Shotoku Broadcast Systems,international manufacturer of a full line of camera support equipment, is enhancing its manual range with three new products to be launched at NAB 2011. A pneumatic pedestal, perfect counter-balance pan & tilt head, and positional calibration system will all be shown for the first time in Booth C8528.

T-VIPS, a global leader in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, today announces that NAB 2011 will see new functionality and products launched across its product ranges: video transport; monitoring & switching; and transport stream processing & remultiplexing. The company’s on-booth demonstrations will show how the company is enabling broadcasters and operators to save time, money and resources by increasing operational efficiency and reliability, reducing the requirement for capital investment and through simplifying workflows. The new product introductions at NAB will include the CP546 Transport Steam Monitor, a powerful tool for the continuous monitoring of transport streams, services, PID’s and PSI/SI/PSIP tables, ensuring fast fault detection and diagnostics.

Together with a Sony large lens adapter HDLA 1505, an OLED viewfinder HDVF-EL75 7.4” and an EVS XT[2]+ server Broadcast Rental is offering the Sony camera HDC-3300R in a unique SuperSloMo combination, including the possibility of 3D shooting on one server with the latest Multicam software.

BFM Business, owned and operated by the NextRadioTV Group in Paris, provides coverage of French and international business and financial news for the city of Paris over terrestrial TV and for France over broadband internet, cable and satellite. Programs are also broadcast over Business BFM Radio and through podcasts on iTunes. A 32-channel, 24-fader Solid State Logic C10 HD Compact Broadcast Console was installed to meet BFM Business’ challenges of long hours of operation, covering a variety of programming types. The C10’s reliability, feature set and ease of use were important factors in the purchase.

Rainbow Events AS, a Norwegian production company that coordinates concert tours for major national and international artists, recently added a Soundcraft Vi1 digital mixing console to its inventory. With capabilities to provide sound reinforcement and services for events with up to 30,000 attendees, the Oslo-based company has experience with festivals, clubs, theaters and other events, including the Momarkedet Festival in Mysen, Norway.

Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG), a leading global supplier of entertainment and event technology solutions headquartered in New York, has announced that it will acquire the business and assets of Australian-based Bytecraft Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Staging Connections Group Limited. PRG chairman and CEO Jeremiah “Jere” Harris and Bytecraft Managing Director Stephen Found today jointly announced the acquisition, which will be completed by the end of March. Stephen Found will continue in a leadership role with the company.

With 2011 Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Song (“Little Lion Man”), Mumford & Sons have grown into a hot property in less time than it takes some bands to record an album. The West London-based quartet have topped the charts in Australia, recorded with the Kinks’ Ray Davies, and completed a sold out US tour that included appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Danny Boyle’s latest film, 127 Hours, famously recreates the ordeal of young mountaineer Aron Ralston, who gets trapped in a Utah canyon when a boulder slips, trapping his arm. The soundtrack, which was nominated for a BAFTA and a Satellite in the Best Sound categories, was almost entirely recreated in post production. A large selection of DPA microphones provided by UK distributor Sound Network was used extensively to record the dramatic tension and ambience of the surroundings. Boyle has described 127 Hours as “an action movie in which the hero doesn’t move.” A challenge to film, and one that demanded a lot from its soundtrack.

These are all requirements of modern-day users. They’re no longer just TV viewers, they’re consumers and producers of digital images, texts and sounds. User habits are changing at least as quickly as new technologies for receiving equipment.

The studio condenser microphone M 1030 combines modern large diaphragm capsule technology with the latest in semiconductor circuit topology. The size of the microphone housing is optimized with regard to the expectations of a large diaphragm microphone for studio applications.

Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Captain TV, a 24-hour news and entertainment TV channel based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, has installed an Omneon media storage and processing platform to support its file-based broadcast operations. The new channel, which launched in 2010, broadcasts movies, daily soaps, awareness programs, news, and other entertainment programming, including Tamil movies, as well as English movies dubbed in Tamil.

With the beginning of the second half of the swiss soccer season Mediatec presented at the Zurich Letzigrund Stadium the new HD OB trucks constructed by Broadcast Solutions GmbH as well as other Mediatec products. Around 100 Visitors joined this event “Ready for Take off” and could have a look into the new OB-Vehicles.

 Riedel Communications, one of the leading manufacturers of real-time networks for video, audio and communications, becomes a promoting member of the AVnu Alliance.

DPA Microphones will officially launch its brand new modular series of microphones at Prolight & Sound 2011, stand 8, G40. The Reference Standard mics take DPA’s Standard and Compact ranges a step further, building on the company’s reputation for clear, transparent and precise sound and improving on the classic mics known and loved the world over. The new range offers increased flexibility, sound quality and cost-effectiveness; the best just got better.

As part of this year’s Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Digital Broadcasting Symposium in Kuala Lumpur in a pre-conference event, the DVB will be co-hosting an important 4-day DVB-T2 field trial to showcase the technology and its superior capabilities. Also scheduled to coincide with the field trial is a DVB-T2 transmission workshop that will present implementation and operational aspects of the second-generation digital terrestrial transmission system. The field measurements and results of the field trial will be presented later in the week at the Symposium Conference.