Newsletter from 16/11/2011
HD OBVan Database now has 244 Entries
HD OBVans
ABC Production HD 1
ABC Production SA is a leading supplier of television program production services and specializes in the live sports outside broadcast in Greece. The company provides a big range of technological equipment for rental, including OB Vans with or without personnel, stand alone cameras, state of the art Audio and Video production units and experienced personnel that can meet any customer’s production needs. Its customer list includes many of Greece’s leading TV channels ( ERT ,NOVA, OTE, MEGA CHANNEL, ANTENNA TV etc ) as well as leading international production companies such as SPORTFIVE , TWI , Canal+ , MEDIAPRO and TF1.
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Corplex Chromium
Corplex has been in the professional television industry for more than 20 years. Corplex began in 1985 as an engineering company and have grown to become a leader in live television broadcasting. The entry in the mobile television business began in 1998 when Corplex designed and built one of the first all digital mobile production units and won an award from the National Association of Broadcasters. Today, Corplex operates a number of mobile production and support units covering sports, corporate, news and entertainment events throughout the United States and Canada. The facilities range from a 48 foot non expanding digital trailer up to a 53 foot triple expanding high definition unit with a graphics/support trailer.
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Cross Creek Voyager 9
Crosscreek Television Productions is the result of simple faith and hard work of sweat and prayer. Crosscreek Television Productions is about service, about bringing quality entertainment and information. Crosscreek Television Productions is about people. Our crew is family, our customers are friends, and the people we serve deserve our respect and gratitude. Crosscreek Television Productions is about integrity, recalling an era when a man's word was his bond, and a hand shake was as binding as any legal contract. Crosscreek Television Productions is about technology. It blends state-of-the-art equipment with an innovative crew, who find a way to get the job done. Most importantly, Crosscreek Television Productions is about joy - doing a job you love with people you love, and hopefully getting paid to do it.
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KBS HD 1
Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) is the biggest of four major Korean television networks. This public broadcasting network is best known for nightly newscasts and historical dramas. KBS was founded in 1927 and operates three television, seven radio and four digital media channels and has seven subsidiaries. KBS provides terrestrial, cable and satellite television broadcasting services in Korea. Its terrestrial television channel portfolio includes KBS TV1 and KBS TV2. KBS World TV is KBS`s international television channel. Its cable and satellite television channels include KBS Prime (culture and drama), KBS Drama, KBS N Sports and KBS Joy (comedy and quiz).
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Mira Mobile M11 HD
MIRA Mobile is one of the largest mobile facilities provider in the western US With mobile units ranging from a 48 foot digital straight truck to 53 foot High Definition expando's. MIRA'sfacilities and engineering support have earned a national reputation for excellence. MIRA Mobile Television is a partner in Alliance Productions, LLC. Mira Mobile provides high end video production services for live events and taped programs from sports, corporate and entertainment venues throughout the US and Canada. MIRA Mobile has the right truck to meet your production needs, large or small. From Seattle Mariners baseball for FSN Northwest, to Sacramento Kings/Monarchs and Portland Trail Blazers NBA basketball...
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Trio Video Tempo
Since its inception in 1982, Chicago-based Trio Video has earned an industry-wide reputation for excellence. Today, Trio is one of the the leading mobile television production companies in the Midwest and operates nationwide. Trio provides facilities and crews that even the most demanding clients count on - whether the broadcast is network, cable or independent; whether the event is sports, entertainment or corporate. Spring and summer 2011 arrived with a whole slew of new and challenging projects… an alternative rocker concert, a major education summit, a new take on classic opera, historic political debates, world class music productions throughout North America… all in addition to the annual staple of Chicago-team MLB telecasts.
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Viditech Relies on RTS/TELEX in New OB Truck
Since 1990, Viditech Broadcast Facilities are one of the busiest broadcast service providers in the Netherlands. To ensure they continue to meet, and even surpass, their customers’ expectations, the company, a member of the Facility House group, recently invested in a new outside broadcast vehicle: OBV5. The new truck, which is designed to serve up to twelve cameras, will be used primarily for television productions, including sporting events, talk shows and general entertainment. "It‘s a fully-equipped, and yet extraordinarily compact truck," says Jan de Pijper, Viditech's MD. Moreover, the TV control room on wheels offers the best of both worlds, as he explains: "The truck is highly versatile but at the same time features powerful technology and delivers a high level of quality."
