Three Billion worldwide television viewers, 10.000 media representatives, 5.500 athletes and officials – the 21st Olympic Wintergames are going to beat any records. Swiss Television SRG Suisse will report 16 hours per day from both Olympic sites, Vancouver and Whistler (Canada). To do so, the Swiss broadcasters have again opted for audio equipment provided by German pro-audio-specialist Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup.

Omneon Inc. has been selected to provide storage, processing, and a high-speed content distribution platform to support NBC's live HD production workflow and to streamline delivery of all Internet and VOD content during the network's coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb. 12-28, 2010. The announcement was made today by David Mazza, senior vice president, engineering, NBC Olympics and Geoff Stedman, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Omneon.

Teracue AG supplied Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk with the ENC-200 H.264 encoder and the DEC-200 H.264 decoder for the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver.

The Four Hills Tournament is the ski-jumping equivalent of Wimbledon: the supreme highlight of the entire season, followed avidly by enthusiasts throughout the world. This latest (58th) edition of the tournament, ski-jumping's unofficial world championship, ran from the 29th December 2009 to the 6th January 2010 and comprised four competitions on four different slopes.

Snell will showcase a rich array of solutions for creation, management, and distribution of content, all designed to ease broadcasters' transition to digital, HDTV, and 3Gb/s operations.

Broadcast Pix™ today announced Slate Portable, a new system for live video production on location. Designed for quick setup on a table or other work surface, Slate Portable provides all the power of a Slate™ video production system in a compact, cost effective, all-in-one unit, including: HD/SD production switcher, multi-view monitoring, clip stores, graphics system with Harris Inscriber CG, Fluent™ workflow software, and format and aspect conversion for 1080i, 720p, SD, and analog. It is available now.

Three pedestals with precision sensors put hosts and competitors into a virtual world

The Paris Global Sports Industry Summit brings together a powerful community of leaders who are setting the agenda for the international sports industry. The summit is focusing on world economic crisis influence on the sport industry and on the tension between tradition and innovation in sport as the industry looks to expand while staying true to its roots.

Multichannel audio is the name for a variety of techniques for expanding and enriching the sound of audio playback by recording additional sound channels that can be reproduced on additional speakers. Surround sound refers to the application of multichannel audio to channels "surrounding" the audience (generally some combination of left surround, right surround, and back surround) as opposed to "screen channels" (center, [front] left, and [front] right).

Sony Professional Europe confirmed that it has been selected by BSkyB (Sky) and Telegenic to design and build one of the world’s first 3D Outside Broadcast (OB) trucks, due for delivery in April 2010. Sky, Telegenic and Sony have been working together to develop a next generation outside broadcast vehicle that will deliver new production methods to produce immersive live content in 3D.

German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have commissioned system integration specialist Media Logic to provide technical services during their coverage of the forthcoming Olympic Games in Canadian Vancouver.

The main concept of a professional vision mixer is the bus, basically a row of buttons with each button representing a video source. Pressing such a button will set the video out of that bus. Older video mixers had two equivalent busses (called the A and B bus, such a mixer is known as an A/B mixer). One of these busses could be selected as the main out (or program) bus. Most modern mixers, however, have one bus that is always the program bus, the second main bus being the preview bus. These mixers are called flip-flop mixers, since the selected source of the preview and program busses can be exchanged. Both preview and program bus usually have their own video monitor.

Mediatec, one of Europe’s largest corporations working with technical solutions for event and television productions, has invested in Jünger Audio’s LEVEL MAGIC™ technology to ensure the quality of its HD-SDI audio signals.

An 'awsome' Roger Federer marched his way into the quarter-finals of the 2010 Australian Open with a thumping straight sets win over Lleyton Hewitt. He will face Nikolay Davydenko in the quarter finals.

The Moroccan public broadcast network 2M installed a comprehensive Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom installation to replace its former system. The new system from the German manufacturer of intercom, fiber and radio technology integrates 16 regional 2M broadcast studios via IP into the communications infrastructure.