Archive for April 10th, 2007

Slate 2100 Switcher With Integrated Graphics, Clips And Monitoring Offloads Main Control Room

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts (April 10, 2007) Broadcast Pix™ Inc. today announced that KHQ-DT, the NBC affiliate in Spokane, Washington, is using its Slate™ 2100 live television production system for single-operator production of the station‘s “Weather Plus Updates.” The weather report is broadcast daily on its DTV channel 6-2; carried locally by Comcast Cablevision, and available from the station‘s Web site, www.khq.com. The updates are also fed to two other Central Washington stations owned by KHQ–KNDO-DT in Yakima and KNDU-DT in Kennewick–for broadcast on their DTV secondary channels and Web sites. All three stations rely on the Slate 2100 system‘s performance when producing the updates since the weather can change rapidly and dramatically throughout the region. more

WAYNE, NJ, April 9, 2007 – Belo Corp. owned WFAA-TV/DT produces daily local newscasts in HD with Fujinon studio lenses from its new 4,000 square foot remote studio facility at Victory Park, adjacent to the American Airlines Center on the north end of downtown Dallas. The new facility has no control room and is fiber-optically connected to the station‘s facility located next door to The Dallas Morning News on Young Street in downtown Dallas. The four Grass Valley LDK 4000 HD studio cameras at the Victory Park facility, as well as at WFAA‘s existing studio, are each equipped with Fujinon‘s HA18X5.5BERD and HA13X4.5BERD HD lenses. more

CYPRESS, CA, April 9, 2007 – Several television stations have recently selected FOR-A‘s IVS-100 video stabilizer to stabilize images from tower camera systems which capture live weather, traffic and beauty shots. All of the units were sold through Lamar Systems, a distributor and systems integrator for audio and video codecs and camera systems. Lamar‘s IVS-100 customers include: KGUN – Tuson, Arizona; Global Television Networks – Burnaby, British Columbia; WRTV – Indianapolis, Indiana; WSLS – Roanoke, Virginia; Media General Television and the Journal Broadcast Group. more

Stockholm, Sweden – 10 April, 2007 – Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in film and video, announced that it will demonstrate support for high-end colour grading within the Avid® post production environment in NAB demonstrations at both the Avid booth (SL106) and the Digital Vision booth (SL3205). The first company to join Avid‘s DNxHD® codec licensing program, Digital Vision is addressing significant industry demand for efficient file-based mastering and grading within established workflows for broadcast and film. more

wondertouch™ www.wondertouch.com announces today the immediate availability of a Universal Binary version of particleIllusion™ 3.0 for Mac® OS® X, its award-winning particle effects application. particleIllusion 3.0.5 is a free update that runs natively on both Intel- and Power PC-based Mac computers. In addition to running full-speed on the new generation of Intel® Mac computers, particleIllusion 3.0.5 contains numerous bug fixes and has been optimized; it delivers a 10- to-20 percent speed improvement over version 3.0.4 on Power PC Macs. (Full press release available here)

At NAB wondertouch (booth SL3827B) will show the new Universal Binary version of particleIllusion 3.0 in addition to the entire particleIllusion(TM) line of software products, including the highly-acclaimed new Pro Emitter Libraries. Alan Lorence, president of wondertouch, answers questions about the new Universary Binary release and the company’s participation at NAB. more