Blackmagic Design Announces Acquisition of Teranex Systems Inc.
Orlando, Florida, USA - December 7, 2011 - Blackmagic Design (www.blackmagic-design.com) today announced its acquisition of Teranex Systems Inc. (www.teranex.com), a leading manufacturer of high performance video processing products for the post production and broadcast industries. Teranex, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackmagic Design.
“Teranex is a strategic acquisition for Blackmagic Design,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “Its technology, solutions and market complement our own efforts and its high quality video processing technology enables us to provide our customers with even higher levels of video quality — extending Blackmagic Design’s product range for the broadcast, feature film and high end post production markets.”
“This is an exciting milestone for our company,” said Mike Poirier, General Manager of Teranex. “We are extremely happy to be part of the Blackmagic Design team. Blackmagic Design’s more
San Diego, California — DVEO, the broadcast division of Computer Modules, Inc. (CMI), is proud to announce that they have successfully resumed production of several types of DVB Master™ DVB-ASI cards and expect to have most cards back in production. In June 2011, DVEO purchased the intellectual assets of Linear Systems, Ltd. of Winnipeg, Canada, their long-term supplier of PCIe and PCI interface cards for DVB-ASI and SDI/HD-SDI.
The cards’ manufacturing is being outsourced to a third party company near San Diego. DVEO plans to sell the manufacturing rights to a synergistic partner, and is negotiating with third parties. “This may happen in the next few months,” stated Laszlo Zoltan, Sales Manager for DVEO. “Meanwhile, our customer favorites are coming back… including the DVB Master 2i/2o two input and two output card, the VidPort™ SD-HD™ input or output card, more
San Diego, California — DVEO, the broadcast division of Computer Modules, Inc. (CMI), announced today that they have purchased the assets of their long-time supplier, Linear Systems, Ltd. of Winnipeg, Canada.
Linear Systems, DVEO’s long-term supplier of PCIe and PCI interface cards for DVB-ASI and SDI, decided to close their business in late April. Linear Systems designed, manufactured, and supported the products with a top-notch set of engineers.
DVEO has acquired Linear Systems’ technology assets, including designs, manufacturing rights, source code, and PCB (printed circuit board) layouts, etc. DVEO will continue to manage sales and tech support of products formerly manufactured by Linear.
“Ultimately we are actively looking for a third party to take over the manufacturing and support for this product line,” stated Laszlo Zoltan, Sales Manager for DVEO. “We are already in discussions with several companies. In parallel we expect to more
SKY WEB, INC management announced today a transaction making it a part of New Jersey based Distinct Holdings, the parent company to Diversified Systems and Diversified Media Group. Terms of the deal were kept confidential.
SKY WEB provides digital satellite television services to thousands of businesses in North America. Acknowledged leaders in the industry, the company has designed and built network infrastructure for the enterprise, broadcast and other vertical markets since 1997.
The Diversified companies bring years of broadcast and IP engineering experience to SKY WEB and will allow the company to add technical services, network operations and superior customer care to new and existing clients in North America and other markets.
Greg Frasca, President of SKY WEB said of the deal, “I couldn’t be more pleased with the results of the deal. Diversified is the perfect fit to combine more
Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG), the world’s leading supplier of entertainment and event technology headquartered in New York, announced today that it has acquired Showtec Beleuchtungs- und Beschallungs GmbH, the Europe-based event technology company.
Showtec will operate under its own brand-name, as a full member company of the PRG group, with Wilfried Schieffer and Ralf Richrath continuing in their present leadership roles.
Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany, Showtec is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art lighting, audio, and video systems, plus a full range of creative LED technologies to a wide range of market segments including trade fairs and expositions, public and corporate events, concert tours and television productions.
“Showtec has an excellent reputation in the industry for maintaining the highest standards of quality for its equipment and services,” said PRG Chairman & CEO Jeremiah “Jere” Harris. “Their seasoned more
Clear-Com®, an Emmy® Award-winning global leader in critical voice communication systems, merges with HME Pro Audio Division, a direct result of HME’s recent acquisition of Clear-Com. Effective January 1, 2011, HME’s existing Pro Audio Division, which includes the professional wireless intercom products, sales and technical staff, distribution network and marketing activities, becomes part of Clear-Com. The merger of HME’s existing channel partners into Clear-Com’s global distribution network makes it the largest distributor of professional intercom, as well as the provider with most extensive wired and wireless intercoms on the market. more
Montréal, Canada, November 2010: Sennheiser Canada, leading purveyor of high-end professional and consumer audio products, announces its partnership with TELUS, one of Canada’s leading mobile telecommunications providers, to sell Sennheiser EZX 60 Bluetooth(r) headsets and MM 50iP stereo headsets in its 1,200 stores across the nation. Launched on November 1, 2010, this breakthrough partnership, spearheaded by Michael Wyman of Sennheiser Canada’s Communications Division, is to give TELUS customers ready access to Sennheiser’s superior headset fidelity and state-of-the-art noise and echo cancellation technologies.
The two initial Sennheiser products chosen by TELUS represent the company’s core technologies and superior performance. The Sennheiser EZX 60 is a monaural, behind-the-ear Bluetooth headset. It features advanced digital noise and echo cancellation, easy call control, lightweight comfort, and long talk time. While the Sennheiser MM 50iP is aimed at iPhone users, it is also compatible with other smartphones, offering more
Advanced ingest/output technology leverages IT-based hardware adding highly flexible and cost effective mass content ingest and delivery capabilities to Dalet enterprise MAM solutions
Levallois-Perret – September 21, 2010 –Dalet Digital System, one of the leading developers of enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions for News, Sports and Programming, has announced Dalet Brio, an innovative IT-based input and output video platform. Fully integrated with Dalet Enterprise Edition, the company’s all-in-one newsroom, automation and media management solution, Dalet Brio records media in a range of formats and resolutions; performs necessary conversions; stores it either locally or on a central SAN; and then plays it out, again in a range of formats and resolutions. “Dalet Brio is the first product to roll out from our acquisition of Gruppo TNT,” says David Lasry, Dalet’s CEO. “Developed on a proven technology, more
Iroquois, Ontario, Canada and Adelaide, Australia - July 26, 2010 - Ross Video Limited and Codan Limited jointly announced today that Ross has entered into a letter of intent to buy 100% of the shares of Codan’s wholly-owned Melbourne-based subsidiary, Codan Broadcast Products Pty Ltd. The sale, subject only to the finalization of due diligence, is scheduled for completion on 31 August, 2010. more
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
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