by Lidia Paulinska | Jul 2, 2018
In the next 10 years eSports will be the most popular sport in the world – predicts Frank Azor, co-founder of Alienware and vice president & general manager of Gaming & XPS for Dell who made the prediction statement during an exclusive interview at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the biggest annual gaming conference in North America that took place in the middle of June in Los Angeles. The E3 expo featured 70 thousand attendees from 106 countries. E3 is the preeminent showcase for ground-breaking new games and technology that serves the growing community of gamers.
In March of this year Alienware opened its first professional eSportsTraining Facility in North America, located in Los Angeles. Just minutes from Riot Games LCS Studio, this new location helps Team Liquid, a professional gamer franchise team, improve the way they practice, train and prepare for eSports tournament. Alienware is the largest supplier of the gaming computer systems in the world, as a sponsor of the team, they provide the eSports athletes with access to incredible technology that is currently available. Alienware is also talking to new partners to build relationships that allows eSports to grow on unprecedented scale.
There are no other sports out there, with the exception of motorsports racing, where the athlete’s performance has a dependency on their equipment is as great as it is as esports athletics – elaborates Frank Azor. If you look at traditional sport like football or basketball, the equipment that the athletes use maybe helps in tiny fraction of the amount of their competitiveness. eSports however is more closely related to auto racing, the skill is in using the equipment to compete, so when your PC fails on you, you are out of the game.
The global industry has not completed the statistics, but the rumors are that number of people in the audience watching eSports tournaments has already passed the audience of baseball games.
Here is a full coverage of the interview with Frank Azor:
by Lidia Paulinska | Jun 12, 2018
April 2018 – At the NAB 2018 show in Las Vegas we caught back up with Carol Hess of the HP Workstation group. Carol talks about the new product offerings for the broadcast industry and the associated capabilities that they bring. One of the areas is artificial intelligence and the role the workstations will take in bringing these tools to the content creators.
This interview was included in the Roadway Media coverage of NAB as part of the Executive Interviews episode of Bright Blue Innovation.
by Lidia Paulinska | Jun 12, 2018
April 2018 – At the NAB 2018 show in Las Vegas we caught back up with Harris Morris CEO of Wazee Digital. This is our first interview with Harris since he took a break from the broadcast industry after leading the LBO of Harris Broadcast and its transition to becoming Gate Air and Imagine Communication.
Harris discusses trends in the industry regarding content availability and a philosophy based on the quality of the content and the quality of experience that results.
This interview was included in the Roadway Media coverage of NAB as part of the Executive Interviews episode of Bright Blue Innovation.
by Lidia Paulinska | May 5, 2018
April 2018 – At the NAB show in Las Vegas, we had a chance to talk to Neumann CEO Wolfgang Fraissinet about the reissued U67 vocal tube microphone and the rollout to the broadcast community of the Generation 4 Evolution wireless system. The G4 technology is the first major update, primarily to address the spectrum auction impact on audio and wireless, in over 25 years.
The introduction to the reissued microphone and the new wireless technology are summaries in the following interview and demo.
https://vimeo.com/273435715
by Lidia Paulinska | May 5, 2018
At the recent NAB show in Las Vegas, I had a chance to sit down and talk to Charlie Vogt, CEO of ATX Networks about the industry, what he has been doing since Imagine Communications and the challenges of video media distribution. He highlights the switching and distribution technology from the ATX product line that support the full range from SD through 4K HDR delivery.
The interview with Charlie Vogt follows :
