Archive for June, 2011

Season 2 of Bad Love, the irreverent, sexy web comedy series from screenwriting team and real-life couple, Michael Ashley and Valerie Shepherd, will make its debut at the 2011 TVFest Official Selections Announcement Party on June 30th at Busby’s East in Los Angeles.

Mike and Valerie star as the couple you love to hate. He is an insensitive jerk; she is a spoiled brat. They are rich yuppies who own an ironic t-shirt business. But in Season 2 the worst couple on earth loses it all: their home, their company, and their money. Due to insanely poor planning and an unprecedented economic downturn, Mike and Valerie are forced to sell their t-shirt company to Matt, their former employee that they used to kick around. Suddenly, homeless and penniless, Mike and Valerie have no other choice but to more

Millburn, New Jersey – T-VIPS America Inc, a global leader in professional video transport solutions for contribution, distribution, and digital terrestrial television, today announced that Scott Rogers has joined the company as Director of Sales—Mid-America. With over 19 years of professional sales experience in the broadcast television industry, Rogers is entrusted with expanding T-VIPS America Inc.’s market share across the Central U.S. region. T-VIPS offers a wide array of solutions for broadcast video contribution, terrestrial television, JPEG2000 based video transport over IP networks, and transport stream processing and monitoring.

In his new position, Roger’s responsibilities include expanding T-VIPS’ broadcast customer base—including station groups, independent stations, network operators and other key accounts through direct sales and channel marketing efforts—and developing new business sectors, such as stadium facilities and content providers.

“T-VIPS is a dynamic, fast-growing company focused more

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Matrox® Video Products Group today announced the availability of new software releases for the Matrox MXO2 product line for Mac and PC. Highlights of the new releases include support for Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, capture support for Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder, and presets for new H.264 encoding parameters in Adobe Media Encoder.

The award-winning Matrox MXO2 devices provide cross-platform Mac and Windows support and can be easily moved among desktop systems in a facility, installed in an OB van, or taken on the road with a laptop. Key features include: lightning fast H.264 file creation for the web, mobile devices, and Blu-ray via Matrox MAX™ technology and professional audio and video input and output with 10-bit hardware up/down/cross conversion.

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Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, has awarded Grass Valley™ the 2011 Global Market Share Leadership of the Year Award in the overall video switchers market. The award recognizes Grass Valley as a “best-in-class company” that has distinguished itself in the key technology areas of worldwide growth, innovation and leadership. After a year of extensive best practices research, Frost & Sullivan noted that Grass Valley has recorded the maximum share of the total video switcher sales during 2010 and also is the market leader in the routing switcher space.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Global Market Share Leadership is presented to the company that has demonstrated excellence in capturing the highest market share within its industry. The award recognizes the company’s leadership position within the industry in terms of revenue or units sold. Each year, this award is given to a company that has exhibited market share leadership through the implementation of sound market strategies.

With the mature video switchers market rebounding in 2010, Grass Valley continues to be the market leader in the overall video switchers market, according to Frost & Sullivan. Its analysis shows that this market leadership position is a result of Grass Valley having the maximum share of the production switchers market, in addition to having a strong position in the routing switchers market. The company also has a strong presence in the master control market.

“Grass Valley has reached this market leadership position by virtue of its strong focus on product innovation, command over a well-oiled sales and distribution channel, and most importantly by helping their customers obtain maximum return on investment,” said Sashankh Kale, a Frost & Sullivan industry analyst. “The company’s systems have found great success across geographies as the company retains its older clients, while constantly gaining newer ones. Based on these and other factors, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present the 2011Global Market Share Leadership of the Year Award in Video Switchers to Grass Valley.”

Grass Valley has successfully captured 20.1 percent of the total video switchers market for the year 2010, while also gaining market leadership in the routing switcher space, accounting for 21.2 percent of the market. The company has a global customer presence and since its formation in 1959 has acquired more than 3,000 customers in the broadcast space in addition to customers across other end-user segments. The company has a strong presence in North America, while it continues to expand and grow in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

“Grass Valley’s production and routing switchers have seen a high degree of success in broadcast networks and other segments around the world because they offer flexibility to handle a variety of signal types from the same frame with cost-effective value that translates to long-term reliability and a fast return on investment,” said Scott Murray, Senior Vice President, Live Production Solutions at Grass Valley. “We’re honored to have received this award, which once again distinguishes Grass Valley as a clear leader in the markets that it serves.”

Grass Valley’s switcher portfolio for production and routing includes the Kayenne™ Video Production Center, Kayenne XL panel, Kalypso™ HD production switcher, Kayak™ SD/HD production switcher, KayakDD Series production switchers, Trinix™ NXT digital routers, Concerto™ Series routers, Acappella™ routers, Indigo™ AV Mixer and others.

The company is constantly adding features to both its production and routing switcher product lines. The most recent additions to the production switcher product offering have been included with the new software releases for the Kayak production switcher (version 7.0.4 releasing soon) and the Kayenne Video Production Center (version 3.0), while the routing switcher product offering now includes 3 Gb/s for the Concerto routing switcher and new asymmetric frames, fiber optic I/O, and internal multiviewer additions to the Trinix routing switcher.

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Global Television in Canada will upgrade their entire news graphics workflow at their broadcast centers in Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, in addition to news bureaus in 9 other cities, with Ross XPression 2D/3D CG’s and associated workflow tools.

Going on-air in August with XPression, Global will now have four channels of playout for every control room, MOS workflow, design tools, NLE integration with GV Aurora editing systems, and order/asset management provided by Ross openMAM partner, MediaBeacon.

“XPression was the only CG product we found that could operate at a high level without any connection to playout hardware,” said Gerry Belec, Director, Technology and Design, Shaw Media. “We are moving our news production away from dedicated hardware to desktop applications and this fit nicely in the plan.”

Global Television, reaches almost 100% of Canadians and is complimented by 18 specialty more

LOS ANGELES— Icelandic director Thorhallur Saevarsson, known professionally as Thor, has joined Madheart, Los Angeles, for exclusive representation in the United States. It’s the first affiliation with a U.S. company for Thor, who is widely considered one of Europe’s brightest, young commercial directors. His credits include work for Philips, McDonald’s, Vodafone, Fuji, T-Mobile, Peugeot, GE, Coca-Cola, Deichmann and Skoda. more

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 21, 2011 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that its Omneon MediaDeck(TM) media server system and Omneon MediaGrid(TM) active storage system are being integrated into a new digital archive at Vietnam TV (VTV), the national broadcaster of Vietnam. The project, combined with workflow and media management software from Etere, represents the implementation of the first fully file-based media management system in Vietnam. more