Toshiba Launches Satellite A665-3D Laptops

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) announced that it has added new features to enhance the 3D playback capabilities of its Satellite A665-3D Series laptops. According to the statement, equipped with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology, the updated laptop models can add stereoscopic 3D to games, movies, photos and more.

CyberLink PowerDVD 10 Offers HDMI 1.4 3D Output

CyberLink Corp. announced the availability of a free update for PowerDVD 10, adding new home theater capabilities in the latest NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. According to the statement, with NVIDIA’s new graphics driver (v260) and the updated version of PowerDVD, full high definition 3D video can be viewed on a 3D HDTV through an HDMI …

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NVIDIA CUDA Accelerates Video Production

NVIDIA announced that a growing range of software for broadcast and film production is harnessing its NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture, which enables significant increases in computing performance by tapping into NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla graphics processing units (GPUs).

Sony Vegas Pro 10 Adds Stereoscopic 3D Support

Sony Creative Software announced Vegas Pro 10 software, the most recent upgrade to Sony’s nonlinear HD video and audio editing (NLE) application. According to the statement, new features include stereoscopic 3D editing tools, enhanced closed captioning features, broadened video effect support and new event level audio effects, as well as workflow and user interface enhancements. …

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MainConcept Speeds MPEG-4 AVC Transcoding with CUDA

MainConcept GmbH announced a new NVIDIA CUDA-based H.264/AVC plug-in for MainConcept’s Reference 2.1 stand-alone transcoding application as well as a Codec Suite 5 plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 that offers H.264/AVC encoding from the timeline, with full CUDA hardware acceleration.

Vanguard Unveils Blu-ray 3D Encoding Solution

Vanguard Software Solutions (VSS) announced at IBC 2010 new 3D video products based on VSS MVC Encoder and Decoder SDKs. According to the statement, NetBlender’s DoStudio MVC (3D) Encoder is a fast professional quality offline encoder for Blu-ray 3D authoring. VSS 3DStreamer is a Live MVC (3D) Encoder and Streamer to PCs and 3D STB …

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3D Technology Lumiere Award Winners Announced

The International 3D Society announced the 2010 recipients of its Lumiere Award. According to the statement, recognizing recent accomplishments within the stereoscopic 3D medium, the Lumiere Award will be formally presented during the 3D Technology Awards on Oct. 19, 2010 at Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

Nero Partners with ZOTAC

Nero announced a partnership with ZOTAC to bundle Nero Vision Xtra software with ZOTAC GeForce series graphics cards globally. According to the statement, ZOTAC GeForce series graphics cards will now include a free 30-day trial version of Nero Vision Xtra, which features Nero MediaHub and Nero Vision. Nero MediaHub and Nero Vision allow users to …

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