Archive for June, 2009

LANCASTER, PA — Standardizing DTV audio processing across its eight station Broadcast Television Division, Freedom Communications, Inc. has chosen a range of audio processing products from Linear Acoustic, the leading authority in loudness control and upmixing solutions for digital television, to ensure consistent 5.1-channel audio as well as significantly streamline plant workflows. more

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4 days of cutting-edge training for postproduction, broadcasters and content creators; hands-on Final Cut and Motion certification workshops

Boston, MA – June 30, 2009 – Future Media Concepts (FMC), the premier authorized digital media training organization for postproduction, broadcast, and content creators, announced today the 5th annual NY Post|Production Conference held in New York City from October 5-8, 2009. Produced in association with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), this conference incorporates the same successful training methodology as the widely popular NAB Las Vegas training event. With its comprehensive session offerings delivered by the nation’s most sought after industry professionals and affordable more

30 June 2009

Stockholm, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient optical transport solutions for media, broadcast and IP networks has received an order for delivery of the Nimbra platform to a contribution network to carry video feeds from venues in a European football league.

The Nimbra platform has proven to be the top choice for demanding contribution networks responsible for transporting live sports footage from many professional sports venues across the globe including the U.S. and Europe as well as major events such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

A European media operator is now deploying a contribution network for live sport transmissions of a European football league. The more

Atlanta, 29 June, 2009 – Innovative French company and European 2D mobile barcode leader, Mobile Tag, announces today that its Datamatrix embedded software application mobiletag, that allows mobile phones to read 2D barcodes simply by using the phone’s camera to provide quick access to external content such as movie trailers or promotional information, is now downloadable on the Android Market for GPhones, and on the BlackBerry App Store.

The solution that was launched for all other mobile phones back in 2006 is now ready to be deployed on these smart phones and can now be downloaded for free via Android Market or BlackBerry App Store.

“Mobile Tag is a company that constantly tries to stay one step ahead of the trends, closely following new hardware launches, which explains why we have adapted our mobiletag solution to ensure that a version compatible with smart phones such as the GPhones or BlackBerry is available for our customers as of today,” comments Christian François Viala, Marketing and more

Europe’s largest provider of outside broadcast and uplink facilities SIS LIVE has purchased another 36 of the Q-Down183-A down converters from Crystal Vision for its coverage of the Wimbledon tennis championships, with the entire event being covered in HD for the first time this year.

SIS LIVE is providing all the HD technical facilities to host broadcaster BBC Sport for its coverage of Wimbledon, covering matches on nine courts at the Grand Slam tennis tournament which takes place in London between 22nd June and 5th July. SIS LIVE is providing four OB units, as well as eight outgoing circuits from the site which are being relayed to BBC Television Centre for the domestic and interactive operations, plus international circuits.

SIS LIVE already owned 99 Q-Downs and needed another 36 of the Crystal Vision down converters due to the large number of discrete feeds involved. more

KISSIMMEE, FL — Neutrik USA is helping Poinciana High School give its students real-world experience in connectivity, a vital component for setting up and wiring equipment for broadcast. The company donated several products to Poinciana High School’s TV Production class to help prepare its students for employment as television production operators, television broadcast technicians and camera operators, also as professional broadcast technicians, video recording engineers and audio recording engineers.

At Poinciana High School, students in the TV Production class are exposed to an overview of aspects of TV production, including scripts, lighting, filming and directing, electronic news gathering and field production. Hands-on activities are an integral part of this program and provide instruction in camera principles, audio and video control, lighting methods, control room operation, station operation and set preparation. more

Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2 Mini support for the popular CineForm NeoScene editing workflow that streamlines AVCHD editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 on the PC. The Matrox MXO2 Mini I/O device provides inexpensive HDMI monitoring with 10-bit 4:2:2 color precision. It turns an HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with Matrox’s unique color calibration tool. Controls for hue, chroma, contrast, brightness, and blue-only are provided. Users get accurate color representation so that an inexpensive HDMI monitor can be used even for color grading. Matrox MXO2 Mini even provides 1:1 pixel mapping on HDMI displays that support this feature so video will not be stretched and distorted by the monitor. more

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (June 26, 2009) – If you stopped by the Vaddio booth at InfoComm 2009 you witnessed first-hand the buzz and excitement surrounding all of our new products. With new PTZ cameras (the ClearVIEW HD-18 and Canon BU-series cameras), as well as our new switchers (ControlVIEW XHD and ProductionVIEW HD-SDI), we were full of activity. Other products debuted at InfoComm included the new Canon BU-series of PTZ cameras, the ProductionVIEW Precision Camera Controller, as well as a variety of camera mounting brackets.

“We’d been patiently anticipating this year’s show because of all the new products we launched - most notably the ClearVIEW HD-18, our new Robotic PTZ camera,” explained president of Vaddio, Rob Sheeley. “We couldn’t have asked for a better venue to showcase the new product lines. If you were at the show you saw for yourself - the Vaddio booth had absolutely no down time.” more

Stockholm, Sweden – June 26, 2009 – Net Insight, a leading developer of efficient and scalable optical transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, today announced that a large broadband and multimedia services operator/provider in southern Europe has placed an order for Net Insight’s Nimbra optical transport solution.

Net Insight’s Nimbra platform will be a strategic component of a contribution network supplied by the South European broadband and multimedia service (IPTV, telephony and data) provider to distribute multimedia (ASI, SD-SDI or HD-SDI) services. The solution includes Nimbra Vision, a complete management tool for efficient operation and maintenance of the Nimbra network. Nimbra Vision in combination with the Nimbra hardware platform will enable the operator to reduce the complexity and cost of managing services both today and going forward. It shall also allow the operator a greater level of flexibility and choice in terms of scaling both the bandwidth and choice of service as needs arise. more

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - JUNE 2009: Delivering a successful sports broadcast for network television is as much art as it is science, but a confluence of forces are threatening to make it a lost art practiced only by a graying and ever-shrinking cadre of sages. Sennheiser has teamed up with FOX Sports to reverse that trend with an immensely practical, hands-on, trial-by-fire introduction to real-world sports broadcasting for promising students of telecommunications. David Missall, Sennheiser’s director of market development for the Eastern region, originated the program and selected its first student, junior Michael Stevens of Ball State University, to work with industry veteran Fred Aldous in the FOX Sports mix truck at the Coca Cola 600 NASCAR race in Charlotte, North Carolina. The experience was, in equal parts, demanding, eye-opening, and inspiring. more