Shotoku Broadcast Systems, a well-established leader in both manual and robotic camera support, was presenting a compliment of high-capacity control panels with a series of new features including SD/HD support, wide screen layout, and customizable display options. Shotoku is also targeting single-operator productions with a uniquely small but high-precision unit. The panels were shown alongside the Company’s Orchestra Camera Management System, now available with an integrated live-video touch screen option, its flagship TRP-100 fully robotic studio pedestal, and its full range of robotic and VR sensor Pan/Tilt heads.

 SIS LIVE, one of Europe’s large outside broadcast (OB) and uplink supplier, plans to deliver the best ever production coverage of the XIX Commonwealth Games being held in New Delhi from 3-14 October 2010. SIS LIVE is contracted to provide the Production and Coverage Facilities and Services for the Games.

At NAB 2010 in Las Vegas, SIS LIVE unveiled uPak, a new Ku-band flat-panel antenna system for satellite contribution at low data rates. uPak, which weighs less than 50lbs (23kgs) and fits in a single IATA compliant case, is designed for users to send live video, data or voice communications via satellite. The system is designed to work at between 512kb/s and 1024Kb/s upstream, and up to 10Mb/s downstream, making it ideal for broadcasters, NGOs and military applications.

TVLogic, designer and manufacturer of broadcast & professional high definition monitors and displays, introduced two 15” Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Displays, a 2D and a 3D stereoscopic model. OLED technology offers many benefits over conventional flat-panel designs, including the widest possible color gamut, 100,000:1 contrast ratio, blazingly fast image response, and full 180° viewing angle.

TVLogic, a designer and manufacturer of broadcast & professional high definition monitors and displays, announced support for import and export of popular color grading 3D LUT (Look-up table) formats for highly accurate color matching between XVM-245W monitors.

Broadcast Pix™ announced two of its new products were recognized with awards from two industry magazines at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nev., last week. TV Technology gave one of its STAR Awards to Granite™, the company’s native HD, 1080p-ready live video production system, while Videography honored the iPixPanel application, which allows an Apple iPad to control any Slate video production system, with one of its Best of Show Vidy Awards.

Miranda Technologies has received two awards from the broadcast technology media for its new products introduced at the NAB 2010 show in Las Vegas.

While 3D TVs, 3D broadcast channels and 3D cinemas pop up like daisies, content owners develop a growing need to get their 2D content converted to a 3D format. The fact is that people are paying more to see 3D, hence 2D content has less value than 3D content. Consider that 3D movies already accounted for 33 percent of the box office this year and this was achieved by only four films.

Panasonic Professional Projectors and Displays Europe (PPDE) announced the launch of the first three models in its 20 series range of displays. Aimed at digital signage and corporate installs, the latest series incorporates Panasonic’s New NeoPDP technology, which has four times the luminous efficiency of previous models (Comparing full-HD models in existing sizes with the same-size 2007 Panasonic models).

· Demand for mass-market 3D TV is soaring
· Solution helps broadcasters and operators deliver 3D from venue to viewer
· Award honors outstanding technological innovation in the broadcast industry

Damar & Hagen ARD-Triaxial Connectors are characterised by high operational reliability and ease of assembly.
The product range includes plug-and-socket connections for the connection of colour television camera cables in television studios, transmission vans and outdoor operation. The connector range with keyed bayonet locking has been VDE-tested and satisfies the demands set by DIN 40050, VDE 0110, 0470 and VDE 0627.

Two new products from FOR-A, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, were recognized with awards from two industry magazines at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nev., last week. Broadcast Engineering awarded one of its Pick Hits to the LTR-100HS Video Archive Recorder, while TV Technology gave one of its STAR Awards to the CEQ-100HS Color Equalizer.

Under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and under the Patronage of the International Olympic Committee, SPORTELMonaco is the world’s only international Convention which gathers, during 4 days in Monaco, the main actors and personalities from the world of Sport and Television within its diverse program.

Pixel Power, a leading supplier of broadcast graphics systems, has today announced its partnership with the Digital Media Centre (DMC), one of Europe’s most advanced digital media facilities, for the delivery of 3D coverage of the Masters Golf, from Augusta, Georgia, which took place this month.

• RTS digital matrix intercom systems were once again the number-one choice
• ADAM (Advanced Digital Audio Matrix) matrices used exclusively by the largest broadcasters in Vancouver, Canada