TC Electronic Announces DB4 MKII And DB8 MKII Cross-Platform Broadcast Processors At The 2011 NAB Show

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New Broadcast Processors Add More Of Everything Compared To Predecessors

lm6.jpgLAS VEGAS, APRIL 12, 2011 – TC Electronic (Booth SU10217), a global leader in digital signal processing and loudness control technologies for the professional audio, broadcast and post production markets, is pleased to bring its DB4 MKII and DB8 MKII cross-platform broadcast processors to the 2011 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The DB4 MKII and DB8 MKII conform to new EBU, ATSC and ITU Loudness and true-peak level standards across all platforms and all formats. The broadcast world’s highest resolution, lowest latency and lowest distortion comes complimentary with DB4 MKII and DB8 MKII.

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The new MKII versions feature EBU R128 and ATSC A/85 compliant LM6 Loudness Meter, new SNMP functions and one week of detailed logging, even without connection to a computer. In DB4 (more…)

INTEGRATED MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (IMT) GIVES FULL HIGH DEFINITION TUNE UP TO ITS MODULAR MOBILE RF PLATFORM ENG NEWS VEHICLE FOR THE 2011 NAB SHOW

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Provides Broadcasters Efficiency through Simplicity with

Flexible, Run-and-Gun, State-of-the-Art, Turn-key Solution

LAS VEGAS, APRIL 12, 2011 – Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (IMT), a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, and a leader in advanced digital microwave systems serving the Broadcast, Sports & Entertainment and MAG (Military, Aerospace & Government) markets, will be rolling out its fully HD Microwave Service Company (MSC) Modular Mobile RF Platform (MMRP) broadcast ENG news vehicle at the 2011 NAB Show (Booth C6432). The MMRP in full HD configuration was designed and integrated by Microwave Service Company (MSC), the engineering, integration and installation group of IMT.imt-mscs-mmrp-broadcast-eng-van.jpg

The MMRP offers superior gas mileage, along with a very flexible and efficient platform for today’s smaller news crews. Now available in a full HD-SDI configuration, the MMRP (also available in SD), features a full-width removable rack with 27RU, comfortable (more…)

Anton/Bauer QR-DSLR and DSLR-ADP-ELPZ Power Solutions for the Canon EOS 7D, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 60D Cameras Make Their NAB Debut

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Gold Mount Power Options Meet the Growing Demands of DSLR Cinematography

LAS VEGAS, APRIL 12, 2011 – Anton/Bauer®, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, will debut the QR-DSLR and DSLR-ADP-ELPZ power solutions for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D and EOS 60D Digital SLR cameras at the 2011 NAB Show (Booth C7032). (more…)

Digital Rapids Previews New Contribution Extensions for Award-Winning MediaMesh Content Delivery System

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Digital Rapids LogoApril 12, 2011 — NAB Show, Las Vegas, Booth SL6010: Digital Rapids — the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — is offering attendees of the 2011 NAB Show a preview of a powerful new extension to the award-winning MediaMesh business-to-business content delivery system. The new MediaMesh TX content contribution appliance provides flexible, easy-to-use content packaging and sending capabilities mirroring the robust features of the proven MediaMesh RX receiving appliance. (more…)

NAB 2011: DSC Labs Announces New Extreme Dynamic Range 1,000,000:1 Camera Evaluation Test System

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The self-illuminated Xyla 15™ (14 f-stop) and Xyla 21™ (20 f-stop) are designed to provide greater accuracy and flexibility when measuring dynamic range

Toronto, Canada – DSC Labs, an eco-friendly developer of innovative products for image quality improvement, is pleased to announce the latest addition to its current line of high dynamic range charts – the Xyla 15™ and Xyla 21™. While the Xylas are sophisticated tools that feature spectrophotometrically neutral grayscales and built-in regulated power supplies, they are remarkably intuitive and easy to use. Xylas attach to any ⅝ inch spigot light stand and provide built-in leveling. Xyla’s grayscale steps may be viewed as a full staircase, in groups or individually. This can be invaluable when comparing lens flare or other optical flares in a system.

