Grass Valley™, the inventors of the modern day production switcher, and a company known for the highest-quality production switchers available today, has leveraged its extensive engineering expertise with the Kayenne™ Video Production Center and Kayak™ switchers, along with its field-proven experience, to introduce a new, lower-cost switcher platform called the Karrera™ Video Production Center – bringing top of the line production capabilities to more applications and more users.

AJA Video Systems is debuting the next-generation KONA LHe Plus, offering powerful video capture and playback capabilities at a new reduced price -- almost 25% lower -- and with greater performance than its predecessor, the KONA LHe.

Utah Scientific, a leading global provider of video signal routing systems, announced a new family of menu-based router control panels at IBC 2011. The new panels feature high-resolution, full-color LCD displays and buttons, offering a new level of user-friendly operation for today's increasingly complex routing systems.

The IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers) today announced that Sony has been awarded the prestigious IABM Peter Wayne Award in recognition of its BVM-E250, a 25-inch OLED reference monitor optimized for picture precision and stability. Photon Beard, Quantel, Snell, and Vision Research each won an IABM Award for Excellence in Design and Innovation.

The SC-VECTOR PLUS 7x1.2L/4.8DZ by SOMMER CABLE is exceedingly well-suited for the everyday mobile use on a drum. Its PUR-MASTERBLEND jacket is highly flexible and also extremely robust to keep the interior life mechanically stably protected and the HD transmission quality constant.

AJA Video Systems today introduced Io XT, the company’s first Thunderbolt-enabled professional video I/O device.

At IBC2011, Wohler demonstrated the company's full range of signal management and confidence monitoring solutions for video, audio, captioning, and loudness applications.

RTW, a leading vendor of visual audio meters for professional broadcast, production, post-production, and quality control, awarded three of its distributors with the company’s first annual sales awards during its IBC sales meeting on Friday, September 9. RTW recognized Sonotechnique for “Best Ramp-up”, Amptec for “Best Sustained Performance” and Toyo for “Best Sales in Asia”.

Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, is pleased to announce that it will carry for sale the latest offerings from Camera Corps, including a pre-settable Q-Ball high-precision robotic camera and new optical fiber link. Camera Corps, a world leader in providing robotic camera systems for live television and the coverage of major sports events, will debut the products at IBC (Stand 10.C49).

Today at IBC2011, Chyron will unveil its Axis World Graphics platform to the European market. Axis World Graphics is the world's only cloud-based graphics creation system designed specifically for broadcasters. Axis World Graphics simplifies, streamlines, and facilitates the graphics creation process, enabling reporters, production assistants, and news producers to create broadcast-quality graphics using their own graphics package.

Sachtler, a Vitec Group brand, will present a completely new fluid head at IBC 2011. The Ace tripod system is the perfect camera support for the growing market of videographers and DSLR filmmakers. With a payload of up to 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), Ace is ideal for smaller HDV camcorders and video-enabled DSLR cameras.

A new look Studer was unveiled by Andy Trott, Harman’s VP of Soundcraft, Studer and AKG, (VP and General Manager Mixers, Microphones & Headphones), at Studer’s Global Partners Conference today. In addition to the appointment of Bruno Hochstrasser as Studer GM announced last month, the digital mixing systems business has added two more strategic appointments heading up R&D and Product Development, reporting to Bruno.

At IBC this year, Sony Professional has announced the latest addition to its highly successful range of live production solutions, the HDC-2500. On the back of a year which has seen Sony push boundaries in terms of what can be achieved in live production, the HDC-2500 demonstrates Sony’s commitment to developing innovative solutions which confirm its position as the market leader in the industry.

NewTek, a worldwide leader in portable live production and 3D animation systems, today introduced TriCaster™ 450 EXTREME™ and TriCaster 450. The latest addition to the TriCaster line of portable live production systems, the TriCaster 450 series makes HD production available to more live video producers than ever, in an even more compact, cost-effective solution.

Snell unveiled Vega™, a new routing platform that allows users to configure any signal port independently for fiber or coax (copper) connectivity. Vega's unique design also enables any port to be configured as either an input or output, providing the industry's most flexible asymmetric routing solution within a space-saving 96-port router.