Newsletter from 31/03/2015
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
NEP to Acquire Mediatec Group
NEP Group Inc. (‘NEP’) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mediatec Group (“Mediatec”) from the current owners. Financial terms were not disclosed. This transaction will bring one of Europe’s largest outside broadcast and video display solutions providers into NEP’s growing worldwide network of brands. NEP is a leading worldwide provider of outsourced solutions to the broadcast and live event industries, offering technical services for outside broadcast, studio production, video display, host broadcasting and post production. Headquartered in in the United States, NEP has offices in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Dubai and Australia. The acquisition of Mediatec will expand its reach across Europe, and add greatly to their worldwide pool of resources.
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King of Hammers 2015 Broadcasts Take AJA Gear Off-Roading
60,000 spectators descended upon Johnson Valley, CA in February to witness the largest off-road race in King of Hammers (KOH) history. During the event, 430 Ultra4Racing teams navigated more than 200 miles of boulder-laden terrain in an attempt to win the KOH 2015 championship title, though only 17 crossed the finish line. For the fourth consecutive year, Freelance Producer Dan Campbell-Lloyd returned to the desert to capture and broadcast the action in HD for fans on-site and more than 400,000 viewers online. To carry out such a massive endeavor, he led a 25-person Hammerking Productions crew, who implemented a robust live production workflow that included AJA Io XT, KUMO, Ki Pro Mini, Hi5-Plus, HA5-Plus, V2Digital, UDC, HD10MD3 and other equipment.
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CROSSCAST Introduces the X-Stream Mobile Production Truck
The X-Stream mobile truck is based on a Mercedes Sprinter chassis, providing a new powerful broadcasting tool to the industry with its flexible production unit and internet streaming technologies. With up to six operator workspaces (director, vision mixer, editor, video and audio operators), the X-Stream can handle on its own a total of six cameras (broadcast- and/or high speed cameras) via fiber connection to produce small and mid-sized live broadcasts. A Riedel communication system with multiple interfaces, as well as, communication to the camera operators and tally light demonstrates CROSSCAST’s professional approach. Additionally, the X-Stream mobile truck has adequate space for several EVS video servers and devices for live streaming services.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
The New Family Show "The Game Begins!"
Parlor games are popular—at all ages. On Saturday, March 7th 2015 at 08:15pm, TV presenter Johannes B. Kerner and his young co-host, Emma Schweiger (the youngest daughter of actor Til Schweiger) presented the new family show "The Game Begins! The Big Show for 3- to 99-Year-Olds" on the German public channel, ZDF (Original title: Das Spiel beginnt! - Die große Show von 3 bis 99). Together, they hosted a great evening of games with popular classic and trendy new games. In the MMC Studio 30/31 in Cologne, actors such as Hans Sigl, Veronica Ferres, and Kostja Ullmann, as well as comedian Bülent Ceylan, competed with the experts in the game field—the children who were victorious in the end.
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Elation Sniper Makes the Grade on RTL’s “Back to School”
One of Germany’s pre-eminent hosts, Thomas Gottschalk, takes celebrities back to their school days in the second season of "Back to School,” RTL Network’s popular quiz game show, and Elation Professional’s award-winning Sniper is along for the nostalgia, providing flexible and unique special effect lighting looks. Lighting designer Thomas Gerdon of gerdon MEDIADESIGN has mounted 24 Snipers along with LED wash lights on movable truss towers so they can be moved back and forth between the set’s two stages for special musical performances.
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Audinate Helps Rush Street Productions Reduce Costs with Dante™
Dante™, the industry-leading audio over IP solution from Audinate, is helping Rush Street Productions increase efficiencies while reducing costs across the production and post cycles from set-up to tear-down. Rush Street Productions is now in its second season producing the TV show "Poker Night in America", seen on the CBS Sports Network. Cinequipt, a Minneapolis-based systems design and integration firm, built the flypacks for Rush Street Productions. The Dante-enabled equipment includes three Sound Devices PIX-260i recorders to capture all of the audio tracks and video, and a Lectrosonics ASPEN SPN2412 digital signal processor (DSP) to ingest analog signals into the Dante network. Once ingested, the board operator creates mixes for the local PA system and a live web stream, with a fully redundant Dante network to maximize reliability and availability across main and backup paths.
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SPORTS
ChyronHego Announces VistaCam for Panoramic High-Definition Video Displays
ChyronHego developed VistaCam in close cooperation with a major sports broadcaster in the U.K., which was launching a new studio for its Monday night English Premier League football show. The broadcaster sought to provide a three-projector, panoramic backdrop behind the presenters' desks featuring graphics and live video from football venues. However, signals obtained from wide-angle HD cameras located at the football pitch were appearing pixelated and out-of-focus when projected on the large video wall in the studio. Aware of ChyronHego's innovations in panoramic video and image-based tracking systems, including its patented CogEye™ technology for stitching HD sources together, the broadcaster approached ChyronHego to provide a solution.
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The Barça-Madrid Game Beat Records Online
Last Sunday’s match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF was one of the most talked about matches online in the history of the sport. Content related to the game was watched more than 13 million times on YouTube last Sunday and all the tweets registered under the #ElClásico hashtag were seen more than 400 million times, data which provides proof of the match’s international reach. The audience peaks coincided with the goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo and Mathieu and the end of the game which saw up to 15,000 tweets per minute.
