The 3rd Season Of Light event in Helsinki recently wrapped up to huge critical acclaim, with W-DMX playing an integral part of one of the major installations. The event, organized by the City of Helsinki, was held from December 31 to January 9 and showcased lighting designers Martin Kuhn of Germany, Per Sundin of Sweden, and Tulay Schakir and Mikki Kunttu of Finland, who each created lighting installations for some of the main buildings around the city, which included the Esplandi Park Senate Square, Union Street, Kaisaniemi Park, Sanoma House, and Parliament House.

DSC is looking for its next big winner – so whether you are underwater or in your own backyard - grab your favorite DSC chart and start shooting!

Element Technica announces that cinematographer Irek Hartowicz (No Love in the City, Tremme pilot) has chosen the Quasar 3D rig to support Leopolis Films’ feature Napoleon Kaput 3D. The Marius Balchanus (No Love in the City) directed comedy, set during the 1812 war between France and Russia, is being shot on locations in Kiev and Yalta, Ukraine.

Element Technica, leading designer and manufacturer of 3D rigs designed to mount digital camera and lens pairs stereoscopically, announces that its Technica 3D Neutron rig, mounted with Silicon Imaging SI-2K cameras, can now be enclosed in the purpose-built Neutron BORG 3D underwater housing system from HydroFlex. The underwater 3D camera system incorporates a Cinedeck recorder inside the housing.

S3D Campus training sessions provide real-world solutions to the technological, artistic and financial aspects of S3D (digital stereoscopic images), from shooting to broadcast. The courses are open to audiovisual professionals and teachers eager to learn and master the global stereoscopic production chain (producers, directors, assistants, cinematographers, editors...).The courses, sponsored by the EU’s MEDIA program, are coached by international experts: stereographer consultants, production managers, editors S3D.

Today's broadcast and media facilities require smart, adaptable, and straightforward solutions as they transition to digital, HDTV, and 3Gbps operations, and as they seek to deliver content to a variety of platforms in direct response to consumer demand. With these needs in mind, Snell will showcase a variety of new and enhanced products at the 2011 NAB Show that enable greater automation and more flexible media handling in live production, playout, infrastructure, media restoration, and transformation environments.

At BVE 2011, Sonnet Technologies will showcase several innovative products that cater to the storage and workflow needs of A/V professionals in the broadcast industry. Located in stand I10, Sonnet will highlight products from its Fusion™ line of high-performance storage solutions, including the Fusion RX1600Fibre video editing shared storage system, and the rugged Fusion F3 2-drive RAID storage system. Also on display will be Sonnet's Qio™ line of professional universal media reader/writers for multicamera support, which includes the Qio MR for desktop PC users and the cost-effective Qio E3.

PLF and Talking Point successfully delivered Advanced 3D Training - the national stereoscopic training programme in London and Twickenham for Skillset and Sky last week.

A large team of personnel from ACS have recently returned from a successful Winter Asian Games where they were responsible for delivering one of the largest and diverse projects to date for the company. The 7th Asian Winter Games was held in Kazakhstan and ACS was chosen by host broadcaster International Games Broadcasting Services (IGBS) to exclusively provide specialist camera facilities for all venues in and around the city of Almaty.

Broadcast Microwave Services (BMS) Inc. debuts new Microwave and Camera products at NAB 2011. A new line of integrated HD devices, perfectly compatible to each other, consisting of the BMS Ultra Light HD Cam, linked to the ground breaking wireless transmitter and the compact designed 2-way diversity USB receiver for highly mobile and flexible broadcast transmission applications. BMS’ cutting edge technology is supporting many revolutionary features to provide the closest alter­native to a wired HD camera that you will find in a really small and lightweight housing.

The SetPlayer™ series is designed for on-set video applications, providing a low cost, solid-state alternative to server channels. The single channel SetPlayer (SP1000) now has a 1080p output, 40 Mbps maximum bitrate, and works with existing VDCP controllers. New to the line is Alcorn Encoder; a compatible software which delivers a complete workflow solution. This software provides a step-by-step method for encoding any source file and transferring it to the SetPlayer unit.

SENCORE, a leading provider of high-quality signal transmission and video delivery solutions, today announced the promotion of Jeff Briden to vice president of product management and customer satisfaction. Briden has been instrumental in expanding the company into new markets and in the development of new technologies and standards, including HDTV, 8-VSB, advanced digital modulation, and MPEG-2 and H.264 video delivery.

Gekko Technology today announced the restructuring of its distribution in the UK and Northern Europe. To enable the next phase in the company's growth, all resellers within the territory will be managed directly by an enlarged Gekko sales and marketing department.

Miranda Technologies Inc., the worldwide provider of infrastructure, playout and monitoring systems for broadcasters and cable/satellite/IPTV operators, today announced that it has completed the first phase of its integration with recently acquired OmniBus Systems, the IT-based automated playout specialist.

Linear Acoustic®, a world leader in television audio control from production to transmission, introduces six new professionals to its TV broadcast team.