IABM Report Reveals Stalling Growth
12.17.2008
Commenting on the report's findings, Roger Stanwell, IABM Chief Executive Officer, said: "The cyclical peak rate of sales growth seen in both October 2006 and October 2007 has hardly happened at all this year. There is now an More...

EBU Opposes E.U. PSB-Funding Rules
12.02.2008
The European Commission's Directorate General for Competition published a draft revision of the 2001 Broadcasting Communication, which deals with the application of European state-aid rules and public-service broadcasting (PSB). More...

RAI Sees Sony XDCAM as €6M Path to HD
12.02.2008
The deal with Sony will result in an installation of 180 PDW-700 camcorders and 180 PDW-HD1500 decks across the broadcaster's operation, covering everything from news gathering to drama and documentary production. The investment More...

Omneon Keeps Control of Lithuanian Archive
12.17.2008
The Spectrum supports playout of LRT's three broadcast channels and provides ingest functionality for the broadcaster's comprehensive digital archive, which includes Lithuania's culturally significant media assets such as More...

Autoscript the Choice for BBC Persian Channel
12.17.2008
Four TFT 17-inch on-air monitors have been supplied supplemented with the Windows-based +WinPlus+ prompting applications which works with all TrueType and Adobe fonts and with any language or character sets including Arabic, More...

Custom Consoles Awarded Second Contract by RTVSlo
12.17.2008
The project saw the UK manufacturer deliver of four rectangular Module R desks, seven System 2 split-level electrically-adjustable workstations and four Media Wall flat-screen monitor mounts. More...

Startup Touts Humanoid Technology in Video Content Search Tool
08.06.2008
Anvato, based in Mountain View, Calif., says its newly released ContentID product uses "Perceptual Signature technology that emulates humans by identifying scenes, objects and movements inside the video." More...

Sony unveils new technologies and initiatives to drive HD adoption
07.09.2008
Broadcast Asia 2008 marked the South East Asia debut of new products from the solid-state entry-level XDCAM EX camcorders and deck, the new HKSR-5804 file transfer option board designed to accompany the SRW-5800 deck and the More...

Dielectric Communications Expands Testing Operations
04.23.2008
Additions include a 60-foot tapered electromagnetic anechoic chamber, a 950-cubic-foot high-power passive intermodulation chamber and a 64-cubic-foot thermal chamber. More...

Sony Intros Latest Compact Pro HDV Camcorder
12.17.2008
The memory recording unit offers a CompactFlash recording option, not only for the new camcorder, but for all existing Sony professional HDV camcorders. More...

Grass Valley, Vivesta Offer Affordable Content Management
12.17.2008
Thomson's Grass Valley division has joined forces with Netherlands-based company Vivesta to market affordable channel management, automation and content management solutions to small- and mid-sized broadcasters. More...

Dolby E Decoding From DK
12.17.2008
Dolby Laboratories has certified the PT0760M as being able to handle Dolby E decoding, either from embedded audio within the HD/SD video or through separate AES inputs via Dolby's Cat. No. 552 OEM decoder module. More...

Omneon, Front Porch Digital Announce Collaboration
12.17.2008
As a result of the deal, the Omneon MediaGrid storage system and the Front Porch Digital DIVArchive content storage management (CSM) system have now been tested together and implemented with leading broadcasters worldwide, More...

Harris Awards recognise EMEA channel partners
12.02.2008
"We are proud to honour our channel partners who have worked to deliver exceptional sales and service and ensure our customers' satisfaction throughout the year across the entire Harris product portfolio," said Richard Scott, More...

Scopus Signs For-A distribution to Japanese market
12.02.2008
Scopus Video Networks has inked a distribution partnership with For-A that will see its products distributed within the Japanese market. Under the terms of the agreement, For-A will provide sales and support for the full line of More...

Patrick Woolcocks Heads Up Business Development for IPV
12.17.2008
Nigel Booth, Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing at IPV commented: "Patrick's appointment underscores our commitment to building our new direct business channels for our tapeless workflow Curator system. His More...

MHz Expands Management
12.17.2008
Robert Stopford has joined UK manufacturer Megahertz (MHz) as its new Sales Director. His remit covers growing the company's international business with a particular focus on the Indian subcontinent, Asia Pacific and Australasia. More...

Yoshinori Imai appointed President of ABU
12.02.2008
The ABU has named Yoshinori Imai as its new President. More...

UK Screen Running Onion Sessions
11.04.2008
The Onion Sessions are designed to peel back the layers of the industry and give junior staff such as runners and receptionists a useful insight in to the inner workings of the industry. More...

NATEXPO 2008 Looks at Digital
11.04.2008
The theme for the event, taking place 18–20 November in Moscow, is "Russia at the Step of a Digital Revolution." More...

International Audio Summit to Draw AV Pros
10.07.2008
Speakers from industry, science, and trade associations will lecture on topics such as new formats for production and broadcast, audience involvement via innovative audio applications and new wireless communication systems in More...

Anton Bauer Gear Delivers During Olympic Coverage
09.09.2008
The global networks included Beijing Olympic Broadcast (BOB), WNBC-TV Network, NBC Today, and NBC owned, operated and/or affiliated stations, Belo Television, Hearst Argyle Television, Lin Broadcasting, Bonneville International More...

Artistic Licence Helps Light Coke Pavilion
08.20.2008
The building houses an exhibition documenting the intertwining histories of Coca-Cola and the Olympic Games, the "Perfect Serve" hospitality area and a media zone. More...

BBC Relies on Scopus Encoders for Logging
08.20.2008
The MPEG-4 encoders, according to Scopus, provided the BBC the desired match of high video quality at low bit rates necessary for transmission across the intercontinental IP infrastructure. More...