Yvan is no stranger to the broadcast industry, having started his career just over twenty years ago with Barco and then holding a variety of sales and business development roles with broadcast equipment manufacturers and Systems Integrators alike. Although originally from the North West region of Brittany, Yvan now lives in Paris and is looking forward to getting to know Ross Video’s customers in France. “I have always been focused on understanding my customers’ needs and customer service is obviously at the heart of Ross Video’s approach, so I’m really excited about this new role and the opportunities it presents; Ross has enjoyed incredible growth over the last few years and I’m committed to building on that success”.

Blackmagic Design has announced that a live production workflow featuring it's ATEM Television Studio Pro HD switcher and Teranex AV is being used to produce a new fans' football show by YouTuber The True Geordie in partnership with bookmakers Coral. 

Google is set to migrate all the videos on YouTube to its recently launched VP9 compression standard as this offers the “best path to 4K video,” according to Google executive Matt Frost.

At IBC2016, Evertz, Ross Video and Solid State Logic announced their participation in the launch of YouTube Space London.  YouTube Space London opened their 20,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art facility in August 2016 for collaboration, learning, and production for their YouTube creator community in London and Europe.  The IP-based production facility uses 10GbE to move uncompressed video, audio, and metadata (using SMPTE RDD 37) between its three studios and two control rooms.  The IP infrastructure provides YouTube Space London with complete flexibility and agility where any source is available anywhere.

Neal Mohan, chief product officer for YouTube, will headline the 2018 NAB Show Opening on Monday, April 9 at 9:00 a.m. in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Mohan will discuss the future of TV and entertainment and how the intersection of content, hardware and software is allowing media companies to reach more audiences in new ways.

The brotherhood of bonding that is your typical heavy metal festival revolves largely around the nihilistic pursuit of music plugged directly into the emotional cortex of the listener. These days the mark of a successful metal festival is about managing the perception of volume; it must 'sound loud' but without all those nasty artefacts of volume, gross distortion for example, that can damage hearing. So it was that just outside a castle in a dark corner of the Czech Republic a group of worthy sound engineers strove their utmost to convey this most belligerent of musical emotion and they had just the PA system to deliver the goods.

The manufacturer of the “Sonospheres" CD Library, published by Sonoton Music GmbH, now is online with Yoursounds, a selection of his recordings through 20 years. Through the support of other german and european recordists Yoursounds is representing a growing library of unique, professionally recorded, royalty-free sounds to be used in all sections of audio and audiovisual media.

Have you always dreamt of having a good control room but shied away from the acoustic treatment required? Are you regularly mixing on the road or in various different studios? Or perhaps you already have the perfect setup for stereo monitoring but aren’t quite ready to invest in complex surround setups? Then dearVR MONITOR is for you. The latest plugin from Dear Reality, the expert in spatial audio software and innovative VR/AR solutions, brings the perfect control and mixing environment to any room – all you need is a pair of good headphones and your DAW.

Imagine you are an audio engineer at a music festival and – typically – several acts turn up at the last minute. As you’ve been smart, you’ve taken care to set aside spare frequencies just in case, but it’s just one of those days: the festival manager turns up with yet another unexpected special guest half an hour before the show starts and there are no frequencies left! Usually, this would mean running the entire frequency planning program again, but you’ve downloaded the new version of Sennheiser’s Wireless Systems Manager so all your hard work is safe. Version 4.1 has a brilliant function that protects any selected frequency settings before the software calculates a new plan.

I recently watched a couple of the old segments of 24 on YouTube with my iPad and they delivered the same palm-sweating suspense as when they first ran.
It made me wonder how much more Jack could have crammed into his 24 hours if he had today’s tablets and smartphones instead of that old-fashioned Blackberry.
We don’t use our tablet for entertainment (or games) often because ours is for business … really!

Sometimes we think we've been attending CES since before we were born.

O.K., that's an exaggeration.

But we can't remember when the holidays – Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, whatever – weren't sidelined to make good products/services look great and great ones look stupendous for the world's biggest consumer technology unveiling event.

Yospace, the content distribution innovator, is using IBC to focus on its unique system to tailor individual content without disturbing the stream. Its technology – which has been shortlisted for an IBC 2012 Innovation Award – replaces content and advertising in real time at the headend, meaning that it is delivered as a single stream without buffering, freezes or lost video. The power of the system is that every single stream can be personalised for a specific viewer.

Yomiuri TV, a major broadcaster in the Kansai region of Japan, has selected Grass Valley® to replace its entire tape-based linear editing workflow, including content management and archive systems, and send to playout, with a new file-based solution.

Yo-Yo Ma’s Audio Engineer Jody Elff relies on DPA Microphones’ 4088 cardioid headset and 4061 omnidirectional miniature microphones for the Silk Road Ensemble tour.

Dramatify (www.dramatify.com), a world-class multi-genre production hub, and CuePilot (www.cuepilot.com), a live production management platform, teamed up to deliver an end-to-end production management system for Finnish broadcaster YLE’s production of ‘Classical Trancelations,’ a symphonic rendering of popular electronic dance music tunes. The September 29^thconcert at Helsinki’s Hartwall Arena, performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Ahjo Ensemble Choir, included artists such as Saara Aalto, Paleface, Reino Nordin, and Kasmir. It was streamed live and broadcast on TV on October 23^rd. The streamed version of the concert can be seen at: https://areena.yle.fi/1-50007533. A short after-movie can also be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGZ8KLHADao.