DK-Technologies will be showing its MSD100C Loudness meter at this year’s Broadcast Video Expo (Stand F5). The company will also be showing its MSD600M++ audio meter and its PT0760 multichannel waveform monitor, both of which can incorporate DK’s proprietary Loudness software. There is no doubt that loudness is currently a hot topic for the broadcast and post production industries. Both the UK and Italian Governments have already introduced guidelines to tackle complaints from viewers who don’t like the difference in volume between programme material and commercial breaks. Other countries around the world are beginning to follow suit and in February 2010 it is expected that the European Broadcast Union (EBU) will join the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) in announcing its preferred parameters for measuring loudness.

A reliable and standardised method for evaluating program loudness is essential e. g. for preventing abrupt volume-level changes in radio and TV broadcasts. The evaluation of frequency, measuring of individual channels with short integration time period (production), signal summation with average integration time period (production and broadcast) and long-term measuring (broadcast and monitoring) are a few of the requirements for loudness monitoring.

As part of a s3D project at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, LMC Live Motion Concept GmbH and chroma TV shot a full trailer on the swissrig with two Phantom HD Gold Highspeed Cameras in collaboration with academy students. The fully synchronized control of the Phantom HD Gold highspeed cameras developed by LMC and the perfectly matched SwissRig from Chroma Film & TV enabled a comfortable workflow and quick playback of the recorded sequences in s3D. At the film set a instant visual inspection of the stereoscopic images with a s3D Monitor and s3D glasses was possible.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15), hosted Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen by the Danish foreign ministry, is being broadcast to countries across the world in high quality, thanks to Snell's Alchemist Ph.C – HD motion-compensated standards converter. The Alchemist Ph.C – HD has been installed at the International Broadcasting Centre to make transparent standards conversion available to international broadcasters reporting on COP15 proceedings.

The 15th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is being held in Copenhagen at the Bella Center from December 7 to 18. Founded in 1992, the annual conferences, known as the 'Conferences of the Parties' (COP), provide a forum for discussion and assessment of progress in dealing with worldwide climate change and the next step after the Kyoto Protocol. Attendees this year will include US President Obama as well as senior politicians and officials from 192 countries. Representatives from many other worldwide NGO organisations will also be present.

The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are forming a new Joint Task Force to address the system integration issue in modern and complex TV production environments. The task force will address system integration issues for TV broadcasters with enterprise level production environments.

NEP and its NEP Visions high-definition broadcast facilities company in the UK, are expanding their equipment itinerary with the latest HD cameras from Grass Valley™. The new Grass Valley LDK 8000 Elite WorldCam multi-format HD cameras can quickly switch between 1080i, 1080p, and 720p formats at 50-, 59.94, and 60 Hz for a wide variety of production applications.

Pilot Fred North has just completed his second project for director Louis Leterrier, and his first with Pictorvision’s new state-of-the-art Eclipse helicopter camera mount system. “I did Leterrier’s last movie with a different system,” says North. “It didn’t have a perfect horizon level and could not look straight down. For Clash of the Titans, Louis and cinematographer Peter Menzies Jr. wanted to have a different system with perfect horizon level at all times to fly at a speed approaching 135 mph through steep canyons in Tenerife (Spain) and be able to look straight down. So I suggested the Eclipse and they confirmed it.”

Next June, the 2010 World Cup tournament in South Africa will be captured in stereoscopic 3D for the first time, with up to 25 of the games to be shot with special 3D cameras, according to FIFA’s soccer governing body.

SIS LIVE, a leading outside broadcast(OB) facility and uplink supplier in Europe, has acquired the business and assets of Leicesterbasedoutside broadcast company Dales Broadcast. Under the terms of the deal, SIS LIVE hasbought Dales Broadcast’s fleet of highly specified, midsizeOB trucks and other broadcastequipment. Dales Broadcast’s managing director, Julian Boden, joins SIS LIVE to assist inintegrating the business with SIS LIVE’s existing OB operation.

The new PCF1325C from the KLOTZ a.i.s. cable production is the perfect solution to the needs of mobile lighting technology, where stringent standards of fire protection and cable safety must be obeyed - particularly in the field of stage lighting.

Camera Corps Q-Ball robotic camera heads are keeping watchful eyes on the latest series of 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here' from Springbrook National Park on Australia's tropical Gold Coast. A total of six Q-Balls were chosen by international broadcast services company Gearhouse Broadcast as part of an 80-camera flyaway production system for the programme's ninth series. Produced by ITV Studios, the programmes are being transmitted in Britain by Granada Television (weekdays) and LWT (weekends) and on TV3 in Ireland. Over 40 hours of live programming are being sourced from 24/7 content captured over several weeks of production.

Cape Town, South Africa - Sony Corporation and FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) today announced an agreement for selected media rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in 3D. FIFA is to produce the world’s first FIFA World Cup™ in 3D. Up to 25 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ matches will be produced using Sony’s 3D professional cameras, which will provide coverage of the action that is unprecedented in depth, vividness and excitement to people around the world. FIFA will utilize Sony’s experience and know-how of 3D content production to spread the passion inside the stadiums at the greatest sport event in the world to more people than ever before.

The cinemas beat their pre-match sales expectations and added more seats to satisfy demand

More than 600,000 people watched the Barça-Madrid game via the TDT subscription channel, just three months after its launch