Bill Vinten, youngest son of the founder of Vinten®, was presented with the highest honour at last night’s Guild of Television Cameramen Awards. The ceremony, held at the prestigious BFI Southbank in London, saw 90 year old Bill Vinten collect the Guild’s TiCA Award for his lifetime contribution to fostering and improving the art and craft of the professional television cameraman.

When AJA Video Systems first announced the Ki Pro portable digital recording device, it was met with great enthusiasm and won six major industry awards. Cinematographers, editors and digital video professionals alike eagerly anticipated this small box that promised to manage everything from recording in native Apple ProRes to up-, cross- and down-convert with handy FireWire connectivity for direct access to files for editing. Director of Photography (DoP) Timo Plogstedt discovered these benefits and more when recording to Ki Pro from the ARRI Alexa camera on a commercial shoot for auto manufacturer Skoda.

In the most significant OmniBus Systems deployment this year, Starz Entertainment has migrated its entire automation and playback operation to the OmniBus iTX broadcast automation and playout platform. iTX now provides an integrated, software-based playout solution for Starz's complete lineup of 29 SD and 11 HD premium movie channels, as well as an additional 22 channels at its off-site disaster recovery site.

Pixel Power, a leading supplier of broadcast graphics systems, has today announced that Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) has purchased BrandMaster™ and LogoVision™ branding and master control technology from the company for its IPTV rollout, announced earlier this year. The deal has been overseen by the company’s Asia-Pacific partner Gencom Technology, which is acting as the project designer and systems integrator on behalf of Gencom’s Malaysian partner, Dagang Teknik.

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has introduced PR&E® Oasis™, a standalone, on-air and production console that enables radio broadcast operations to easily and affordably convert to digital in their own timeframe. Harris will showcase the latest innovation from its PR&E studio brand at the 2010 Radio Show, taking place September 29-October 1 in Washington, D.C.

The West German broadcasting company (Westdeutscher Rundfunk - WDR) in Cologne uses IPTV encoder and decoder from Teracue to integrate live panorama images into their broadcast process.

Leading Ukrainian broadcaster TV Channel “Ukraine” is upgrading its facilities to move to high-definition production and delivery, with a major order for Grass Valley™ equipment. The order includes 14 HD cameras, two large production switchers, and all necessary modular equipment.

VIENNA, Austria – The Wiener Konzerthaus, one of Austria’s most famous and prominent concert halls, recently installed two Soundcraft Vi digital consoles as part of an equipment upgrade. The consoles were sold through Kain Audio Technik, Soundcraft’s Austrian distributor.

At the IBC 2010 in Amsterdam Broadcast Solutions GmbH presented mobile Broadcast Equipment and OB Vehicles, starting from a smart fortwo car up to a 16-Camera OB-Van as well as Satcom-Systems manufactured by ProSat Solutions.

Responsible for the production of two highly anticipated concerts in one of the country’s most difficult audio environments, festival production specialist StagePro successfully conquered high elevation, harsh winds and zero humidity with a complete JBL VerTecâ line array solution for this year’s Rock Jam and Country Jam festivals, staged in Grand Junction, Colorado. With artists ranging from Alice Cooper and Cinderella to Keith Urban and Sawyer Brown, the events presented many of the nation’s top current touring acts.

PRG will offer training on their proprietary products such as: Mbox EXtreme® Media Server, Bad Boy® Luminaire, the V676® and V476 ™ Lighting Control Consoles, Series 400® Power & Data Distribution System and the Commander™ Motion Control Console. These highly acclaimed and widely used products have quickly become industry staples for designers, programmers and technicians in concerts, theatre, special events, film and television.

Haivision Network Video announced that Columbus, Ohio-based cable news channel ONN (Ohio News Network) is using the Haivision Barracuda™ H.264 encoder with the Zixi Media Broadcaster for cost-effective video contribution to 16 cable headends across Ohio and surrounding areas. The pairing of Haivision's advanced encoding technology with the Zixi platform in a turnkey solution has enabled ONN to shift from costly satellite contribution to high-speed IP video delivery over the public Internet — without otherwise altering its working environment or processes.

Solid State Logic is pleased to announce that Swedish public broadcaster SVT has installed a C10 HD console with DAW control option in its new regional production facility in Malmö, the country’s third largest city. SVT Malmö, delivering everything from regional shows and news programs to entertainment productions for national broadcast, uses the C10 to produce 5.1 surround programming, broadcasting straight to air and/or via Pro Tools®.

Riedel Communications, renowned for pioneering most advanced intercom, fiber, audio and radio technology, presented the Artist 1100 Series OLED control panel, which is Riedel’s new premium control key panel for Artist digital matrix intercoms.

Clear-Com®, a global leader in mission-critical voice communication systems, proudly announces the delivery of its Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom and V-Series intercom panels to Croatia’s world-renowned Puppet Theatre of Zadar (Kazalište Lutaka Zadar). The facility will employ the Eclipse and V-Series to ensure reliable, easily accessible communications between key production team members in various parts of the facility ─ factors that are especially important when it comes to putting on a world-class puppet show.