My first visit of the day was with Sophie Lion-Poulain and Christophe Poulain. We dicsussed three new products: the GOLDENEAGLE ATSC, NAVIGATOR DVB-SH and RELIO with SCRIPTEASY V2.

GOLDENEAGLE ATSC offers digital TV monitoring for 8-VSB and MPEG-2 for multiple stations with centralized managment. RF and MPEG-2 monitoring and transmitter remote control are all provided in the same unit.

NAVIGATOR DVB-SH is a portable T&M unit for DVB-SH developed inconjunction with TeamCast. The portable unit can be used with any frequency spectrum below 3GHz in terrestrial, satellite or hybrid networks.

RELIO is a managment unit with 64 digital inputs, 64 digital outputs, 24 analog inputs, four serial ports, two Ethernet ports, four USB ports and one phone line connector. The SCRIPTEASY graphical software includes the MASTERVIEW graphical user interface, which allows felxible creation for users to see information from and control remote equipment over a network connection.

Adeumat is in booth N7932.

At the stereoscopic projection systems session on Sunday, I learned that I apparently know very little, or at least very little about the specifics, challenges and technology that go into making 3-D movies happen.

Technology for 3-D is here, and the major movie studios are quickly getting onboard. According to Josh Greer, CEO of Real-D, a company that supplies 3-D technology to the movie industry as well as for military and airline applications, 1250 3-D systems from Real-D have been deployed in 25 countries worldwide since November 2005, and in 2008, 11 movies from major studios were released in 3-D.

“There’s no one way to do 3-D,” Greer said. He went on to describe that although there are various ways to do 3-D, the main concerns of those who want to implement these systems are cost, content and quality. But, according to Greer, most of the cost involved is for system maintenance, not the initial purchase. more

At Dalet’s Diamonds are Forever party last evening, I got a chance to talk with some reps about two projects the company is excited about.

First, I spoke with Benjamin Desbois, general manager for Dalet, about the workflow created for TMZ, which focuses on producing Web and TV content quickly, efficiently and simultaneously. Broadcast Engineering had an article about the TMZ setup in our February issue.

Next, I spoke with Miguel Miranda of DMS Technologies, Julien Decaix of Dalet and Janice Dolan of Zazil Media Group about the media convergence going on at Grupo Multimedios. The media group chose the Dalet NewsPro for Omneon as part of it’s plan to go tapeless as well as create a newsroom that integrates it’s newspapers, TV and radio.

The message is that integration of media needs to be from the start. This ties in with the tone at the sessions I attended yesterday. Trying to adapt stories after the fact for other formats or media takes more time and resources than if it was planned out from the start.

The Beijing Olympic Games this summer are on the minds of some vendors here in Las Vegas on the eve of NAB208.

Omneon Video Networks revealed during its NAB press conference April 12 in Las Vegas that it is putting a system in place for NBC Olympics to speed the backhaul of video from the games to be used in the assembly of highlight packages by editors and producers in New York. more