Opus Arte has chosen Arqiva to relay all its upcoming live feeds from the Royal Opera House to North America and Western and Eastern Europe reaching more than 300 “live-equipped” screens with opera and ballet titles – these include The Royal Opera’s Cosi fan tutte on Friday 10 September 2010 and Macbeth in June 2011 as well as The Royal Ballet’s Giselle on Wednesday 19 January 2011. Arqiva has been working closely with the Royal Opera House for many years to relay other live opera events such as the BP Summer Big Screens, an annual programme of live relays to sites throughout the UK.

Just when you thought that the U.A.E. had exhausted its list of firsts, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (U.F.C.) landed in the Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi, the first time in this region. Usually an indoor event, this was also the first time the UFC, comprising some of the world’s greatest mixed martial artists, was held in an outdoor arena.

Our team comprising Martin Hofstetter and Steffen Schäfer have covered around 5,700 kilometres across South Africa in their HD-SNG on their “Mission Black-Red-Gold”. The steady speed they travel at belies the tight timescale of their assignment: their objective is to reach each new venue at least one day ahead of the German team despite travelling at an average speed of 50 km/h as a result of the condition of the South African roads.

Some spectacular airborne action was seen in the skies over Abu Dhabi on the weekend of 26th and 27th March as the Emirati capital hosted the Red Bull Air Race for its sixth consecutive year.

Norway, June 22, 2010 Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ) Vizrt, a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that the company has been chosen by IMPRESA Group, Portugal’s largest media group, to supply an Online Suite for its Multimedia Strategy.

Miranda Technologies has partnered with Quest Research & Development Corp. to offer on-air graphics systems which enable broadcasters to display comments from their viewers, sent via Twitter and other social networking sites.

The French national team’s troubles in this 2010 FIFA World Cup™ have had at least one positive repercussion for France’s TF1: they have fully validated its strategy of dividing its operations between the IBC, the team’s base camp and its headquarters in Paris. With much of the news coming from the base camp in Knysna (near Cape Town) rather than from the stadiums, TF1’s twelve ENG teams have had plenty of work, including covering every one of the team’s many press conferences live.

Mastermix Studios in Midrand in the province of Gauteng have recently installed ADAM. Currently a full surround ADAM Audio setup consisting of P33a’s, A7’s and Sub 8 are suppurting natural sound recordings.

Christie®, the leader in digital cinema projection technologies, announced that it has shipped and installed more than 12,000 digital cinema projectors worldwide, achieving a new industry milestone and strengthening its leadership with a 65% share of the total global market. The accomplishment includes the installation of more than 2,000 DCI-compliant Christie Solaria™ Series 4K-ready projectors. Christie was also the first manufacturer to surpass the 5,000 digital cinema milestone in the Fall of 2008 and the 7,500 installation mark early in 2009.

The newly-built 70,000-seat Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban is one of ten premier venues (spread across nine cities) which hosts matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Located in KwaZulu Natal, and purpose-built on the site of the former Kings Park Stadium which was demolished in late 2006, it has been designed as a world-class, multi-purpose facility which will be used long after the World Cup has finished.

At this year’s Cinema Expo 2010 Sony Professional is unveiling for the first time its new Sony Digital Cinema 4K logo trailer, which will introduce this Sony brand category to cinema audiences around the world – of course in 4K. The logo trailer will be presented across all industry leading cinemas that use Sony Digital Cinema 4K projection systems ahead of the latest blockbuster feature films.

32” and 42” models offer customisable features and wide viewing angles for bright locations.

Panasonic Professional Visual Displays Europe (PVDE) announced the launch of the first two models in its LCD range. Aimed at business reception areas and small-scale digital signage applications, these displays are designed for use in high-brightness locations.

With an overall crew of 80 – 40 technicians and production personnel at the IBC, 20 at the Spanish National Team training camp and ten two-man ENG crews – Sogecable can certainly be said to have a presence at this tournament. “The main work is, of course, sending the live matches back to Spain, which we are doing across six fibre optic lines – two in HD and four in SD,” explains Alberto Arrillaga Imaz, Technical Manager for Sogecable, “however, on top of this, we are producing a lot more content.”

Paul Bonhomme of Britain won the first-ever Red Bull Air Race in New York on Sunday with a scintillating performance under pressure in front of the most spectacular setting in the eight-year history of the sport. Nigel Lamb took second place in a thrilling four-way battle between the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan while American Kirby Chambliss got his second straight podium with third place.

More visitors, a packed conference programme, a city location popular with the society's members and a more popular series of events and seminars contributed to the success of the recent European Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, held from May 22-25th at the Novotel Exhibition Centre in Hammersmith, London.