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Presteigne Makes Major Investment to Continue Expansion

Presteigne Broadcast Hire today announced that it has made another multi-million pound investment in hire stock and taken on an additional 21,000 square feet of warehouse, service, and operations space, nearly doubling its physical footprint in order...

Submitted by Manor Marketing

Published 01 May 2018

SmallHD Intros FOCUS Bolt TX and RX Touchscreen Wireless...

SmallHD announces its new 5-inch wireless monitor system, the FOCUS Bolt TX (transmitter) and FOCUS Bolt RX (receiver). Both the TX and RX are built on FOCUS touchscreen monitor platforms, with built-in Teradek transmitter and receiver systems. Regar...

Submitted by Lewis Communications

Published 01 May 2018

BB and S Presents CRLS Revolutionary Method of Painting w...

BB&S Lighting, makers of high TLCI lighting fixtures including their Area 48, Pipelines and Force 7 LEKO are representing a new concept in lighting method from The Light Bridge. Conceived by famed Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger, The Cine R...

Submitted by Lewis Communications

Published 01 May 2018

BB and S Intros New Lighting Fixtures at NAB

BB&S Lighting will return to the 2018 NAB with a bevy of new products as well as its tried and true LED lighting lineup. The new Force 7 LED LEKO delivers 750 Watt-equivalent output while drawing just 185W at maximum—with a color friendly 97 CRI. It...

Submitted by Lewis Communications

Published 01 May 2018

Schneider Intros True-Net Diffusion Filters at NAB

Schneider-Kreuznach, known for its top of the line lens filters and lenses, introduces a much sought after diffusion filter, the True-Net. Finally, Schneider’s engineering team has found the secret to recreating that time-honored, old silk stocking d...

Submitted by Lewis Communications

Published 01 May 2018

TAKE 2 APPOINTS ALAN PIPER AS NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR

• Experiencedexecutive brings proven leadership and nearly forty years’ experience in thefilm industry to fuel Take 2’s growth•Take 2 clients will benefit from Alan Piper’s knowledge following nine years asMD at RED Europe, innovators in the field of...

Submitted by Procam Take 2

Published 26 April 2018

Presteigne Launches Modular Portable Production Unit

Presteigne Broadcast Hire today announced the official introduction of a new, modular, portable production unit (PPU) that provides highly professional production technology on the fly. The PPU is a modular production system for live remotes, featuri...

Submitted by Manor Marketing

Published 25 April 2018

Core SWX Keeps the Cameras Rolling for Sony Playstation C...

Kevin Otterness has spent the past 25 years honing his craft and building a reputation as one of the industries most respected cinematographers and directors of photography (DP). Otterness understands the importance of working with reliable equipment...

Published 25 April 2018

Hybrik Announces Support for NAGRA NexGuard Forensic Wate...

Hybrik, Inc. today announced its cloud-based media processing now supports the embedding of NAGRA NexGuard forensic watermarks into on-demand content. NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company, is the world's leading independent provider of content...

Submitted by Pipeline Communications

Published 24 April 2018

flowtech Tripod Wins Coveted IABM BaM Award

Sachtler® and Vinten®, both Vitec Group brands and global industry leaders in camera supports for over 100 years, today announced that their new flowtech™ camera tripod technology received a coveted IABM Broadcast and Media (BaM™) award at the 2018 N...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 20 April 2018

Leading Spanish Newspaper El Pais Deploys Vinten Vantage...

Vinten®, a Vitec Group brand and a world leader in manual and robotic camera support systems, today announced that leading Spanish newspaper El Pais has deployed the Vantage robotic camera head and the μVRC (microVRC) controller to bolster its live-v...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 18 April 2018

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT AS ROTOLIGHT ANOVA PRO 2 WINS NAB 201...

Rotolight, the award-winning British LED lighting manufacturer, has announced the latest award win for the Anova PRO 2 studio and location LED as it was named ‘Best of Show’ in the StudioDaily Prime awards at the NAB Show 2018. The Anova PRO 2 was hi...

Published 12 April 2018

Ericsson Integrates Fraunhofer and rsquo;s MPEG-H TV Audi...

At the NAB Show, Ericsson introduces its AVP 2000 Contribution Encoder and companion MediaFirst Content Processing (MFCP) Decoder as the industry’s first contribution-path encode/decode solution with support of the MPEG-H TV Audio System, substantial...

Submitted by Staff

Published 10 April 2018

Sony unleashes refined creativity with the new FS5 II

Sony has today expanded its Large Format Sensor category with the launch of the new XDCAM handheld camcorder FS5 II (Body: PXW-FS5M2, Lens Kit: PXW-FS5M2K). Complete with stunning 4K*¹ HDR and 120fps*² performance and RAW capabilities, the new Super...

Submitted by Marlin PR

Published 09 April 2018

Core SWX Brings Fleet Battery Management to the Next Leve...

Core SWX, a leader in battery and charging solutions, introduces the Voltbridge Fleet Battery Management Platform along with Bluetooth Low Energy enabled versions of its Quad Fleet and Quad Fleet Micro Chargers, Fleet Qi and Fleet QMi, at NAB 2018 (B...

Published 09 April 2018