Gruppo TNT technology innovations will reach global markets. New, advanced functionalities will enhance Dalet Enterprise Edition.
Levallois-Perret – July 12, 2010 –Dalet Digital Media Systems, a publicly traded company on Euronext which designs, develops, and sells Media Asset Management (MAM) and digital media solutions to broadcasters and content providers, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gruppo TNT S.R.L., a privately held Italian company that specializes in advanced broadcast solutions. The acquired business further expands the Dalet product offerings built around an open, IT-centric framework, and provides additional functionalities that can be easily incorporated into its flagship product Dalet Enterprise Edition. Gruppo TNT’s revenues in 2009 were €4.9 million.
“We are very impressed with Gruppo TNT’s deep knowledge and experience in advanced technologies that are complementary to Dalet and that improve broadcast workflows, more
BET Relied on Bexel-Provided Equipment and Services for the Big Night
Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, provided support, equipment and services for the 2010 BET Awards, the BET Network’s biggest night of the year, which took place on Sunday, June 27. more
Crystal Vision products will be available for demonstration on booth D9 of their dealer in Brazil, 4S Informática at this year’s SET 2010 Broadcast & Cable show at the Centro de Exposicoes Imigrantes, Sao Paolo from 25th to 27th August.
4S Informática will be showing selected video conversion products from the Crystal Vision range including the popular Q-Down – a broadcast down converter and distribution amplifier that combines a unique level of quality in its price range with a short processing delay of just 16 lines, and an Up-and-down up/down/cross converter that combines the remarkable quality of motion adaptive video de-interlacing with embedded audio handling, aspect ratio conversion, signal timing and AFD data insertion.
Visitors to the 4S booth will also have the opportunity to see Crystal Vision’s TANDEM-110 – a dual audio embedder/de-embedder that can be configured as a single embedder or de-embedder, dual embedder or de-embedder, more
Ross Video raises the bar in high end production switchers with Vision Octane, the world’s first 8 MLE switcher. Vision Octane is extremely powerful with 35 Full Screen HD Animation Stores, 24 Channels of 3D DVE with WARP capability, 96 inputs, 48 outputs, and an unprecedented total of 56 Keyers - 32 Full Keyers, 12 AuxKey Mixer / Keyers on the aux bus outputs and 12 DVE key combiners. Vision Octane can be loaded with any number of MLEs from 1 to 8, match any application, and be combined with up to 9 different control panels. more
Crystal Vision has been chosen as the exclusive interface supplier for the HD upgrade of “Coronation Street”.
Made by ITV Studios, “Coronation Street” is the longest running British soap opera – celebrating its 50th Birthday this December – and is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, a suburb of the city of Manchester.
The 39 interface products were purchased and installed by UK systems integrator AVC, who recommended the use of Crystal Vision. The project was to upgrade two studios from SD to HD and to build two new two-camera Outside Broadcast vans (to replace the existing SD OB vehicles) in just 10 weeks – while having zero impact on the production schedule. The studio upgrades were carried out in the existing apparatus areas and control rooms which made the project extremely challenging, so equipment delivery was critical.
From developing 3D animation to providing hi-def video production, Imageworks offers innovative solutions in design, custom training and interactive applications to its diverse client-base. Specializing in branding, interactive, motion, photography and print projects, Imageworks’ creative team is seeing greater efficiency and improved project management since the recent installation of shared storage technology from Small Tree.
Prior to installing Small Tree’s GraniteSTOR Ethernet-based system, featuring unique OS X networking capabilities supporting multiple Ethernet ports that tightly integrate with Apple’s built in file sharing system, Imageworks was limited to two unconnected Final Cut editing suites. Today, the company has increased its editing capabilities by more than 100 percent, as the Small Tree technology has enabled Imageworks to introduce three part-time editing workstations in its facility. As a result, productivity has been increased substantially, according to Brad Steiner, senior producer. more
Matrox Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of support for Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium software with Matrox MXO2 I/O devices for Windows. The key features of this new release include: full-resolution, full-frame-rate, multi-layer, realtime video editing via Matrox RT technology; lightning fast H.264 hardware encoding for Blu-ray, the Web, and mobile devices via Matrox MAX technology; and professional audio and video input and output with 10-bit hardware up/down/cross conversion.
“The Matrox MXO2 devices deliver much more than just I/O for Adobe CS5 Production Premium,” said Alberto Cieri, senior director of sales and marketing at Matrox. “Users love the built-in color calibration tool for inexpensive HDMI monitoring and now the MAX versions give them even more added advantages. They benefit from lightning fast high definition H.264 file more
Minnesota Supreme Court Installs Vaddio Camera Systems to Create Hands-Free Video Recording and Streaming
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (July 9, 2010) – The Minnesota Supreme Court, sometimes called the “court of last resort”, is Minnesota’s highest appellate court and is unlike any other in the state (http://www.mncourts.gov). Because the Supreme Court plays a vital role in the constitutional system, providing efficient technology for its citizens is essential. When the Supreme Court decided to upgrade their courtrooms, they looked to Minneapolis-based audiovisual integrator, MSpace, to integrate Vaddio camera systems into Courtroom 300.
Courtroom 300 is the larger of two courtrooms used in the Minnesota Supreme Court for video recording/streaming all sessions to the Internet and local public television station, KTCA in St. Paul. The original courtroom had stationary cameras offering such low quality audio as to prompt the redesign of both the audio and video throughout the room. MSpace upgraded the more
72-Channel Duality Largest Education Installation in the World
WINTER PARK, FL – Full Sail University, which offers degree programs in everything from recording arts and film to game and web design, recently installed a 72-channel Solid State Logic Duality SE console as the centerpiece of its new flagship recording studio, the Audio Temple. This installation represents the largest Duality in an educational institution. The expansion was part of the Full Sail Gateway Studios project encompassing a live performance hall, a game production studio and the new, state-of-the-art recording studio. Duality was the console of choice as it best represents the future of the recording industry for Full Sail, while providing the reliability, sound quality and in depth learning experience for the students. Duality joins three SSL J Series, 13 SSL AWS 900+ and seven SSL Matrix consoles to offer an industry standard user more
Bay of Islands, New Zealand – July 2010… In 1845, Maori warriors challenged the might of the British Empire after Hone Heke—one of the tribal leaders— felt that British settlers had reneged on their treaty obligations and infringed upon the North Island of Aotearoa, known today as New Zealand. The Maori fought tenaciously and developed defenses that would have been perfectly suited to a First World War battlefield. This story lives on among Hone Heke’s ancestors and was part of a three-part documentary series call Victoria’s Empire that was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions of London and televised on the BBC—with the sounds being captured using wireless technology from Lectrosonics. more
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