Kim Shillinglaw, the BBC’s head of 3D, has admitted that the technology has not taken off with the British public and said that the Corporation will take a three-year break from developing 3D programming at the end of this year.

From June 6 to 9, the Country Music Association (CMA) held its 42nd Annual Fan Fair, a four-day music festival consisting of dozens of country performances including current, chart-topping Sennheiser users such as Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum and Zac Brown Band to ‘heritage’ artists including Kenny Rogers and Oak Ridge Boys.

EVS, the leading provider of live video production systems, has been appointed by AKFA Technology to provide an extensive range of its solutions in the first of three development phases at the new 1.3 million m2 Ashgabat Olympics Complex in Turkmenistan. A wide range of EVS technology, including servers, editing, PAM and storage solutions, will be deployed across the new complex which includes two sports arenas, an indoor velodrome, three production studios, the IBC and an OB van. The installation is scheduled for completion by the end of the year, and expected to be operational by spring 2014.

Showtech 2013, which ran for three days between June 18th and 21st at the Berlin Exhibition Center, gave the ARRI lighting team an opportunity to showcase its latest offerings for professional film, broadcast and event lighting.

A key decision to cooperate on plotting a course for Ultra HD rollout in Europe has been agreed. Under the banner of FAME – the Forum for Advanced Media in Europe – public and private broadcasters, consumer and professional electronics manufacturers, satellite operators and national HD Forums gathered at the EBU in Geneva for a landmark meeting.

DPA Microphones new d:facto™ Vocal Microphone is proving popular with London’s live music venues, a number of which have made the microphone an integral part of their equipment stock.

After a break of one year, it was business as usual back at Worthy Farm site for this year’s Glastonbury Festival.  RG Jones once again turned to the tried and trusted Martin Audio W8 Longbow system, which again dominated the Pyramid Stage

Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that Production House, Ireland's leading supplier of professional audio systems, used an extensive RockNet real-time audio network to support the finale of "The Return of Colmcille" — a landmark production of the 2013 City of Culture celebrations in Derry-Londonderry. Produced by outdoor arts experts Walk the Plank, "The Return of Colmcille" culminated in a battle between the city's founder, Saint Colmcille and the legendary Loch Ness Monster on the River Foyle. The Riedel fiber network facilitated audio distribution during the impressive finale.

When you’re in deep water, …
you should have at least a decent cable laid. New to the SOMMER CABLE product range is a traversely watertight cable series called AQUA Marinex. This high-quality cable series is the SOMMER CABLE company’s response to the increasing requests from the installation branch and the professional PA sector.

Korea has become one of the latest territories to provide large-scale exposure for Martin Audio’s Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA). Two prominent concerts in Seoul recently saw the system supplied to rental company Boom Audio by parent company, Rui Sound.

Panasonic Professional Camera Solutions announced today that it has formed a partnership with WTS Broadcast, a major supplier of broadcast solutions, to resell Panasonic professional broadcast equipment. Through the partnership WTS will leverage its expertise in the international market place to broaden Panasonic presence to a number of key vertical markets including broadcast systems integration and live events.

When the updated production of Starlight Express opened at Bochum’s Stadionring — celebrating 25 years since its first performance at the specially constructed ‘Starlight Express Theatre’ in June 1988 — it featured for the first time Martin Audio’s new award-winning Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) platform.

A Solid State Logic C100 HDS Digital Broadcast Console and a C10 HD Compact Broadcast Console were chosen to power the HD audio productions for Yle, the national broadcasting company for Finland, and one of 23 founding broadcasting organizations of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Serving a viewing population of 5.3 million people across five television and seven radio channels, the mandate for full HD production required upgrading facilities in Helsinki and Tampere to meet the demand for the new formats. The SSL consoles, residing in two production studios in Tampere, offer the professional feature set necessary to for the state-of-the-art Yle facilities.

Several 4K productions took place these last weeks at Roland Garros, Wimbledon (together with 3D) and at the just-concluded FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013. New equipment was tested, staff was trained and production concepts were implemented. The 4K production rigorously tested in Belo Horizonte in a joint collaboration between FIFA, Sony and HBS could play an invaluable role in helping FIFA, HBS and other stakeholders prepare for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™.

As host broadcaster of the coming Universiade in Kazan, ANO Sports Broadcasting (Panorama) will produce a high-definition international broadcast signal from July 6th through July 17th, covering 17 out of the 27 Universiade sports. The Games will be broadcast by Russian nationwide networks. Meanwhile, RussiaSport.ru will not only offer live broadcasts of the events, but also over a thousand additional videos to boot, featuring interviews, best competition moments, game reviews, reports, etc.