Providing network-level mobile production services for professional football, baseball, basketball, golf and hockey, as well as major sporting events such as the Super Bowl, demands mission-critical television coverage. This is why mobile production services provider Corplex recently purchased a selection of HD lenses from the Broadcast and Communications division of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Among the equipment purchased were two DIGISUPER100xs and five DIGISUPER 86xs long-zoom HD field lenses, all with Canon’s proprietary Optical Shift Image Stabilizer (“Shift-IS”) technology for rock-solid HD images, even at telephoto distances. Also chosen were several orders of two Canon HD portable lens models for EFP-style coverage on the playing field: the HJ11ex4.7B IRSE wide-angle zoom and the HJ22ex7.6B IRSE long-focal-length zoom. more
August 5, 2008 - Hong Kong: Digital Rapids has been chosen by China Central Television’s CCTV.com to provide encoding, streaming and management systems to power live streaming of the 2008 Olympic Games to Internet audiences in China. The announcement was made today by Digital Rapids and CCTV.com.
CCTV.com is the official Internet and mobile phone broadcaster of the Beijing Olympics. 100 of Digital Rapids’ DRC-Stream encoding and streaming solutions will be used to capture and encode video feeds of the Olympics into live web streams for the CCTV.com web site and partner Internet operators, enabling high-quality and reliable web viewing experiences. The enterprise-class Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager live encoder management software will be used for centralized management, monitoring and control of multiple DRC-Stream systems. more
The Netherlands, Amsterdam, August 4, 2008 – RF Central, a leading digital microwave technology provider, is unveiling its new and improved NLL-II 5.8 GHz portable digital microwave link at IBC (Stand 1.A30). Taking its former model to new heights, the updated NLL-II now offers both balanced microphone and line level inputs via switch selectable XLR connectors on both the transmitter and receiver. This makes the NLL-II ideal for use by roaming news and sports crews. As part of its new release, the redesigned NLL-II is now also equipped with phantom power for microphones. more
Dallas, TX — Russ Berger, president of Russ Berger Design Group, has recently been elected president of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC). He begins a two-year term as president following a long history of board participation and membership. Berger’s duties will include supervising all affairs of the Council as well as serving as an ambassador for the consulting profession. more
SAN DIEGO — Aug. 4, 2008 — Broadcast systems integrator TV Magic has completed an A/V installation for the new city council chambers in the City of Aliso Viejo, Calif., providing audio, video, and control systems for use at city council meetings. The new digital equipment replaces a simple microphone and tape recorder setup previously used by the city during sessions held every other week. more
Toronto, Ontario, Canada – August 4, 2008 … The Swedish production company Prisma OB is a premium league player in the field of mobile broadcasting. It is not just the fact that the company was at almost every mega-event in recent years, but forthcoming TV highlights will also see these Scandinavian experts ready for the action to begin. Thus, the Beijing Games will also — amongst others — be broadcast by Prisma OB, thanks to Lawo audio technology. more
MAYWOOD, NEW JERSEY, August 4, 2008 – With a wide variety of leading corporations, entertainment venues, and technology companies as its clients, Madbury NH-based Little Bay Broadcast Services has time and again demonstrated its extensive knowledge and expertise in leading-edge television technologies since it opened its doors in 2005. Now, this accomplished equipment dealer and designer, integrator, and project manager of video facilities and mobile production systems is expanding its services to the industry with a recently signed dealer agreement with Ikegami. more
July 29, 2008 — Passfield, UK: Digital Rapids – Passfield, UK: Digital Rapids — a leading developer of scalable solutions for media ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming and delivery — announced today that broadcast automation specialist Pebble Beach Systems has introduced a new automation module enabling advanced control of Digital Rapids’ award-winning StreamZ ingest and encoding systems through Pebble Beach’s automation solutions.
The new integration with StreamZ is supported in Pebble Beach’s Neptune automation software and Anchor Media Manager for file-based workflows. Pebble Beach customers can now build cost-effective large-scale ingest systems that directly encode content, with the resulting encoded material moved intelligently through a facility based upon rules specifically tailored to the customer’s workflow. more
Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB) 2008 Preview
Echolab
Booth 97
Company Background
Echolab, Inc. is a leading provider of video production switchers and tools that offer flexibility and on-air reliability for the production and distribution of digital media in a variety of formats. The company’s products include the Overture1™ and Overture2™ video production systems, MultiPlayMD™ multichannel instant-replay system, MegaKeyMD™ clip player/mixer/keyer, and Conductor™ control integration system, all of which provide functionality and ease of use critical to professional-quality production. Echolab is online at www.echolab.com. more
Already Sales Director ACT since February 2008, thirty-three-year-old sales and marketing expert Kamil Swobodzinski has just been given additional responsibilities, having been appointed Sales Director CCS for the EMEA region at the beginning of June, 2008
Straubing, Germany On February 1st, 2008, Kamil Swobodzinski was appointed Sales Director ACT. Now the former International Trade Marketing Manager (Sales) with Blaupunkt has assumed additional responsibilities, having been appointed Sales Director CCS for the EMEA region on June 9th. more
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Providing network-level mobile production services for professional football, baseball, basketball, golf and hockey, as well as major sporting events such as the Super Bowl, demands mission-critical television coverage. This is why mobile production services provider Corplex recently purchased a selection of HD lenses from the Broadcast and Communications division of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Among the equipment purchased were two DIGISUPER100xs and five DIGISUPER 86xs long-zoom HD field lenses, all with Canon’s proprietary Optical Shift Image Stabilizer (“Shift-IS”) technology for rock-solid HD images, even at telephoto distances. Also chosen were several orders of two Canon HD portable lens models for EFP-style coverage on the playing field: the HJ11ex4.7B IRSE wide-angle zoom and the HJ22ex7.6B IRSE long-focal-length zoom. more
Straubing, Germany On February 1st, 2008, Kamil Swobodzinski was appointed Sales Director ACT. Now the former International Trade Marketing Manager (Sales) with Blaupunkt has assumed additional responsibilities, having been appointed Sales Director CCS for the EMEA region on June 9th. 
