Digital Foundry Ltd has announced an HDMI video capture product for PlayStation 3, to be used by developers, publishers and other businesses via service hire or product license.
“Digital Foundry’s HD capture technology was built from the ground up to support both high-end analogue and pure digital sources,” says Richard Leadbetter, company director. “PlayStation 3 is the first games console to be launched that allows for a straight digital transfer from the host machine, and the result is a level of visual fidelity we’ve only witnessed from ultra high-end PC video cards.”
Benefits for Digital Foundry clients:
- * Perfect digital quality video for use in-game, or for promotional purposes
* Promotional videos can be rescaled for broadcast (SD and HD), DVD and Internet use with the best possible quality
* The entire video output of a capture session can be used to extract perfect quality screenshots
* Core technology is entirely portable, meaning that the company can work on location - anywhere in the UK, Europe and North America. Its HD capture units are the size of a toaster and weigh just six kilograms.
“Being able to work on-site with developers and publishers is a crucial part of the service we provide,” says Richard Leadbetter. “It means that we have access to all of the people that know the games best, resulting in the most dynamic, exciting gaming footage. It also means that we can copy off our captures on-site and they be used internally by our clients. More than anything though, time is the most precious commodity in the games industry - on-site visits work best for our always-busy clients.”
Digital Foundry HD capture technology is also available for licensing to clients in the games industry looking to take care of all their high definition capture in-house, and already boasts high-profile licensees in the UK, Germany and the USA.
