AJA Video, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, has installed multiple FS1 converters at Nashville‘s Sommet Center to enable the arena‘s conversion to an all-digital broadcast infrastructure. The FS1 is a universal HD and SD, audio and video frame synchronizer and converter supporting virtually any input or output format.
The Sommet Center serves as home base for the National Hockey League‘s Nashville Predators and was built in 1996 with control room facilities designed for analog broadcast requirements. The facility secured funding to convert to digital in the summer of 2007 and awarded the design contract to M/BITS, a local leading broadcast system integrator. more
Manhattan, NY, November 14, 2007 - The more than 315 million worldwide viewers who recently tuned into the 2007 ING New York City Marathon did not miss a step as IMG Media, world leading sports, entertainment and media production company, televised the 26 mile race via state-of-the-art transmitter and receiver technology from RF Central, a leading digital microwave technology provider. more
Company Achieves 48 Percent Overall Growth and 100 Percent Growth in International Sales over Past Year
BILLERICA, Mass. — Nov. 13, 2007 — Echolab Corporation, a leading provider of professional video production switchers and broadcast tools, today announced end-year results representing a dramatic growth rate over the past year. As a whole, the company expanded by 48 percent over the duration of 2007, with growth driven largely by the launch of the Echolab Opera series of dual-format production switchers, released just over a year ago. Echolab also developed its dealer network and leveraged existing dealer channels to achieve 100 percent growth in the company‘s international sales. more
Prism Sound has supplied a dScope Series III audio analyzer to GEM UK Ltd, a Gloucestershire-based company that specialises in the offshore manufacture and assembly of Printed Circuit Boards.
The unit was ordered at the behest of one of GEM UK‘s clients and is now in China where it is being used for production testing.
Clive Meadows, sales manager for GEM UK, says: “Our client specified two audio test products that would be suitable for this project and we chose the Prism Sound unit on the basis of cost and the breadth of features offered. It is being used in testing and calibration of top end audio equipment and is performing very well.” more
SALT LAKE CITY — Nov. 13, 2007 — Utah Scientific today announced that Public Access Community Television (PACT) in Austin, Texas, has installed a UTAH-400 routing switcher and a UTAH-300 routing switcher along with Utah Scientific‘s SC-4 control system and associated control panels for automated playback of three channels on two cable systems. more
THE WASHINGTON D.C. CONVENTION CENTER, BOOTH # 430, NOVEMBER 14-16–Ikegami, the world-leading manufacturer of high-quality broadcast production solutions, is exhibiting a wide range of leading-edge products and technologies vital to the needs of public-sector video and television professionals at Government Video Technology Expo (“GV Tech Expo”) 2007, at the Washington DC Convention Center. more
Enitre Series Broadcast Using MRC Airborne & Ground Links
North Billerica, Massachusetts- Microwave Radio Communications (MRC) today announced that its Link High Definition (HD) Wireless Diversity camera systems powered FOX-TV Sports‘ state-of-the-art, high resolution coverage of baseball‘s American League Championship Series, and the Boston Red Sox World Series sweep of the Colorado Rockies. The Link HD Wireless Diversity system provided true HD transmission without down/up conversion, complete freedom of camera movement, and elimination of the latency issues often found in competing systems. FOX-TV production crews could inter-cut camera shots seamlessly with no vision or sound delay problems. more
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., November 8, 2007 - Nice Shoes is an elite player in the New York commercial post-production market, with four advanced boutique facilities included in its corporate family: Guava (VFX, design and 3D), Freestyle Collective (3D animation and broadcast design), Nice Spots (Web-based sharing, archiving and collaboration application), and Nice Shoes (color correction, online edit and VFX). When these multiple divisions expanded into new offices on either side of Manhattan‘s Park Avenue South, they needed a cost-effective, reliable means of networking their data. Microwave was not an option in this RF-heavy urban environment, and local fiber loops were not cost-effective. Instead, the company chose the advanced Canobeam DT-130 Free Space Optics Transceiver, from Canon U.S.A. Inc., which provides secure, wireless 1.25 Gigabit per second (Gbps) data-transmission for Gigabit Ethernet networking. more
SALT LAKE CITY — Nov. 7, 2007 — Utah Scientific, a leading manufacturer of routing switchers and related products for the broadcast industry, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Steve Monsen as director of sales operations. Monsen will work directly with Tom Harmon, Utah Scientific‘s president, to enhance and streamline the sales process, providing support to the regional sales managers as well as directly to customers. more
ALAMEDA, CA and CAMBRIDGE, UK –Clear-Com® a Vitec Group brand, announces the release of two new AES-6 interface cards to its Eclipse Digital Matrix intercom system. The two interface cards are designed to provide connection to either the AES-3 digital audio, or to coax video cable from digital intercom panels. The AES-6 cards complement Clear-Com‘s existing range of IMF interfaces for Eclipse intercom matrices, including the 1RU Eclipse-PiCo system, and supporting the company‘s existing 4000 system panels.
The 6-channel AES-6-CX module connects digital panels to Eclipse matrices. Use of these more robust coax cables is favored for outside mobile broadcast (OB) or live events, while CAT-5 cabling is preferred for indoor connection of other panels offering either mono or stereo modes. The digital audio coax connection also provides two audio paths to the intercom panel, allowing users to have a permanent program audio or production conference feed as well as switched intercom.
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