See projectiondesign at xSolutions, Stand A6, EXCEL, London, 19-20 October 2011
Visitors to xSolutions trade show are in for a treat when they visit the projectiondesign stand.
Demonstrated will be the largest ever line-up of projection solutions including the award winning F35 wqxga high-resolution projector, the FR12 Remote Light Source™ projector for command and control and the F82 series featuring 3-chip DLP® technology. All projectors are made for 24/7 operation and come with warranty programmes for up to five years. In addition, projectiondesign will preview the world’s highest resolution 3D single-chip DLP projector, the F35 AS3D.
The dedicated UK based team comprises several recognised industry professionals to support partners and customers with projects and support requirements at every level.
Set to be a crowd puller at xSolutions, a real-life motion platform Formula 1 simulator will be on more
High Performance Data Solutions Via Quantum StorNext and Active Storage
Pictured is the new Smoke Bay at LA’s Nomad Editing Company.
Integrated Media Technologies Inc. (IMT) has completed a new 120TB SAN storage system and expanded fiber networking for LA’s Nomad Editing Company. The project was designed specifically by IMT to satisfy the considerable needs of a high volume, editorial, sound and graphics services company that caters to major television commercials, advertising and feature films. At the heart of the Nomad installation is Quantum’s StorNext filesystem, ActiveRAID ES Storage and QLogic Fibre Switches serving as a primary tier #1 storage feeding multiple Final Cut Pro on Mac and Autodesk Smoke on Linux workstations.
“IMT works differently than other vendors who just sell products,” explained Scott Carleton, VP at Nomad, whose clients include Pepsi, Visa, TD Bank, Chevy, Nike, more
High Five Entertainment chooses TNDV’s “Aspiration” multi-camera SD/HD/3D truck for production services
NASHVILLE, October 11, 2011 – Two Emmy-award winning production companies have joined forces to help bring live performances from the venerable Grand Ole Opry performance stage to televisions around the country.
Through the fall, the Scripps-owned country music entertainment network Great American Country (GAC) will broadcast six “Opry Live” episodes featuring live performances from country music stars. Nashville-based production companies High Five Entertainment and TNDV will come together for the project.
The Grand Ole Opry contracted High Five Entertainment, the Emmy-award winning entertainment production company, to produce the live shows. High Five Entertainment has contracted mobile production company TNDV, owned by Nic Dugger, to provide the HD mobile production systems and technical crew needed to produce the events. The SD shows will go live via more
See Dataton at prolight+sound, Shanghai, Stand W5A22, 11-14 October 2011, New Expo Center, Shanghai, China
Stereoscopic playback, 3D effects, and iPad control shown for first time in Shanghai
Dataton and Audio Visual Technique will be launching the brand new version 5 of WATCHOUT multi-display production and playback system at prolight+sound, Shanghai.
Kenneth Cheung of Audio Visual Technique says: “We’re delighted to showcase our technology at prolight+sound and expect it to receive a tremendous reception. WATCHOUT is extremely popular with our partners and, after our success at the Shanghai EXPO, we have supplied it to new installations and special events.”
As well as exhibiting at the show, AVT and Dataton will be hosting seminars throughout the show for partners in China to give them the latest, hands on product information.
Dataton WATCHOUT™ version 5 is already making waves in the international more
NBC Expands Usage of LiveU’s Video Uplink Solutions
Enables live video broadcasts from any location, anytime, during the US Presidential Campaign
Paramus, NJ, October 5th, 2011 - LiveU (www.liveu.tv), the leader in portable video-over-cellular solutions, today announced that NBC is expanding usage of its LU60 live video transmission system, deploying increased numbers of LiveU units to cover the 2012 US presidential race. LiveU provides rapid and convenient video uplink from any place candidates take the campaign using bonded 3G/4G LTE, Wi-Fi and WiMAX cellular links.
The NBC/LiveU relationship dates from 2008 when NBC pioneered LiveU usage to broadcast live from the Beijing Olympics, followed by the coverage of President Obama’s historic inaugural train ride from Philadelphia to D.C. in early 2009.
