Archive of the NAB2009 Category

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LAS VEGAS, NV ─ Wireworks, the leading innovator of audio/video cabling systems and custom panels, presents total end-to-end Fiber Solutions complete with interface panels, equipment cables and military grade field cables ready for integration into broadcast studio, truck and remote applications based on the Neutrik opticalCON DUO connectors at NAB 2009. more

OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT - APRIL 2009: With more than 10,000 units in use around the world, the HHB FlashMic digital recording microphone is already the interview recorder of choice for leading broadcasters including ABC Radio, Aljazeera, the BBC, Bloomberg, BSkyB, CNN, NHK, NBC, and RAI. Now HHB celebrates the sale of its 1,000th FlashMic in Germany where distributor INNOTON has already added national broadcasters WDR and NDR, and ORF (Austria) to the prestigious FlashMic user list. The 1,000th FlashMic in Germany was sold to Radio BasiX, a web radio project for young people in the Kraichgau region of South Western Germany, whose journalists now enjoy the same recording quality, more

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA: The Osbournes - Sharon, Kelly, Jack, Ozzy and assorted favorite dogs - are returning to television soon with a variety show on FOX that features audience interaction, candid camera-type skits, music, and even a pair of “mini Osbournes,” two British child actors who impersonate Sharon and Ozzy complete with off-color language. Six episodes of “Osbournes: Reloaded,” which will air later in the year, have already been shot at CBS Television City in Hollywood, where production mixer Evan Adelman did his best to capture the mayhem with a combination of Sennheiser wireless handheld and lavalier microphones. more

DK-Technologies has unveiled the PT0710M HD/SD waveform monitor, a single channel version of the acclaimed PT0760M that won a TV Technology STAR Award at NAB last year.

Billed at the PT0760M’s baby brother, the PT0710M can display Red, Green, Blue and luminance plus Gamut errors. It is available with a variety of upgrades, making it ideally suited to smaller production studios and Outside Broadcast vehicles that don’t currently need a multi-channel unit but would like the option of adding functionality at a later stage. These upgrades include external reference from Black Burst or Tri-level signals, Vectorscope, audio de-embedding of up to 16 channels, simple bar graph audio metering, Dolby E decoding, full 5.1 metering via the DK StarFishTM/JellyFishTM display and a full range of 8 audio channel input and output plug-in cards. more

Dynamics processing specialist Jünger Audio has launched a new ESDI card which is specifically designed for Satellite Digital Re Broadcasters. The ESDI card provides the ideal solution for controlling loudness for all incoming signals. Each SDI stream runs independently – the signals don’t need to be locked to a house reference.

The ESDI card combines one SDI interface with one DSP unit that automatically handles individual audio Loudness processing. It is designed for digital satellite TV, where SDI based incoming signals don’t match a uniform synchronisation and have widely varying levels. The basic version comes with an SD-SDI interface and offers 4-channels of LEVEL MAGIC processing. Upgrade to HD-SDI and to 8-channel Level Magic Surround are available by software license key. more

DK-Technologies has announced the provision of Closed Caption monitoring for its prestigious range of waveform monitors.

Introduced in response to market demand, Closed Caption monitoring will be available for both HD & SD video signals and will be able to read any of the 4 closed caption channels through simple channels selection.

DK-Technologies will be demonstrating this new level of functionality at the NAB Convention, where it will also be showing updated software for its ground-breaking PT0760M HD/SD Multi-channel Video Waveform Monitor. more

Dynamics processing specialist Jünger Audio has announced the launch of the ANA Series of input/processing cards. Designed to help terrestrial re-broadcasters tackle loudness and synchronisation issues, these new cards will start shipping within the next three months.

Re-broadcasters with traditional re-transmission requirements (for example cable TV service providers, hotels, airports, shopping centres etc) have long been plagued by widely varying source input levels and desynchronized signals. To resolve these issues they often have to make several manual corrections a day to achieve more acceptable loudness results for their viewers. And even when they do make these changes, the results are often far from perfect. more

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (April 20, 2009) – Vaddio, the leading manufacturer and OEM distributor of specialty PTZ cameras and high-end camera control systems, announced today the release of the first single CCD, high quality HD Robotic PTZ camera, the Vaddio ClearVIEW HD-18.

“Vaddio has always built technology around other manufacturer’s PTZ cameras, from our Quick-Connect CAT-5 cabling systems that make installation easier, to our ProductionVIEW line of video switchers and joystick camera control systems,” explained Rob Sheeley, President and CEO of Vaddio. “We designed ClearVIEW HD-18 to fill a void in the robotic camera market; a single CCD, high-definition PTZ camera with a high power zoom lens.” more

PRINCETON, N.J. — April 20, 2009 — Triveni Digital today announced that it will join Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), LG Electronics Inc., Zenith Electronics, MobiTV® Inc., and Roundbox™ Inc. to provide a demonstration of ATSC Mobile TV, including single-frequency network (SFN) capabilities, at the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters Show. Operating in conjunction with Harris encoding, muxing, SFN, and transmitter systems, the Triveni Digital GuideBuilder™ platform, equipped with a new mobile metadata software extension, will generate the metadata used by MobiTV to deliver its service over ATSC Mobile standard as part of a hybrid broadcast and unicast service. Roundbox will be contributing its A/153 Part 4 standards-based announcements, while LG will provide mobile DTV receivers based on the broadcast mobile DTV system co-developed by Harris, LG Electronics, and LG’s U.S. R&D subsidiary Zenith Electronics. more

BILLERICA, Mass. — April 20, 2009 — At the 2009 NAB Show today, Echolab Inc. took the wraps off Atem™, a paradigm-busting 1 M/E 3Gbps 1080p/60 production switcher that sets new standards of flexibility, functionality, and utility for government, educational, corporate, live entertainment, and house of worship customers. more