It was shoulder-to-shoulder in the Grass Valley booth today as attendees excitedly viewed the demonstrations on the latest Grass video production switcher. Kayenne is a new family of production switchers that integrates the most powerful features of Grass Valley’s popular Kalypso and Kayak models while adding adds new advances that enable high-end creativity as well as streamline production HD workflow. Ray Baldock, Grass Valley’s CTO described the crowd’s response to the new switcher as “unbelievably great”. more

For engineers venturing into the ATSC-M/H arena, one of the first pieces of needed test equipment will be a multiplex signal generator. Sencore (N2530 and SU4412) is showing The ATX2000 ATSC-M/H Multiplex Signal Generator, which is specifically developed to perform tests on America’s M/H standard. The ATX2000 provides a variable broadcast simulation test environment and can be tailored to specific situations using a comprehensive set of parameter and multiplexing function controls. more

Recently merged Snell & Wilcox and Pro-Bel have contracted their company names to simply Snell. The decision follows extensive market research that identified excellent customer recognition and regard for both brands. The research concluded that the name Snell was particularly strong and would best reflect the values of the new company.

A previous story incorrectly stated that Snell & Wilcox had purchased Pro-Bell.