pro, nothing special, hooked up to a Black Magic external box giving the MacBook Pro enough GPU … Read more
Siemens PLM, the design and engineering group within the giant Siemens Corporation, announced at its annual analyst and press event that it is changing its name to Siemens Digital Industries. It’s not the catchiest of names, but Digital Industries is more descriptive of all the work Siemens is doing in the field of design, engineering, and production. The group was … Read more
Factory OS wants to upend the construction industry. Thanks to a very bad set of circumstances, the Bay Area is a very good laboratory for the development of efficient practices. The Bay Area is grappling with a crippling housing shortage that has gotten more acute as a result of several ruinous fire seasons, rising home prices, and reduced building … Read more
Autodesk Inventor is 20 years old. The company has released Inventor 2020 and in recognition that it's the 20th anniversary of Autodesk’s entry into the parametric CAD market to compete with market leader Pro/Engineer and upstart SolidWorks. At 20, Inventor is still one of the top choices in the segment but the engineering design field has changed with challenges from … Read more
Autodesk reported increased earnings and brought its income up out of the red and into the black at $40.2 million. With revenues up 30% to $797, the company pushed its ARR up to $3.07 billion. Total billings increased by 48% to $892 million. The company’s recurring revenue is at 97% of the total. And yet, the stock went down immediately … Read more
As gains slowdown from process improvements and die size, power gains require improvements to all aspects of the system. The best way to push semiconductor gains forward says Lisa Su, is to improve all components. (Source AMD) Lisa Su came to Hot Chips this year and provided an overview of AMD’s strategy for development to keep up with the … Read more
Open Source was once a curiosity and the question always asked, but how do you make money? Turns out, that’s not the question. After a good decade and a half of proving the point, open source tools are enabling companies to save huge amounts of money by re-using and adapting code already written. Developers making use of open source tools are leveraging the talents of a worldwide army of programmers dedicated to making software work better.
