Archive for July 7th, 2011

Grass Valley’s LDK 8000 Elite HD Camera

America’s Catholic Television Network, CatholicTV®, which provides inspirational programming across the United States, is upgrading its studios and operations facility in Watertown, MA to full high-definition (HD) capabilities with new production technologies from Grass Valley™.

The CatholicTV Network has purchased a new Grass Valley Kayenne™ HD Video Production Center, seven Grass Valley LDK 8000 Elite Series HD cameras with new 3G Fiber Transmission systems, and a variety of GeckoFlex™ signal processing modules in support of its existing Trinix router. The LDK 8000 Elite HD cameras are the first purchased by a major studio in the city of Boston and are key to the new project which was designed by David Haralambou of By Request Communications, Inc. (in Marlborough, MA.).

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After acquiring JBL LSR4300 Series studio monitors, producer/engineer Bob Kraushaar stated: “I wish I’d had these years ago.”

NORTHRIDGE, California – Top British producer and mixing engineer Bob Kraushaar has worked with some of the finest artists over the years, including Pet Shop Boys, Elton John, Tom Jones, Gang Of Four, Gary Barlow and Paul McCartney, having begun his career alongside the legendary Trevor Horn at the highly influential SARM Studios. Recently engaged on mixing Pet Shops Boys’ The Most Incredible Thing ballet CD and Honey Ryder’s latest album, Kraushaar hasn’t got where he has without developing a finely-attuned set of audio ears.

To achieve perfection, state-of-the-art nearfield monitoring providing an accurate reference right across the frequency spectrum is imperative. Kraushaar finally found the missing piece in the jigsaw by purchasing a pair of JBL LSR4328P more

San Antonio, TX – July 2011… As any broadcast professional knows all too well; dirt, dust, and moisture can be the kiss of death for electronic equipment. Toss in what many would simply refer to as physical abuse of the product, complicate matters further by requiring the gear to perform over an extended range, and you begin to grasp the challenges of outfitting the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) performers with wireless microphone technology. Make no mistake: this is a dirty job, and it’s a challenge routinely encountered by audio engineer Mark Harrier and his crew as they outfit not only the bull riders, but the bull fighters—the guys who keep the bull from killing the rider once he is thrown to the ground. So what kind of wireless equipment endures this type of handling? You guessed it—Lectrosonics. more

Telestream Brings New Vantage Products to Market
Three new products now available: Vantage Enterprise Control and Vantage Master Control offer a high level of visibility and deep level of control for large-scale video workflows; new Vantage Team Management enables creation of user accounts and web-based job status views more

Three new products now available: Vantage Enterprise Control and Vantage Master Control offer a high level of visibility and deep level of control for large-scale video workflows; new Vantage Team Management enables creation of user accounts and web-based job status views

Telestream®, the leading provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, today announced the release of three major new enterprise-class system management products in the Vantage® video workflow family: Vantage Enterprise Control, Vantage Master Control, and Vantage Team Management. Telestream also announced the release of Vantage 3.0 which adds support for a number of new video and audio formats, wrappers and systems, and new video workflow design and automation features. Vantage server-based software products automate content ingest, transcoding, video file interoperability, video production workflows, and multi-channel distribution for content owners, creators, broadcast, cable and new media companies. more

The Christie YK100 won the title of “Most Innovative New Product” at the InfoComm/Rental & Staging New Product Awards ceremony held in Orlando, Florida, June 14, 2011.

The Christie YK100 single-arm yoke system is designed for use with the Christie M Series and Christie LX1500 projectors, offering brightness levels ranging from 5700 to 15,000 ANSI lumens and a choice between 3-chip DLP and 3LCD technologies. DMX512 protocol manages projector movement and control – empowering users to integrate and control lighting equipment and video projectors easily with the same console. Another advantage of the Christie YK100 design is its quick lock system. This interchangeable head system lets users replace the video projector with another Christie projector or Xenon light – on the same yoke.

Installed at ground level or rigged to truss, Christie Nitro Solutions are ideal for video projection mapping on buildings, architectural lighting and cityscapes, houses of more

Bright Technologies, Inc., developer of advanced technology for shared media, has appointed Ryan Spano as Software Quality Assurance Engineer. Spano will manage a range of testing and performance analysis procedures to ensure all Bright products are manufactured and tested to the highest standards. He will also undertake all documentation procedures.

Spano began his career at MountainGate Data Systems when digital media file management technology was still in its early days. More recently, he has managed product testing and verification processes in the areas of network attached storage systems and file sharing software. He is also an experienced technical writer, having authored products manuals, test procedures and assembly instructions for end users and manufacturers.

At Bright, Spano will be responsible for all product QA procedures, including documenting test and performance statistics, and identifying potential improvements in product manufacturing. He will also manage configuration for prerequisite components and products, and more