Pilot Fred North has just completed his second project for director Louis Leterrier, and his first with Pictorvision’s new state-of-the-art Eclipse helicopter camera mount system. “I did Leterrier’s last movie with a different system,” says North. “It didn’t have a perfect horizon level and could not look straight down. For Clash of the Titans, Louis and cinematographer Peter Menzies Jr. wanted to have a different system with perfect horizon level at all times to fly at a speed approaching 135 mph through steep canyons in Tenerife (Spain) and be able to look straight down. So I suggested the Eclipse and they confirmed it.”

SIS LIVE, a leading outside broadcast(OB) facility and uplink supplier in Europe, has acquired the business and assets of Leicesterbasedoutside broadcast company Dales Broadcast. Under the terms of the deal, SIS LIVE hasbought Dales Broadcast’s fleet of highly specified, midsizeOB trucks and other broadcastequipment. Dales Broadcast’s managing director, Julian Boden, joins SIS LIVE to assist inintegrating the business with SIS LIVE’s existing OB operation.

The new PCF1325C from the KLOTZ a.i.s. cable production is the perfect solution to the needs of mobile lighting technology, where stringent standards of fire protection and cable safety must be obeyed - particularly in the field of stage lighting.

Following the launch of Sony’s new HDC R-Series system cameras, UK based The London Studios has announced the purchase of 18 HDC-1500R and HDC-1000R cameras, alongside a selection of Vision Mixers, LCD monitors and studio recorders. The investment will enable The London Studios to produce programmes in both SD and HD in their main studios as well as future proofing their investment for 1080p production.

Clear-Com® Communication Systems announced today the worldwide launch of its new two-channel Tempest wireless intercom system, the most recent addition to the company’s acclaimed Tempest®2400 2.4 GHz wireless intercom family. Ideal for theatres, rental houses and other live productions, the two-channel system is an affordable option for those requiring fewer channels of communications but still offers the same license-free operation, exceptional RF performance and rich feature set as the four-channel Tempest2400.

On your marks, get set, go! 9.58 seconds later Usain Bolt had written history again. The sprinter from Jamaica beat his previous sensational time at the Olympic Games by an amazing 11/100 secs, and celebrated his win with his signature archer’s pose. This was only one of the many highlights of the Athletics World Championships in Berlin. This exciting sports event was broadcast in HD by ZDF’s new MP-4 OB truck.

Since their launching on the sports broadcasting market, the fully integrated ultra slow motion systems developed by I-MOVIX have been certified fully compatible with most of the HD broadcast lenses manufactured by FUJINON, the historical R&D partner of I-MOVIX.

Harris to supply Canada's Olympic Broadcast Consortium with graphics, servers, editing, networking, processing, branding and test and measurement equipment. The Harris ONE™ solution features a variety of Harris graphics, servers and editing, networking, processing, branding and test and measurement equipment. The system brings together highly integrated products that enable advanced media workflows and provides the Consortium with high quality broadcast technology for its delivery of Olympic Games coverage like never before.

On 29th September, Swiss television broadcast a very special live performance on four channels plus the Franco-German TV network ARTE: Puccini’s La Bohème – staged at a high rise and a neighbouring shopping precinct in Bern. The various scenes in different locations only came together as a coherent whole for the audience in front of the TV set at home. And furthermore, only these viewers could hear the complex audio mix of the orchestra at the precinct and the soloists at the various scenes.

Grass Valley™ announced the K2 Dyno™ Director, a new software management layer that extends the capabilities of the K2 product line while enabling live event productions to cost-effectively combine multiple Grass Valley K2 Dyno™ HD replay controllers for use within OB vans and sports venues. The architecture is completely scalable to accommodate virtually any number of replay channels and/or camera inputs, all tied to a centralized point of production on-site.

VRT, the Flemish language national broadcaster in Belgium, has outsourced its outside broadcast services to supplier Videohouse which has committed to building two new high definition production trucks equipped with Grass Valley™ cameras, vision mixers, and routers. The new contract maintains Grass Valley’s a nearly 100% market share for broadcast HD system cameras in Belgium.

Belden, has introduced a high-quality SMPTE311 HD Camera Assembly that supports 720p, 1080i and 1080p. HD cameras provide digital transmission using SMPTE311 standard fiber optic cable for connecting to the camera control unit. In addition to their exceptional quality, HD cameras can transmit all digital bi-directional video and audio signals, one control line, power line, and prompter line over extremely long distances - up to 4000 meters with Belden SMPTE311 HD Camera Assemblies.

German television channel ZDF has purchased a large end-to-end broadcast infrastructure solution comprising products from Harris Corporation. The equipment was selected for the HD upgrade of ZDF’s entire mobile production department, ZDF Mobile Produktions Einheit (MPE), located in Mainz, Germany.

Harris Corporation has introduced the new Videotek® Compact Monitor Series for testing signal integrity across all DTV broadcast signal formats up to 3 Gb/s — in a half-rack, energy-saving design. At less than seven inches deep, the Compact Monitor is well-suited for today’s space-conscious, flat-panel broadcast and production environments.

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has provided the high-definition (HD) infrastructure technology to L’Opera Broadcast Video Service for its brand-new HD OB (Outside Broadcast) van, “OB 5 HD.” The latest addition to the L’Opera fleet, “OB 5 HD” will be parked in the outside broadcast area at IBC2009 as part of a busy European demonstration tour.