Archive of the NAB2008 Category

Toronto, Ontario, Canada – June 24, 2008 … There’s been no shortage of talking points so far: arguments with the fourth official, German coach Joachim Löw’s touchline ban, Bastian Schweinsteiger’s red card and his tremendous comeback in the quarter final against Portugal; and then, of course, the usual transfer gossip… And when the journalists assemble just after 12 o’clock for the German Football Federation (DFB)’s daily press conference, it’s the SWR (Südwestrundfunk, “Southwest Broadcasting”) that’s responsible for transmitting the sound and images from its HDTV OB truck FÜ2HD – in which an mc²66 console from Lawo resides at the nerve center of operations. more

Kaktovik, Alaska – June 2008… With each day seemingly colder than the one before, a combination of scientists and a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) production crew recently set out to document the effects of global warming on the Arctic frontier. With a focus on the plight of the region’s Polar Bears as well as the melting permafrost, the group worked from their base camp in this northern village on the Beaufort Sea coast and traveled by helicopter in search of the highly dangerous, yet vulnerable animals. Capturing audio on a mission of this nature is challenging enough, and in this harsh environment—with sub-zero-degree temperatures and high wind—the task becomes even more difficult. Wireless microphones were a necessity and, to ensure production quality worthy of the BBC, the mission critical performance attributes of Lectrosonics wireless technology were placed into service. more

Washington, DC – June 2008… Located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, N.W., on America’s Main Street between the White House and the U.S. Capitol and adjacent to the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall, the new Newseum is a 250,000-square-foot museum of news—offering visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. Featuring seven levels of galleries, theaters, retail spaces, and visitor services, the Newseum offers a unique environment that takes museum-goers behind the scenes to experience how and why news is made, and throughout the facility Lectrosonics wireless systems are deployed. more

Toronto, Ontario, Canada – May 30, 2008… The qualified European teams have been named and the nominated players are preparing in their training camps for the European soccer championship. Also, the teams in the sports studio control room RP11* of the Austrian broadcaster ORF have completed numerous training units for this major sports event – the EURO in their home country. more

There was a time when in order to promote a product or service, a business had to have a printed brochure. Times have changed. At a recent Las Vegas tradeshow for the broadcast television industry, an increasing number of exhibitors of camera-related equipment were scheduling time in front of the camera to appear in videos promoting their products and services. They were among the growing number of business people who recognize that for message impact, retention, and ease-of-access, streaming video is essential. more

Honeyshed.com uses JMR’s BlueStor Storage Array to boost post production efficiency

Chatsworth, CALIF – May 13, 2008 – JMR Electronics, Inc. (www.jmr.com), a premier supplier of Storage and Server Platforms for OEMs, Systems Integrators and VARS, today announced that its BlueStor™ External PCIe RAID Storage System with PeSAN™ Technology has been in use at HoneyShed (www.honeyshed.com) as part of their post production process.

HoneyShed, which will launch in Q3 of this year, is the first interactive web site designed to connect a generation that lives online to the popular large brands they love via world-class video content. The website’s look and feel is similar to QVC meets MTV and targets a wide expanse of the younger demographic, selling everything from hip clothing and high-tech gadgets to a Volvo C30 car. “We have been very busy refining our website and doing a great deal of production and post production work in preparation for our official launch later this year,” said Jonathan Parkman, post production supervisor at Honeyshed. “We recently required an upgrade to our main storage repository and were referred to JMR’s BlueStor™ by Gavin Rosenberg of Sunstar Company, an Inglewood, CA based reseller. JMR’s BlueStor™ proved to be the ideal storage platform to help improve our post production editing workflow – the BlueStor product and the company are very impressive.” more

Rio Rancho, NM - May 2008… If there‘s one thing that, above all else, brings electronic equipment to its knees, it‘s water. The very prospect of wiring a surfer with the necessary equipment to capture the ambient sounds that occur while riding the waves is enough to cause most audio pros to say, “Not with my gear!” For years, onscreen surfing action was akin to the silent movies of yesteryear–until Tim Denmark came along. Equipped with an arsenal of Lectrosonics wireless systems, Denmark has created a niche for himself that brings the excitement of surfing–complete with crashing waves and the slap of the surfboard over the water–right into the homes of television viewers the world over. more

In a move that extends the already impressive capabilities of Fairlight‘s Dream 2 platform, Fairlight has announced the release of Dream 2 Software Version 1.5.

Packed with over 50 new features, the new software delivers a convergence of audio and video never seen before in any audio production platform. All Dream 2 systems are supplied standard with on board video. The new release extends the capabilities to include support for a comprehensive array of video and audio interchange formats as well as providing support for a wide range of commonly used media file formats. more

ERLANGER, KY, May 7, 2008– The S2-108HD eight input SD/HD-SDI Switcher is the latest addition to TV One‘s CORIOflex system. Capable of switching between eight separate inputs of SD-SDI or HD-SDI signals, this new unit addresses the constantly evolving needs of the Pro AV and Broadcast markets since it may be used standalone or added to a CORIOflex system. The unit is now shipping and will have a suggested retail price of $1695.

The S2-108HD provides eight inputs and two SD/HD-SDI outputs. The two SD/HD-SDI outputs on BNC‘s will both output the selected input source simultaneously. The switcher has been primarily designed to work with the CORIOflex system. It may be paired with any of the C2-2000A series of switcher/scalers and down converters to provide additional SD/HD-SDI inputs via BNC connectors. Like all current S2 series, it connects to the C2-2000A series using an included OPTION interconnect cable and is fully integrated into the control system of the C2-2000A unit to create a Multi-Format Seamless Switcher. more

NAB2008 gave Crystal Vision its most successful show to date, with visitors flocking to Booth N1311 to see the company‘s new area of speciality - the Picturestore range of HD/SD products based on solid-state fast-writing DRAM and permanent Flash picture storage.

The Picturestore product that most people came to see in Las Vegas was Crystal Vision‘s sophisticated modular logo keyer, MultiLogo - which earns its popularity through a combination of size, graphics storage space and keying features. The variety of NAB applications for this space-saving 100mm x 266mm board included multi-channel broadcasters needing to brand their HD and SD stations, those with virtual studio applications and corporate church programming. MultiLogo provides three layers of keying from a variety of internal and external sources, including a generous 4GB multi-port non-volatile video store that can read six images and write two images all at the same time. more