A summit dedicated to forecasting the future of sports television and production technology also takes the time to honor its history. This year’s SVG Summit (Dec. 15-16, New York Hilton) will feature a keynote conversation with Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductees Ken Aagaard, Bob Dixon, and George Orgera.

“We are now able to rent high resolution indoor screen to our clients, in the form of 105sqm of ROE Visual PB3 screen product, with an HD pixel pitch of 3.9mm. Known as Black Pearl, this product offers the same award-winning tile design as its predecessor, the Black Onyx and is powered by Tessera LED processing - a cutting-edge system from Brompton Technology.

Ten years ago, Kevin Glover, owner of Johannesburg-based rental company Sound Stylists, visited Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt. Almost immediately after, he made his first DiGiCo purchase - a D5 Live. Since then, Kevin has enjoyed an on-going journey with DiGiCo, who are now represented in South Africa by DWR Distribution. This is his story…

Sennheiser has released a new documentation app which offers immediate and interactive access to all product manuals, spec sheets and other technical documents on Sennheiser products. Available now, the new app has been designed to give B2B-clients, system integrators and end-users quick and easy access to product information via smartphones and tablets.

Flare is a busy and successful UK-based event lighting, visuals and technical specialist which was established by designers Ben Cash and David Amos in 2008 to facilitate their penchant and imagination for designing bespoke lighting and staging environments and realising a wide range of live events. The company has invested heavily in Astera’s battery powered wireless LED products in the last 18 months and has over 100 x AX3 LiteDrops in stock which are used in a multiplicity of ways on most of their projects.

The “Year of the Goat” has already proved that it brings prosperity for Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd with Robert Juliat sales. “We have received several orders for Robert Juliat products over the past weeks, most of which have been totally unexpected,” says Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd Director, Hugh Chinnick.

A total of 20 speakers from Europe, Russia, Australia and the USA made the two events of the 9th audio seminar at Banz monastery – with a focus on broadcast (11th and 12th October) and theatre and live sound (13th and 14th October), respectively – a real success.

“Let’s Dance” Finland is the spin-off of the highly popular British TV series “Strictly Come Dancing”, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide. Currently the format has been licensed to over 42 territories. As a result, the series became the world's most popular television program among all genres in 2006 and 2007, according to the magazine Television Business International, reaching the Top 10 in 17 countries.

It was indisputable that the MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) received the most attention for MA Lighting this year at the PLASA exhibition in London on the booth of its UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions.

Broadcasters, sound engineers and RF engineers can now download a new version of the Wireless Systems Manager (WSM) from the Sennheiser website. The new, upgraded version of the control software for Sennheiser radio microphone and monitoring systems includes a “professional set-up” function. Its most important features: the Manager automatically calculates the interference-free frequency set for the required number of radio channels, while a ‘lifebelt’ icon keeps a number of back-up frequencies in reserve in case there are any RF problems on the day.

1300 exhibitors, 48000 visitors and 1000 journalists visited Amsterdam this September.
The result was the biggest display of shiny new products and ground-breaking technologies ever seen at IBC. Another hall was opened at the last minute just to fit it all in.
3D, Super Hi-Vision, 4K, Fibre and 3 Gb/s distribution, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), workflow tools, IPTV and mobile devices, all combined with the growing alternative of using standard IT technologies means the customer has more choices than ever.

For some time now, audio loudness has been a hot topic for the broadcast industry and one of the key issues faced by engineers in control of audio output.

Johannesburg based rental and production company Lucidity has just invested in its first Robe moving lights … with the purchase of six Pointes and six LEDWash 300s from Robe’s ROBIN series. These were delivered by Robe’s South African distributor DWR.

The theatre of the city of Münster, Germany, uses the summer break to renew its audio, lighting and stage technology and has opted for SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP as general contractor for the audio part. The contract involves the replacement of a thirteen years old CANTUS console by a powerful AURUS desk with 48 faders and 128 input channels, new processor, interface and microphone cards for the existing NEXUS network plus an upgrade for the NEXUS software.

Tektronix is introducing a completely new class of SPG, the SPG8000 Master Sync / Master Clock Reference Generator, to set a new standard in reference generators, providing critical timing and synchronization signals for modern Broadcast, OB and mobile facilities by offering high reliability sync signals, test signals, and ANC data generation capabilities.