AXON will attend at the 18th Cabsat, to be held in the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from February 28th – March 1, 2012.   This will mark the 13th year Axon will be exhibiting, confirming its long term commitment to the region, where Axon has made its contributions in the leading edge of new technologies in HD, 3D and Dolby audio streams.  Axon will be showing live presentations and demonstrations from the extensive range of Cortex monitoring and control software, Synapse modular interfaces (including routers and multi viewer) and the compliance recording system TRACS2.

Chartmakers, a high-end mastering studio used by major European performing artists including Rammstein and Amorphis, has installed an AWS 948 Hybrid Console/Controller in its Green Room studio. Chartmakers purchased the AWS to expand its business into mixing, a new direction for the facility. Chartmakers’ engineers chose the AWS to preserve the analogue workflow they already have, while gaining advanced DAW control to work with their clients’ project files.

Continuing its program to develop emerging markets and provide channel partners and end-users with not simply the best AV technologies for their markets, but also the best organizations to support their businesses, HARMAN Professional today announced the promotion of David McKinney to Senior Director, Operations – India for the Professional Division.

Demonstrating its determination to put committed, experienced leaders at the helm of each of its regional sales offices, HARMAN Professional today announced the promotion of Thomas Marcher to Director Of Sales, Asia Regional Sales Office.  Marcher, a 4-year HARMAN Professional veteran with extensive pro AV experience with other brands in the region, will now assume responsibility for sales, support and channel coordination reporting to Scott Robbins, Senior Director, Global Sales, HARMAN Professional.

With no fewer than 24 channels, SuperSport, a subsidiary of the MIH Group, is the leading sports broadcaster on the African continent. Its programming, which can also be seen in neighboring sub-Saharan countries, includes sporting events from all over the world, broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

IMS Productions, the media and technology partner to the world-famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, has taken delivery of Cobalt Digital’s new 9223 dual-channel 3G/HD/SD MPEG-4 encoder to transport multiple feeds to various devices for Verizon IndyCar race coverage.  The announcement was made by Chris Shaw, senior vp sales and marketing, from Cobalt’s headquarters in Urbana, IL.

Merging Technologies will be exhibiting at Prolight + Sound on stand #8.0 G18A. Horus, Merging’s new flagship I/O system is now being delivered and is already making its mark on the live sound market, just as it is with high end music recording and broadcast.  For this reason, Merging Technologies decided to exhibit in Frankfurt on its own stand rather than that of a local distributor.

Thales Angenieux announced they are the recipient of the 2012 Technical Achievement Award from the Society of Camera Operators (SOC). The Award recognizes the design of the Angenieux Optimo series of hand-held zoom lenses: 15-40, 28-76 and 45-120mm. The Technical Achievement Award was presented to Thales Angenieux during the 2012 SOC Lifetime Achievements Awards Ceremony on February 19, 2012 in Los Angeles, CA, at the Leonard Goldenson Theater at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Earlier this year Euro Media Group, one of Europe’s leading providers of TV & Film facilities and services, has received the qualification "Innovative Company" by OSEO in the context of the FCPIs (Qualification "entreprise innovante" pour l'accès aux Fonds communs de placement dans l'innovation (FCPI) et aux marchés publics de haute technologie).

When German company Ambient Recording developed a special recording system for the first ever commercial documentary to feature underwater surround sound, it cast Sound Devices’ 788T multi-track digital audio recorder in the starring role. Creating a specific underwater housing (SD-UW) for the recorder, Ambient Recording used it to capture the ocean’s unique noises.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Australian Broadcast Summit is a fixture of the calendar of key players in the broadcast industry. Guntermann & Drunck's Australian Partner 'KVM Australia' will participate and present German KVM solutions to over 300 senior level delegates of the Broadcast industry.

Production Consultants, a 25-year leader in audio post, with experience in video production, live sound and recording, among other environments, is deploying Fairlight consoles to meet its production needs. Founded by veteran producer/engineer and St. Louis Audio Engineering Society Chairman Bill Schulenburg in 1986, the company relies on Fairlight’s Xynergi and XE6 Side Car Consoles to keep clients on the leading edge of video and audio success.

The Spanish manufacturer gave a seminar for more than 30 Taiwanese TV stations on the latest trends in tapeless workflow management for the broadcast sector. The Taiwanese industry will be facing the transition to HD within the next few years.

Matrox® Video Products Group today announced important new features for Matrox Convert™ DVI Plus HD-SDI scan converters. Matrox Convert DVI products are ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype™, YouTube™, Google Earth™, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as citizen journalists’ mobile phone videos. They are also the perfect appliances to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship.

Shotoku Broadcast Systems, a leading international manufacturer of advanced camera support products, recently completed the successful installation of robotic camera support and control systems at the technology and production center switzerland ag (tpc) in Zurich, Switzerland. James Eddershaw, Shotoku Ltd.’s sales director, made the announcement from the Company’s European headquarters in Staines, UK.