Lawo, one of the leading international manufacturers of digital mixing consoles and routing systems, perfectly suited for live, theatre and broadcast applications, will launch new products and present a selection of its wide product range at this year’s IBC exhibition in Amsterdam, running from 10th - 14th September.

In addition to the 147 HD OBVan entries from 85 European companies we now have detailed descriptions of 25 HD OBVans from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Kazakhstan, Qatar, South Africa, Tunesia, Turkey, UAE and USA online.

TV One is excited to introduce the new 1T-FC-677 3G/HD/SD-SDI Distribution Amplifier, Extender and HDMI Converter all in one economical, compact package.

OConnor, a Vitec Group brand, launches the 2065 Fluid Head. Designed to handle popular digital cameras like the RED One, SONY F-35, and ARRI Alexa, the 2065 is loaded with the same popular features and controls that have made OConnor fluid heads the favorites of cinematographers worldwide.

As one of the most successful and influential music producers of the past 20 years, Pete Anderson has built a career on bucking the trends of the mainstream in favor of his own distinct and bold sound. So when the time came to outfit his new studio in Los Angeles in 2008, Anderson sought out a mixing console that would provide a certain level of convenience without sacrificing an ounce of sonic integrity.

The Grass Valley™ Trinix™ NXT 3 Gb/s digital video router, the Kayenne™ Video Production Center, and the K2 Media Server are at the hub of the workflow. The Trinix NXT router provides the flexibility for SD, HD, and 3G signals. The K2 family of servers offers a range of storage options—from high performance on-line storage for flawless play-to-air to lower cost production storage for editing workgroups and offline storage for long term or archiving of content.

China Central Television (CCTV), the main state-run television broadcaster in China that’s accessible to more than one billion viewers, has begun to outfit its overseas journalists with Grass Valley™ EDIUS® Laptop Edit Stations as part of an upgrade to its electronic newsgathering activities. The new PC-based laptop systems will allow CCTV’s overseas journalists to take advantage of a native file-based workflow in the field that will bring news to air faster and more efficiently than they ever could before.

T-VIPS, a global leader in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, announced that its TVG450 JPEG2000 Video Gateways have been selected by Elettronica Industriale (EI), a Mediaset company, for its next generation contribution network.

LEMO’s Airstream trailer cruised through Europe during the summer and autumn of 2009 and is now coming to IBC - Amsterdam.

• GefenPRO 3G SDI Fiber Optics Extender
• GefenPRO Matrix Line
• Gefen ToolBox Extender for 3DTV
• GefenTV Auto Volume Stabilizer with Digital Audio Decoder

AV and security integrators AVITECH, who are also the Romanian distributors for Christie, are slowly introducing sophisticated command and control room monitor environments to the nation’s telecommunications industry.

Leading Professionals from the UK Film and Broadcasting industries attended the UK launch of the GY-HM790, JVC’s new ProHD tapeless HD studio camera at Planet Video’s showrooms inside Pinewood Studios.

QVC Inc., the home-shopping channel broadcaster owned by Liberty Media Corp., will start a service in Italy for on-air launch at the beginning of October. Experienced Berkshire-based broadcast integrators, TSL, won a competitive tender to design and install a highly sophisticated broadcast system, with audio mixing based around two Studer Vista 5 32-fader production consoles with SCore Live and D21 I/O extension frames installed in the two identically-configured live studio control rooms and central technical area.

SENCORE, a leading provider of high-quality signal processing and video delivery solutions, today announced that the European News Exchange (ENEX) has chosen the MRD3187B receiver decoder for recommendation in satellite news gathering (SNG) applications.

A play unfolds in seconds. The operator reacts instantly. ZEPLAY brings all of the action to one screen using a configurable multiviewer. ZEPLAY’s controller includes marking and tagging clips, retrieving and playing them back, choosing the camera angle, and has the ability to view the game’s progress in an visual tool called the play bar. Record and play back in broadcast quality I-Frame-only MPEG-2 with bit rates of up to 100mbps. All of this power is encased in a 4RU chassis that is rugged enough for truck use and includes redundant power and RAID5 content storage.