Conserving and restoring precious murals in a truly professional way is both time consuming and costly, usually taking years rather than months. Not only technical challenges await the specialists, but ethical ones as well. The answers to questions regarding conservation ethics have a direct impact on the actual work involved.
In the case of the beautiful renaissance murals at the Broemserhof in Ruedesheim, Germany, some of these questions led to some inspiring solutions to the problems at hand.

RTW, a leading manufacturer and distributor of professional audio metering and control devices, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gencom Technology as its new dealer for the Southeast Asia region. Gencom, a premier provider of global media technology solutions and systems integration services, will support the RTW product lines in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, further bolstering the company’s already strong presence in the area with important new customer contacts.

Every year at the end of May, Citrawarna Malaysia, the Colors of Malaysia, is held in Kuala Lumpur, commemorating the rich tradition of cultural diversity that defines the nation. This year on May 22nd, leading LED display provider Lighthouse Technologies Ltd. (Lighthouse) and regional rental partner Nova Superscreen brought Malaysia’s culture heritage to life in brilliant, bold color, with three high performance LED displays installed at the main stage.

IBC is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. In 2009, the show attracted more than 45,000 attendees from 140 countries around the world, exhibiting more than 1,300 of the world's key technology suppliers and showcasing a debate-leading conference that, among other vital sessions, brought together the ASC and the BSC digital camera tests and offered pioneering insight into the latest developments in stereoscopic 3D.

Element Technica will unveil the Pulsar and display production models of the new Neutron 3D rigs at IBC 2010, Stand # 11.F35. The Pulsar is engineered to stereoscopically mount mid-sized and box-style digital cameras such as the Scarlet, Epic, SI-2K, Sony EX3 and P1, mounted with any ENG-style lenses.

Three million visitors over three days: the Vienna Danube Island Festival (Wiener Donauinselfest) has again raised the bar with regard to music festivals. In addition to record crowds, the largest open air festival in Europe again presented a top class programme of acts this year.

At the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Grass Valley™ held its annual awards ceremony to celebrate key resellers throughout the world that have supported the company’s extensive worldwide sales network. As part of the celebration, eleven companies within the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions were recognized with a Reseller Award from Grass Valley, representing a wide variety of Grass Valley sales, service, and support partners.

A world-class supplier of broadcast systems planning, design, installation and commissioning services, ATG Broadcast has the full resources needed to pre-build and test complete large-scale installations before delivery. The company is part of the Dan Technologies Systems Integration Division operating from offices in England, Denmark, Germany and Vietnam, with a truly international customer base.

SoundCloud is the world’s greatest site for uploading music to the web. VeriCorder makes the world’s most advanced sound and video editors for mobile devices. Today, the two companies have combined forces.

At today’s UK Gala Premiere of Sony Pictures’ The Karate Kid, guests will take pleasure in watching the highly anticipated film using Sony Professional’s state-of-the-art Sony Digital Cinema 4K projection system. Featuring more than four times the resolution of traditional Full-HD systems, the 4K system has been installed at the famous Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square.

IBC is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. The event attracts more than 45,000 attendees from 140+ countries worldwide and showcases upwards of 1,300 key international technology suppliers alongside a peer-reviewed conference that debates the hottest industry topics.

AV conversion, processing and compliance recording specialist, Axon Digital Design, will start IBC 2010 on the crest of a wave having secured a prestigious TV Technology Star Award at NAB earlier this year for its G3D100 3D production and transmission module.

Via the music of Brahms, Grieg, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky or Verdi you can travel back in time. A journey that seems so fitting for the city of Jerusalem, which breathes history with every building. It was therefore a perfect match when the music of these well known composers opened the "Jerusalem Festival of Light 2010" with the performance “The Light Concert". Taking place at the Sultan’s Pool in the Israeli capital the concert was merging music and lighting in a high-class event.

On 5th July, VSN's director and CEO, Jordi Utiel, took part in the signing of an agreement amongst the Government of Catalonia, companies of the audiovisual sector and telecommunications operators with the aim to start a trial run to boost Catalonia's Audiovisual Ring. As a result of the agreement, the signing parties will cooperate on the initial stage of this project by contributing resources and knowledge to develop the infrastructure, connectivity, services and applications that add value to the audiovisual field.

The match statistics of the top players at this World Cup are truly impressive. The number of kilometres travelled per match makes particularly remarkable reading. However, our own World Cup team can easily keep up with these achievements: all told, the 58 specialists in the MEDIA BROADCAST team have between them clocked up a little over a million flying miles. And let us not forget our three SNG teams, who bumped their way over 19,000 kilometres of uneven roads.