With the completion of the Shanghai Baoshan Sports Center’s recent renovation project, audiences will soon be able to experience breathtaking visual effects on the center-hung video scoreboards, LED fascia ribbon display, and full-color outdoor LED screens provided by Lighthouse Technologies, a world leader in LED display solutions.

ERA Ltd, a leading IT infrastructure and application reseller specialising in Post Production, Broadcast and Media, will showcase its latest multi-client workflow automation solution and launch a new cost-effective platform for secure collaborative editing at Broadcast Video Expo, Earls Court 2, London, 14-16 February 2012 (Stand K54).

To start this great sports year, Broadcast Rental has added a fantastic camera feature to their rental stock, the GoPro HD HERO2. This tiny complete camera set, with big capabilities and possibilities,  is not bigger than your handpalm. It makes great full HD (1080i) videos for all kind of situations where normal cameras can't go.

The Arctic Monkeys, an English indie rock band formed in 2002, has released four studio albums. The band is known as one of the first groups to build a fan base and attention through social media, using new ways of promotion and marketing to help drive its rise to stardom. The band’s debut album titled Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not in 2006, became the fastest-selling debut album in British music history, selling 363,735 copies in the first week.

Established Spanish post production company, Free Your Mind, has invested in a Mistika 2K System with a DI Module to replace their existing technology and enhance the current infrastructure to maximise their strengths.  In order to meet the growing demand of commercials production, Free Your Mind has placed Mistika as their post production tool of choice as a complete system they can rely on. Mistika’s advanced set of tools is wider and more flexible than any other system, or combination of other systems, without compromising creativity or quality, while maintaining the highest output speed at the same time.

Soho, London is the heart of post-production for independent film and television, with many of the post houses there battling for the opportunity to work on some of the world's top films, TV programmes and commercials. Post production facilities in Soho vary greatly in size and style. There are large, international and well established firms, reeling out huge quantities of work in very quick succession. Then there is a handful of smaller, high end facilities delivering a bespoke service - the success stories in this tough industry. High end post production facility, The Look, based in the centre of Soho is a prime example of the latter.

Toshiba Imaging, a leader in high definition, color video imaging has delivered the new, miniature, high definition, IK-HR1S camera to Grande Vitesse Systems for integration into a ruggedized, digital video recording system for NASA. The configuration developed for NASA, the GVS9000 2XU, combines single video channels, Fibre Channel, and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with the 3CCD Toshiba high definition camera with DVI output to capture uncompressed HD footage at 1080p/60frames per second (fps) and provide simultaneous playback in both compressed and uncompressed formats.

A highly innovative addition to NTP Technology’s range of digital audio routing and processing equipment makes its UK exhibition debut on stand B28 at Broadcast Video Expo 2012 in Earls Court, London, 14-16 February.

ATG Broadcast will exhibit its full range of systems planning, design, installation, commissioning and post-installation support services on stand B28 at Broadcast Video Expo 2012, in London’s Earls Court, 14-16 February.

Bellowhead, a U.K.-based folk ensemble and darlings of the European festival circuit, relied on QSC K Series active loudspeakers — ten K10s and two K12s —  as on-stage monitors throughout their recently completed tour of England, in support of last year's 'Hedonism' album. The much-fêted band, four times named Best Live Act at BBC Radio 2's annual Folk Awards, are expert live performers and needed powerful and reliable on-stage monitoring system for their recent tour.

In February, Sachtler, a Vitec Group brand, will showcase its professional camera support systems at two important exhibitions: Cabsat in Dubai, February 8–12, booth S3-B41 and BVE in London, February 14–16, booth i30.

W-DMX™ by Wireless Solution Sweden AB is part of The Components Co new Smart-e, a revolutionary compact wireless LED fixture, measuring approximately the size and weight of a standard bag of sugar, making it the first wireless LED product to scale down the size without compromising the performance.

Grass Valley™  today announced a new Support Agreement portfolio designed to keep systems running and to help customers plan for their long-term maintenance needs. The new portfolio will be managed by the Grass Valley Global Services division.

DNF Controls announced the On-Set Playback Control Application built on the Flex Control Network®, DNF's modular platform of professional IP-based machine controllers that solve all manner of operational control problems and set a new standard of excellence for operational efficiency and profitability.

Armed with a custom-painted flash/neon/lime green HARMAN AKG D5 microphone, vocal percussion sensation and native Austrian fii takes the stage around the world with his a cappella beat boxing show, wowing audiences with his beats, harmonies, singing and rapping transmitted through an AKG WMS 4500 wireless system.  Expressing his love for the art of music, fii’s unrestricted genre of performance, through multiple channels of looped vocals, is never distorted and sounds perfectly natural with AKG.