Trilogy Communications, the global provider of digital intercom systems and Master Reference Generators to the broadcast industry, launches its innovative, new distributed matrix intercom, Gemini, at IBC 2010 on stand 10.A29.

The Sonisphere Festival is a great metal and hard rock music festival, which, in contrast to the usual music festivals, isn’t held in a specific place each year, but tours with different bands throughout the world.
On June 22nd and 23rd, 2010 the Sonisphere Festival came to Sofia, Bulgaria. The metal genre ‘big names’ - Metallica, Slayer, Manowar, Alice In Chains, Megadeth, Mastodon, Anthrax, Rammstein and Stone Sour performed.

Megahertz (MHz), an international independent systems integrator, has received an order from Racecourse Technical Services Ltd (RaceTech), the innovative racecourse services provider, for three new High-Definition (HD) Outside Broadcast (OB) vehicles to provide the production facilities for Racing UK Ltd, the premier independent horseracing broadcaster in the UK and Ireland. The high-specification trucks that will be designed and built by MHz are due to be deployed in the first quarter of next year — with the 2011 Cheltenham Festival in March expected to be the first major horseracing fixture to be shown in HD by terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 4.

A week before the start of the World Cup in South Africa, ProSieben broadcastedseveral ‘specials’. The first was Stefan Raab’s World Cup before the World Cup – the "TV total Car Ball World Cup 2010". The programme was broadcast live on June 4th at 20.15 and featured 8 nations in two groups of 4 teams competing for the cup at the LANXESS arena in Cologne.

Thomson Grass Valley will arrive in Amsterdam for IBC 2010 with a lineup of new products and upgrades from its transmission and headend units. These units were not included in Francisco Partners’ recent binding offer to Technicolor concerning the Grass Valley broadcast unit, and the businesses plan to operate individually going forward.

The 2010 Tour de France was the 97th edition of the Tour de France cycle race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 3 July with an 8.9 km prologue time trial in Rotterdam, the first start in the Netherlands since 1996. The race visited three countries: the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and finished on 25 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris .

Dalet Digital Media Systems will showcase Dalet Enterprise Edition, their flagship News and Media Asset Management (MAM) solution, featuring its new Workflow Engine at the IBC 2010 exhibition, held in Amsterdam from September 10 – 14 in Hall 8, Stand B77. This latest version of Dalet Enterprise Edition offers the only solution on the market that fully integrates leading-edge creative and editorial tools for News, Sports and Program production with MAM and workflow automation.

OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive broadcast automation, today announced the appointment of Roger Bowley as regional sales manager for the U.K. and Ireland. With a track record of experience in senior sales roles for industry leaders such as Snell and Quantel, Bowley will report to OmniBus Executive Vice Pesident Greg Hoskin.

Ross Video Limited and Codan Limited jointly announced today that Ross has entered into a letter of intent to buy 100% of the shares of Codan’s wholly-owned Melbourne-based subsidiary, Codan Broadcast Products Pty Ltd. The sale, subject only to the finalization of due diligence, is scheduled for completion on 31 August, 2010.

Further to discussions started in May, Technicolor has received a fully documented binding offer from Francisco Partners for the acquisition of the Grass Valley Broadcast business. This disposal process contributes to the strategic refocus around its content creators and network service providers customer base, initiated by the Group in 2009.

As summer takes its hold, Lawo is pleased to present a new software release – v4.10. Available for download from Lawo’s Download Center since the end of June, it is more stable, faster, and carries multiple new features.

• Electro-Voice certainly set the tone for this year’s World Cup, with sound systems in nine of the ten football stadiums hosting the event, and at live relays of the matches back in Germany„
• Fans gathered in their thousands to follow the games on giant screens in cities including Munich and Burghausen

Three grandMA full-size consoles and a grandMA2 light were used to control nearly 500 high powered light sources for the colourful and highly acclaimed Closing Ceremony of the 2010 World Cup, staged at Soccer City Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg. The 2010 Closing Ceremony event was produced by the VWV Group, it featured a cast of 740 including 40 elephant operators and 35 principal artists and has been acclaimed as one of the best and most visually exciting World Cup Closing ceremonies to date.

coolux has always known that the process of designing, developing and manufacturing world-class technology involves a little bit of magic. In a way, it was only a matter of time, before professional stage magicians began using coolux products for their very own kind of glamorous performance magic.

The Stereoscopic 3D product range includes signal processors, multi-viewers and channel branding systems. The Densite 3DX-3901 Stereoscopic 3D signal processor provides high quality conversion of multiple 3D formats, including Dual 1.5Gbps, Dual 3Gbps, Single 3Gbps, and Single 1.5Gbps, with side-by-side encoding and Sensio side-by-side encoding. Monitoring functions include Anaglyph, Difference-Disparity, and Left or Right eye display.