Vimsoft to Highlight Production Scheduling and RFID Asset Tracking at NAB Show 2011

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Vimsoft - Versatile Information Management for Broadcast Engineering & Operations WorkflowsVimsoft will flex both Broadcast Engineering and Broadcast Operations muscles at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. Booth #N1029 will showcase a demonstration of the latest in equipment asset tracking using the VimBiz software application integrated with RFID technology. On the Operations side, Vimsoft will be featuring the latest enhancements to the immensely powerful VimBiz Scheduler solution for Human Resource planning and full facility booking, production projects, and work orders. The VimBiz Engineering & Operations application suite houses the industry-leading Equipment Asset Management solution for optimizing asset lifecycles, service workflows, stockroom efficiency, and purchase order cycles. VimBiz also offers the latest technology for production scheduling, timecard processing, rentals operations, and discrepancy reporting. These areas encompass the Operations side of VimBiz, making for the broadcasting industry’s only truly integrated Engineering & Operations solution. (more…)

Pilat Media Empowers Sales Executives With New IBMS:InTouch Tablet-Friendly Order and Account Management Console

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Companion to IBMS Sales System Enables Busy Executives to Access and Control Ad Campaign Information From Their Tablet Devices (more…)

grandMA2 light Turns in Winning Performance at Academy Awards Telecast

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Oscar Statuette Copyright AMPASgrandMA may not have made it onstage at the recent Academy Awards telecast, but it was grandMA’s night to shine, nonetheless. Jason Rudolph selected a grandMA2 light console to play the crucial role of controlling 34 Hippotizer servers, which fed multiple onstage screens via 70 video projectors. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of grandMA in North America.

“It was an enormous undertaking, to say the least,” reports Rudolph. “I regularly program multiple media servers with grandMA2 – it’s my main console – but I hadn’t done anything of this size: The entire set at the Oscars was projection. We had 34 Hippotizer HD units outputting 53 discrete active outputs and some spares with control from the grandMA2 light console. In addition to the screens, we also took care of the scenic tracking for the moving elements which acted as (more…)

Utah Scientific and Norwia AS Sign Technology Partnership Agreement

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SALT LAKE CITY — April 4, 2011 — Utah Scientific today announced a partnership with Norwia AS to develop new products and systems for efficient, reliable, and cost-effective digital signal transport based on the latest advances in component technology. Headquartered in Norway, Norwia is a new company that provides products for fiber transport and distribution of digital media signals. (more…)

Ross Video Introduces Nielsen Watermarks Encoder

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Iroquois, ON, Canada – April 4, 2011 – Ross Video will be introducing the openGear Nielsen Watermarks Encoder at NAB 2011. (more…)

Christie Spyder X20 Brings Sun and Surf To Fifth Avenue Shoppers At New Hollister Store

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Hollister“Surf’s up!” is not what you expect to hear on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, but the recently-opened midtown Manhattan Hollister store features a live video feed of surfers in Huntington Beach, California with the help of two Christie Spyder X20-0808 video processors and a Christie URS universal routing switcher. Hollister, the Southern California teen-inspired lifestyle brand from Abercrombie & Fitch, launched its second Manhattan store with its double-height glass storefront highlighting a surf motif. The company erected a giant wall consisting of 169 46-inch LCD displays stretching across the façade and over the front door.

“The monitors are mounted in portrait mode with virtually no mullions (vertical columns between the monitors) and offer a total pixel count of 7290 x 3360,” said Jeff Anderson of G-Force Engineering LLC, project integrator. “Two HD cameras in Huntington Beach feed live content to the (more…)

Ross Video Packs Big Production Power in New 2 MLE Switcher

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Iroquois, ON, Canada – April 4, 2011 – Ross Video Introduces CarboniteTM – A Big Switcher Production Power in an affordable mid-size package at NAB 2011. (more…)

DVEO to Demo Ogg Vorbis Stereo Codec Based Radio Station Studio to Transmitter Link at NAB 2011, Booth SU6911

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Studio to Transmitter Link — Audio PipeSan Diego, California — April 4, 2011 — DVEO, the broadcast division of Computer Modules, Inc. (CMI), will demonstrate their professional internet radio transmitter and receiver pair with analog inputs and outputs at NAB 2011, April 11-14 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in booth SU6911.

Developed for radio broadcasters, the Audio Pipe is a highly matched pair of (1) an audio encoder and (2) an audio decoder, designed to deliver very high quality audio via IP. The connection can be dedicated IP or well-provisioned public Internet.

The Audio Pipe’s quality is enabled via the advanced Ogg Vorbis codec. Ogg Vorbis is a powerful new audio compression format. Comparable to AAC+, it delivers much better audio quality than MP3 and uses far less bandwidth.

The Audio Pipe is powered by Streamit® software. Configuration is done remotely with (more…)

New MPEG Switch Keeps Broadcasters and STLs On Air All The Time

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Grass Valley, California, 28 March 2011 – New at NAB, Ensemble Designs is introducing a new, smart switch for ASI transmission streams for use in broadcast television applications. The new MPEG analysis and switch technology will be demonstrated on Ensemble Designs’ booth N1323. The National Association of Broadcasters Show will be held in Las Vegas April 11-14, 2011.

For use in transmission, satellite and broadcast, the Avenue 4445 is a smart 2×1 switch that combines detailed analysis of the transport stream and removes all jitter in DVB-ASI streams. The 4445 is both a clean switch and a fail-safe bypass protection switch for use with critical broadcast feeds.

New MPEG Switch Keeps Broadcasters and STLs On Air All The Time

This switch for broadcasters ensures a signal is broadcast to the home viewer at all times. Two signals are fed to the 4445, the (more…)

Quicklink Fast Enhanced Version for Mac and Windows

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UDP, Parallel FTP and HTTP sending options result in high efficiency and robustness from the field. From customer feedback, the new enhanced version of Quicklink Store & Forward LNG is proving to be a valuable addition to the Quicklink portfolio. Quicklink Enhanced option uses the File Catalyst engine which is seamlessly integrated into the LNG client interface and the receiving playout server. (more…)