NAB07: Holophone Surround Mics Look Exotic, Other-Worldly
Holophone was displaying a pair of new surround sound mics that looked more like alien spacecraft than microphones. The H3-D pictured here is the follow-up to the $6K H2. But dang, these things aren’t cheap. The company’s managed to get the price point down to a more palatable $1600 by using its own microphones inside…
NAB07: Badass Vintage-Style Mics With Modern Innards
NAB’s North Hall was home to all of the microphone manufacturers, and a few of them had vintage-looking mics with modern dynamic internals, standard XLR connectors and no phantom power required. Check out that Heil Deco Series Heritage Mic pictured here, a PR20 dynamic mic housed in an “Elvis Style” body. Neat stuff. Combine one…
NAB07: Gefen’s Wireless HDMI is a Work in Progress
At NAB Gefen displayed a couple of long-overdue technologies for transmitting HDMI over longer distances, one wireless and one using coaxial cable. The first method is wireless using a frequency band between 3.3ghz to 3.5ghz, transmitting HDMI video over a distance of about 60 feet. We actually saw it transmitting over a distance of about…