With the completion of the Shanghai Baoshan Sports Center’s recent renovation project, audiences will soon be able to experience breathtaking visual effects on the center-hung video scoreboards, LED fascia ribbon display, and full-color outdoor LED screens provided by Lighthouse Technologies, a world leader in LED display solutions.

ERA Ltd, a leading IT infrastructure and application reseller specialising in Post Production, Broadcast and Media, will showcase its latest multi-client workflow automation solution and launch a new cost-effective platform for secure collaborative editing at Broadcast Video Expo, Earls Court 2, London, 14-16 February 2012 (Stand K54).

To start this great sports year, Broadcast Rental has added a fantastic camera feature to their rental stock, the GoPro HD HERO2. This tiny complete camera set, with big capabilities and possibilities,  is not bigger than your handpalm. It makes great full HD (1080i) videos for all kind of situations where normal cameras can't go.

The Arctic Monkeys, an English indie rock band formed in 2002, has released four studio albums. The band is known as one of the first groups to build a fan base and attention through social media, using new ways of promotion and marketing to help drive its rise to stardom. The band’s debut album titled Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not in 2006, became the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, selling 363,735 copies in the first week.

ESPN 3D’s college-football production model has matured to such an extent in its first two seasons that Monday’s BCS Championship 3D production in New Orleans would be almost unrecognizable to the original ESPN 3D crew from fall 2010, writes Jason Dachman for SVG

The award-winning wysiwyg software suite from CAST Software of Toronto, Canada was the clear winner at the 99th Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League's championship football game between the East Division champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the West Division champion BC Lions. The game was held on Sunday, 27 November 2011 at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver in front of a live audience of 54,313 and broadcast live to over 4.5 million viewers.

Established Spanish post production company, Free Your Mind, has invested in a Mistika 2K System with a DI Module to replace their existing technology and enhance the current infrastructure to maximise their strengths.  In order to meet the growing demand of commercials production, Free Your Mind has placed Mistika as their post production tool of choice as a complete system they can rely on. Mistika’s advanced set of tools is wider and more flexible than any other system, or combination of other systems, without compromising creativity or quality, while maintaining the highest output speed at the same time.

Soho, London is the heart of post-production for independent film and television, with many of the post houses there battling for the opportunity to work on some of the world's top films, TV programmes and commercials. Post production facilities in Soho vary greatly in size and style. There are large, international and well established firms, reeling out huge quantities of work in very quick succession. Then there is a handful of smaller, high end facilities delivering a bespoke service - the success stories in this tough industry. High end post production facility, The Look, based in the centre of Soho is a prime example of the latter.

Toshiba Imaging, a leader in high definition, color video imaging has delivered the new, miniature, high definition, IK-HR1S camera to Grande Vitesse Systems for integration into a ruggedized, digital video recording system for NASA. The configuration developed for NASA, the GVS9000 2XU, combines single video channels, Fibre Channel, and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with the 3CCD Toshiba high definition camera with DVI output to capture uncompressed HD footage at 1080p/60frames per second (fps) and provide simultaneous playback in both compressed and uncompressed formats.

A highly innovative addition to NTP Technology’s range of digital audio routing and processing equipment makes its UK exhibition debut on stand B28 at Broadcast Video Expo 2012 in Earls Court, London, 14-16 February.

ATG Broadcast will exhibit its full range of systems planning, design, installation, commissioning and post-installation support services on stand B28 at Broadcast Video Expo 2012, in London’s Earls Court, 14-16 February.

Bellowhead, a U.K.-based folk ensemble and darlings of the European festival circuit, relied on QSC K Series active loudspeakers — ten K10s and two K12s —  as on-stage monitors throughout their recently completed tour of England, in support of last year's 'Hedonism' album. The much-fêted band, four times named Best Live Act at BBC Radio 2's annual Folk Awards, are expert live performers and needed powerful and reliable on-stage monitoring system for their recent tour.

PARIS – December 2nd 2011 – Joining Alicia Keys, Sunidhi Chauhan and K’naan, John Legend took part in “World of Betters”, a global charity event organized by Western Union. The singer-composer performed a one hour concert in Châtelet Music Theatre on December 2nd, concert streamed live with TriCaster on the event’s website, www.worldofbetters.com.

In February, Sachtler, a Vitec Group brand, will showcase its professional camera support systems at two important exhibitions: Cabsat in Dubai, February 8–12, booth S3-B41 and BVE in London, February 14–16, booth i30.

SENSIO Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of a 3D Video on Demand (VoD) store: 3DGO!, a unique product to boost consumer 3D adoption. With 3DGO!, consumers across the U.S. will benefit from a complete and user-friendly 3D solution to access and view high-quality 3D titles in the SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D format. Available in spring 2012, 3DGO! will offer a wide variety of dedicated 3D content, ranging from blockbuster studio titles to must-see documentaries, to consumers whose 3DTVs support SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D technology.