Author Archives: Mike McCarthy

About Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy is a technology consultant, with extensive experience in the film post-production industry. He started posting technology info and analysis at HD4PC in 2007. He broadened his focus with TechWithMikeFirst ten years later.

Graphics News

Since GTC, NVidia has been rolling out a new Pascal based card every month, starting with the GTX1080, followed by the reduced 1070 and 1060, and then topped by the… Read more »

NAB 2016 Wrapup

We see ourselves in a place where UHD has become pretty ubiquitous, and can be recorded and viewed on a cell phone. So the natural question is: what next? One… Read more »

NAB 2016 Announcements

NAB opens this morning, and as usual, there are all sorts of new announcements to sort through. First off, HP announced a significant change to their Z1 All-In-One workstation. The… Read more »

GTC 2016

Last week I attended NVidia’s GTC conference in San Jose. I wrote an article about the event for Post Perspective, which can be found here: http://postperspective.com/nvidias-gtc-2016-vr-ai-and-self-driving-cars-oh-my/ Looking forward to heading to… Read more »

The Value of Freedom

I am planning to direct and produce a documentary on freedom. It will present freedom as the opportunity to experience the natural results of your own decisions, and make the… Read more »

Storage Info

I recently did some consulting work for Hurlbut Visuals, setting them up with a storage solution and a 10Gb network to share it with. They posted an article about the… Read more »

IBC 2015 News

So with IBC opening this week in Amsterdam, there are a few new announcements worth noting. Now that 4K is old news, and supported by most products, regardless of who… Read more »

NAB 2015 News and Analysis

AJA has a couple new mini-converters they are releasing, but most of their news is in the form of software updates. They have new software partners, new unified installers and… Read more »

HP Professional Display and Workstation Updates

HP has a couple of new products to show at NAB that are relevant to digital film makers. The most significant one by far, is the new UHD Dreamcolor monitor,… Read more »

Pre-NAB Product Announcements

There are all sorts of new releases across the industry that are being announced before the NAB show even begins in Vegas. While I will do a bit more research… Read more »