Thunderbolt

20 Metre and 30 Metre Optical Thunderbolt cables from Sumitomo

There is no doubt that Thunderbolt is changing our industry, but up until now long cable runs were impossible. Now you'll be able to have your Thunderbolt devices more than 3 metres apart thanks to Sumitomo.

G-Technology ship the Thunderbolt G-RAID and announce the Thunderbolt G-Drive

Another Thunderbolt product shipping and a brand new Thunderbolt product announced at the show for G-Technology. Seems Thunderbolt is becoming the only way to connect to local storage.

Convert your Mac Mini to an XServe, add more PCIe cards & a Thunderbolt ExpressCard reader from Sonnett

A range of clever hardware devices from Sonnett Technologies Inc. From the large 'XServed' Mac Mini to the ExpressCard reader, these boxes expand your Mac using Thunderbolt.

The Ki Pro Quad, Ki Pro Rack and the Thunderbolt T-Tap from AJA Video Systems

Before the BlackMagic event this morning we went to the AJA Video Systems breakfast press conference. New products were announced including the Ki Pro Quad which will record 4K out of your Canon EOS C500.

Matrox, AJA and Blackmagic all update their broadcast out drivers for FCPX

With Apple announcing improvements in broadcast monitoring with the 10.0.4 update, the three main hardware manufacturers have announced software updates too.

Apple release the 10.0.4 update to Final Cut Pro X

***Motion & Compressor get updates***

Timed for the week before NAB, Apple have published the latest update to Final Cut Pro X, 10.0.4

Does Thunderbolt slow down when daisy chained with an extra display?

Nick Militello, one of our readers emailed us to say he was having problems with Thunderbolt speeds when using an extra monitor in the chain. We investigate.

Western Digital previews its 6TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo storage at MacWorld

Western Digital are the latest company to show off their new Thunderbolt products. The good news is that they have two ports so they can be daisy chained together or have data looped through.

Gary Adcock talks sense about FCPX from the show floor at IBC 2011

We were so pleased whilst watching this video of Gary Adcock from the recent IBC 2011 show in Amsterdam. Right from the off, he gets Final Cut Pro X and his 15 minutes is well worth a view.

CalDigit show Thunderbolt connectivity with ThunderExpress

CalDigit have announced their ThunderExpress PCIe adaptor, their first Thunderbolt product. This unit allows you to connect one of their three PCIe RAIDs to any Mac, Windows or Linux machine that has a Thunderbolt port.

G-Technology show their monster 8TB Thunderbolt hard drive prototype at IBC

We can't believe we read a tweet this morning saying that there weren't any new Thunderbolt products on display at IBC. Maybe they didn't go past the G-Technology stand and catch sight of this 8TB monster prototype.

Blackmagic Design announce the low cost HDMI & Thunderbolt equipped Intensity Extreme

The newly announced Thunderbolted Intensity Extreme from Blackmagic Design is targeted at professional videographers. Small, bus powered with HDMI in & out, it will retail for €209.

Matrox announce their Thunderbolt adaptor, works with new and existing MXO2 products

Matrox have taken a different approach to Thunderbolt connectivity with their I/O products compared to other manufacturers. Instead of building new models with Thunderbolt connectors, the adaptor allows new and existing products to use the superfast technology.

AJA launch the Io XT, their first Thunderbolt enabled product

We think we'll look back and see the introduction of Thunderbolt as a bit of a watershed. Today AJA Video Systems announced the io XT, a portable I/O video 7 audio capture box. We sat down with Tony Cacciarelli who took us through all the new products and updates for IBC 2011.

New bigger Thunderbolt drive for LaCie, price and ship date for Little Big Disk

When we first saw the announcement about Thunderbolt we knew it would change the industry. We met up with Clément Barberis from LaCie to look at the Little Big Disk and its new Thunderbolted big brother.

Promise Thunderbolt drives now available on the Apple Store

We are going to have to hide our credit cards this morning. Apple have just posted the Promise Pegasus R6 12 & 6TB drives on the Apple Store. That 'Add to Basket' button is saying 'click me.'

The Top Ten things we love about Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt, its clearly a win win situation with the new Intel connection at the moment, and when we found out that someone had written a top ten guide, well we had to find out more.

Matrox add Thunderbolt to their product range with an adapter for exisiting units and built in support by July

A smart move by Matrox. Not only will new MXO boxes have built in Thunderbolt by July, they are also releasing an adapter for those of us who have a unit already.

Blackmagic casts an NAB spell with a bumper release pack

Wow! Showering us with a veritable confetti of new products at NAB, Blackmagic Design have dipped into their top hat of tricks 14 times (at the latest count) this Monday. Now there's far too much even for us news-and-product-hungry fiends at fcp.co towers, so we're going to give you a brief round up of the six products that most interest FCP users.

Gemini 4:4:4 - A five inch touchscreen recorder player

So we are going to leave the credit cards at home this NAB otherwise we might find ourselves with one of these on the plane back. There are other LCD recorders arriving everyday, but this one can record two streams for 3D work. It's missing one thing though...