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Christie’s Roadster Landmark Order
UAE: Dubai-based Eclipse Staging Services has ordered 40 Christie Roadster HD20K-J 3-chip DLP 16:9 projectors and ILS lenses to service its Dubai operation. The overall package, worth US$4 million dollars, was announced by Eclipse Chairman, Mark Brown, and Christie EMEA Senior Sales Director, Simon Smith, at GITEX 2012 exhibition in Dubai. Smith said that this was the largest single order received from a GCCbased rental house since setting up the Middle East ofﬁce ﬁve years ago.

ABU Looks To Digital Age
The 49th General Assembly of the Asia-Paciﬁc Broadcasting Union has concluded in Korea with plans to carry the ABU more securely into the digital age. The event saw more than 700 leaders in the fields of p r o g r a m m i n g , t e c h n o l o g y, communications, regulation and equipment manufacture gather at the towering 63 Convention Centre on the banks of the Hangang River in downtown Seoul. The assembly was held at the headquarters of the host broadcaster Korean Broadcasting System. ABU General Secretary Dr Javad Mottaghi said: “We knew we had a big task to accomplish, so everyone came prepared to share experiences and solutions to the challenges faced by the transition to digital broadcasting, the expansion of new media and the impact of social media on our traditional ways of doing business.” Five new initiatives were launched at the Seoul General Assembly. One of the most signiﬁcant was a two-day forum Women with the Wave, which focused on gender inequality onair and in workplaces. It resulted in a call-for-action statement on practical ways to engender greater involvement by women and girls in the media and technology fields. Other forums looked at the future of broadcasting and news in a time of great digital change, including challenges from social media to traditional audience bases and media ethics, and how public broadcasting can thrive in radically evolving media environments. The Assembly concluded with the election of RTM’s Deputy Director General Ahmad Jailani Muhamed Yunus as Vice President, the election of All India Radio (AIR) to the ABU Administrative

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Dr Javad Mottaghi, ABU General Secretary

Council as well as the re-election of TDM Macau, TRT Turkey and TPT Thailand to the Council. Six new members were also approved to join the Union, taking the total number of members to 227.

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Asia Paciﬁc Expansion For Aspera
Aspera has announced the opening of an Asian regional ofﬁce in Singapore. The office will better serve Aspera’s growing base of highspeed ﬁle transfer software users across Asia Paciﬁc and further drive business expansion in the region. The company has seen tripledigit revenue growth across media and entertainment, engineering, telecommunications, life sciences and government as more and more industries adopt Aspera’s high-speed ﬁle transfer software for high-performance movement of ‘big data’. Digital supply chains now span the globe and the complexity associated with transferring ever-larger data volumes over longer distances is increasing exponentially. By enabling the quick and efﬁcient movement of big data to and from cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, BT for Life Sciences R&D and BGI “EasyGenomics” cloud, Aspera is helping organisations of all types to realise the full beneﬁts of the cloud. The addition of local technical support in Asia Paciﬁc to existing teams in Europe and North America completes the company’s global customer service operations, further enabling ‘follow-the-sun’ support for Aspera customers worldwide. The new office location in Singapore houses business development, marketing and support functions.

IND: Chyron will demonstrate its new Lyric PRO 8.5 graphics creation software in a new lowcost package optimised for the Indian broadcast market. Boasting built-in CDAC-based Indian language support, native support for stereoscopic 3D, scriptless transitions, and touchscreen-enabled graphics, Lyric PRO 8.5 enables the easy creation of sophisticated graphics and is used by major broadcasters worldwide.

Hisense Deploys Espial TV Browser
CAN: Espial TV’s browser has been integrated with Hisense TVs. The browser will initially be deployed on a variety of Hisense TV models in Japan to provide, among other features, support for the country’s Broadcast Markup Language (BML) standard, which enables a rich set of interactive applications and services bundled together with digital TV broadcasts over satellite, terrestrial, or cable networks. Hisense has been gaining traction in markets across the APAC region.

With the just released fasp 3 highspeed data transfer technology at the core of all its software solutions, Aspera of fer s a universal digital transport platform supporting all data, infrastructure and storage types, regardless of location, with maximum speed and a comprehensive offering for all transport paradigms and deployment models.

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