Marell Audio Media, based in Würzburg, Germany, has been operating successfully for many years in the specialised area of corporate audio design, station IDs, and jingles. Its customers include major broadcasting companies such as the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), SWR (Southwest Broadcasting), SR (Saarland Broadcasting), Sat 1, Bayer, and many more. Alexander Klebl and Achim von Bassen first compose and produce their jingles as computer-based scores in their studio in Würzburg. If feedback is positive, they subsequently complete the jingles with pop musicians, sometimes with complete string sections.

Gekko Technology announces a major addition to its kezia 200 range of hard-source luminaires. Introduced during October at SATIS 2010 in Paris and LDI 2010 in Las Vegas, the new kezia 200-E gives lighting designers in entertainment, film and broadcasting dynamic control of colour output to match the rhythm of music shows or the effects requirements of stage and studio productions. Based on Gekko's award-winning 'kleer-colour' LED multi-chip array, it combines high creative versatility with long component life, low power consumption and minimal heat generation.

The world’s favourite powered plug-ins are now within the reach of any budget! TC Electronic announces a significant PowerCore plug-in price reduction that puts the world’s most respected audio production tools within the reach of any budget.

Arqiva, on behalf of Arts Alliance Media, has provided Outside Broadcasts and satellite services for a live cinema event ‘Chasing Legends’. This film tells the story of Mark Cavendish’s 2009 Tour de France bid, and its UK premiere was followed by a live Q&A session at Cineworld The O2. This was filmed, uplinked and distributed by Arqiva to 52 UK cinemas.

Tektronix announced new Stereoscopic 3D Video support for its new generation of advanced 3G/HD/SD-SDI waveform monitor, WFM8300 and WFM8200, and advanced 3G/HD/SD-SDI waveform rasterizers, WVR8300 and WVR8200.

Two major broadcasters in the Netherlands, RTL Nederland and SBS Broadcasting, have both chosen the Trinix™ NXT from Grass Valley™ as their new digital video routing switcher. The Trinix NXT is designed for SDI, HD-SDI, and 3 Gb/s video signals, with its 3 Gb/s performance capabilities allowing cable lengths up to at least 140m.

Clay Paky was a star performer at the recent opening and closing ceremonies of the 19th Commonwealth Games, broadcast live from Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi, India. Despite highly publicised concerns about the quality of accommodation in the Athletes' Village and unfinished building works in and around the stadium, the Games managed to go on as planned and the ceremonies were considered an enormous success.

We live in a 3D world, but a screen only has two dimensions: horizontal and vertical. We can watch a film on a 2D screen because the 2D image contains visual cues (clues, or hints) about depth, the third dimension.

RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a leading provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, is working with Sm2 Sports Media Solutions, LLC, and their teleport partner TV2GO in Canada, to deliver live HD sporting events worldwide in MPEG-4, including the US Open, the PGA Championship and for the first time globally, the 2010 NFL season.

3ality Digital, a world leader in advanced technologies to empower creative digital stereoscopic 3D (S3D) acquisition, has highlighted its unifying system that automatically provides consistent, controllable and stable S3D images from acquisition to delivery at IBC together with Grass Valley and Alfacam. The software algorithms of 3Flex are implemented in its shooting rigs, its stereoscopic image processors (SIPs) and in post production tools.

Utah Scientific, a leading provider of digital and HDTV routing switchers for media enterprises of all kinds, today announced that it is the first manufacturer in the world to deploy innovative new high-performance switching from Mindspeed Technologies Inc. in a video router. Currently, the company's top-of-the-line UTAH-400 288R video router is shipping with the Mindspeed® M21170 crosspoint switch at its core.

From a basic two-camera interview to an elaborate 26 camera HD concert film, this comprehensive guide presents a platform-agnostic approach to the essential techniques required to set up and edit a multicamera project. Actual case studies are used to examine specific usages of multicamera editing and include a variety of genres including concerts, talk shows, reality programming, sit-coms, documentaries for television, event videography and feature films.

Following the highly successful inaugural event in 2008, TVBEurope’s Sports Broadcast Europe 2010 is the only conference that brings European sports broadcasters together in one room for one day in central London to talk about key technology issues, and how the business is changing.

AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that it is now shipping KUMO CP, an optional 1RU networkable control panel for its KUMO line of compact SDI routers. With KUMO CP, users now have access to destination- and/or web browser-based control of KUMO routers for easy integration into any broadcast or post-production environment.

On 19 October 2010 the 3D LiveLab opened its doors in the Dutch media city of Hilversum. The 3D LiveLab is hosted by DutchView in one of its TV studios and will be open until at least March 2011.