When the NS Koncert Godine 2011 (Serbia’s NS Concert of the Year) took place recently, local HARMAN Professional distributor Studio Berar fielded premium products from the Group brand portfolios to ensure that the near-capacity 9,500-person crowd who assembled in the Great Hall of the Sport & Business Centre Vojvodina (aka SPENS) in Novi Sad were treated to a memorable audio experience.

Snell's channel-in-a-box delivers master control & playout in one cool package.....
Broadcast playout is a complex operation so when we designed a channel-in-a-box we focused on what it takes to make a great channel, not on the box.  The result is ICE - designed for real-world broadcast playout environments.

At BVE 2012, Oxygen DCT will be launching the GlueBox™ Mio HD/SD-SDI to HDMI/DVI converter, a high quality, compact, reliable device for broadcast television and digital film industries. This useful and practical product addresses the everyday and ever changing requirements of video conversion and interfacing by offering an exceptional range of facilities that overcome many of the limitations commonly found with other converters.

Derik Lee is a New York-based musician, composer and recording engineer who was invited to travel across the country to record and mix the score for “Bring It On: The Musical,” a new theatrical musical comedy which recently debuted at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. On location, Lee had to work in a number of acoustically less-than-ideal environments—including a dressing room, and relied on the accuracy of his JBL LSR4300 Series studio monitors as a sonic reference point.

The prestigious Scientific and Engineering Award® has been awarded to two Carl Zeiss engineers during a festive ceremony on February 11 in Beverly Hills. Carl Zeiss design engineer Uwe Weber and his late colleague Dr. Jürgen Noffke, who passed away in 2011, have been honored with the ©A.M.P.A.S.® Scientific and Engineering Award® (Academy Plaque®) for the mechanical and optical design of the Master Prime cine lenses, a joint development by Carl Zeiss and camera manufacturer ARRI.

With six months to go until the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Aggreko, the world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control solutions and the Games’ Official Temporary Energy Services Provider, is providing temporary power and technical expertise to help the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) prepare for the world’s greatest sporting event.

Renowned as the UK market leader in LCD monitoring products, Oxygen DCT will showcase a host of new monitors for broadcast and production at BVE 2012, including a new generation of 3D monitoring. The new products and technologies will touch a wide variety of television and digital film from DSLR camera operators to 3D shooting and production galleries for studios and outside broadcast.

Mediatec Broadcast, part of Mediatec Group, is one of Europe’s most experienced outside broadcast corporations with great experience in international events like sports and entertainment and in the know how of handling live broadcasts all over the world.

Visitors to the 2012 Broadcast Engineering Society (BES) Exhibition on February 11-13 at the Pragati Maidan Convention Center in New Delhi will have the opportunity to see hands-on demonstrations of the latest Grass Valley™ high definition, IT-centric live production equipment and systems. The presentation will include two HD camera models, a live production switcher and servers.

Continuing to strengthen its staff with key hires to support new growth in emerging markets, Grass Valley™ has named Andy Srinivasan as its new Vice President in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

Anton/Bauer®, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, will demonstrate its latest array of power solutions at Broadcast Video Expo 2012 (Stand I30) for an international audience of broadcast, video and audio professionals. On display will be the MATRIX Cheese Plate and Gold Mount® System, DIONIC® HCX 120-watt-hour capacity battery, DIONIC HC 91-watt-hour capacity battery, CINE VCLX and several battery accessories.

The popular Belgian children’s television shows „Piet Piraat“ and „Mega Mindy“ were recently turned into two hugely successful stage productions involving state of the art 3D projection technology.

Wohler Technologies today announced the availability of its openGear HDCC Series captioning/subtitling solution in two versions. The first is a full-featured model that provides all the capabilities of Wohler's current HDCC Series captioning/subtitling cards within the openGear form factor, and the second is a cost-effective single-channel encoding solution primarily designed to complement the Ross Nielsen Watermarks Encoder (NWE-3G).

Since 01 January 2012 the daily ARD Weather report is produced at Bavaria Studios & Production Services. Already last summer sono Studiotechnik GmbH has equipped  the Bavaria studios in Unterföhring with a networked Riedel intercom matrix, an HD-SDI-driven infrastructure and a new sound control room around a Lawo mc²66 audio mixer.

Already for the 2010 FIFA World Championships in South Africa and now also for the UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine ORF builds on the performance and quality of rental equipment from sono and has ordered the whole production gear for their temporary studio in Warshaw from the Munich based rental house.