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| Sky Selects Calrec Audio Apollo to Help Equip World's First 3D Truck |
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 Calrec Audio's Apollo digital console has been chosen to outfit the world's first custom-designed 3-D production truck.
Commissioned by BSkyB (Sky) and operated by the leading U.K. outside broadcast outfit Telegenic, the Sky 3-D truck will hit the roads later this spring, as Sky rolls out Europe's first 3-D TV channel.
Built by A Smith Great Bentley Ltd., Sky's 3-D truck is a triple expanding HD truck with more than 180 square feet of interior space, to accommodate up to 24 cameras or 12 stereo camera rigs for full 3-D programming. The 48 fader Apollo console has over 1,000 freely assignable channel processing paths, which will give Sky the opportunity to enhance its 5.1 coverage alongside the 3-D image capabilities.
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| Harris Announces Native XDCAM File Interchange Between NEXIO Servers and Avid Systems |
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Harris announces that its NEXIO AMP and NEXIO XS servers now support Avid file interchange of native Sony XDCAM HD422 HD material via Avid Interplay Transfer software.
Tighter integration allows Avid customers editing their content in native XDCAM HD422 within Avid HD news production and editing systems to seamlessly transfer that content to and from Harris NEXIO servers.
The media remains native throughout the ingest, editing and playout process - eliminating the multi-generational loss common to format transcoding.
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| DVEO Launches New Software-Based SD/HD MPEG-2 to H.264 Transcoders |
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 DVEO, the broadcast division of San Diego based Computer Modules, Inc. (CMI), announced that they are now shipping three new Linux based MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoders.
Three systems are available: ASI to IP, ASI to ASI, and IP to IP.
Each system transcodes one HD (720p) stream or two SD streams into H.264 and outputs the streams over ASI or IP.
The MPEG Gearbox ASI/IP can also receive 1 to 4+ MPEG-2 channels and output them to a dedicated IP network as MPEG-2 streams. Audio support is MPEG and AAC (MPEG-4).
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| SBS chooses Quantel for HD |
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SBS, Australia's national multicultural and multilingual broadcaster, has placed an order with Quantel for the supply of three Enterprise sQ server based HD production systems for its operations in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
The Enterprise sQ systems will handle SBS's in-house news, sports and current affairs programme production needs.
Scheduled to go on air by mid 2010.
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| Middle Tennessee State University Documents NASA Launch with New Fujinon HD Lens |
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Fujinon announced the purchase of the XA50X9.5BESM HD telephoto lens by Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) near Nashville.
Within the Department of Electronic Media Communication in the college of Mass Communication, the new 50x lens is part of an HD upgrade for the Mobile Production Lab (MPL), a truck primarily used for sports coverage that was used last fall for an ongoing NASA documentary.
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| DVDO Adds Color Management System to iScan Duo High-Performance Video Processor |
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 Anchor Bay, provider of video processing systems and video processing semiconductors, announced the introduction of a new Color Management System (CMS) for the DVDO iScan Duo.
CMS adds precision color adjustment to DVDO's latest high-performance video processor and A/V hub.
You will be able to perform color calibration of displays through the controls of the processor, free of any limitations or complications involved with performing calibration by using the display's controls.
Current iScan Duo owners will be able to download new firmware, which is available now, at no charge. The suggested retail price of the processor remains unchanged at $1,299.
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| Bexel Purchases 40 New Sony HD Cameras as Part of HD Expansion Plan |
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Bexel has enhanced its line of HD products with the purchase of 40 new Sony HD Broadcast Cameras.
Bexel has added 20 Sony HDC-1500R 1080p HD camera systems with build-up kits, as well as 20 new Sony PDW-F800 XDCAM HD camcorders and corresponding PDW-F1600 XDCAM HD studio recorders to its inventory.
The new cameras are being used for the first time by a variety of Bexel customers during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada.
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| DVS Celebrates 25 Years |
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 DVS CEOs Dr. Hans-Ulrich Weidenbruch, Dr. Peter Spoer, and Dr. Siegfried Beyer recognized early the importance of digital video technology and focused initially on creating systems for research and development. In 1986, after only one year in business, DVS unveiled the world's first semiconductor storage for image sequences in HDTV and achieved its first technological milestone.
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