Good news for the Portkeys fans! A new software update called CINENORM is coming to the company’s monitors (and their upcoming products). It offers a completely different menu interface and is claimed to vastly improve and simplify user experience. My CineD colleague Graham stopped by the Portkeys booth at NAB 2024 and got a quick demo of all the new features Portkeys CINENORM will bring to the table. Right off the bat: no more annoying swiping and guessing which menu you will land on. The Portkeys team based the software update completely on customers’ feedback. Their central goal was to improve the usability of their monitors. Well, the first demo looks indeed promising. Let’s dive in! The first look at the Portkeys CINENORM menu What you will notice straight away with the CINENORM update is that the monitor menu looks completely different. Tapping once on the screen will open the following overview: Image credit: CineD On the left-hand side, the menu offers quick access to the monitor’s brightness and the light bulb icon, which controls the speed of the fan. Right below you see the chainlink picture. Clicking on it opens the sub-window with different types of connections. As Dariel Resendez from Portkeys explains, their goal was to make navigating through monitor features visually responsive and intuitive. Seems like a success to me: Image credit: CineD Let’s go back to the main menu. The top and bottom bars show the setup for a particular camera that is connected to the...
Published By: CineD - Sunday, 21 April