Broadcast News Archive for October, 2012
09/10/2012 AKG Acoustics, JBL Professional & Lexicon Brands Maintain Their Status
HARMAN Professional's AKG Acoustics, JBL Professional and Lexicon brands are maintaining their status as official "P&E Wing Sustaining Partners" with the renewal of their sponsorship of The Recording

09/10/2012 ATTO Introduce Complete Family Of 16Gb Fibre Channel Solutions
ATTO Technology has announced the launch of their new 16Gb/s Celerity Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), FibreConnect switches and FastStream RAID storage controllers. These products are the firm's latest of

09/10/2012 Axon Highlights Synapse Long Time Delay At BVE North 2012
On BVE North stand (E49), Axon Digital Design is set to highlight the increasingly important role that modular core processing technology plays within modern broadcast workflows, which are characteris

09/10/2012 British Film Commission Welcomes Funding Increase
The British Film Commission (BFC) has welcomed the launch of the BFI’s Future Strategy which outlines an additional £200,000 for the agency, taking its total funding from the BFI per year to £600,000.

09/10/2012 Cinegy Gives Away 50 Licenses At CAPER 2012
At CAPER 2012 Cinegy will be giving away 50 licenses of Cinegy Player (worth €99 each) to the first 50 stand visitors to AQB’s stand D39 in Hall 4. The firm will be presenting with Argentina Partner

09/10/2012 EVS Set To Showcase Live Multi-Camera Content Delivered Through Cloud Platforms
At the 2012 SMPTE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, EVS product development manager, Werner Ramaekers, is set to present a paper on delivering live multi-camera content to smart devices throug

09/10/2012 LV 7700-01 Remote Controller Introduced At CAPER 2012
Leader Instruments has chosen Argentine broadcast electronics show CAPER 2012 as the launch venue for its LV 7770-01 remote control unit. Designed for use with Leader's LV 7770 multi-standard raster

09/10/2012 New Head Of Operations For re:fine
Content processing and re-purposing business re:fine has hired Sarah Wallis as Head of Operations. Wallis is a Broadcast Post Production and Digital Media Services executive with broad experience in

09/10/2012 Serpentine Gallery Presents Jonas Mekas Exhibition
Film-maker, artist and poet Jonas Mekas (b.1922, Lithuania) is a leading figure in modern avant-garde and independent cinema. The Serpentine Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of the artist’s

08/10/2012 Virtualised Storage Bottlenecks 'Top Storage Concern' In Europe
As VMworld Europe, VMware's technology showcase in Barcelona, approaches, an independent DataCentre Solutions survey commissioned by Avere Systems, a leading provider of NAS optimisation, shows that t

08/10/2012 BBC Studios And Post Production Wins IWM Contract
BBC Studios and Post Production’s Digital Media Services team has been chosen to digitise and future-proof a substantial proportion of IWM’s (Imperial War Museums’) collection of First World War film

08/10/2012 CDC Completes Facility Expansion
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Communications Services (DCS) has completed its production facility expansion with the addition of a new production complex. Joining

08/10/2012 Hålogaland Theatre Selects DPA For Upgrade
The Hålogaland Theatre in Tromsø, Norway, has put DPA d:fine Headset Microphones through their paces on a production of Les Misérables. The theatre has replaced its old stock of DPA 4060 omnidirectio

08/10/2012 New Royalty Free Music CD
AKM Music have released a new CD to their ever popular Royalty Free Music library. The new CD AK145 Aspirations is a stylish collection of themes for the modern world. Positive upbeat tracks perfect

08/10/2012 Snell Eliminates Extra Cost To Aid Adoption Of Workflows
Snell has announced that it will offer 1080p functionality at no additional charge for all 1080p-capable products, thereby bringing down one of the most significant barriers to the adoption of 3Gbps e

08/10/2012 Volicon VP To Discuss Loudness & CALM Act At SBE Chapter 22
Andrew Sachs, Volicon's vice president of product management, is set to present at the SBE Chapter 22 Broadcast & Technology Expo, which will be held at Turning Stone in Verona, N.Y. on Oct. 11. Pre

05/10/2012 B&B TV Chooses Thomson Broadcast Elite 100 Transmitters
B&B TV Communication, the entity responsible for wireless-cable broadcasting of radio and television channels in Azerbaijan, has purchased Thomson's latest DVB-T/DVB-T2 Elite 100 GreenPower transmitte

05/10/2012 Florida Wilds Trek Supported By Sachtler’s Ace
Florida-based documentary and video producer Elam Stoltzfus, a long-time Sachtler user, recently chose the new Sachtler Ace tripod system to support his 100-day, 1000-mile trek across the heartland of

05/10/2012 Further Spectrum Restriction May Cause 'Irreparable Damage', Says BEIRG
Further Spectrum Restriction May Cause 'Irreparable Damage' Every single aspect of current UK UHF spectrum policy represents a threat to the future of the PMSE industry. The industry has already suf

05/10/2012 Madonna Gives Sennheiser All Her Luvin
Stadiums, arenas and open air venues across Asia, Europe, North and South America are hosting Madonna’s 2012 MDNA World Tour with all featuring a large Sennheiser microphone and RF system which helps

05/10/2012 Signiant And Sohonet Scoop 'Best Of IBC 2012' Award
Sohonet FileRunner Service based on Signiant Media Shuttle file transfer software has been named among this year's "Best of IBC" award winners. Selected in the Production and Infrastructure category

05/10/2012 Technicolor And Rockstar Games Establish Dedicated Games Unit
Technicolor has established a new high-end game art and animation team dedicated to working with Rockstar Games. The Rockstar Games dedicated unit leverages a segment of Technicolor’s highly experien

05/10/2012 TSL Professional Unveils VIP Vertical Intelligent Power Mains Distribution Units At IBC 2012
TSL Professional Products has unveiled their new VIP line at IBC 2012. "We have developed our new VIP line of power management products as a response to customer feedback across the industry," says C

04/10/2012 Collaborative Projects Give IBC Layers Of Added Value
Rich streams of knowledge: George Jarrett looks back at IBC, during which standard setting bodies generated much of the big news. He picks on a Quantel app as the cleverest tool he saw, and selects

04/10/2012 Creative England Makes MediaCityUK Move
Creative England has moved into The Greenhouse at MediaCityUK, Salford. The Greenhouse is home to over 50 creative sector small businesses (SMEs), so completing the move will enable Creative England