Embraced by European Broadcasters and Production Companies, German-Manufactured Monitors Will Now be Available to U.S. and Canadian Market

SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced today that it has again significantly increased its reach and grown the number of digital and High Definition TV households on the ASTRA satellite system. SES ASTRA is now broadcasting to 125 million TV homes across Europe and North Africa, three million more than the year before. For the first time, satellite reaches more households than cable in Europe, with 77 million satellite and 71 million cable households. Terrestrial infrastructures reach 86.5 million households; however, not even half of them (48 percent) are digital.

Dutch Media Hub, Holland’s initiative to become the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’ will present itself to the international electronic media industry at the NAB Show in Las Vegas this April. Following their NAB presence, a Trade Mission Delegation of Dutch media companies and government officials will visit Los Angeles on 15 and 16 April to meet with the major film studios.

Because contemporary presentations are more complex than single screen, single output, single format shows, Barco introduced PlusPAK, a new configuration package for the FSN series switcher.

Efficient communications are the key to produce smoothly run and well coordinated operations at large events such as the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. With a long history in equipping major-scale events such as the Winter Games 2006 in Torino or the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing, Riedel Communications is predestinated for installing such an infrastructure.

An MA Lighting grandMA2 light console and three MA NPUs (Network Processing Units) are being used to control 18 universes of DMX running all the lighting and a Catalyst media server for the 2010 "Strictly Come Dancing Live" UK arena tour. The tour's lighting has been designed by Mark Kenyon, who also lights the high profile BBC TV series which has constantly topped the ratings and is one of the most popular programmes in recent history.

Videographers with disabilities can now shoot professional-quality content using the industry-standard Polecam transportable video production jib thanks to an extraordinary new device developed at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Using the CanAssist Polecam Power Chair, a physically-challenged cameraman can keep pace with people and objects in motion. It is an easy-to-operate system for recording activities such as documentaries and sporting events.

Riedel, one of the leading manufacturers of intercom fiber audio and radio solutions, presents several new fiber and intercom products at this year's NAB in Las Vegas. Besides several products to be announced at NAB, Riedel introduces the new and free Artist VCP-1004 Virtual Panel, the MADI and RockNet MediorNet cards as well as the software based Framestore feature for MediorNet to the American Markets at NAB.

Analog Way, a designer and manufacturer of image converters and presentation switchers, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Quattro Value and Octo Value, two new Seamless Switchers with mono-scalers.

Miranda Technologies is launching two low cost, high performance master control switching and channel branding systems at NAB (North Hall, 2515), called Imagestore-Modular+ and Imagestore-Modular.

• 3D HD Stereo Shooting Solutions
• 3D HD Stereo Image Processing, Mixing, Graphics Implementation and Monitoring
• A Statement from Achim Jendges

Compact Caption and Audio Decoder With Splitter Capability Enables Convenient, Cost-Effective Monitoring of SDI Stream and Caption Data

After exhaustive tests of various 3D production equipment at the Champions League Game VFB Stuttgart - FC Barcelona on 23rd February,  Sky Germany decided to broadcast the Bundesliga top game between Bayer Leverkusen and the Hamburger SV in 3D HD to a selected group of VIPs in Munich. The Live production of the 3D HD signal in Leverkusen was carried out by TopVision on behalf of Sportcast. The responsibility for the transmission was with HD Sat Communications, providing an uplink van in Leverkusen and a downlink van in Munich.

I-MOVIX today announced an ongoing partnership with Vision Research to provide a line of UltraMotion solutions for broadcasters. Collaboration between New Jersey-based high-speed camera manufacturer Vision Research and I-MOVIX has already produced the new SprintCam® Vvs HD system, which delivers new performance in live high-definition (HD) broadcast production, using the latest generations of Vision Research's high-speed HD cameras.

Mexico City and Monterrey were the targets for MA Lighting Latin America to present the brandnew grandMA2 as well as share the knowledge of this new console series. 70 people from the entertainment industry were attending these events. The companies Audio Systems and Serpro received the trainings in Monterrey whereas in Mexico City the new Mexican MA Lighting dealer Showco was trained.