Broadcast News Archive for April, 2015
17/04/2015 Studio Technologies Unveils Dante-Enabled Products
Studio Technologies has unveiled a range of new Dante-enabled products designed for broadcast, production, and systems-integration applications. They include portable and rack-mounted units that suppo

17/04/2015 Transforming How Media Organisations View The Cloud
For broadcasters and media organisations, cloud systems promise virtually unlimited, on-demand increases in storage, computing, and bandwidth, without the large upfront investments required to deploy

17/04/2015 Yamaha NUAGE Creates Less Of A 'Grind' For LA Audio Post Facility
Grind Music and Sound is a professional audio post-production facility located in Los Angeles, California. Their speciality is sound design & mixing for adventure sports and documentary films and tele

16/04/2015 AccuWeather Expands StoryTeller Interactive Solution
AccuWeather, Inc. continues to expand its StoryTeller Interactive Touchscreen Solution content and capabilities for local TV news presentations, featured at the 2015 NAB Show this week. Through St

16/04/2015 Calrec Demos New I/O Expansion Units
Calrec has unveiled two new compact aluminium expansion units that can be used to expand and distribute a Hydra2 network. The new Fieldbox range of small-format I/O units brings the advantages of

16/04/2015 Egripment Unveils New Generic Track System
Egripment Support Systems is introducing the new 225 G-Track Generic Track System at NAB 2015 (Booth C8612). Featuring innovations that are important for live applications, as well as virtual and augm

16/04/2015 HARMAN's dbx Introduces PowerRack8
HARMAN's dbx has introduced the PowerRack8 power supply for its new 500 Series processors. The PowerRack8 is an 8-slot, 19-inch rack-mount power source designed to hold up to eight 500 Series processo

16/04/2015 NAB Announce New Shanghai Event
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), NAB Show and the National Base for International Trade-International High Tech Cultural Device Cluster (TCDIC), headquartered in Shanghai, have announce

16/04/2015 RED Digital Camera Unveils WEAPON
RED Digital Camera has unveiled the newest member of its 6K DRAGON range, WEAPON, at this year's NAB Show. Combining a refined colour science with the range of the 19 megapixel RED DRAGON sensor,

16/04/2015 SMPTE, HPA Call For Student Film Festival Entries
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Hollywood Professional Alliance (HPA) have issued a call for entries for the SMPTE-HPA Student Film Festival. The festival will b

16/04/2015 Televisa Selects Thomson Video Networks
Televisa has selected Thomson Video Networks' playout solution to drive, via satellite, a server-to-server file transfer of video contribution feeds from Televisa Internacional (SSTI). Thomson Video N

16/04/2015 Vegas Debut For Wisycom Fiberbox BX1-4U
Wisycom has launched its MFL Fiberbox BX1-4U outdoor RF-Over-Fiber solution at NAB 2015. "The MFL RF-over-fiber platform has all the necessary features for successful control of wireless productio

15/04/2015 DPA Microphones For StudioXperience
DPA Microphones has announced its d:fine Directional Headset Microphones are being used by Waskul TV for the 2015 NAB Show StudioXperience Broadcast Studio interviews taking place throughout the event

15/04/2015 Egripment Upgrades Remote Broadcast Solutions Software
Egripment Support Systems is using NAB 2015 to discuss the latest software updates for its remote broadcast solutions with show attendees. These solutions include the 306/D Digital and Encoded Remote

15/04/2015 First-Look Preview For SMPTE's "Moving Images" Documentary To Screen At NAB
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is taking up a number of landmark projects in conjunction with its celebration of the Society's centennial in 2016, writes Howard Lukk, S

15/04/2015 Ikegami Unveils Hand-Held 8K UHDTV Camera System
Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd. (Ikegami) has collaborated with Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) to develop an 8K ultra high-definition television (UHDTV) camera. Designed for live studio and fiel

15/04/2015 The Benefits Of Gimbal Stabilisation, Pt 2
Continued from Part 1... The Problem with Gimbal Stabilisastion Anyone who's carried a gyro stabilised gimbal with much more than a DSLR will have quickly realized that regardless o

15/04/2015 The Benefits Of Gimbal Stabilisation, Pt. 1
As part of BeyondHD's specialism in camera stabilisation and our 'cameras in motion' tagline, it was obvious that we would have to be part of the handheld gimbal revolution... Since FreeFly brillia

15/04/2015 The DPP Becomes Digital Production Partnership Ltd
The DPP became a new entity, Digital Production Partnership Ltd (DPP Ltd), from 1 April. This move sees the partnership, which began in 2010 as an informal collaboration between BBC, ITV and Channel 4

15/04/2015 Vegas Debut For IMT's Nucomm Triple Play Receiver
Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT) has unveiled its Nucomm Triple Play Receiver at NAB 2015 (Booth N3922). The Nucomm Triple Play Receiver's chassis houses up to three receivers within a sing

15/04/2015 Young Filmmaker Takes Sachtler Ace Into The Wild
How did a fascination with bears, a thirst for adventure and a love of filmmaking combine to create a 16 minute wildlife film? Ask 2012 youth outdoor photographer of the year and zoology graduate, Ber

14/04/2015 Astec Invites NAB Visitors To Take The iBroadcast Challenge
As Astec prepares to launch iBroadcast 2015, they provide an insight of what we can expect from the latest version and how they are significantly driving down the cost of ownership of Network Manageme

14/04/2015 GatesAir Celebrates First Anniversary
GatesAir, formerly Harris Broadcast, recently celebrated its first anniversary. In this issue of BFV, Rich Redmond, Chief Product Officer, at GatesAir tells us how the past 12 months have shaped the f

14/04/2015 HARMAN's Studer To Demo In Vegas
At NAB 2015, HARMAN's Studer is showcasing an array of solutions designed to streamline workflow, maximize efficiency, and simplify system operation and management. Studer is showing its Vista X an

14/04/2015 HHB Upgrades Post-Production Facilities In Stornoway
HHB Communications Ltd. has provided MG ALBA with major Pro Tools upgrades for its post production facilities in Stornoway, UK. MG ALBA provides Gaelic programmes in Scotland from studios in Storn