OConnor, a Vitec Group brand, announces that cinematographer Marco Mazzei recently chose the OConnor 2575 to support his latest music video for the Goo Goo Dolls.

Looking to reduce costs and streamline its operations, Mediaworks' TV3, based in New Zealand, has become the first television network in the country to migrate its studios and future news broadcasts to a Grass Valley™ Ignite™ HD scalable automated production system. This brings the number of Ignite systems to 22 in 16 locations within the Australia/New Zealand region.

Christian Poulsen has joined DPA microphones as CEO and shareholder, with effect 1 October 2010.
Poulsen, a member of DPA Microphones’ board of directors for the last four years, has also been working as an external consultant at DPA for the last 10 months. According to chairman of the board Erik Holst, he has built up valuable knowledge of the company during this time.

Drawmer has unveiled the HQ, a combined precision high-quality monitor pre-amp/volume controller and DAC aimed at devotees to high-fidelity audio everywhere. Bringing together Drawmer's respected expertise for precision design in both the analogue and digital domains, the HQ is a critical listening device incorporating a highly accurate pre-amp and offering finely balanced volume control over a variety of analogue and digital input sources, with extremely low inter-channel crosstalk. The HQ also boasts a state-of-the-art DAC for clean conversion of digital sources to analogue for reference monitoring.

In August Blackmagic Design announced the acquisition of all assets of EchoLab Inc., one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of production switchers. EchoLab had over 35 years of experience in designing and building production switchers since 1974. This experience has culminated in the latest ATEM range of production switchers that include cutting edge technology for world leading features such as up conversion on inputs, multilayer SuperSource™ input, Stinger™ transitions, and built in multi-view monitoring, all in a familiar and affordable, fully digital M/E style design.

'All you wanted to know about the RED camera but were afraid to ask' is the theme of a workshop being organised by the Guild of Television Cameramen. Manufactured by RED Digital Cinema Camera Company, the RED One can record directly to flash or hard disk at up to 4,096 x 2,304 pixels resolution. It features a single Super 35-sized CMOS sensor and a cinematography-industry standard PL mount.

The UEFA Executive Committee today completed its meeting in Minsk and has approved the official match schedule for the forthcoming UEFA EURO 2012 final round between 8 June and 1 July 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.

SoundField's UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 processor provided invaluable live upmixing assistance to a team of Dolby sound consultants at the recent world premiere of Disney's summer blockbuster Prince Of Persia, held in London.

Leading Belgian facilities company Videohouse has expanded its OmniBus Systems iTX automation and playout platform to 39 channels to provide the facilities for hosting Telenet Digital TV channels to cable viewers in Flanders. Videohouse went live on Aug. 19 with 14 Telenet SD and two HD channels, including the live sports channel Prime Sport 1 HD.

On the 1st of October 2010, Swiss TV produced the opera Aida am Rhein (Aida on the Rhine) live on air. This was the third live production of a famous opera where the individual scenes only come together to form a whole on the viewers’ screens at home. A large digital audio network comprising numerous STAGETEC components and integrating three digital mixing consoles ensured exceptional sound quality for Verdi’s opera.

How to master all the parameters of stereo production and obtain a pleasant stereoscopic 3D effect without cerebral stress and thus contribute to the emergence of a new form of cinema and live production? Ever since Binocle was founded, its philosophy, research and development have focused to solve these issues.

SIS LIVE, the UK company providing all of the host broadcast television production and coverage facilities and services for the Commonwealth Games in India, is ready for the games to begin.

TV Canção Nova becomes the reference of VSN's 'OneStop' concept thanks to the deployment of a complete, fully redundant, HD television system worth $ 1.5 million that includes news production and archive, automation for 4 channels and broadcast playout for 3 studios.

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.

Not only in production MMC develops appropriate concepts for each customer request. Whether Avid or Final Cut Pro, HD or SD – also in post-production the company is offering customized solutions.