When I first took at look at the image to the right, I thought “That is one massive graphics card!” Upon closer inspection, it turns out that it is not one card but three. The left most card is the Quadro SDI capture card that has 4 high definition SDI single-link sources to be captured simultaneously. The card in the middle is a standard Quadro FX graphics card. The card on the right is the Quadro SDI Output card.
Nvidia is demonstrating how to use this technology in a standard workflow in order to produce 3-D broadcasts. From the NTersect blog:
On the exhibit floor, we are demonstrating new tech for 3D broadcasting, leveraging the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline that integrates live action 3D acquisition, real-time 3D graphics, 3D encoding, and 3D distribution for home theater or PC based viewing – all accelerated by GPUs. This is a complete production workflow, showing how broadcasts like the Masters golf tournament can be produced in real-time and streamed via the internet to mass audiences who have 3D Vision ready PCs.
