All-HD broadcaster in Middle East selects Omneon Spectrum
Al-Watan is using the company’s media servers for two channels of HD playout from its operation in Kuwait....
Las Vegas Democrat showdown marks first HD debate coverage for CNN HD
Last night, CNN HD telecast its first presidential candidate debate in HD and broke some technological ground in the process. ...
Skype adds On2 Technologies TrueMotion VP7
The VP7 update helps Skype users experience sharper and smoother video calls in a bigger call window. ...
Annenberg studies find TV, newspaper reporters raise political fact-checking efforts
More than 45 percent of TV stations responding to one of the surveys said they would run stories based on checking the facts in political ads this election season. ...
RTNDA calls for 2008 Murrow, Unity Award entries
The Radio-Television News Directors Association has begun accepting entries for its Edward R. Murrow and RTNDA/Unity Awards....
WHIZ-TV finds ENG role for Slingbox, wireless Ethernet bridge
The homemade system offers the station a low-cost method of contributing live shots from the field....
Communications, video links reach new heights at Air Race World Series
For the fourth consecutive year, Riedel Communications provided the communications solutions for the event....
TV Abalone transitions to file-based workflow
The Spanish public broadcaster last month began using a digital file-based workflow revolving around the Dale News Suite for Vector box solution....
Inlet Technologies unveils Spinnaker 2.0
The Spinnaker family of live encoding solutions delivers best-in-class quality for live media delivery applications....
Neutrik introduces 32 Amp PowerCon at LDI 2007
The locking AC connector system from Neutrik offers secure power distribution....
Trompeter Electronics receives U.S. patent for mini BNC connector
The U.S. Patent Office recently awarded the company the patent for its miniature BNC, which is being used in the broadcast industry for HD applications....
Kulabyte announces Express GreenStream encoding appliances
Express GreenStream uses Kulabyte’s TimeSlice video encoding technology to deliver two-pass VBR qualities in live encoding and streaming environments....
NVIDIA offers new Quadro graphics cards with video production features
The Quadro FX 5600 SDI and Quadro FX 4600 SDI graphics cards feature eight-, 10- and 12-bit uncompressed SDI output in SD, HD or 2K formats....
On2 Technologies, RipCode deliver two-pass appliance-based encoding
RipCode’s new high-capacity video transcoding appliance supports multiplatform content creation and cross-platform services for On2 TrueMotion VP6....
Iowa Public TV adds SSL C100 HD consoles
The public broadcaster added the digital broadcast mixing consoles to support its transition to HD....