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SPECIAL CAMERAS
Pictorvision
The Originator of the Gyro-Stabilized Camera: The same people who brought you the pioneering stabilization work at Wescam stand behind Pictorvision today. As Wescam, we originated the gyro-stabilized aerial camera platform – an innovation that won us an Academy Award for widening the entertainment industry’s creative possibilities. As Pictorvision, we evolved to become the industry leader not only in stabilized technology, but also in service. We take a strong customer-centric approach as your stabilized equipment solution partner. Our highly responsive and knowledgeable team is committed to ensuring that Pictorvision exceeds your expectations – every time!
eclipse – A Helicopter Camera Mount with Unrivaled Stability: Pictorvision is proud to introduce the eclipse – the first truly revolutionary advancement in aerial camera systems in a generation. Designed by the team who invented aerial stabilization over 35 years ago, and in partnership with cinematographers, the eclipse embodies a commitment, focus and passion for aerial cinematography.
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SPORTS
Seedings for UEFA EURO 2012 Final Draw confirmed
The 16 teams that will participate in the final round of the UEFA European Football Championship 2010-12 will be divided into four groups of four teams each (Groups A to D). Four seeding pots will be created for the purpose of the draw, with the host associations Poland and Ukraine being top seeds: Poland as A1, Ukraine as D1. The reigning champions Spain will be placed in Pot 1, together with the Netherlands, the team with the highest national team coefficient, as established at the conclusion of the playoff matches. The remaining 12 teams have been allocated to the remaining three pots according to their respective coefficients. The draw will start with Pot 1 in order to fill position one in groups B and C. The draw will continue with Pot 4, from which a team will be allocated to each group consecutively, from Group A to Group D. This procedure will then be repeated for Pot 3 and finally for Pot 2. The position of each team within its group (2, 3 or 4) will also be determined during the draw.
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Olympic Games 2012: Archery
The Archery events at the 2012 Summer Olympics are scheduled to be held over an eight day period from 27 July to 3 August. Four events will be held, and all events shall take place at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in front of a temporary stand built to accommodate 6,500 spectators. 28 athletes shall compete across the four medal events: Men's Individual, Women's Individual, Men's Team and Women's Team. All four events shall be recurve archery events, and shall be held under the FITA-approved 70-metre distance and rules. An initial ranking round involving all 128 archers shall take place, before competitors move on to the 'Olympic round', which will be played in a tournament or single elimination format in each event. In each individual event, all 64 archers of each gender shall participate; in each team competition, there shall be a field of 12 teams, each consisting of three archers
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Olympic Games 2012: Canoe Slalom
Lee Valley White Water Centre (previously known as Broxbourne White Water Canoe Centre) will host the canoe slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympics. On 9 December 2010, Anne, Princess Royal officially opened the venue. The £31 million project was finished on schedule and was the first newly-constructed Olympic venue to be completed. The venue has a purpose built slalom course for the Olympic white water canoe events. The main competition channel is an international and Olympic standard 300 metre canoe and kayak slalom course. It and the shorter warm-up course empty into the warm up and cool down lake. The white water is created by a system of pumps which lift water into the two start pools. All of the water contained in the system is slightly chlorinated in order to retain water quality. The 300 metre competition course has a drop of 5.5 metres (18 ft), for an average slope of 1.8% (18 m/km or 95 ft/mile) and a pump-powered streamflow of 13 cubic metres per second (460 cubic feet per second). The intermediate/warm-up course is 160 metres long with a drop of 1.6 metres and flow of 10.5 cubic metres per second. A 10,000 square metre lake, filled with groundwater, supplies the water for the pumps.
