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www.postmagazine.com 10 POST FEBRUARY 2015 BITS & PIECES JVC DEMOS GY-LS300 4KCAM AT 2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL WAYNE, NJ — JVC Professional Video (www.pro. jvc.com), a division of JVCKenwood USA Corpora- tion, reports that its new GY-LS300 4KCAM Super 35mm camcorder is gaining considerable momen- tum with filmmakers, as the company demonstrat- ed this latest offering during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival at the New York Lounge in Park City, UT, last month. Designed with cinematographers, documentarians, and photographers in mind, the GY-LS300 features a JVC 4K Super 35mm CMOS sensor and records 4K Ultra HD, full HD with 4:2:2 sampling, SD, and Web-friendly proxy formats to non-proprietary SDHC and SDXC media cards. The camera also features an industry standard Micro Four Thirds (MFT) lens mount, but JVC's unique Variable Scan Mapping tech- nology maintains the native angle of view for a variety of lenses. As a result, using third-party lens adapters, the camera can accom- modate PL and EF mount lenses, among many others. "Sundance is the ideal venue to launch our new GY- LS300 and show- case its shooting flexibility for film- makers," notes Craig Yanagi, manager of marketing and brand strategy, JVC Professional Video. "Our Variable Scan Mapping technology electroni- cally adapts the active area of the Super 35 sensor to provide native support of many different lenses from a variety of manufacturers. The GY-LS300 delivers incredible images and provides unmatched versatility in the industry." JVC also featured its new GY-HM200 4KCAM camcorder, offering a combination of professional features and performance. The company's most affordable streaming camcorder, the GY-HM200 delivers 4K Ultra HD, 4:2:2 full HD (50Mbps), and SD imagery with a 1/2.3-inch BSI CMOS chip. A built-in 12x zoom lens with optical image stabilizer also offers 24x dynamic zoom in HD mode. Both the GY-HM200 and GY-LS300, showcased at the 2015 CES show last month, include a 3.5- inch LCD display and 1.56 megapixel color view- finder, dual XLR audio inputs (mic/line switchable) with built-in phantom power, an integrated handle with hot shoe and dedicated microphone mount, and SDI and HDMI video outputs. Each camera also features a built-in HD streaming engine with Wi-Fi and 4G LTE connectivity for live transmission directly to hardware decoders, the Wowza Stream- ing Engine, and the ProHD Broadcaster server powered by Zixi. Integrated support for streaming protocols, including RTMP, allows the cameras to stream instantly to Ustream or other Web-based destinations while simultaneously recording to SDHC/SDXC media cards. DELL TARGETS MACBOOK PRO WITH NEXT-GEN M3800 PARK CITY, UT — Dell (www.dell.com) used the recent Sundance Film Festival, here, to introduce its next generation Precision M3800, a 15-inch mobile workstation that it has positioned to go head to head with Apple's MacBook Pro. The Dell Precision M3800 is geared towards video editors, graphic designers and other high-end users, and now offers Thunderbolt 2 technology and a 4K Ultra HD touch display (option). The 4K Ultra HD display option offers 3,840x2,160 resolution and IGZO2 technology on a 15.6-inch UltraSharp touch display made with Corning Gorilla Glass. With more than eight million pixels, the 4K Ultra HD screen option is one of the highest resolution panels available on a 15-inch mobile workstation today, boasting 3.4 million more pixels than the Retina display on the Apple Mac- Book Pro 15-inch and allowing customers to experi- ence 59 percent higher resolution. The display also features ten-finger multi-touch. The M3800 incorporates a 4th generation Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, professional grade Nvidia Quadro K1100M graphics, and up to 16GBs of memory. Storage options have been increased to 2TBs, which is double the solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity offered by the Apple MacBook Pro. With a Thunderbolt 2 port, the M3800 allows users to take advantage of transfer speeds up to 20Gbps, enabling viewing and editing of raw 4K video, while backing up the same file in parallel. The unit's starting weight is 4.15lbs and its form factor is less than 0.71 inches thick. Dell commissioned a study from research firm Principled Technologies comparing the Precision M3800 and the MacBook Pro with Retina dis- play across a number of resource-intensive tasks commonly performed in Adobe Premiere Pro. The M3800 outperformed the MacBook Pro, taking up to 26 percent less time to transcode video, render- ing video sequences up to 30 percent faster, and dropping less frames during video playback. It also delivered lower surface temperatures when running an intensive workload. The M3800 is available with Ubuntu, as well as Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. This is the first time Dell has offered a developer edition of the Dell Precision M3800. The starting price of the M3800 is $1,699.