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France Televisions - Le Challenger de Toulouse

France Télévisions is the French public national television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the bringing together of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 5 (formerly La Cinquième), France Ô (formerly RFO Sat), and France 4 (formerly Festival). France Télévisions is currently funded by the revenue from television licence fees and commercial advertising. France Televisions operate regional facilities in Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille Nancy, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg and Toulouse. Now Le Challenger de Toulouse is included in our catalogues.

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HDwireless Expands its Offerings

While the elite of the world's winter sporting athletes locked horns in Sotchi at the Winter Olympics HDwireless provided its clients with tailer-made solutions. Sidepanel units for Sony HXC 300 and Sony HDC 2400/2500, "UltraLiteCam" Sony P1 solutions for steadycam applications, fibreglass networks for video- and data transmission and intercom solutions were all successfully utilised by HDwireless. Planning, integration and supervision was carried out by technicians and production engineers from our company.

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UltraSlowMotion Cameras in Sochi and Dubai

Ten ANTELOPE MkIIs systems were carefully positioned on the steep slopes in Rosa Khutor to provide replays with up to 2580 frames per second in native HD 1080i. Most of the latest version of the ANTELOPE cameras were deployed as hand-held solution to capture the fastest disciplines where athletes reach speeds of more than 80 mph in the most dynamic way possible. The tripod version with a Canon J100x lens was also used as well as one ANTELOPE AIR systems which is the RF wireless solution of the MkIIs.

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AED Studios Open Its Doors

In August 2013, the Eurocam Media Center - formerly known as the Alfacam Studios, changed ownership  after  the acquisition by the AED group.  On October 1st, Glenn Roggeman officially started phase 1 of his master plan, “the update” of the studios. During the last five months, neither cost nor effort was spared for this prestigious project.  Today, many waste containers, renovations and innovations later, determined entrepreneurship already shows its result. 16 studios, of which 5 have been fully fitted with the most recent lighting-, sound- and video equipment, having a target audience: the TV- and Event industry.

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British Media Giant ITN Installs Calrec Console

ITN installed a 40-fader Artemis Light console featuring Calrec's Bluefin2 high-performance signal-processing engine with 240 channel processing paths. Calrec's Hydra2 plug-and-play audio routing system is equipped with 24 mic/line inputs, 48 line inputs, 48 line outputs, 64 AES inputs, 64 AES outputs, 48 opto inputs, and 48 relays. One feature that has proved especially important to ITN is the desk's Automixer, eight of which are available internally at no extra cost. Automixer assists ITN with mixing more than one source of speech, which has been a critical tool during multiple-guest interviews in an acoustically challenging studio.

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RCS Drives beIN SPORTS Broadcast Graphics Technology Infrastructure Worldwide

Broadcast technology provider Reality Check Systems (RCS) recently delivered custom interactive touchscreen applications to beIN SPORTS channels around the world. Additionally, the RCS team helped the network unite channels in Doha, Jakarta, Miami and Paris under the beIN brand as part of a project that required the creation of 400 graphic elements and a cloud-based database for populating the graphics in each location. When beIN began plans for a rebrand, the network enlisted the expertise of RCS once again to design 400 integrated sports graphics that would air in four languages: English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

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Bexel Supports FOX Sports at the Super Bowl XLVIII

Bexel brought a team of 20 engineers and technicians to link a new street-level studio in Times Square (part of NYC’s “Super Bowl Boulevard”) to a file-based edit facility inside Manhattan’s Millennium Hotel, and to a similar studio set and edit facility inside MetLife Stadium, in New Jersey (where the game took place). Both FOX Sports studios were also outfitted with Litepanels 1x1 and Sola series LED fixtures, and Autoscript and Vinten. This year’s production, seen by 111.5 million people, leveraged a special and highly portable fiber-optic cabling infrastructure, provided by Bexel. This included two 72-strand runs in Times Square connecting the street set with the edit facility at the nearby Millennium Hotel and the facilities in MetLife Stadium, a few miles away. There was also several thousand feet of fiber at the Stadium linking various production pieces together. Bexel also provided conversion boxes and signal distribution technology to move signals from one place to the other.