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SHOWS
Visual Acuity Breaks New Ground with 2011 Radio City Christmas Spectacular
The Christmas Spectacular will use architectural scale projection mapped onto Radio City Music Hall’s proscenium arch and art deco interior giving the audience the feeling that they are being immersed in an array of sound, lighting, theatrical andpyrotechnic effects as each scene transforms to the next. “As the leading company in live entertainment, we are focused on delivering our Christmas Spectacular to audiences with content that has never been presented before in a theatrical setting and utilizing advanced technology features available in today’s market, while still honoring those traditions steeped in our show,” said Larry Sedwick, senior vice president production, MSG Entertainment.
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Gabisom Delivers World-Class Sound at Rock in Rio 2011
The Rock In Rio festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in spectacular fashion: it was the world’s biggest music festival of the year, with almost 700,000 fans attending the week-long event. Rock In Rio 2011 took place in the City of Rock, a specially built venue on the site of where Olympic Village will be located for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Dozens of rock’s biggest names performed at Rock in Rio, including Guns N’ Roses, Shakira, Katy Perry, Stevie Wonder, Ke$ha, Metallica, Rihanna, Coldplay, Elton John, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and many other top artists. The massive event required a sound system to match, which Gabisom Audio Equipment provided with a monumental assortment of HARMAN’s JBL VerTec® line arrays. The main stage PA system included no less than 120 VerTec VT4889 line array elements and 84 VT4880A fullsize arrayable subwoofers deployed in the main suspended arrays.
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Lady Gaga Shoots for RTL II at the Coloneum
The winner of five Grammys, Stefani Germanotta (alias Lady Gaga) benefits RTL II like no other international music star. Probably the most influential personality in the world of pop, she has been involved in many marketing campaigns for the TV station. As another step in the successful partnership between RTL II and Lady Gaga, several new RTL II station IDs were produced at the MMC studios on June 8th, 2011. The project was produced by coconut media (Cologne) on behalf of the agency Leitwerk Medien (Munich) and RTL II. In these new station ID’s, which can be seen on RTL II since October 14th, 2011, Lady Gaga performs in a breathtaking urban world of images that was inspired by movie classics, such as Metropolis, Sin City, and 2046. In all station IDs, the superstar interacts with the new 3D logo of RTL II. Whether on a futuristic bike, with an UFO or in a hamster wheel, there is a basic theme to all of them: Lady Gaga electrifies the RTL II logo.
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PRODUCTS
Surround Sound Production Era Begins at RTM Malaysia
Auditorium Perdana, a 700 seat hall, has been equipped with an AURUS/NEXUS sound control room since 2008. In 2010 the console DSP was upgraded to provide the full channel complement. Dolby-E embedders and HD-SDI modules for the NEXUS were also installed to support the RTM goal of making the transition to full HD by 2015. STAGETEC and Dolby® were invited to conduct the first surround sound recording for RTM in collaboration with the RTM Audio Team. The production was guided by Geoffrey Low, brought on board by Dolby Singapore. Geoffrey is a well-known audio engineer and lecturer in Singapore who has produced many broadcast music mixes in the region. “It was my first time working with the AURUS and I’m very impressed with the surround capability and functionality. The NEXUS provided flexible on the fly audio routing enabling all the inputs to be monitored, recorded and mixed at the same time” says Geoffrey.
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Grass Valley HD Production and Distribution Technologies in Panama
Targeted to the male audience, TVMax was created to absorb all the sports programming from the existing TVN channel. As a result, a new sports news program was created for TVMax and the channel now also airs drama series, sitcoms, and reality shows. The significant installation, among the largest in the country, was completed in May 2010 and is now fully on air. The studio is complete with a Grass Valley Kayak™ HD video production switcher, Apex audio routers, Trinix™ video routers, a Maestro™ master control and channel branding system, numerous K2 Summit™ media servers, GeckoFlex™ signal processing modules, and a Sonata™ MADI audio converter. Besides the new equipment, Grass Valley also provided a range of services for the new project that included system installation, training, and maintenance.
