Released on: September 9, 2008, 9:53 am

Press Release Author: Marc Isacoff / NextComputing

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: The mobile NextDimension workstation provides the high-end
graphics and throughput performance necessary to adapt to a wide range of the most
demanding digital broadcast and production applications, as well as web streaming
and presentation recording systems for OEMs and resellers.

Press Release Body: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nashua, NH / Amsterdam, September 9, 2008
– NextComputing, maker of high-performance mobile workstations and servers, will be
exhibiting systems with several solution partners at IBC 2008 from September 12-16
in Amsterdam.

The systems on display will be from NextComputing\'s flagship NextDimension \"flextop\"
line. The mobile NextDimension workstation provides the high-end graphics and
throughput performance necessary to adapt to a wide range of the most demanding
digital broadcast and production applications, as well as web streaming and
presentation recording systems for OEMs and resellers.

NextComputing\'s briefcase-style NextDimension system weighs around 20 pounds
(depending on configuration) and is available with an integrated 17\" HD-ready
display (1920 x 1200). This mobile powerhouse supports up to two quad-core
processors, 24GB RAM, multiple PCI Express expansion slots, and a variety of
internal fixed and swappable hard drive configurations totaling more than a terabyte
of storage.

Digital media applications benefiting from NextComputing\'s mobile solutions include:

• 3D broadcast graphics generation
• Real-time HD media encoding
• Live event webcasting and rich media presentations
• Uncompressed HD digital cinema and broadcast production (DDR/VTR replacement)
• On-set \"pre-post,\" including effects pre-visualization, compositing, editing, and
color grading
• Field acquisition server and data recorder for remote location shooting
• Digital audio workstation

Nextcomputing has also recently announced the availability of NVIDIA’s Quadro® FX
4600 SDI and Quadro® FX 5600 SDI on its portable, NextDimension Evo HD workstations.
The compact Evo HD is an ideal hardware platform for production field work with
powerful applications such as IRIDAS\' SpeedGrade XR for real-time coloring, grading,
and review, or RT Software\'s tOG suite of real-time 3D broadcast graphics software.

The NextDimension will be utilized by the following solution partners at IBC:
• AMD – Booth 7.H36
• Chyron - Booth 7.H11
• Iridas - Booth 7.H20
• Media Refinery - Booth 8.D27
• P+S Technik - Booth 11.E28
• RT Software - Booth 3.A11

Contact: NextComputing, Aaron Sherman, +1.603.459.2462, asherman@nextcomputing.com




Web Site: http://www.nextcomputing.com

Contact Details: NextComputing
4 Townsend West
Unit 17
Nashua, NH 03063
Phone: 603-886-3874
Fax: 419-828-2030
E-mail: sales@nextcomputing.com