AJA Video Systems announced that production company American Zoetrope used the AJA Hi5-3D Mini-Converter to enable convenient, cost-effective post-production reviews of stereo 3D sequences for Twixt, the 2011 thriller from Director Francis Ford Coppola that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.

Following the successful launch of the Carbonite mid-size production switcher earlier this year, Ross Video unveiled the new Carbonite 1M - 1 MLE control panel at IBC 2011.

Bert Blümer, a leading rental house for wireless cameras in Germany, has added four additional Grass Valley™ LDK 8000 Elite HD wireless camera systems to its inventory, in order to meet the growing demands from broadcasters and events production companies. This new order brings the total number of Grass Valley wireless cameras in Bert Blümer's inventory to nine.

At IBC 2011, JVC has introduced the GY-HM150 – the latest model in their popular ProHD handheld camera line. The GY-HM150 includes a range of technological improvements that offers users total flexibility and a fast editing workflow, including the option to record in both SD and HD formats and the ingenious Pre Rec mode.

Leading UK broadcast hire company, Pro Motion Hire, has today announced the expansion of its Sony PMW-500 XDCAM fleet – making it the largest rental fleet in the UK - as the file-based camera reinforces its position as the camera of choice for factual programming.

Sony Corporation has expanded its XDCAM™ Professional Disc product line with the addition of a triple-layer 100GB rewritable disc. This new version of the XDCAM™ Professional Disc is twice as large the storage capacity of the original dual-layer optical media. This upgrade significantly enhances the XDCAM™ system’s potential as an efficient technology option for long-term archiving.

Early in 2012, the European public-service channel Arte will broadcast a 90 minute documentary entitled "Le relief d’une côte ”.  With more than 3OOO km of coastline, France indeed offers a very varied and beautiful panorama.  To film in S3D, Gédéon Programmes employed the outstanding technical team of Binocle 3D to ensure a sophisticated viewing experience.

At this year¹s MTV Video Music Awards, taking place in the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on August 28th, specialized camera moving systems by the German think tank R-T-S Rail&Tracking Systems were used.

The wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco to Charlene Wittstock will be remembered as one of the media highlights of the year 2011: countless TV stations all over the world broadcast the entire ceremony live. In fact, the passionate enthusiasm of the population of Monte Carlo spilled over into neighbouring France with no less fervour, with over 7.5 million viewers following the proceedings live in the Hexagon on July 1st and 2nd.

Sting’s recording engineer Donal Hodgson has been awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for his work on A&E's Private Sessions, Sting at Red Rocks, for which he used his DPA 4099 instrument clip mics.

Sony Professional has announced that its market-leading HD media and broadcast technology will play a key role in ESPN’s coverage of the 2011/2012 Premier League football season following the HD upgrade of IMG’s Mediahouse Studio facilities in West London.

Jünger Audio and Merging Technologies announced that they have signed a technology partnership that will see Jünger Audio’s groundbreaking LEVEL MAGIC™ Loudness control solution incorporated into Merging’s new MXFix™ batch-processing wrap tool. The combination of industry proven MXF metadata conformity wrapping, Final Check loudness analysis, Surcode Dolby E® decoding and encoding plug-ins and LEVEL MAGIC™ provides a powerful all-in-one media compliance batch processing wrap tool.

Litepanels, a Vitec Group brand, announced the premier of the Croma LED light at September’s IBC equipment exhibition in Amsterdam. Ideal for use on-camera or off, the new sleekly designed fixture provides Litepanels’ hallmark HD-friendly soft light, with variable color temperature output from daylight (5600°K) to tungsten (3200°K).

HARMAN’s Soundcraft is bringing its “Mixing With Professionals” series to the United States for the first time with two seminars featuring Gert Sanner, front of house engineer for legendary rock band Deep Purple. The half-day seminars will take place at the HARMAN campus in Northridge, California, and will give attendees the opportunity to hear Sanner discuss his use of Soundcraft digital consoles in the high-pressure environment of live sound mixing for one of rock’s biggest bands.

Dejero, creator of the award-winning 4G/3G/WiFi wireless live television transmission solution: Dejero LIVE+, announced today that The Canadian Press used Dejero LIVE+ to stream a number of red carpet events at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to major media outlets. TIFF is an international leader in film culture that draws worldwide attention and celebrities.