Just got back from the NAB in Vegas, and I am pleased to tell you that the Penteo real-time 5.1 process won a major award!
John, Sasha and Patrick were featured in our company's booth all week, where they were showing their RT box doing on-the-fly 5.1 separations from stereo source material. I got to spend the whole week listening to the superb 5.1 this amazing process decodes -- er, calculates (I got a gentle correction from John on that point
), while the Penteo crew talked to broadcasters about how this could be a really killer app for digital radio.
Thursday morning, the Radio World guys came around and awarded Penteo a "Cool Stuff" award. This is an award given by a secret panel of industry judges to products that really blow them away. And it really is well-deserved; the process results in truly amazing discrete audio. We listened to Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Who, ELO and more, and I was amazed at how the more open mix exposed elements of the mix that had previously been buried.
Personal nirvana: hearing "Aja" through Penteo and picking out Lee Ritenour's guitar flourishes coming, as if solo'd, from left rear :bounce Here's a pic: stereo source on PGM1 meters (left side) are fed to Penteo RT processor and returned to PGM2 (right side) in 5.1.
Way to go, guys!
John, Sasha and Patrick were featured in our company's booth all week, where they were showing their RT box doing on-the-fly 5.1 separations from stereo source material. I got to spend the whole week listening to the superb 5.1 this amazing process decodes -- er, calculates (I got a gentle correction from John on that point
), while the Penteo crew talked to broadcasters about how this could be a really killer app for digital radio.
Thursday morning, the Radio World guys came around and awarded Penteo a "Cool Stuff" award. This is an award given by a secret panel of industry judges to products that really blow them away. And it really is well-deserved; the process results in truly amazing discrete audio. We listened to Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Who, ELO and more, and I was amazed at how the more open mix exposed elements of the mix that had previously been buried.
Personal nirvana: hearing "Aja" through Penteo and picking out Lee Ritenour's guitar flourishes coming, as if solo'd, from left rear :bounce Here's a pic: stereo source on PGM1 meters (left side) are fed to Penteo RT processor and returned to PGM2 (right side) in 5.1.
Way to go, guys!
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