LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Sept. 6, 2007 - Canon will exhibit a wide variety of high-definition lenses and imaging solutions at IBC 2007, the International Broadcasting Conference, in Amsterdam, Holland from September 7 to 11 at the RAI Convention Center . New products include the wide DIGISUPER 27 HD studio lens (model XJ27×6.5B IE-D) and the BU-40H remote-control robotic pan-tilt HD camera system with genlock input and HD-SDI/SD-SDI video output. See Canon‘s wide selection of HD lenses at IBC 2007 in Stand No. 11.431.
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Sept. 6, 2007 - The television industry‘s ongoing transition to HDTV is creating demand for a versatile and cost-effective means of capturing high-definition video in a wide variety of specialized environments. These include traffic and weather POV locations, houses of worship, legislative chambers, and even such non-broadcast applications as high-resolution outdoor security monitoring and remote-control Web cameras. Responding to this increasing demand, Canon U.S.A., Inc. has introduced the new high-definition BU-40H Remote-Control Robotic Pan-Tilt Camera system, which leverages Canon‘s advanced optics, pan-tilt and imaging technologies. This new product along with Canon‘s industry-leading HD studio, field, portable, and cine lenses at IBC 2007, Stand No. 11.431, at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam, Holland from September 7 to 11.
As many music fans, U.S. historians and Baby Boomers celebrated the 40th anniversary of “The Summer of Love,” high-profile concert events across America made 2007 “The Summer of Aviom.” Aviom‘s personal monitor mixing system and digital snakes have found a niche among musicians and live sound professionals working the summer‘s biggest music events the world over.
Trevor Lawrence, Jr. used his custom Aviom monitor rig on stage while playing drums with Alicia Keys at the Live Earth concert in New Jersey. Meanwhile, in the cradle of American independence, Philadelphia, hometown heroes Hall & Oates treated the rain-soaked 4th of July crowd with an outstanding 90-minute performance of their greatest hits. Broadcast live on ABC television, the whole band used Aviom personal mixers for their monitors.
September 6, 2007 — IBC 2007, Amsterdam, Stand 7.641: Digital Rapids - a leading developer of scalable solutions for content ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection and delivery - today unveiled the StreamZ Live product line, a new family of live streaming encoders optimized for demanding applications from live IPTV channels to webcasting.
StreamZ Live delivers the proven benefits of Digital Rapids‘ award-winning StreamZ studio encoding systems in a dedicated live platform, including the robust reliability and exceptional output quality that have made StreamZ the platform of choice for leading studios, networks and facilities. more
September 6, 2007 — IBC 2007, Amsterdam, Stand 7.641: Digital Rapids - a leading developer of scalable solutions for content ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection and delivery - is offering IBC 2007 attendees a sneak peek at Copper C2, the next generation of the Digital Rapids Copper high-speed global data delivery software. Copper C2 extends the highly regarded transfer speed, reliability and security of Copper delivery technology to add network mesh topologies, and features a new streamlined client interface, expanded management tools, and an enhanced core architecture.
Overcoming network-inherent performance inhibitors such as latency and packet loss, Copper C2 transfers media and data files with a tremendous speed advantage over standard TCP-based technologies like FTP, and with outstanding resilience to even the most challenging network conditions. more
Matrox, XVUE, Digital Image FZC, and Touch Interactive Collaborate to Bring Interactive Television to the Gulf Region
Montreal, Canada, September 4, 2007 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Touch Interactive, one of the Gulf area‘s leading interactive television producers, has successfully installed eight advanced video/graphics servers based on Matrox DSX™ technology in TV stations throughout the Middle East. Located in Dubai, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, the stations broadcast via Nilesat and/or Arabsat reaching hundreds of millions viewers. The systems are used to broadcast automated interactive channels, with extensive use of SMS and IVR technologies, for game shows, voting, quizzes, SMS chats on TV, and song dedications.
Visual Research Inc.‘s Karisma 3D graphics system, based on Matrox DSX technology, to be used by Korean Broadcaster SBS for the 17th Presidential Election 2007
Montreal, Canada, September 4, 2007 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Visual Research Inc. has chosen the Matrox X.mio2 card, part of the Matrox DSX family of developer platforms, as the engine for its new Karisma 3D graphics systems. Karisma 3D is a high-performance realtime 3D graphics system with integrated 3D animation and modeling tools. It will be used by SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System) for its HD broadcast of the upcoming 17th Presidential Election 2007.
ClassX Development s.n.c. Exploits the Power of the Matrox DSX Platform in New Broadcast Graphics Products
Montreal, Canada, September 4, 2007 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Italian developer ClassX has chosen the Matrox DSX platform as the hardware engine for a variety of live broadcast graphics solutions. ClassX‘s new CG series 4.6 includes: MoreCG for the creation of titling and digital video effects in real time with text, images, video clips and animations; CastaliaCG for realtime broadcast character-level effects and hierarchical vector/bitmap animation; and CGPlayout for the creation and execution of dynamic playlists.
Matrox Announces Interoperability between Matrox Axio Realtime Editing Platforms and Omneon Spectrum and MediaGrid Active Storage Systems
Montreal, Canada - September 4, 2007 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced interoperability between Matrox Axio® realtime editing platforms and Omneon Spectrum® and MediaGrid® active storage systems. Matrox completes a PC-based workflow for customers seeking end-to-end solutions using MXF file formats with Omneon MediaDeck and Spectrum media servers, and MediaGrid active storage systems. Using Matrox Axio and Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3, it is possible to edit files natively from Omneon Spectrum or MediaGrid servers. more
Matrox Announces Realtime 10-bit Uncompressed HD Support on Matrox Axio LE HD/SD Editing Platform
Montreal, Canada - August 27, 2007 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that software release 3.0 for the Matrox Axio editing platforms will add support for realtime 10-bit uncompressed HD editing to Axio LE. In addition, the Matrox Axio 3.0 release will support the Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 software, additional HD and SD cameras and editing resolutions, and new realtime effects. The new features of Matrox Axio will be demonstrated at IBC 2007 on stand 7.228.
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