Replacing old systems and improving capability through employment of new technology is all very well, but when the venue in question is a victim of its own success other considerations take precedence. "I’ve been doing this job for about a year," said Jeremy Christian, Head of Sound and AV Services at the Sydney Opera House (SOH) and responsible for the Drama Theatre's recent refit. "And I know d&b audiotechnik had a system design in the pending tray for about a year before that. Having waited that long, when two weeks of dark time unexpectedly surfaced in May we had the opportunity to access funding, and get the equipment in and fitted."

Wimbledon’s 3D broadcast might have grabbed many of the recent headlines, both for the BBC and for Sony, but Panasonic was there first in its own major tennis championship test lab at the French Open, capturing 10 hours of coverage a day for more than two weeks writes Andy Stout for SVG Europe

Snell today announced that Russia's ANO Sports Broadcasting (Panorama) production company is building the company's Sirius routers and Kahuna multiformat production switchers into the platform that will provide TV, radio, Internet, and photographic coverage of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

U.K. broadcast production and hire specialist Editec has placed additional orders for multiple I-MOVIX SprintCam® ultra-slow motion systems, making Editec's SprintCam fleet the largest in Europe.

Day 7 of the Red Bull X-Alps dawned with the news that race leader Christian Maurer had been served with a 24-hour time penalty. During the night, the race committee ran a detailed analysis of Maurer’s track logs, which should that he had entered a forbidden zone near Locano airport by a few metres: enough to incur a penalty and athletes rushed to close down the massive margin Maurer had built yesterday.

Push the point hard enough and consolidation is inevitable; that's the premise presented to Simon Foster as he prepared to take the revitalized Pixies around north America once more. "We had already confirmed the LED video and lighting parts of the tour," said Craig Mitchell, "when I learned the band's preference was for a d&b audiotechnik PA system, I suggested we provide sound as well."

wTVision will have a booth in the 2011 edition of Broadcast&Cable, between the 23rd and 25th of August, in São Paulo, Brazil, at Stand A11.

“Follies,” the famous musical, currently was on a six week run from May 7th to June 19th in the 1,100 seat Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., USA. Winner of seven Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 1971, “Follies” is considered by many one as James Goldman’s and Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece.

At this year’s Tour de France the German publicbroadcasting network ZDF used a fiber based MediorNet system from RiedelCommunications to connect its DSNG and the main OB truck.

These days Neutrik AG looks proudly at thousands of sold optical connector systems which were introduced to the market for the first time in 2006.

When Capital Sound technical manager Ian Colville and Take That’s experienced system designer and audio crew chief Al Woods set about investigating a fibre system for use on the band’s current Progress Live 2011 tour, it was in view of the huge distances the signal would need to travel to the delay positions on the stadium roofs.

Vinten Radamec®, a Vitec Group brand and world leader in robotic camera support systems, will reveal a major step forward in camera robotics at this year’s IBC 2011. The Fusion FHR-35 pan and tilt head is the first to incorporate Intelligent Control Engineering (ICE), a new platform which delivers unprecedented control and accuracy in an innovative and highly compact form factor.

Trend-creating 3D technology and production services firm, CAMERON | PACE Group (CPG), utilized  Grass Valley™ switcher technology to  create a live line cut (1st pre edit) of the live action filled production of “Glee Live! In Concert!” for Twentieth Century Fox Television and Twentieth Century Fox Film's co-production of the "GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE” scheduled to hit theaters on August 12.

CAMERON | PACE Group announces it is the innovative company behind 7 FUSION 3D systems, SLATE²SCREEN™ 3D production support services and a FUSION 3D Mobile Unit One used to shoot “Glee” co-creator, Ryan Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox Films’ live-action 3D concert film, “Glee: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE.” The film, directed by Kevin Tancharoen, will release in theaters on August 12, 2011.

Tektronix, the leading provider of digital content monitoring systems, has added significant new reporting capabilities to its award-winning Sentry® digital content monitor, used by leading video service providers to improve the quality of their video services through quick identification, diagnosis and repair of video and audio errors that degrade viewers’ quality of experience (QoE).