CTV, one of the largest independent OB companies in Europe, has equipped its three new OB trucks with RTS intercoms. Among them are CTV’s new flagship OB11, which features an ADAM matrix and 32 RTS keypanels. As one of the largest OB trucks ever built, the 4K-capable OB11 truck has so far covered Sky Sports’ cricket broadcast, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the National Television Awards and the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Cartoni, the world leader is camera support, marks its 80th anniversary this year. Cartoni was founded in 1935, when cinematographer Renato Cartoni invented the first flywheel, pan-head tripod. His invention quickly became the standard for documentary and news operations and by World War II, most Italian cameramen were equipped with Cartoni heads and tripods.

German public broadcaster phoenix, which delivers in-depth news and factual programming as a complementary service to Germany's popular ARD and ZDF channels, is upgrading to full HD operation. The upgrade, which is being carried out without interruption to the TV station's broadcasting operations, requires a major infrastructure overhaul; phoenix has chosen Snell IQ Modular to provide the quality and reliability essential for broadcast operations.

Sony have jam-packed their latest Super 35 4K FS7 with so many features and functionality that it’s getting difficult to keep track. Ever since its announcement at IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, we’ve known the camera will eventually get a free 4K DCI (4096 x 2160) recording option via a free firmware update in early 2015. Well, the time has come and as BVE 2015 in London is in full swing, Sony managed to announce firmware update 2.0 for the Sony PXW-FS7 and the XDCA-FS7 extension to be released in March 2015.

P2 ROP (P2 Remote Operation Panel) App for iPad*1 is available for free at Apple App store. It enables iPad to control functions/setting of the AJ-PX5000 or AJ-PX270 P2 Camera Recorder remotely via wireless connection*2. P2 ROP App can control variety of settings similar to those of the AG-EC4G Extension Control Unit controls, including picture quality settings, zoom/focus*3, and REC start/stop.

The NewTek TalkShow video calling production system has now integrated Audinate''s Dante media networking solution.

Steven Tiffen, Jeff Cohen and Michael Fecik of The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer of award-winning imaging accessories, were honored with the Scientific and Technical Academy Award of Commendation during the Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on February 7. Portions of the evening’s event will be included in the Oscars telecast on Sunday, February 22. Steve Tiffen, Jeff Cohen, and Michael Fecik were recognized for their efforts in developing dye-based filters that reduce infrared contamination when neutral density filters are used with digital cameras.

Hamlet Enterprise is the world’s first portable real-time analyser of HEVC, H.264 and MPEG-2 over IP, ASI, OTT and RF DVB streaming services. That makes it ideal for in-house applications, when installing new systems, day to day operations checks in broadcast and enterprise organisations.

Snell asymmetric video router range offers increased flexibility with new mixed audio/video and audio only operation

XenData the global provider of digital video archive solutions to the media and entertainment industry, today announced the launch of X2500-USB, an LTO-6 archive system that connects to notebooks and workstations via USB 3.0. The system includes an external LTO-6 drive and XenData6 Workstation management software, and is ideal for storing video, audio and image files on high capacity LTO cartridges.