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SHOWS
Yehuda Poliker Shines in Tel Aviv with Robe BMFL Spots
Popular Israeli singer, songwriter and musician Yehuda Poliker played a high profile concert at the 2500 capacity Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv, a show that came alive with Robe BMFL Spots and a 90 per cent Robe lighting rig supplied by Argaman Systems. The lighting was designed by Eyal Tavori – the artist’s long term LD - and operated by Lighting Director Tsafi Dagan, who has also worked with Poliker for several years. The artist is constantly busy engaging in live performances and reaching out to the many fans and followers of his amazing 30 year entertainment industry career.
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Clay Paky B-EYEs Illuminate the Andrea Bocelli Tour
LD Aldo Visentin, after the excellent impressions got in Frankfurt, has decided to include the Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE in his lighting design, and they certainly "contribute to the consensus and successes", that Andrea Bocelli's new concerts are achieving in the United States, up to the final event at Madison Square Garden "where all eyes were focused on us". The lighting design and specifications by Aldo Visentin will probably be confirmed for at least Bocelli's up and coming commitments. The first series of concerts illuminated by A.leda B-EYE started in November and ended before last Christmas; while the second series of concerts will commence again in June, with a summer break, and then continue throughout November and December 2015.
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RES delivers invaluable technical solutions for All Time Low at Wembley
London-based technical solutions company Realtime Environment Systems (RES) has supplied Ai media servers and tech know-how to All Time Low's major Wembley show. The pop punksters' first UK arena headliner 'One Night in London with All Time Low' sold out in a matter of weeks. RES was brought on board by Video Design and the band's Camera Director Richard Shipman to supply two Ai S4 Media Servers as well as set up lighting designer Jeff Maker's Avolites Sapphire Touch lighting console to trigger media and effects from the Ai.
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PRODUCTS
NABShow2015
Popular and fresh attractions served up in 2015 will include Connected Media|IP, focusing on the consumer experience; the Drone Pavilion, featuring a fully enclosed “flying cage” for demonstrations; New Media Expo (NMX), hosting celebrity bloggers, podcasters and digital content creators; SPROCKIT, where market-ready startups present their new ideas; StudioXperience, a live studio using all the latest tools; and so much more. Taste the future of media and entertainment being cooked up for the 2015 NAB Show.
Anton/Bauer - Artel - Autoscript - Axon - AVID - Bluebell - Broadcast Pix - ChyronHego - Clear-Com - Drone Pavillion - DVEO - ETC - EVS - FFV - FOR.A - Fujifilm - G&D - Grass Valley - Hitachi - I-MOVIX - IABM - Imagine Communications - Lawo - LiveU - Microsoft - NewTek - Orad - Plura - Phabrix - Rohde & Schwarz - Quantel + Snell - Riedel - Ross Video - SmallHD - Sony - TVLogic - Vizrt
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ProLight+Sound 2015
No other trade fair offers as comprehensive an overview of the products and services in the events sector as Prolight + Sound. For four days, this leading international trade fair becomes the meeting place for exhibitors, trade visitors, wholesalers, retailers and professional users from all over the world. The trade and professional visitors, who include event-venue operators, planners, retailers, wholesalers, sound experts, lighting designers, stage designers, studio technicians, events service providers and exhibition-stand builders come to Prolight + Sound to find out about the latest technical developments and products and the complete range of services.
Avolites - Ayrton - d&b audiotechnik - DPA - Eaton - Elation - Lawo - Martin Audio - Martin Lighting - Riedel - Teldec
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DPA Microphones Takes On A Downpour at the 2015 BRIT Awards
Paloma Faith's appearance at the 2015 BRIT Awards may not have generated the same amount of column inches as Madonna's, but from a technical point of view it was a major achievement – especially for DPA Microphones. After winning the award for Best Female Solo Artist, Paloma performed a spectacular version of Only Love Can Hurt Like This that culminated with her singing the last verse and chorus in what can only be described as pouring rain. "We knew the water effect was going to soak her microphone," says Paloma's Monitor Engineer James Neale. "It was definitely more of a downpour than a shower."
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3D/4K ARISING
Interstellar Comes to UltraFlix 4K OTT Channel
NanoTech Entertainment (OTCPINK: NTEK), a pioneer in bringing the ultimate quality streaming experience to consumers, announced today a licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures, that will bring the award-winning epic “INTERSTELLAR” to UltraFlix™, NanoTech’s streaming network. Under the agreement, the film will be available on UltraFlix beginning March 31. Named as one of the Top Films of 2014 by The American Film Institute, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Post and more, director Christopher Nolan’s awe-inspiring masterpiece stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow and Michael Caine. A breathtaking filmmaking achievement, “INTERSTELLAR” follows an ex-pilot-turned-farmer who must leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
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Leader Instruments LV5490 Chosen for First 4K/UHD Mobile Production Unit
A Leader Instruments LV5490 4K/HD/SD-SDI multi-mode waveform monitor has been chosen by the Mobile TV Group for integration into North America's first 4K/UHD mobile production unit. The all-new 53 foot expando will be capable of sports and entertainment productions using up to 14 4K/UHD cameras. By making it practical to produce in 4K, this will be a major boost for the delivery of live 4K content to the home. In development since last May, the first 4K mobile unit will be ready for its first production in mid-to-late 2015, and MTVG is accepting bookings now. Potential users will be able to tour the 'work-in-progress' unit at the Gerling booth (OE601) in the NAB outdoor exhibit area between the Central and South Halls.
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