By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 3:56 pm
Motion Impossible, the modular remote dolly systems and camera stabilizers manufacturer, has announced the opening of its U.S. division. To ensure the best on-the-ground support, the company has formed a partnership with AbelCine, the industry leading film and broadcast equipment integrator, to provide sales, training and technical support across North America.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, October 16, 2020 - 7:00 am
Tackling the role of CEO during a pandemic is never part of the plan but that’s just what Vislink CEO Mickey Miller did, arriving in January and immediately being thrust into entirely new challenges for one of the industry’s leading providers of digital microwave and wireless video systems. But he and the team have embraced […]
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By SVG Staff | Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 9:21 am
Telestream has rolled out a new option for the Vantage media processing platform that enables direct publishing to Frame.io’s cloud-based collaborative platform. With the Vantage Connector for Frame.io, media files and metadata processed by Vantage in preparation for collaborative editing can now be automatically dropped directly into Frame.io user folders for seamless collaboration and review […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 12:43 pm
The HBS Broadcast Academy has been an important part of the industry’s education initiatives as it is designed to provide specialized training to help improve to quality of football/soccer production, increase the opportunities for women and minorities in front-bench roles, and much more. It’s most recent efforts involved an online panel discussion featuring two leading […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 12:31 pm
EVS today took the wraps off of LSM-VIA, a new instant replay system that takes IP technology and couples it with familiar tactile controls (and a couple of new buttons and a new touchscreen) to give replay operators a much higher level of replay functionality. More importantly, by decoupling the operation of LSM-VIA from the […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, May 15, 2020 - 12:48 pm
Ikegami has launched two advanced new solutions, the UHL-F4000 4K/HD 3CMOS multi-purpose separate optics two-piece camera, and the BSX-100 3G fiber base station, joining an expanding line of 4K, HDR & IP technology from Ikegami.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 7:17 pm
NEP Group CEO Kevin Rabbitt will leave the company on June 30 after eight years at the helm when he sets sail, almost literally, to become CEO of Hornblower Group which operates cruises and other events in cities like New York, Boston, Long Beach, and more. The transition plan was agreed to in February and […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 9:34 am
The decision by EVS to acquire Axon Digital Design was driven by two key factors, according to EVS CEO Serge Van Herck: a complementary product portfolio with little overlap as well as an opportunity to give Axon Digital renewed marketing lift in the U.S. where it is still relatively unknown.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 2:11 pm
Panasonic’s KAIROS, a next generation live production platform, is a new IT/IP video processing platform that charts a new course for the company. It offers an open architecture system for live video switching with complete input and output flexibility, resolution and format independence, maximum CPU/GPU processor utilization and virtually unlimited ME scalability.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 2:06 pm
In an expansion to its AK series studio and field camera line-up, Panasonic has introduced the cost-effective AK-HC3900 1080p HDR studio camera system, which will be upgradable to native 4K 60p/50p. The new AK-HC3900 is ideal for broadcast, education and corporate markets. It follows in the footsteps of the company’s AK-HC3800, a model that has defined […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, May 4, 2020 - 3:53 pm
Sports production professionals concerned that a shared headset might open them up to increased exposure to the Coronavirus have a new option as CP Communications is making it possible for technicians to buy their own headset at reduced rates.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, May 1, 2020 - 2:29 pm
Sony Electronics gave an update on its imaging products this week as Robert Willox, Sony, Director of Marketing, Imaging Products & Solutions rolled through some of the new features and tools designed to make it easier for sports production professionals to capture quality images, take advantage of IP technologies, and more. “Innovation isn’t just about […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, April 24, 2020 - 12:36 pm
Grass Valley has introduced the LiveTouch 1300, the company’s latest highlights and replay production system, as well as a new camera platform, the LDX 100, and production switcher engine, the K-Frame XP, and all three make the most of IP tech to provide format and production flexibility.
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, April 24, 2020 - 10:53 am
Grass Valley has launched GV Media Universe, a virtual world of applications and microservices powered by the Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP) and kicking off a new era for the company as it opens the door to cloud-based SaaS workflows that are top of mind for many sports-production professionals.
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By SVG Staff | Monday, March 30, 2020 - 1:47 pm
Japan might not be the first nation that springs to mind when someone mentions basketball, but the country has a long tradition of playing the sport and was a founding member of the International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) Asia chapter in 1936. Japan actually has one of the most successful men’s basketball teams in Asia; it […]
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