DIGITAL BROADCAST, INC. NAMES DAVE HOPSON VICE PRESIDENT, NATIONAL SALES

Digital Broadcast, Inc. has announced that Dave Hopson has joined the company as vice president, national sales. He will manage all national sales functionality to ensure the most efficient growth within the broadcast marketplace in addition to expanding contiguous markets.

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I-MOVIX’s SprintCam Live V2 in the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games

I-MOVIX, will provide in Beijing the SprintCam Live V2, an Extreme Slow Motion Camera, for world’s major sports event of this year.

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Argosy Cable Asia Showcase Latest Infrastructure Portfolio at Broadcast Asia 2008

Argosy Cable Asia, a joint venture with Argosy, the leading UK-based international supplier of HD broadcast cables and studio infrastructure products, will showcase its latest range of products at Broadcast Asia in Singapore (17-20 June 2008). The newest additions to the company’s portfolio include MDUs, a new audio jack field and a high density high definition video patch panel, a changeover switcher, an array of video accessories and Sonarea, the new audio monitoring system. Argosy Cable Asia will also display the leading range of IMAGE HD video cables that are recognised worldwide for their high performance in broadcast, transmission and production houses facilities.

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DK-Technologies Supplies Meters To Control Loudness and Monitor 5.1 Audio At Euro 2008

For the first time ever, BBC coverage of the UEFA European Football Championship will be broadcast in both High Definition and 5.1 surround sound when the 2008 tournament gets underway on June 7th.

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Front Porch Digital Products on Display at BroadcastAsia

For the first time at BroadcastAsia, Front Porch will show an optional enhancement to its DIVArchive™ content storage management (CSM) solution that protects precious content from the ravages of data tape and drive degradation by continually monitoring digital storage infrastructure. DIVAprotect brings a new level of long-term content protection, management and security to DIVArchive, the industry-leading CSM solution.

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DIRECTV Goes with Harris® NetVX™ Contribution HD Video Networking Solution

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, is now delivering NetVX™ HD video networking equipment to DIRECTV, a leader in direct-to-home satellite TV services, for HD contribution encoding and transport, ultimately increasing HD program quality for DIRECTV.

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Panavision’s “Demystifying Digital Camera Specifications” Videos - Now Online

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“Demystifying Digital Camera Specifications,” a seven-part series focusing on the complex science of image resolution and digital cinema cameras is now available on the Panavision website. Click here:

Arqiva delivers Metropolitan Opera live to European cinemas

Arqiva has completed its second season of live High Definition (HD) transmissions of ‘The Met: Live in HD’ into European cinemas. Building on last season’s success (reaching an additional global audience of about 325,000) Arqiva’s transmission of the 2007-8 season enabled sell-out audiences to experience eight star-studded performances in cinemas across Europe. Donizetti’s ‘La Fille du Regiment’ was the final screening of the season on 26 April. The total attendance for this season of live transmissions was expected to top 900,000 people worldwide

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Autodesk Acquires Assets of REALVIZ, Developer of Image-Based Content Creation Software

Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of REALVIZ S.A., the privately held developer of image-based content creation software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed

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Sonnet Announces Expansion System for Fusion™ SATA RAID Storage

Sonnet Technologies, a leader in providing local storage systems for professional users of Macintosh®, Windows®, and UNIX® systems in the film, video, and broadcast industries, today announced the Fusion™ RAID Expander, which provides a simple and cost-effective solution for connecting up to seven Sonnet Fusion SATA RAID desktop or rackmount storage systems to a single computer for even faster performance and access to up to 56 terabytes (TB) of protected storage. The Fusion RAID Expander extends a computer’s PCI Express® (PCIe) bus outside of the box and provides seven slots for installing PCIe cards. The Sonnet expansion system delivers plug-and-play installation and is transparent to the computer’s operating system for zero-configuration use.

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