CET Universe, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production, today announced that its Remote Station™, a turnkey on-location post-production system, will be used for the live webcast of the 11th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards, on Thursday, November 11, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Univision Network will carry the event live from 8–11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central).

“We’re ahead of where we thought we would be, with contracts in place with customers that total 62.5 million ‘available to’ households; way, way ahead of where we were with HD at this stage,” said Bryan Burns, ESPN’s vice president of strategic business planning and development.

Continuing to innovate in the 3D television space, ESPN Research + Analytics unveiled today one of the most in-depth studies on 3D TV to date. Compiling results from more than 1,000 testing sessions and 2,700 lab hours, ESPN has concluded that fans are comfortable with the medium and even enjoy it more than programming in HD. The research was conducted by Dr. Duane Varan, professor of New Media at Murdoch University, during ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup at the Disney Media and Ad Lab in Austin, Texas.

Outside Broadcast NV announced a partnership with the Italian production company Frame for the coverage & live transmissions of the international test matches of the Italian Rugby Team. During 3 weekends in November all matches will be produced in 3D.

Preco announces the UK availability of the Teranex VC1 production toolkit and real-time 2D to 3D video converter. Building on the dual-channel architecture of the Teranex VC100 platform, the VC1 is a suite of firmware options with two key elements: The VC1-3DTK 3D toolkit enables broadcasters to correct the errors inherent in dual-camera beam-split rigs. The VC1-2D-3D Advanced Stereoscopic Processor allows easy real-time conversion of 2D to 3D content.

T-VIPS, a global leader in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, today announces the delivery to French broadcaster TDF of TVG420 ASI to IP Gateway units for the expansion of the French digital terrestrial TV (DTT) distribution network. This latest order for the T-VIPS TVG420’s will expand the network to encompass La Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Polynesia.

Grass Valley™ is expanding the capabilities of EDIUS® Neo 3, one of the industry's most comprehensive and powerful multi-format editing platform for the consumer and prosumer market, providing video editors with increased speed, wider format support, and improved system efficiency.

Mr. Soo joined Ross Video in 2004 as a member of the production switcher engineering team, and then as the lead of the openGear engineering group as Technical Product Manager. Prior to joining Ross, Mr. Soo held senior engineering positions with Nortel Networks, Cambrian Networks and Ceyba and has extensive experience in high speed network routing and fiber optic systems.

Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT), announced that German public broadcasting station Südwestrundfunk (SWR), or Southwestern Broadcasting, has expanded its Omneon infrastructure with a new HD Spectrum(TM) media server system that supports studio production at its facilities in Baden-Baden. Supplied by BFE Studio und Medien Systeme - Mainz, the new Omneon system has allowed the broadcaster to gain the speed and efficiencies of a file-based workflow within the studio environment.

Danish film location recorder Allan Holmberg has been using a DPA 4017 shotgun mic for Susanne Bier’s new film, The Revenge (Haevnen).
“I’d used the 4017 on a documentary I’d worked on, called Blekingegadebanden,” explains Holmberg. “The clarity and natural sound of the 4017 was a huge success on the documentary, so I decided to try the mic on this feature film.

Multiproduction, one of Poland's busiest outside broadcast companies, has invested in three Camera Corps Q-Ball robotic camera systems and two Goal-Cams. All five cameras cut their teeth on 24 September, providing 1080-line HD coverage of the Polish national league match between Legia Warszawa and previous-season champion team Lech Poznan.

Oxygen DCT has developed an enormous range of compact ‘stand-alone’ ‘glue’ boxes over the last five years which now consists of 43 different products. It is enhanced with the addition of four new types of 10-bit 3G/HD-SDI audio embedders and de-embedders, a 3Gb/s DA, a phantom powered 3GB/HD-SDI reclocking distribution amplifier, 3G/HD-SDI fibre converters and a low-cost, high quality HD-SDI to analogue monitoring converter with composite and component analogue outputs.

Dejero, creator of the award-winning 3G wireless live television transmission solution: the Dejero LIVE Platform, announced today that Dan Mance is joining the company as CEO. He has previously served as Vice President Digital Media & CTO of Harris Broadcast, CTO of Leitch Technology and CEO and Founder of Inscriber Technology Corporation.

Odeon UCI, one of Europe’s leading cinema exhibitors and the world’s largest outside of the Americas, has chosen to deploy Arqiva’s Digital Cinema Satellite System. The agreement, working through Arqiva’s Digital Cinema partners Arts Alliance Media, will see Arqiva install its professional satellite receive equipment at nearly 100 cinemas for UCI in Italy and Portugal, UCI Kinowelt in Austria and Germany, and Cinesa in Spain. This will enable the delivery of DCPs and live events via Arqiva’s Digital Cinema platform on IS905.

coolux invites everyone interested in their latest products to attend the first coolux connect conference. The conference will be held in Cologne, Germany, on the 11th and 12th of January 2011.