Broadcast News Archive for April, 2014
17/04/2014 Miller Raffles '54 Classic
Miller Camera Support rounded off a successful NAB this year with a charity event that saw the company raffle a limited edition '54 Classic tripod for the NAB Education Foundation (NABEF). The Aust

17/04/2014 Panasonic Launches 47" Video Wall Display
Panasonic has launched a new 47" video wall display aimed at retail and leisure. The TH-47LFV5 direct-LED backlight display features a narrow bezel of 4.9 mm (bezel to bezel) for seamless video walls

17/04/2014 Sennheiser, Tour Supply Hold RF Training Sessions
Last month saw Sennheiser UK and Tour Supply hold two, two-hour, entry-level RF training sessions at the latter group's Manchester office. Run by Sennheiser UK's Chief Engineer Andrew Lillywhite, t

17/04/2014 Vietnam Television Adopts Dalet's Media Life
Dalet Digital Media Systems has announced that Vietnam Television (VTV) is deploying its Media Life solution, which is powered by the Dalet Galaxy enterprise MAM, to enhance end-to-end management of p

16/04/2014 Broadcast Solutions Adds Lawo Systems For IPL
Broadcast Solutions has added new Lawo routing and mixing systems to its inventory to provide coverage of the Indian Premier League cricket competition. The company secured a contract in 2013 to pr

16/04/2014 Camera Corps Showcases Q3
Camera Corps reported a good deal of interest at NAB in the latest edition to its Q Ball portfolio; the Q3 compact robotic. "Q-Ball gave television producers the freedom to place cameras literally

16/04/2014 Facilis Brings Terrablock 6 To NAB
Facilis Technology showcased TerraBlock 6.0, the latest iteration of its shared storage solution, at this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas. First unveiled at IBC in September 2013, TerraBlock 6.0 featu

16/04/2014 Forbidden Launches New Branding In Las Vegas
Forbidden Technologies took the opportunity at this year's NAB Show to launch newly-revised branding on its booth. The branding will, the company hopes, "give Forbidden the opportunity to launch ne

16/04/2014 Hamlet Launches MicroFlex Mach 2 At NAB
Hamlet has added to its T&M portfolio with the launch of the MicroFlex Mach 2 at this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas. The Mach's new build enables a "reduction of cost," according to Hamlet, while of

16/04/2014 JVC Launches New Cameras And Services At NAB
At this year's NAB Show, JVC launched its GY-HM850 and GY-HM890 ProHD shoulder-mount cameras, expanding on the live HD streaming and file transfer capabilities of the GY-HM650. Both new cameras fea

16/04/2014 PESA Xstream Live Receives Best Of Show Award At NAB
PESA's Xstream Live streaming mobile solution received the NewBay Media Best of Show Award presented by Digital Video magazine at this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas. Developed for iOS and Android sm

16/04/2014 TSL Debuts PAM1/2 AVB At NAB 2014
TSL Products debuted its PAM1 and PAM2 AVB Audio Monitoring Units at this year's NAB Show. "Designed for a major U.S. broadcaster moving into an Audio Video Bridging infrastructure, the addition o

15/04/2014 Autodesk Announces Smoke 2015 Updates
Autodesk unveiled the latest version of its video editing software Autodesk Smoke 2015 at this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas. As well as enhancements and the addition of new tools, Smoke 2015 will soon

15/04/2014 Freefly Systems Draws MōVI M5 At NAB 2014
Freefly Systems gave away one of its MōVI™ M5s to Adam Smith, co-owner of Oklahoma-based video production company Smith Pixels, at this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas. Mr Smith received the thre

15/04/2014 Gearhouse Supplies Sky Sports F1
For the third year running, broadcast solutions supplier Gearhouse Broadcast is providing Sky Sports with complete flyaway production for its Formula 1 coverage. The interconnecting pods designed,

15/04/2014 HHB Scrub Supplies Full Dante Solution
Scrub, HHB Communications' Soho-based facility, has supplied a full Dante networking solution to Clearcut Sound Studios’ audio post production facilities. The recent upgrade to Clearcut includes th

15/04/2014 Matrox Video At Streaming Media East 2014
At this year's Streaming Media East, New York City, May 13-14, Matrox Video will showcase its Monarch HD video streaming and recording appliances and VS4-based live production streaming systems, along

15/04/2014 NAB 2014: Riedel And Bexel Announce AVB Partnership
Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group's Services Division, announced a new collaboration with Riedel Communications at this year's NAB Show. Bexel's Falcon Sportscaster Unit will now feature an AVB (audio-

15/04/2014 New Grass Valley Partners With Marquis
Grass Valley has partnered with UK-based Marquis Broadcast to expand the functionality of its GV STRATUS Nonlinear Media Production toolset and the K2 Summit media server. Grass Valley will incorpo

15/04/2014 Object Storage: A 100-Year Workflow For Content Creators...
Before the BBC iPlayer, Netflix, YouTube and Lovefilm age, the content creators of yesterday couldn't have dreamed of the myriad of ways media is devoured today, writes Laurent Fanichet, Product Marke

15/04/2014 PROVYS Arms Swiss Broadcasters
PROVYS, the software house famous for its advanced broadcast and media management systems, along with Swiss partner AVC-Systems AG, have won a contract to supply TV 24 with a solution to control their

15/04/2014 Robe Pointes Shine At MIA Awards
Robe supplied lighting solutions to this year's Music Industry Awards (MIAs) in Brussels, as broadcast by Flemish national TV channel VRT (Vlaamse Radio en Televisieomroeporganisatie) in February.

14/04/2014 Cloud Media Services: Adopting The Cloud And Making It Work
Richard Welsh, SMPTE International Governor and CEO at Sundog Media Toolkit, discusses the ever-evolving landscape of content-delivery. The biggest application for cloud-based media services, today

14/04/2014 Forbidden, Sony And Cloud Editing
Content producers are under constant pressure to produce more, better programming for less money. And because time is money, the production industry is constantly looking for ways to reduce the delay

14/04/2014 IABM Announces NAB 'Game Changers'
The IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers) has announced the winners of its Game Changer Awards. Atomos with Shogun (pictured); Axon with its Neuron AV Bridging; Bridge Tech