Xantech Adds to HDMI Product Line

Xantech Corporation, a leading producer of innovative, reliable and problem-solving custom installation signal processing and control systems, is now shipping its newest addition to the HDMI product line, the HDMIC5IR.

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Linear Acoustic Names Don Cardone Sales Director for the Americas

Linear Acoustic, a manufacturer of customer-centric multichannel sound solutions for digital broadcast, has appointed Don Cardone to the role of sales director for the Americas. Cardone, who joins Linear Acoustic with more than 25 years of experience in broadcast sales management, will head up the company’s new office in Maplewood, N.J. In his new role, he will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with customers, broadcast systems integrators, distributors and sales representatives in North, Central, and Latin America.

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IVC highlights HaiVision’s MAKO-HD for Medical Applications at Broadcast LIVE, London

HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world’s leading vendor of performance H.264 network video encoders, announces that on Thursday (January 31) at Broadcast LIVE and VideoForum 2008, IVC Media is highlighting the MAKO-HD high definition (HD) codec within the important seminar “Streaming Media in Healthcare – The Cutting Edge of Video.” The seminar focuses on the latest video developments within healthcare including the integration of very low latency network video for collaborative medical efforts.  

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Equity Media’s Innovative Broadcast Facility Relies on Omneon Active Storage and Media Servers

Omneon, Inc. today announced that Equity Media Holdings Corporation is relying on the Omneon MediaGrid™ system
for active online storage and Omneon Spectrum™ media servers for ingest and playout of content to some 70 stations nationwide, including playout for the fast-growing Retro Television Network (RTN). Equity Media’s unique and innovative Central Automated Satellite Hub (C.A.S.H.) system, located in Little Rock, Ark., originates and distributes more media content than any other single facility in the world. The C.A.S.H. system even replaces local station master control because it also manages accounting, spot inventory, promotion, and production functions.

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NBC Olympics Makes a Splash With Calrec Alpha at 2008 Olympic Games

NBC Olympics has selected a 56 fader Alpha with Bluefin console to be stationed at Beijing’s National Aquatics
Center at the 2008 Olympic Games.

System integration for the console, which will provide coverage of swimming and diving events, will be provided by NBC Olympics’ official partner Bexel Corporation, based in Burbank, Calif. Established in 1981 to provide video
equipment and ancillary support gear to the production community, Bexel also owns the Audio Specialites Group, who is the Calrec distributor in the Central and Western regions of the USA.

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Pipeline Quad Multi-channel Network Encoder Now Available from Telestream

Telestream today announced availability of Pipeline Quad, the company’s newest model to emerge from its award-winning series of Pipeline™ network encoders. Pipeline is an industry-first, network-based video capture system that provides ingest into file-based workflows from tape or live sources for broadcasters, post-production and other video professionals. Pipeline sits on the network where anyone can access it, providing freedom from the expense and limitations of traditional, single-user capture-card solutions.

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Streambox Launches Innovative Mobile Software Encoder

The Streambox® Mobile Software Encoder™, the latest in Streambox, Inc.’s line of live newsgathering solutions, made its debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas. The Mobile Software Encoder is an innovative new software-based solution for streaming breaking news and events via broadband. 

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Lyle Keys Awarded IABM Honorary Membership

Utah Scientific today announced that its founder, Lyle Keys, has been awarded a 2007 Honorary Membership from the IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers). 

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See the new Harris / Zandar multiviewer family at Broadcast Live

Broadcast Live VideoForum 2008, London: Stand # G54

Come and see what is now the broadest multi-image display processor portfolio in the industry, which includes well known multiviewers like the Predator Series for HDTV Monitoring, the Predator VC/VS for security monitoring and the FusionPro+ Series designed for environments where flexible configuration is key.

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Concurrent’s MediaHawk On-Demand Platform Chosen for World’s Largest Start Over Deployment

Concurrent, a worldwide leader of on-demand technology that is shaping the future of television, today announced that Bright House Networks has chosen Concurrent’s MediaHawk  On-Demand Platform for the upgrade and expansion of their existing on-demand service, including the launch of Start Over in the cable operator’s Tampa Bay market.  This Start Over deployment is the first for Bright House, and represents the largest Start Over deployment in the world, with over 23,000 streams. 

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