Broadcast News Archive for April, 2008
14/04/2008 Vinten & Canon Announce Collaboration
The award-winning Vinten Vector 950 Active pan and tilt head, which complements Canon Broadcast's lens stabilisation Optical Shift Image Stabilizer ("Shift-IS") technology, can now be used with most e

14/04/2008 Welcome To Cream
Cream is a fresh new large-scale recording studio, which provides a comfortable state-of-the-art working environment for the smooth and efficient running of music track laying and mixing sessions. Co

11/04/2008 Akamai Powers Media Distribution For Adobe TV
Akamai Technologies Inc., a leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, has announced that Adobe has adopted Akamai's Stream OS solution to power its media manage

11/04/2008 Chyron Announce Gordon Blau As Head Of New Creative Services Group
Chyron has announced that Gordon Blau will head the company's new Creative Services Group. Part of Chyron's new Online division, the Creative Services Group is being set up to support the newly acqu

11/04/2008 Chyron Demonstrates Fully Integrated Online Portfolio At NAB
Chyron has announced that it is demonstrating its new Online portfolio of graphics at NAB 2008 at Stand SL3713. Following the acquisition of AXIS Graphics in January 2008, Chryon has fully integrate

11/04/2008 Concrete Edits Age Of Terror Promo For Red Bee Media
Concrete, one of the leading high-end postproduction facilities based in Soho has just recently worked on a compelling promo for a documentary portraying terrorism through the ages. Titled 'Age of Te

11/04/2008 Gee Broadcast Introduces Two New Geevs Models
Geevs Slim and Geevs SDE3 are two new models in the successful Geevs Broadcast Video Server range. Geevs Slim offers a 1RU package with 1 input and 2 outputs, while Geevs SDE3 increases the channel ca

11/04/2008 Link Research Shows L1500 SD/HD Transmitter At NAB
Link Research will be demonstrating its newest cameraback radio, the L1500 unit, which is already in use at live events, at NAB 2008. The L1500 is a wireless camera transmitter, which can be used in

11/04/2008 New Studer Compact Broadcast Console Debuts At NAB
Studer's new OnAir 2500 digital all-in-one radio on-air console utilises the well-established software technology, derived from the highly acclaimed OnAir 3000 console to deliver a new standard in eas

11/04/2008 Next Generation Mantis System Debuts At NAB
Vislink Group Company Advent Communications is unveiling its next generation Mantis Integrated Motorised Antenna System at the 2008 NAB show in Las Vegas. Designed for demanding broadcast and defence

11/04/2008 QTV Introduces New Functionality At NAB
QTV, a leading provider of newsroom automation and teleprompting solutions, is further expanding its range of unique prompting functionality for broadcasters at NAB 2008. For the first time, QTV is i

11/04/2008 RTV Slovenia Installs Gee Broadcast's Tapeless Production System
After a serious evaluation of the various options for their move to tapeless production, RTV Slovenia has chosen a new system based on Geevs Video Servers and Lightworks Editors to provide the fast ef

10/04/2008 BFI IMAX 'Worldwide Highest Grossing Cinema' For 'U2 3D'
The BFI IMAX has become the highest grossing cinema in the world for the U2 concert movie 'U2 3D'. The one-screen venue, which boasts the best cinema sound system in the world, opened the film in IMA

10/04/2008 FOR-A To Intro New HD Frame Rate Converter At NAB 2008
FOR-A Corporation of America, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, will introduce the FRC-3000 HD Frame Rate Converter at NAB 2008 in

10/04/2008 Marantz Supplies Flash Recorders To Japanese Supreme Court
Marantz Professional has announced that it has been selected by the Japanese Supreme Court to supply 1,000 Marantz Professional PMD660 portable solidstate recorders. A compact, full-scale digital rec

10/04/2008 Movie Mogul Fund Launches Feature Film Competition
Movie Mogul Fund have launched the 'Micro Movie Lab' competition, an online open-call for ideas to be developed into a user-generated feature film. Budding film aficionados are invited to submit 25

10/04/2008 QuStream Provides Routing System For NBC's Olympics Coverage
QuStream Corporation (TSX VENTURE: QVC) has been selected to provide the central routing system to NBC for the network's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games. The QuStream routing system chosen is the

10/04/2008 Rushes Help Pimento Re-Launch Holiday Inn
Experiential marketing agency Pimento re-launches the Holiday Inn brand this week to an audience of over 2,500 delegates at IHG's (InterContinental Hotel Group) Pan European conference at Farnborough

10/04/2008 SAMMA Systems Team With IBM To Create Automated System For Broadcasters
SAMMA Systems, the global leader in media migration, has announced that they will team with IBM to create a cost-effective, streamlined solution for content owners for the automated ingest and encodin

10/04/2008 Signiant Chosen By Siemens For BBC Digital Media Initiative
Signiant Inc, a leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions for the telco, media and entertainment industries, is proud to announce that its Digital Media Distribution Managem

10/04/2008 Telestream Introduces Support For Final Cut Server And ProRes
Telestream has announced major additions to its Apple workflow solutions. With Pipeline, Telestream's award-winning network video capture family, it is now possible to ingest media from tape or live

10/04/2008 Xytech Introduces Enterprise v11 At NAB 2008
Xytech Systems Corporation, a leading provider of software solutions that improve, streamline and automate media operations including business workflow, resource scheduling, media library management a

09/04/2008 EVS Presents New Media Importer Application At NAB
EVS has announced that the new EVS Media Importer application will be presented exclusively at NAB 2008 in Las Vegas. EVS Media Importer is a new EVS plug-in application directly available from the A

09/04/2008 ITN On Produces Margaret Thatcher DVD Series For Telegraph Media Group
Telegraph Media Group and ITN On have expanded their relationship to produce a series of eight original DVDs for Telegraph readers. The DVDs are a comprehensive account of the 'Margaret Thatcher Yea

09/04/2008 Megahertz Build Studio For Boomerang TV
When independent Cardiff-based TV production company Boomerang won the valuable contract to supply daily children's TV programming to Welsh channel S4C early last year, they had to expand their studio