U2 tours with all-flash array to rock latest video effects

03.08.2015
A story posted July 17 about how rock band U2 is using flash array technology to deliver video effects on its current tour mischaracterized the system used by the group's video director to run the show.

The eight paragraph (first two sentences) has been edited to make it clear that Stefaan Desmedt uses his custom-built PC to create video content, but runs video effects during the show using hardware provided by d3. The corrected version is on the wire, and below:

Desmedt, who is based in Bruges, Belgium, drives the video show using software from d3 Technologies, running on a d3 4×4pro media server. He creates the video content using d3's software on his custom-built PC. "You can't do it on a Mac, it's not powerful enough, they're so behind on all this stuff. You need something on steroids," he said. His multicore setup uses a backplane architecture to get the performance he needs when, for example, layering three or four sources of uncompressed video.

Elizabeth Heichler