MEDIAPRO will provide production services for Al Jazeera Sport’s coverage of the FIFA World Cup this summer in South Africa, which is due to get underway on 11th June. A team of more than 100 technical staff will provide services for the channel from Qatar for the coverage which includes three different domains: Outdoor, Venues and IBC.

Zaxcom today announced a new line of encrypted bodypack receivers for interruptible feedback (IFB), now shipping to customers worldwide. Slated for display at the 2010 NAB Show, Zaxcom's new ERX1 and ERX1TCD bodypacks receive high-quality digital audio, timecode, and metadata from any IFB transmitter in the Zaxcom TRX product series, providing a secure platform for television and film production crews to manage the full range of IFB signals required for their productions.

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

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

The NAB Show, the annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage and distribute entertainment across all platforms, has announced two Content Theater sessions featuring behind-the-scenes details on the advancements in 3D entertainment from the filmmakers of Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" and executives from ESPN's upcoming stereoscopic 3D network. The all-star sessions, which will feature 3D footage from the cutting-edge film and network, will take place during the NAB Show, held April 10-15 in Las Vegas.

3D is on the upswing. Since the triumphant success of James Cameron’s Avatar, the film world has been looking mesmerized at the three dimensional pictures. It took the eco-tale only seven weeks to climb to number one at the box office-results and the film even managed to sink the Titanic. The earnings up to now: more than two billion US-Dollars.

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.