“When testing a camera’s ability to capture minute amounts of light, in the case of Xyla 21 (more…)

Ramar Communications Taps Video Technics for MOS-Enabled HD News Production and Playout

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newsflow_600×310.jpgAtlanta, GA (April 12, 2011) – Video Technics Inc., a leading provider of IT-based broadcast solutions, today announced Ramar Communications selected the NewsFlow™ solution to initiate the next-generation digital transition for their stations based out of Lubbock, Texas. RAMAR is the parent company of FOX 34, FOX 34 NewsNOW, the FOX AccuWeather Channel, My Lubbock TV, the Lubbock CW, and Telemundo Lubbock.

When their older broadcast equipment began to fail, Ramar Communications asked Video Technics to ship a demo Apella server to their facility, have it remotely configured and get them up and running in record time. Exceptionally pleased with the responsiveness of the organization and how well the NewsFlow solution met their needs, Ramar purchased an end-to-end solution from Video Technics. With this new solution, the team at Ramar can now use their existing Avid and Adobe NLEs with the VT (more…)

NAB News: Internap Speeds Delivery of Web and Mobile Content across its CDN with XIP Acceleration

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This morning, Internap, a global provider of CDN and cloud services to a wide range of broadcast and media and entertainment companies, including Digital Sports Video, Rhapsody and GamersGate, announced that its Accelerated IP (XIP™) service will be incorporated into its global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to accelerate content delivery all the way to the end user device and across a greater number of network layers than traditional CDNs, resulting in a notable and immediate performance improvement for customers (without having to deploy any additional hardware/software to achieve this speedy delivery). The integration will significantly improve the delivery of video streaming and web content to a wide range of user devices, including mobile phones, tablets and PCs, resulting in 400% faster streaming and downloads.

For more info, click here to see the press release. Also, Internap is showing a (more…)

AmberFin and Matrox Deliver Integrated ProRes Ingest and Transcode Workflow – New development simplifies mezzanine format deployments

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AmberFin and Matrox Video Products Group today announced that support for the Apple ProRes codec has been integrated into the award-winning AmberFin iCR range, allowing iCR users to encode to ProRes during ingest and transcode to ProRes for delivery. This allows users of Final Cut Pro to benefit from the comprehensive range of iCR’s ingest, transcoding, review, QC, format conversion, and standards conversion toolset. AmberFin iCR products are powered by the Matrox Xmio2 card, part of the Matrox DSX family of developer products.“We are really excited that working with Matrox we have been able to bring something unique to the market,” AmberFin CTO, Bruce Devlin, commented. “iCR users can now automatically ingest all of the tapes in a Flexicart, provide mark up and quality control for ProRes assets, and transcode them with full 10-bit quality including up, down, and cross conversion.”

New Matrox DSX Developer Products to be Demonstrated at NAB 2011

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NAB 2011 – Las Vegas – April 10, 2011 –Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that two new cards and significant new software features have been added to the Matrox DSX™ Developer Products family. The new X.264io card is a PCIe card that offers an SDI input with an onboard H.264 hardware encoder and a single program transport stream ASI output. The new XMIO2/12/8K/D card features Matrox’s advanced motion adaptive deinterlacing technology and multi-directional anti-aliasing filtering which yields perfect progressive representations of interlaced fields. New software features include the following:

• Avid DNxHD support in the Matrox Flex Reader

• Native GXF file support in the Matrox Flex Reader

• TDIR support for MOV files (DV, XDCAM, MPEG2 IBP, ProRes)

• AAC support for proxy MOV files

• Timecode support for native and proxy H.264 MOV files

• Multi-stream, multi-bitrate WMV proxy generation for Intelligent Streaming

• 16-channel (more…)

MOTIVE WELCOMES BRIAN MCSWEENEY AS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

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motive_brian-mcsweeney_email_cropped.jpgMcSweeney’s Expertise to Help Increase MOTIVE’s Services with Cutting-Edge Offerings Including Augmented Reality and QRC Code Development

NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 11, 2011 – MOTIVE, a transmedia company specializing in identity, branding, interactive, creative development and live action production for television, online, radio and print that transcends multiple media platforms, is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian McSweeney as technical director. McSweeney will spearhead the development of products based on such next-generation offerings as smart phone, iPad and Web apps and augmented reality, enabling MOTIVE clients to leverage technology breakthroughs to increase revenue and further grow their brands.

McSweeney brings with him a decade of experience designing and developing software for companies in the Internet, telecommunications and financial sectors, with a background in running development teams at major multinational companies and software startups. He will draw on this knowledge to (more…)