Building on a solid base of award-winning digital video recorders, Fast Forward Video (FFV) will demonstrate its continued industry leadership as a solution-based company. With its proven ability to adapt to the needs of the broadcasting market, Fast Forward Video will demonstrate application-based solutions that harness JPEG2000 compression and deliver the highest HD and SD image quality available for record and playback.

Responding to rapidly increasing demand for 3D HD video content, Polecam announces that its 3D-Narrow pan and tilt head is to be supplied as standard with all new systems, with the option of choosing the new 3D-Wide head.

The opening of Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter games tomorrow is a fitting way to celebrate the EBU’s 60th birthday. The EBU has always recognized sports’ importance to audiences. With this event we will ensure access for more Europeans to more programmes across more media than ever.

Miss World 2009 saw another spectacular lighting design by Tim Dunn, who used a grandMA full-size console to control nearly 300 intelligent light fixtures, plus LED and generic lighting, altogether totalling 12,600 DMX channels across 24 active universes. He also triggered video content stored on an MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) from the desk, which fed an upstage LED screen, 12 x digital moving lights and 114 LED lights embedded in the set.

Custom Consoles announces the completion of a large order for Presteigne Charter, one of the world's leading broadcast dry hire and systems rental specialists. A total of 20 desks from the Module-R range have been delivered for use across two major sports events: the Australian Tennis Open and the Vancouver Winter Games.

At Band Pro's One World on HD Open House back in December one of Sony's newest cameras was debuted, the HDC-P1. This compact, box-style camera does full HD with a 2/3" CCD sensor, B4 mount and variable frame rates, including 24p. Originally conceived as a studio camera, this camera will soon find itself flying off the shelf in pairs because of its natural fit for 3D production.

A record nine Polecam systems have been commissioned to provide live video from the Winter Games which commence in Vancouver on February 12. All nine will be working in full 1080i high-definition.

UEFA today announced an agreement with ARD and ZDF for the broadcasting rights ofUEFA EURO 2012™ in Germany.

The two public broadcasters have been long-term partners of UEFA for national teamcompetitions in Germany and had a very successful coverage of UEFA EURO 2008™ interms of audience figures.

Telecast Fiber Systems, Inc., a Belden brand, is a leader in portable and fixed fiber optic systems for television broadcast production. Telecast systems accommodate all television production signals, including NTSC/PAL video, SDI and HD/SDI video, analog and AES/EBU audio, HD and triax camera interfaces, and intercom and data signals.

At this years NAB Telecast will feature its 3D capabilities, its TeleCube™ Modular Media Interface and the CopperHead™ 3000 Series

Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, is debuting the new Production Maestro™ Pro add-on module for its Eclipse Version 5.1.3 digital matrix intercom system at Broadcast Video Expo 2010 (Stand H30). Production Maestro Pro offers the same great feature set as Production Maestro™ ─ letting operators interact directly with the Eclipse to quickly set up and manage live dynamic voice communications for small or large networked intercom systems ─ with the addition of several new tools that significantly enhance user interaction.

* Vision QMD & Octane SD & HD Production Switchers
* OverDrive® Automated Production Control System
* XPression 3D HD Character Generator & Graphics Platform
* SoftMetal Video Servers
*  openGear 3G/HD/SD Multi-Definition Terminal Equipment

High-definition production equipment from Grass Valley™ will be extensively used in temporary production studios and on-site at many of the venues in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to bring home the live and tape-delayed telecasts of this year’s Winter Games in pristine HD to millions of worldwide viewers from February 12–28.

The broadcast provider TVN PRODUCTION, a partner of EuroTV Österreich, utilized an extensive MediorNet installation from Riedel Communications for the broadcast of the women’s Super G World Cup in Haus im Ennstal for the Austrian broadcast network ORF. Despite the extreme temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius the Riedel fiber technology enabled a successful event.

Shepperton-based Camera Corps, a leader in robotic camera control systems, has chosen the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas for the worldwide launch of its new ultra-compact Mini Joystick Control. Mini Joystick Control is compatible with all Camera Corps and Egripment pan and tilt heads, including the award-winning Camera Corps Q-Ball.

The Pandemonium Tour by much-loved British electro-pop duo The Pet Shop Boys is the first touring show to use Britannia Row’s “new” X-Line system, which has recently been turbocharged by the implementation of EV’s ground-breaking FIR-Drive (Finite Impulse Response Filters) technology.