Andy Stout

Andy Stout

Andy has spent over two decades writing about all aspects of the broadcast and film industries for a variety of high-profile industry publications on both sides of the Atlantic. During that time the industry has moved from 4:3 SD to 16:9 SD to HD and now on to 4K HDR. He's getting kind of curious to see where it goes next.

LG expands 8K TV set line with 8 new sets

Published in Technology & Computing
LG's new 8K sets come in more sizes than ever

One of the first major stories ahead of this week’s CES 2020 in Las Vegas is news that LG is expanding its range of 8K sets.

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Red Shark Review of the Year - November & December 2019

Published in Production
Small, but perfectly formed, amazingly capable, and housed in a protective housing: the rather fabulous GoPro HERO8

With the last two months hopefully lodged in recent memory still, we’ll group them together as we conclude our review of 2019. There were still some impressive highlights though.

Red Shark Review of the Year - October 2019

Published in Production
What price productivity? Blackmagic's $995 keyboard is expensive but if it saves time it pays for itself...

From classic lenses to the latest workflow improvements for editors, these were the stories that hit the mark in October.

Red Shark Review of the Year - September 2019

Published in Production
Extreme close-up with the Laowa 100mm 2:1 lens

Our review of the year hits September and these were some of the most popular articles we featured.

Red Shark Review of the Year - August 2019

Published in Production
Leakproof: the (then) surprising BMPCC 6K

From Apple to Windows, from Blackmagic to RED, a month of contrasting companies and technologies.

Red Shark Review of the Year - July 2019

Published in Production
The Sigma fp comes with a serious amount of accessories if you want to fully kit it out

Post NAB and pre IBC, July is usually the time of the year when not much happens in the industry. Some years are exceptions, however…

Red Shark Review of the Year - June 2019

Published in Production
For all its promise. the Digital Bolex never managed to go on to change the world

A significant month for new tech with Apple finally turning its attention back to the Pro market and the new from Blackmagic.

Cats the movie gets a patch

Published in Post & VFX
Not feline it; Cats has been patched to address some VFX issues

In what seems to be a totally unprecedented move, theatres round the world have been sent an upgraded version of the movie Cats with ‘improved’ visual effects. This has implications…

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Red Shark Review of the Year - May 2019

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The Lumix S1H: Full Frame at 6K for around $4k

From a look back at the key audio technology at the end of the last century, to the announcement of a camera that was very much a part of this one, the highlights of May in our continuing review of the Red Shark year.

RedShark Review of the Year - April 2019

Published in Production
Put all this together and you have an extremely powerful, extremely fast workflow

This time of year is often about NAB, and so it proved once more with the Red Shark Awards giving a clutch of kudos to some fine products out in Vegas. There was more happening too.

RedShark Review of the Year - March 2019

Published in Production
The latest version of Unreal Engine added realtime ray-tracing to some quite stunning effects

From the Blackmagic Design eGPU Pro to the Nikon Z 6 and the DJI OSMO Pocket Gimbal, there were plenty of reviews to choose from in March as our round up of 2019 continues.

RedShark review of the year - February 2019

Published in Production
The Lumix S1: our silicon guy was rather impressed

The top news stories and most popular articles from the second month of the year.

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