Our Christmas Opening Times and a Short Review of the Main Features of this Year
All at Polar would like to wish you a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous new year.
Opening Times - Our office will be closed at 12pm on 24th December and will re-open 4th January
2015 Broadcast Year In Review:
In the Archive World
- This year we were please to add Storage DNA to our portfolio. It made perfect sense as we sell Direct attached and shared storage to add LTO Archive to the range. StorageDNA provides a brilliant interface and can save you money working with 4K/UHD workflows.
- This year they launched Version 4.0 featuring Avid/Adobe Project Archiving and many new features.
- Sony ODA – StorageDNA’s Smart Access could be a game changer in the storage world – StorageDNA are the only people offering direct access to the ODA – read more here
- See more info and graphics from our IBC 2015 preview here
Direct Attached
- Stardom announced the Stardom ST4-TB Thunderbolt RAID for Video and the ST2 now accepts 8TB drives giving and amazing 16TB of storage in a small form factor.
Bluefish444 Video I/O
- At NAB April 2015 Bluefish444 showed thier new Epoch Neutron cards and ingeSTore their fast ingest application.
- More 4K projects are being announced all the time and this year there was the First European Satellite transmission of 4K 50P using Bluefish444 cards.
- IBC 2015 Video
Apantac Monitoring & Conversion
- This year they introduced a brand new range of Modular Multiviewers
- IP Multi-viewers – the IP world is changing fast and Apantac are staying ahead of the curve – they have full IP and hybrid so you can mix both worlds.
- Open Gear Quad Split - Did you know that Apantac has the only affordable quad-split solution for the openGear platform? Why is Apantac's solution different? Click here for more info.
Ultimatte
- A number of Ultimattes were used in this years BBC 2015 Election show where Jeremy Vine was once again inside the virtual set. You can see a video at the BBC Website - here