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Latin American Engineer Chooses DPA for Live and Recording
Three-times Grammy-nominated Brazilian sound engineer Gabriel Pinheiro is well-respected recording engineer in the Latin American music world. He is the proud owner of two DPA SMK4061 stereo miking kits, which he recently discovered during a live concert recording. “The PA company had a few of them and I decided to try them on piano, double bass and cello,” says Pinheiro, who has been chief engineer at Biscoito Fino Records’ recording studio for the past 10 years. “It was the first time I’d used a microphone on a live double bass that gave me a great sound. Right there I decided I needed some of these.” Having purchased two of the kits, which include a carefully selected pair of DPA 4061 miniature omni mics with mounting accessories, Pinheiro went to work trying out the mics on his projects. “I do a lot of live recordings as well as those live in the studio, with all the players - except drums - in the same room,” he explains. “I'm using the 4061s on piano, double bass and acoustic guitar."
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AKG DMS700 Wireless System Keeps Peter Thorn’s Guitar Rocking
On the lookout for the absolute best in wireless on the market – a system offering great sound and zero dropout/interference - Thorn, who has played guitar from an early age and attended the Guitar Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, was introduced to AKG’s wireless system through friend and co-guitar star, Steve Stevens of the Billy Idol Band. With promises of the best sound he will ever hear from Stevens, Thorn immediately started working with DMS700 on tour. “DMS700 works flawlessly and sounds amazing. It really is the best system I’ve ever used in my career,” stated Thorn. “The environment scan itself is an amazing feature that allows you to ensure you have zero RF interference, but it’s the true sound AKG provides my music that keeps my performances at their best. DMS700 is absolutely indistinguishable from an actual cable plugged into my guitar. When I use DMS700, it’s one less worry I have about my performance.”
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IABM Annual Conference Providing Keys to Success
Keynotes will include "Where Is the Broadcast Business Going?" by William Cooper, founder and chief executive at informitv; by the IABM's Peter White; "Managing Change and Motivating the Enterprise" by Jim Lawless, CEO, Taming Tigers; "Success in a Changing World" by Danny Wilson, president and CEO, Pixelmetrix; "The Cloud: Threats and Opportunities" by David Peto, CEO, Aframe; and "Summing It Up" by Strath Goodship, president and CEO, Miranda. The conference will feature a "Voice of the Customer" interview with Darren Long, director of operations at Sky Sports, and a subsequent panel discussion also including Keith Beale, project director at BBC Broadcasting House, and Clyde Smith, senior vice president at Turner Broadcasting Systems. Other conference panelists will include Jeremy Deaner, CEO, Amberfin; Adrian Scott, director, Media Asset Capital; Naomi Climer, vice president, Sony Europe; Joe Zaller, principal, Devoncroft; Tom Morrod, head of TV technology, IHS Screen Digest; Carl Hibbert, head of broadcast, Futuresource Consulting; Tomas Petru, president, Visual Unity and head of board, Kit Digital; and Steve Plunkett, director, technology and innovation, Red Bee Media.
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3D ARISING
Configuration for Quincunx Signalling in DVB 3DTV and HDMI 1.4a
The DVB-3DTV specification details the delivery system for frame-compatible plano-stereoscopic 3DTV services, enabling service providers to utilize their existing HDTV infrastructures to deliver 3DTV services that are compatible with 3DTVs already on the market. This system covers both use cases of a set-top box delivering 3DTV services to a 3DTV via an HDMI connection, and a 3DTV receiving 3D services directly via a built-in tuner and decoder. The application notes will enable the broadcast chain to deliver SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D optimally.
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Grass Valley Adds 3D Support Across Its EDIUS Editing Software
The new 3D support includes: native support for 3D video clips captured with the most popular 3D cameras, easy clip pairing for synching left eye/right eye clips; 2D-to-3D conversion capability; and a array of tools right on the editing timeline that make 3D adjustments—to compensate for mistakes in shooting—fast (with no transcoding necessary) and easy. Also functions available in 2D are also supported in 3D, such as realtime color correction, keyer, transitions and multicam editing. A 30-day preview version of EDIUS, that supports this 3D functionality will be available online as a free download for testing purposes. Included in the new 3D preview version are tools for importing, organizing, and adjusting 3D clips in the most efficient way. And it’s all done on the same EDIUS multiformat timeline that 2D projects employ, making the process as easy to complete in 3D as it is in 2D.
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