The Jazz Theater on the top floor of the Old U.S. Mint Building in New Orleans is designed around the music itself: the small (120-seat) rectangular room is intimate and acoustically pristine, fitted with complex movable panels that provide both diffusion and absorption while offering variable acoustics as they slide into place as needed for different types of jazz artists.

When introduced earlier this year at Prolight show in Frankfurt, Germany the new POLARIS touch touch-control enabled console immediately gained overwhelming positive response from audio professionals. Since then, the console has been ordered several times and first installations will be finished soon.

Large numbers of visitors, massive interest in the latest products – the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), which ran this year from the 7th to the 11th September, once again lived up to expectations for RTS. “The feedback from customers and the press alike was extremely positive,” reports Kamil Swobodzinski, Sales Director Europe.

Riedel MediorNet is a fiber based real-time network for 3G/HD-SDI video, audio and data that goes beyond the common video transport solutions. In addition to the integrated transport of HD video, audio, data and communications signals, MediorNet also provides integrated signal processing and conversion. This reduces the number of external processing devices significantly.

Clear-Com®, a global leader in critical voice communication systems, unveiled the Eclipse HX Digital Matrix Systems and Eclipse HX (EHX) Configuration Software at IBC 2012. The distinct set of powerful matrix intercoms offers faster performance, simplified operations and administration and higher system capacity.

Solid State Logic featured its Live-Recorder system at IBC 2012. Live-Recorder is designed for situations where a robust and reliable high-channel-count Recorder/Player is required in a live performance environment. It is ideal for live music recording from front of house consoles at live shows, in broadcast production studios and location recording vehicles.

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of digital high-speed imaging systems, has upgraded its popular Phantom® Miro line of cameras to become a more portable high-speed camera.  This upgrade is designed to make high-speed imaging more accessible through ease of use and a smaller form factor.

Blackmagic Design announced that ARRI, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of professional motion picture equipment, has introduced Ready to Shoot Kits for Blackmagic Cinema Camera.

JVC was heavily focussed on its professional camera and monitor range at this year’s IBC event, and particularly on how these integrate into production and broadcast workflows. The latest innovations from the company include the new GY-HM600 and GY-HM650 camcorders, a GY-HMQ10 handheld 2K/4K camcorder, along with technology previews of a 17” RGB LED monitor and a prototype 4K monitor.

Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, was showcasing its new AB-HDRF System at IBC 2012. This compact 5.8 GHz COFDM RF system can transmit a robust HD signal over great distances; all while being powered by Anton/Bauer batteries.

TSL Professional Products Ltd. (PPL), a manufacturer of hardware and software audio monitoring, tally and power management solutions for the broadcast industry, today announced at its IBC press conference in Amsterdam, that it has acquired leading surround sound microphone and audio processing technology manufacturer SoundField Ltd. The newly acquired range of surround microphones and upmix/downmix solutions was demonstrated on TSL’s IBC Stand.

TSL, leading systems integrator for the broadcast industry, announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply MediaCorp, Singapore's leading media company, with a new end-to-end file-based production and transmission workflow for its Caldecott Broadcast Centre.

Sky News Arabia, the sister channel of Sky News in the Middle East and North Africa, was officially launched this spring, powered by a fully integrated EVS workflow. The 24-hour Arabic news service broadcast out of Abu Dhabi from a state-of-the-art production facility.

Vizrt Ltd. unveiled for the first time a solution to synthesize high-speed sports footage from standard-rate TV cameras. The image-based solution is running within Libero Highlight, Vizrt’s best-of-breed 3D sports analysis system. The Virtual SloMo effect can be applied to any available television camera feed and, hence, offers completely new flexibility to create high-speed, high-quality footage for sports replay and analysis, not only from your OB van, but also from your studio environment.

Grass Valley™ announced a partnership agreement with AVIT-Systems A/S, the largest provider of Professional AV and broadcast solutions in Scandinavia.