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

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.