PRG XL Video recently supported Production Manager Iain Whitehead and Production North with lighting, video and rigging services for The X Factor Live tour 2017. Stopping off at nineteen venues around the UK, the tour featured the stars of the 2016 series of the popular prime-time weekend television show.

XL Video once again contributed video production to The X Factor Live 2015 tour - six weeks around UK arenas showcasing the considerable talents of the 2014 X Factor TV series finalists - including popular runner up Fleur East and winner Ben Haenow.

The 2014 Winter Games are underway in Sochi, and Elemental is working with leading Russian satellite TV operator NTV Plus and semiconductor supplier Broadcom to power a telecast of the two-week event. NTV Plus announced the world’s first 4K high-efficiency video coding (HEVC/H.265) satellite transmission on February 12, with live streaming of the Games in Ultra HD to special public and cinema viewing points for Russian audiences.

Telestream^®, a leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced that The Young Turks (TYT) is using Telestream's Vantage Media Processing Platform to automate high-volume editing, transcoding and distribution of its programming, as well as publishing content to social media outlets.

On 12th June the “Movie Park Germany” in Bottrop was the place to be for the German premiere of the fourth and last part of the Shrek animated series “Shrek Forever After”. In the recently reconstructed Studio 7, an audience of 1,800, including the prominent voiceover characters, had the opportunity of experiencing the green ogre’s new adventure prior to its full release – and indeed for the first time in 3D.

Innovative, swift, cost-efficient: Organizers and TV stations who wish to have their events produced in spectacular aerial shots now have an alternative to expensive helicopters - with the _eaglecopter by _wige MEDIA AG.

Theater Muenster has used the summer break to expand its existing AURUS NEXUS system from Berlin manufacturer Stage Tec. Two CRESCENDO-T consoles with 24 and 16 faders were installed in the theatre’s Small House. The existing NEXUS network was extended with a STAR router and a Base Device. New fibre-optic and Dante interfaces as well as seven RMDQ audio DSP units for the existing NEXUS network were also supplied. The NEXUS software was upgraded.

Multiplatform news and entertainment network TheBlaze has ordered an Octopus 8 newsroom computer system for installation at its headquarters in the Mercury Studios building, Las Colinas, Dallas. The project forms part of the network's relocation of its radio broadcast facilities from New York to Dallas.

 

Video tech company THEO Technologies has launched hesp.live, the first HTTP-based real-time video streaming infrastructure that reaches sub-second latency at scale. This technology disrupts the industry standard of multiple seconds of latency and is currently the fastest HTTP-based video live streaming solution. THEO Technologies achieved this by leveraging the High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) that enables live interactivity at scale for industries such as sports, betting, auctioning, gaming and live events.

In support of the sister release to 2019’s LP Inside The Rose, February saw the digital unveiling of These New Puritans’ (TNP) 19-track album, The Cut (2016-2019). Made up of new songs, orchestral interludes, reworkings and remixes of past material, the tracks were brought to life on stage with a captivating production design.

Euro Media Group, Europe’s leading provider of broadcast facilities and services, is delighted to announce the arrival of Thierry Drilhon as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Cloud-based computing offers the promise of massive new potential efficiencies and revenue opportunities for broadcasters. But there are some key broadcast criteria that can’t be satisfied from within the cloud. So what is the best way for the broadcast systems of the future to exploit the full potential of cloud computing?

STEREOTEC Stereographer Sarah Rotter held the 3 day pre-summit workshop for the “AIBD/BROADCAST EMPIRE Master Class: Thinking in 3D” from 26-28 May 2013 at the Swiss-BelHotel Maleosan in Manado, Indonesia. On show was the latest STEREOTEC Nano Rig, accompanied by two CUNIMA MCU micro HD camera systems.

The third coolux connect conference, which was held on the 8th and 9th of January at the Vulkanhalle in Cologne , was attended by more than 220 AV professionals from 25 countries. Designers, programmers, content creators and rental specialists spent two full days in Cologne, immersing themselves in the world of coolux Pandoras Box technology and groundbreaking coolux customer showcases.

American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind (3eb) is taking its Festival Tour to venues across America, and Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights are hitting the road with them.