Sonnet Technologies announced that its Fusion™ D400QR5 four-drive RAID 5 SATA storage system played a key role in the post-production editing process for "Hell and Back Again", the Academy Award® nominated documentary describing the experience of a U.S. soldier wounded in Afghanistan. The feature-length film was directed by Danfung Dennis, a renowned photojournalist whose still photographs have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous other well-known newspapers and periodicals.

Grass Valley™ will demonstrate the breadth of its production solutions at the 2012 CABSAT exhibition scheduled for February 28 to March 1 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (S3-C42). The presentation will focus on new additions to the Grass Valley product range that delivers unrivalled creative power and control at an unprecedented price point. On hand will be solutions fitting the requirements of customers in the sport, live and news production areas, as well as those in the playout domain.

Celebrated annually on 26th January Australia Day (previously known as Anniversary Day, Foundation Day, and ANA Day) is the official national day of Australia. The date commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and the proclamation at that time of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of New Holland. Community festivals, concerts and citizenship ceremonies accompany the day in large and small communities and cities around the nation. A special event is always the celebrations in Sydney – like this year in the town’s Darling Harbour.

Since its announcement at NAB 2011, ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH Lab® has taken the production dailies market by storm with its power, versatility and affordability.  The recent announcements of native support for the new Sony F65 CineAlta™ digital motion picture camera, and the breakthrough performance of 48 FPS playback of stereo RED EPIC streams, are just two examples of why Lab has gained favor so quickly on-set. SCRATCH Lab now delivers the most extensive support for production dailies. From RED EPIC, ARRI ALEXA, Sony F65, Phantom and Panasonic P2, to the Canon EOS C300, 5D/7D, and even the GoPro, SCRATCH Lab continues to set the pace for the industry with support for virtually any combination of popular native formats in a single timeline.

Harris Corporation has introduced NEXIO® Studio Suite to help customers easily and affordably transition to tapeless studio production and more efficient file-based workflows.

Matrox® Video Products Group today announced a special limited time promotion on selected I/O products for a variety of workflows. Purchasers save $100 on Matrox Mojito™ MAX™, the best choice card for use with desktops and towers; $100 on Matrox MXO2™ LE MAX, the best choice for editors on the go; and $400 on Matrox MXO2 Rack MAX, the best choice for rackmounting in a studio. Until March 31, the special promotional pricing is available through authorized Matrox dealers worldwide.

At the 2012 NAB Show, Fast Forward Video (FFV) will unveil the sideKick HD™, a multi-format, straight-to-edit, camera-mountable digital video recorder (DVR) that raises the bar for image quality when paired with today's state-of-the-art camcorders. Designed to ease production workflows and satisfy the demands of both producers and postproduction editors, the sideKick HD enables customers to get the most out of their camcorders without compromising on quality.

Sky News Arabia, the 24 hour Arabic language multi-platform breaking news service launching in spring 2012, today unveiled six of its presenters who are now on-board and immersed in rehearsals.  The presenters, drawn from across the Arab world, are the latest additions to the Sky News Arabia team as the channel continues, on track, to its launch.  All of the channel’s presenters have now been selected with further announcements expected in the coming weeks.

wysiwyg, the award-winning previsualization suite from CAST Software of Toronto, Canada is on the current world tour of the superstar band Roxette. The Swedish band, headed by Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, was formed in the late '80s and are known for their international hits, including “The Look”, “Listen To Your Heart”, “Joyride” and the classic love ballad “It Must Have Been Love”, which was featured on the soundtrack “Pretty Woman” and sold 9 million copies. The group has had 33 chart-busting singles and total record sales exceeding 75 million.

W-DMX™ by Wireless Solution Sweden AB recently helped bring a holiday shower of lights to the Natal Luz Gramado Festival in Brazil. Billed as the biggest Christmas party in the country, Natal Luz saw an audience of approximately 1.4 million people. The season lasted 74 days - November 3, 2011 to January 15, 2012 - and the result exceeded the perspective of the organization.

In 2009, a consortium of industry leaders, research institutes and SMEs formed to tackle together the television of the future. Its objective: develop the French techniques to capture and broadcast live and cultural or sports shows in S3D to achieve a flawless, high-quality user experience. Thus was born project 3D Live, funded by the Department of Industry (DGCIS) and the Ile-de-France region, and supported by three centers of competitiveness, Images & Networks, Cap Digital and Imaginove.

Outside broadcast and satellite uplink specialist, SIS LIVE will reveal the latest addition to their innovative product range at CABSAT. Weighing in at just 12kgs, ManPak is an integrated and compact VSAT terminal that provides a high bandwidth connection capable of high speed data and HD SNG transmissions. Extremely rugged, portable and fully integrated, ManPak is the only terminal of its type without any loose parts.  The unit features a high performance 60cm parabolic antenna, and can be used in X, Ku and Ka bands.

With the Berlinale taking place in the German capital, the final showcase of the R+D project 2020 3D Media was held in the Fraunhofer HHI buildings in Berlin, the home of one of the project partners.

The Guild of Television Cameramen (GTC) announces a workshop and seminar entitled ‘Life in the Firing Line’, to be held on 31 March at the RAF Museum in Hendon.

Representing EVS at the Football Production Summit, organised by SVG Europe on 29 February at the Stade de France in Paris, Luc Doneux – Head of APAC, EMEA & Major Sporting Events – will share his insights in a discussion panel on how football broadcast production is rapidly evolving due to new technology.