The biggest logistical challenge that outside broadcast companies face on a daily basis, is camera connectivity in the field: triax or fiber? For a truck to move between covering large-scale events like a golf tournament, which needs fiber to a football match at a stadium pre-wired with triax, would mean having to swap out all the cameras, cables, and base stations, until now.

A rare opportunity has arisen for broadcasters wishing to establish secure studio, production and transmission facilities in central London for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. SIS LIVE has confirmed that it will be making its facilities in Corsham Street, London N1 6DR available for Olympic broadcast requirements.

Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced the Electra® 9000, the world's first multicodec, multiformat video encoder for broadcast, satellite, telco, and cable operators that simultaneously supports broadcast, mobile, and Web formats in a 1-RU chassis. This integrated broadcast and multiscreen compression platform continues Electra's leadership in video quality and multifunction collapse to provide a flexible, open, scalable architecture that integrates easily with existing broadcast infrastructure and enables new multiscreen services, while lowering capital and operating expenses.

Vinten Radamec®, a Vitec Group brand and world leader in robotic camera support systems, is highlighting its full capabilities at IBC2011 by integrating its solutions in a virtual reality set up with the industry leading graphics provider, Orad. Vinten Radamec’s extensive range shows how the company’s open systems are ready to work with any graphics solutions provider to achieve the ultimate in virtual reality technology.

The EBU, at IBC2011 stand 10.F20 will show an unprecedented live 1080p/50 end-to-end signal chain from camera, contribution and final distribution to set-top boxes and display.

Colorfront has announced the launch of On-Set Live! at IBC2011 (stand 7.A10). Based on the highly successful On-Set Dailies (OSD) digital dailies system, On-Set Live! provides real-time dual-stream processing for look management, and advanced color grading. Using live correction and analysis of streams from stereo camera rigs, On-Set Live! delivers breakthrough cost- and time-savings on the set of 3D movie and television productions.

SIS LIVE, one of Europe’s largest outside broadcast and uplink supplier, continues its work delivering High Definition (HD) agile cameras and digital RF microwave links for the 34th America’s Cup. The team is currently on location in Plymouth, UK preparing to broadcast the next America’s Cup event which can be viewed live at the SIS LIVE stand at IBC on 10th and 11th September.

With IBC 2011 opening its gates, the RAVENNA partner group is fortified by three well-known manufacturers from the pro audio industries: the French company Digigram S.A. has joined the community of RAVENNA supporters.

coolux Pandoras Box Version 5 is the new and highly anticipated next step in the development of the award winning Pandoras Box product family. For the first time ever, it is now possible to use Pandoras Box all the way from the inception of a project idea, right up until the actual production.

James Cameron and Vince Pace, Co-Chairmen of CAMERON | PACE Group deliver presentation and exclusive never‐before‐seen glimpses of dazzling footage of a Cirque du Soleil motion picture directed by Andrew Adamson and shot entirely in FUSION 3D and presented in RealD 3D

Dynamics processing manufacturer Jünger Audio has boosted its international sales team by appointing two sales representatives, Christoph Harm and Jochen Wainwright.

The University of Arts and Design (HfG) in Karlsruhe has invested in SGO's Mistika for its world-class research centre and state-of-the-art Expanded 3Digital Cinema Laboratory, to equip its students  with the industry's leading and innovative technology.   Developing creative individuals by providing relevant market-ready skills, applied research, innovation and ambition, the University of Arts and Design  will place Mistika at the core of its  post production

Teranex Systems, Inc. (www.teranex.com), a leading manufacturer of high-performance video processing platforms is pleased to announce that Euro Media France, a division of Euro Media Group, one of Europe’s largest audio-visual production service providers, has selected Teranex’s  real-time 2D to 3D conversion technology to convert  2D content into simulated 3D programming.

With the completion of phase two of the broadcast infrastructure at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays, the centre is now ready to support a large tranche of programming.  Leading systems integrator TSL was responsible for both the first and second phases of the broadcast infrastructure.

Trilogy Communications, a global provider of intercom systems and Master Reference Generators to the performing arts and broadcast industry, today announced that the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, National provider of radio and television in Mauritius,  has selected Trilogy’s Orator Digital Matrix Intercom system as part of their expansion to new studios and will be used to meet all of Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation’s current and future intercom requirements.