Jeff Coneys, Director of MTC/Satellite Operations at NBCUniversal, said: “LiveU usage at NBC has seen triple digit growth over the past few more
Korean Broadcasting Systems (KBS) selected LYNX Technik modular solutions to boost its coverage of the 2011 IAAF World Championship in Daegu, Korea. Broadcast Solutions managed the project as systems integrator and general contractor alongside its local partner, Dong Yang Digital Co., Ltd in Seoul, Korea.
To meet the growing demand for HD entertainment and sports programming, Broadcast solutions was brought on board to aid KBS with the design and development of the new 16-camera high definition OB van. The project was completed over an eight month period. The new truck has been partitioned into four production rooms – video, audio, camera control / shading room, and equipment and was delivered to KBS on June 30th 2011. Its inaugural production was for the 2011 IAAF World Championship.
The World Championship in Athletics is a bi-annual event organized by the International Association of Athletics more
Media Links Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Global Links will demonstrate a tightly integrated video & data delivery and transport solution with software provider, Dimetis at HD World, Booth 1018.
Broadcasters and network service providers will have the opportunity to review an example of a fully managed video & data transport solution that is currently being deployed by a large-scale Telco in various broadcasting facilities and sporting venues throughout the United States. The demonstrations will illustrate an adaptable, affordable and flexible solution for transporting uncompressed or JPEG2000 compressed HD-SDI, SD-SDI and DVB-ASI video protocols, as well as providing dedicated native Ethernet services. It will reflect an efficient and robust transport offering that can be deployed in a variety of network applications that require high quality pixel-perfect content delivery.
Content & Communications World includes HD World, SATCON, and 3D World, more
Leading European Broadcasting facility chooses QTube and Enterprise sQ for efficient, global workflows
Woods TV, part of Paris and Los Angeles based Woods Media Group, a full service global production and program adaptation company, has purchased a Quantel Enterprise sQ system together with Quantel’s revolutionary QTube global workflow technology. The system will be the backbone of Woods TV’s brand new HD, fully file-based facility as the company moves its EMEA HQ to a new state of the art headquarters in Boulogne Billancourt near Paris and reinforces its fast growing worldwide operation with the appointment of Elodie Brulere Powers as VP Global Operations and Development in the LA office.
In specifying and selecting the new system, Woods TV had a number of criteria which only Quantel was able to match: the ability to work with mixed HD/SD content; to handle more
Northampton, MA – Myers Information Systems – a leading developer of broadcast traffic, business, and content management software – today announced a successful implementation of the company’s flagship ProTrack suite by The Vacation Channel. Based in Branson, Missouri, TVC offers a mix of news, weather and information focused on the lifestyle and rich variety of entertainment options available in and around Branson with coverage to some 50,000 in-home and hotel/motel room viewers.
“For the last couple years, we’ve searched for a traffic system that would provide the right kind of tools,” said Gary Leach, the channel’s director of operations. “We have very specific and unique operating needs; the more we saw of ProTrack’s diversity and flexibility, the more we knew we’d found the right system. Its more
DTS Codecs Integrated into Digital Rapids Transcode Manager 2.0 — Showcases Newly Launched DTS MediaPlayer at IBC 2011
September 9, 2011 — IBC (Stand #2.B50), AMSTERDAM: DTS, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTSI), a leader in high-definition audio, and Digital Rapids, the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences, have announced the companies’ first tools to support the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem’s (DECE) UltraViolet(tm) standard. DTS will showcase its newly launched DTS MediaPlayer in Stand 2.B50 during this year’s IBC exhibition, using UltraViolet Common File Format (CFF) files created with Digital Rapids’ upcoming version 2.0 of the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated transcoding software. Digital Rapids Transcode Manager 2.0 will feature encoding and multiplexing of a wide range of profiles of the DTS-HD codec, from lossless DTS-HD Master Audio down to low bit-rate DTS more
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