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Immersive Forest of Light for Closing Ceremony of Sochi Winter Games

The closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics wrapped up the most expensive games yet with an exquisite cocktail of Russian music, ballet, art, design and literature - plus a witty and inspired sprinkling of self-deprecation. Much of the action took place amongst a dynamic forest of light, which was created and built by set and stage designer, TAIT Technologies, and programmed by creative UK collective, Immersive. Throughout, the 'Forest of Light' provided the stage architecture that gave scale and perspective for much of the action that unfolded on the huge Fisht Stadium floor. It also provided the perfect TV-picture framing vehicle for the stunning aerial and stadium TV pictures, broadcast worldwide on 23rd February 2014.

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LiveU’s Technology Provides Winning Start to Sporting Year

LiveU's products have achieved excellent results at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics with the new LU500 providing exceptionally high performance. Tens of LiveU units were deployed by broadcasters and news agencies from around the world at any one time, supported by LiveU’s dedicated on-site team. The units transmitted over 500 hours using approximately 0.5TB of data. LiveU’s backpack and camera-mounted products were used to provide exciting live coverage of indoor and outdoor events, such as the Alpine skiing slalom, figure skating, ice hockey and curling competitions, as well as interviews with the athletes themselves. As James Bracey, host of SportsNight on Sky News Australia said, “Forget satellite. Working for a 24-hour news channel, LiveU is perfect for high-quality, live crosses and lots of them.”

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Clay Paky Brights on 4U Rage Festival

When 4U Rage Festival hits KwaZulu Natal at the end of each year, an event aimed at students who have finally completed school, its party, party, party for the next two and a half weeks. At Balito, an estimated 80 000 kids visited the area in December 2013. The festival provides students with access card to various venues and clubs, all kitted out with top sound and lighting, and entertainment by great artists. While daytime is usually reserved for beach volleyball, soccer, surfing and tanning, this year saw revellers in gumboots and rain would not stop the fun!

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Robe Welcomes Chinese New Year in London

This year, Robe was already involved in some of the highest high profile New Year’s shows around the world  including Berlin, Las Vegas and New York … and once again its moving lights were right at the centre of the action for Chinese New Year celebrations in London’s Trafalgar Square, featuring an afternoon of onstage entertainment culminating in a massive son et lumière extravaganza finale show to welcome the Year of the Horse. Organized by the London Chinatown Chinese Association and supported by the Mayor of London and Westminster City Council, the event - which lasts all afternoon and covers activities happening in the key areas of Leicester Square, Soho, Charing Cross Road and Chinatown  -  celebrates Chinese history culture and art, and is the biggest outside Asia.

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HSL Passes Grammar Test

Blackburn UK based lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied lighting and a brand new LED product to the highly acclaimed and much anticipated first full production tour by super-hot trip hop trio London Grammar. The tours stylish and off-beat visual design was created by Steve Bewley, who rose to the challenge of producing a scalable and flexible rig that would look good wherever they played. The heterogeneity of venues on the tour included some more unusual places and spaces, and all the kit also had to fit into one 26 tonne truck!

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Cabsat 11-13 March 2014

The MENA market for media and broadcast is expected to be worth more than $2 billion by 2015. Driven by a projected tripling in pay-TV subscriptions by 2015, mobile penetration rates among the highest in the world, rapidly increasing deployments of satellites, hundreds of free to air channels and investment in locally prouced content, CABSAT is the world's best location to secure profitable growth.

Overview on 17 Companies exhibiting at Cabsat

ProLight + Sound 12-15 March 2014

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 major factors in the trade fair's success are the level of international participation and the extensive spectrum of products and services on offer.

Overview on nine Companies exhibiting at ProLight+Sound

National Theatre Live to Broadcast "War Horse" in 4K

London's National Theatre have been at the forefront of the live transmission of theatrical performances into digital cinemas worldwide. In fact since 2009 they have broadcast more than 20 productions to over 500 digitally equipped Cinemas around the world, where they have been watched by over 1.5 million people. As well as the live broadcasts recordings are made so that they can also be repeated later to fit in with local time zones and demand. Up until now the broadcasts have been in HD, but on the 27th of February they were shooting and transmitting their stage production of Michael Morpugo's play "War Horse" in 4K.

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