Archive for October, 2009

NEW YORK, NY – Gepco, a General Cable company and industry leader in the manufacturing and distribution of professional audio and video cables, will showcase its XB201DBM X-Band microphone cable at AES 2009 (Stand 151). The XB201DBM is an extra-flexible, high bandwidth microphone cable with a double braid shield for added noise rejection – ideal for recording studio facilities or live sound venues. more

Net Insight, a leading developer of efficient and scalable optical transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, today announced its expansion order from a large North American sports broadcasters to incorporate additional Nimbra equipment into its high-traffic production and distribution networks. The broadcaster has relied on Net Insight’s Nimbra platform for several years and continues to enhance its network for delivery of sports content. In North America the broadcaster further expands its Nimbra-based high-capacity network and in Asia and Australia new Nimbra-nodes are added to the network to accommodate increasing demand from customers.

Chris Heuer of Freefall FX Takes Home Full Portfolio of Imagineer Systems VFX Tools


GUILDFORD, UK (October 1, 2009) Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com), creators of next-generation VFX tools, today announced the winner of its 2009 Video Tutorial Contest: Chris Heuer of Freefall FX. Chris’ winning tutorial – which tapped into the groundbreaking 3D restoration of Murnau’s Nosferatu as the setting for his tutorial — demonstrates innovative and alternative uses for mocha, Imagineer’s award-winning 2D planar tracking tool. more

Crystal Vision will be showing its new generation of embedders and down converters on Booth 1304 at HD World 2009, which takes place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York on 14th and 15th October.

These new products include TANDEM 3G – the first single board solution providing a combined embedder and de-embedder for four groups of audio. Its additional ability to work with 3Gb/s, HD and SD sources makes it an economic and flexible solution for a very wide range of applications. It features eight bi-directional digital audio inputs and outputs on the board which can be configured in stereo pairs, and is most likely to be used for embedding or de-embedding eight AES channels, or for embedding four AES while de-embedding four AES at the same time. more

Customer focused approach brings outstanding performance in tough market conditions
Quantel today announced its provisional results for its 2008/9 financial year, which ended on 30th September 2009. In some of the toughest market conditions around the world for many years and while some competitors are reporting losses, Quantel increased its turnover by 12% and reported its best operating profit since the company’s Management Buyout in 2000. Quantel also announced that it is currently seeking to recruit 20 graduate-level staff. Most of these are for new positions within the Research and Development Lab where work continues apace on a host of exciting projects.

This outstanding performance has been driven by success in three main areas of business, each carefully addressed by Quantel as a result of customer-focused developments: more

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Life’s a beach, especially during New York City Fashion Week 2010 when award-winning designer Scott Sternberg unveiled his Band of Outsiders and women’s Boy by Band of Outsiders spring and summer collections on a Malibu-inspired set with production support by Tinc Design & Productions.

Tinc furnished lighting, rigging, hair and makeup services for the show, which reunited Tinc production manager Ryan Kirk with lighting designer Seth Bernstein. They previously partnered on the Band of Outsiders fall collection presented during Fashion Week last March. more