Japan’s radio and TV group MBS was the first broadcaster worldwide to install a Calrec Apollo desk in an outside broadcast vehicle — specifically in the company’s recently refurbished audio Outside Broadcast truck. The new desk has been on air since March this year, covering transmissions from sports and musical events.

 At the production of the 16th X Games annual action sports competition, which featured more than 200 of the world’s best athletes competing in BMX Freestyle, Moto X, Rally Car and Skateboard, ESPN used a multi-node MediorNet installation from Riedel Communications onsite to distribute video signals between the different locations for the live event.

mxfSPEEDRAIL S1000 and mxfSPEEDRAIL F1000 now have the ability to record and ingest HD media encoded with the high-performance AVC-Intra video codec and with QuickTime file format and supported video codecs. This allows mxfSPEEDRAIL to provide real-time editing when required to record and ingest SD or HD signals using either Final Cut Pro or Avid video editing applications.

RTW, a leading manufacturer and distributor of professional audio metering and control devices, proudly announces that Sony China Professional Solutions Group has deployed the company’s SurroundMonitor 10800X-PLUS for use on its new HD OB van. In one of its first applications, the RTW sound meter is helping production team members on the van quickly and easily monitor audio for live broadcasts of some of Asia’s biggest events, including EXPO 2010 and the upcoming 2010 Asian Games.

After giving a successful debut to its Keyframe Concept workflow tool for digital film production at last year’s IBC, Norway’s Drylab returns to Amsterdam this year with the focus on Keyframe Camera Report – an easy-to-use iPhone/iPod Touch application for advanced on-set metadata input: Stand 7.B20

Perform, a world leader in broadcasting and commercialising sports content in digital media, has made a substantial investment in Avid solutions for the ingest, creation, management and distribution of its sports content to various mediums including digital TV, the web and mobile phones.

Soundcraft Studer has appointed Angel G. Perez to the newly created position of Applications Engineer, Intercontinental, as part of its continuing initiative to better serve the emerging and established markets of the Intercontinental region.

RTW, a leading manufacturer and distributor of professional audio metering and control devices, will be giving international broadcasters at this year’s IBC 2010 (Stand 8.E76) an advance look at its innovative new TouchMonitor series.

Sound Devices is unveiling the 2.10 firmware update for its 788T and 788T-SSD multitrack digital audio recorders, along with the 1.15 upgrade to its Wave Agent software at IBC 2010 (Stand 8.E72). The 788T update, available to all 788T users on the company’s website, allows for the linking of multiple 788T recorders, as well as other Sound Devices 7-Series recorders. Wave Agent 1.15, meanwhile, features a new Control Mode.

When TV Asahi decided to replace their current production to playout workflow, they put it into practice by implementing a combined solution from DVS and IMAGICA DIGIX. Thanks to an active exchange of ideas, the involved parties settled for a tailor-made VENICE feature set that fulfills the requirements of a sophisticated and streamlined broadcast workflow.

Newtec and local integration company First Gulf Company are partnering to implement the next-generation television and radio exchange network of the Saudi Arabian government's nationwide media transformation programme. This groundbreaking initiative involves an unprecedented deployment of satellite-based technology for a national infrastructure delivering television, radio and Intranet services.

Supporting two full HD outputs simultaneously, mixing within 12 layers and a comprehensive I/O panel built in, the Mbox Extreme is the most powerful and flexible media server available.

Malaysian Pay-TV channel Astro-TV has equipped three of its broadcast studios with audio technology by SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP. Two studios in the All Asia Broadcast Centre (AABC) at Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, took delivery of AURUS consoles and a corresponding NEXUS network. In addition, Astro Arena, a local sports channel launched earlier this year, has opted for a CRESCENDO desk to be installed in its new surround capable studio.

· Internet-based TV is growing rapidly, with 50 percent of the consumers using it every week
· Promise of future revenues, despite consumers’ current unwillingness to pay for online content
· Consumer spending will shift with increase of on-demand
· High interest in touch screen tablet
· Sample representative of more than 300 million consumers

The production company Creativurge from Vienna comprising cinematographer Sebastian Leitner and director Louis-Jeremy Spiess has completed two new film projects, in which the FSB 6 T / 2 D tripod system of Sachtler, a Vitec Group brand, was used. For the making of "Echt Jetzt" (short film, 28 min.) and "Fladeranten Schau" (twelve-part short film series), the project team decided in favor of the Sachtler FSB 6 T fluid head because of its precise and smooth camera operation.