Reaffirming its extensive history of innovation in both standard and high-definition camera technologies, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has bestowed its coveted 2010 Technical & Engineering Emmy® Award to Grass Valley™ for the design and implementation of its LDK 8300 HD Live Super SloMo Camera System. The LDK 8300 captures full resolution HD images, natively, in multiple HD formats and high frame rates to produce the highest quality slow-motion effects possible.

In an introduction that provides touring professionals with a complete turnkey, out-of-the-box amplifier management solution, Crown today introduced VRACK, a complete amplifier management rack system solution. The VRACK features three built-in Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers, immediately providing an easy-to-configure, plug-and-play solution that eliminates the need to build amplifier racks. Designed to work in conjunction with JBL VerTec, VRX, and AE series loudspeakers, the system’s modular design is highly scalable and is designed to meet the needs of both small and large sound systems.

Petrol Bags™, a Vitec Group brand, introduces the new Deca Light Case – the ideal way to carry delicate portable lighting gear and keep it organized and safe on location. The Light Case features a handsome, practical new design in black 900D and ballistic nylon fabrics and offers many industry leading new advantages to safeguard delicate lighting equipment.

NewTek, a worldwide leader in video and 3D animation products, was chosen as a fan favorite in the 2010 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards for its TriCaster™ portable live production system.

dbx® Professional Products, a Salt Lake City-based manufacturer of professional audio signal processing products and a division of Harman International, is showcasing the DriveRack® PA+, a complete loudspeaker management system that provides state-of-the-art audio signal processing and an intuitive user interface.

Highly acclaimed producer Steve Levine recently put the Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Plug-In to the test with some of the most exciting young artists in music today. Working with artists such as Patch William and Natalie McCool, Levine utilized the Lexicon Plug-In on tracks for each of their new recordings.

As a television production and design engineer with more than 15 years working with Telemetrics Coax Control Systems, Dwight Sturtevant has had the unique opportunity of working at every major league sports venue in the country as well as at several high profile college fields and many large entertainment sites. He’s crossed the country from east to west and north to south while on satellite media tours, and has helped design and build more than a few studios. This extensive field experience has led Mr. Sturtevant to form a list of favorite broadcast production tools, and sitting high on the list is the Telemetrics Coax Link Camera Control System.

Teranex Systems, Inc. (www.teranex.com), a leading manufacturer of high-performance video processing platforms, and SENSIO Technologies Inc. (SENSIO) (TSX-V: SIO) today jointly announced the addition of SENSIO Technologies' patented 3D frame-compatible stereoscopic compression technology to Teranex's 3D encoding and decoding applications, the VC1-3D-ENC and VC1-3D-DEC. The added capability will enable delivery of 3D programming of superior image quality over an existing broadcasting infrastructure.

WHYY-TV, the PBS member station serving Philadelphia (DMA #4), used the new Fluent™ Rapid CG option with its Broadcast Pix Slate™ 5000 video production system last week to streamline its coverage of live election results. With Rapid CG, the station was able to automatically and seamlessly integrate the AP News Wire feed into its on-air graphics, which provided up-to-the-minute results for several significant political races in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

MEDIAPRO carried out the 3D production of the concert for the group Klepht, broadcast live for clients of the Portuguese cable platform ZON on 30th October.

NBC Sports installed a 48-channel, 128-input Solid State Logic C300 HD digital console in its audio post production studio 9E to fulfill the needs of HD, SD and multi-lingual distribution in both 5.1 surround and full stereo. The C300 HD allows for the handling of these different mixes, while maintaining a simultaneous discrete stem approach, thus streamlining the work flow.

EVS Instant Tapeless Technology was selected by Doordarshan Prasar Bharati Corporation (the host broadcaster) for operations involving recording, instant replay and editing, media storage and exchange and playout at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi from October 3 to 14, 2010. EVS offered an innovative workflow solution that combined advanced production networking with complete control of live broadcast actions, managing a total of over 120 EVS production servers and their various software controllers.

Rhema TV is the broadcast division of Kenneth Hagin Ministries, a worldwide ministry based in the Midwestern United States, with branches across the globe. Its South African campus in Randburg has recently updated their TV broadcast facilities, incorporating ToolsOnAir's Broadcast Suite to create an efficient, ultra-modern TV station with which to reach its rapidly expanding congregation.

Open yourself to the possibilities. Pro Tools 9 redefines the world’s most popular, most advanced music and audio production platform with a completely re-architected, open version of Pro Tools software, giving you what you asked for—and so much more.

Neutrik is proud to announce that only one year after its introduction, the opticalCON QUAD has become the chosen standard for fiber optic transmission for a number of broadcast companies in Europe, US and the Far East. Particularly, OB companies (outdoor broadcast) are attracted by Neutrik's optimized solutions for multichannel point-to-point fiber connectivity.