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BTX Devices Enhanced
USA: BTX Technologies is offering Just Add Power’s second-generation plus (2G+) HD/IP transmitter/receivers, in addition to providing system conﬁguration and technical support. Just Add Power’s HD/IP technology allows an HDMI signal to be sent simultaneously to one or more HDMI displays over a single CatX cable Ethernet infrastructure. The 2G+ devices offer all the beneﬁts of Just Add Power’s popular second-generation (2G) HD/IP transmitters/receivers.

Red Bull & Vizrt Team Up For Free Fall World Record
Felix Baumgartner recently became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound, and Red Bull and Vizrt were there to play their part in the event. At 1 2 8 ,1 0 0 f t , already set ting a world record for highest manned balloon flight, Baumgartner leaned forward and disappeared from camera view. More than eight million viewers watched the descent through youtube with the event being broadcast by 77 stations across 48 countries around the world. The graphic content for TV and for live stream was provided by Vizrt Technology. The joint team of Vizrt and netventure personnel, represented on site by Yan Heydlauf of Vizrt South West Europe and Stefan Meyer of netventure Germany, gathered live data from shared memory to distribute c o n t e n t simultaneously between New M ex i c o a n d the Red Bull Stratos studio at Servus TV in S a lzb u r g, Austria. A V i zT r i o operator called up “pages” in a VizTrio show while the content was constantly being updated live using scripting and Viz Graphics Hub shared memory maps. Three Viz Engines, including Vizrt’s real-time 3D compositing engine, were also used to display the on-air graphics and video compositing.

Red Bull Stratos Mission Control

PAG Launch Enhanced Charger
GBR: PAG has introduced an enhanced version of its Cube charger, designed for linked battery charging. The PAGlink Cube Charger is a compact, four-position V-Mount Li-Ion location charger. It will charge simultaneously, individual or linked PAGlink batteries, from any state of charge. Up to four linked batteries can be charged on each position, effectively making it a 16-channel charger.

capsule telemetry, mission clocks, chest pack information, bio-meds and other mission information in Red Bull Stratos Mission Control in Roswell, New Mexico. All data for several websites were fed by web services provided by netventure using data centres in Germany, Austria, Ireland and the US. The team used Viz Graphic Hub’s

CSP Outﬁts Third HD Truck With Utah Scientiﬁc
CSP Mobile Productions is installing Utah Scientiﬁc’s UTAH400/528 routing switcher into its newest OB truck. CSP’s HD truck, HD-2, is a 53-foot expando that will cover college basketball for ESPN starting this month. The truck’s compact design incorporates low power consumption, integrated audio processing, and format ﬂexibility. The UTAH-400 528x528 router handles all of CSP’s needs for MADI, AES, and analogue signal processing, and also fulfills a critical need for embedded audio support as mandated by the client. The UTAH-400 is designed to address the growing requirement for large switching systems with its ability to expand from 8 x 8 to 1152 x 1152 and beyond. The switcher is based on a revolutionar y matrix architecture that reduces the complexity of large systems, resulting in improvements in rack space and power requirements. The routing switcher’s embedded audio capability comes courtesy of a new line of I/O boards that rely on advanced ﬁeld-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology to perform signal processing. Utah Scientific has built advanced signal processing into the router’s I/O board, meaning it can deserialise and decode a signal into its component data streams without compromising the router’s overall operational reliability. As a result, audio channels are shufﬂed automatically without an outboard device or manual intervention. This is CSP’s third HD truck to contain Utah Scientiﬁc equipment, and the ﬁfth in the history of its fleet.

Ross Partners On News Workﬂow
CAN: Ross Video has partnered with Crispin Corporation to implement a full news workflow designed to satisfy the requirements for a customer account. The integration of products between Crispin and Ross Video allow both companies to achieve together what they could not have offered separately. The integration consists of Crispin’s NewsCat Media Asset Management System with Ross’ OverDrive Automated Production Control System and BlackStorm Playout Servers.

CSP Mobile Productions HD-2 truck

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