The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Denmark’s national broadcasting corporation, has just consolidated all its television, radio and media programming into one mega-facility. The newly-built DR Byen complex in Cophenhagen is made up of four buildings spread over 133,000 square meters.

"Dark, dangerous and wet" is how cinematographer Stephen Bean describes the working conditions during his most recent film project, a documentary titled "The Undo Cave expedition 2011". Bean works at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland and is responsible for the ENG/EFP section of the Film Unit there. Together with an international team of archeology students and scientists from UCC, Bean traveled to Georgia to document the work of archaeologists in their search for Paleolithic DNA. They were accompanied by three MicroPro LED camera lights from Litepanels, a Vitec Group brand.

Blackmagic Design today announced the immediate availability of HyperDeck Software Update 2.0 Public Beta, a new software update for its popular HyperDeck Studio that adds broadcast quality compressed 10 bit recording and playback to the Avid® DNxHD® format.

After 37 years’service with the company, Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Peus, President of Development at Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin, will retire at the end of 2011. Joining straight from university, Stephan Peus began his career in 1974 when he joined Neumann’s microphone development team in Berlin. In 2000 he was appointed President of Development at Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin. He played a major role in the continued development of Neumann’s microphone technology for the studio and stage sectors.

When cinematographer Jon Fordham began prep for the indie feature “Aaron Bacon”, he knew he would need rugged and reliable support for the lead character’s journey from the suburbs of Arizona to the deserts of Utah and back. “It’s the true story of a 16-year-old kid who dies at the hands of a tough love wilderness rehab facility,” Fordham explains. “We would be shooting stark contrasting environments from director Nick Gaglia’s choice of a suburban home in upstate New York to Nevada’s uncompromising Valley of Fire.”

Minnetonka Audio Software, Inc., a leader in production software for motion picture, broadcast surround sound and consumer electronics applications, announced today the hiring of Oliver A. Masciarotte, former principal at Seneschal, a professional services consultancy based in California.

Cinematographer Michael Spodnik recently geared up for two Nickelodeon teen comedy series. As soon as the shows began loading in, Spodnik went to Vinten, a Vitec Group brand, for his support. “It’s always been Vinten support on stage, ever since I started in the multi-camera world,” he says. “This year it’s Vinten Studio pedestals and Vinten Vector 750 heads.”

Sometimes, when the air in Thessaly in Greece is especially misty, the monasteries of Metéora appear to be floating in the sky. The first of these 20 impressive buildings appeared on the high cliffs in the 11th century. Today, they are included in UNESCO's World Heritage sites. Greek video journalist and filmmaker Alexandros Maragos filmed this magical place for three days and nights.

Grass Valley™ is continuing to strengthen its leadership across Europe, The Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and as part of an overall initiative, the company welcomes industry veteran Colin Hay as its new Vice President for the Northern EMEA region.

Following the launch of its new website in September, BCE opened its reference cloud page. Having created a customer oriented website with a high level of information on its services, BCE wants to give a large overview of last years projects.

DVS's multi-channel video server – has supported the Avid® ISIS® shared storage and Interplay® PAM (Production Asset Management) systems, thereby underlining DVS's continued commitment to openness in its products. Users benefit from seamless production processes and thereby from incredible workflow efficiency.

Between Gdansk to the south and Gdynia in the north lays the lesser known resort city of Sopot on the Baltic coast. Here the new Ergo Arena and Entertainment Hall (EAEH) has taken the seemingly perfected sports arena design up another notch. "In the way of other such buildings the Ergo Arena can accommodate almost all the indoor sports to world championship standard," said Piotr Jankiewicz from Konsbud-Audio who installed the arena's sound system, "hockey, volley and basketball, even combat sports; and from the outset the architectural design has fully addressed the needs of touring shows, you can fly the biggest productions here."

An investment in expensive HD and 3D equipment can be optimized by dint of a well-conceived, flexible system architecture, paired with a fiber optic camera switch solution.

GlobeCast and Travel Channel International announced today the launch of Travel Channel HD via the MEASAT-3 platform to reach homes across the Asia Pacific region. Travel Channel HD is an expansion of its current SD channel, which is also delivered via GlobeCast's capacity on the MEASAT-3 satellite.

Barix AG, a pioneer in IP audio, control and monitoring, is launching its first, free iOS app for use on the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. The new app, Reflector, is a mobile receiver for the Barix Reflector Service, allowing customers to monitor their audio streams on the go.