CHARLOTTE, NC — Neutrik USA’s premierePARTNER awards honor product innovation among the company’s manufacturer partners. This year’s ten award winners included Leprecon (Jim Fackert, president; and Don Stauffer; engineering manager are pictured here) for their Watson power management products and TMB for its ProPlex Opto-Splitter.
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AMSTERDAM — XL Video collaborated with Ogle Hog to support the visuals for the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards, which were staged at the Ziggo Dome here on Nov. 10 and featured a UFO-style structure above a spherical stage. XL provided nearly 800 square meters of various LED surfaces, video projections and creative/scenic LED elements plus control and 12 crew. Wieder Design provided the production design and Guido Ruysschaert served as project manager for the event.
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CYPRESS, CA — FOR-A has become a distributor of Fujitsu’s encoders and decoders in North America. Used by North American broadcasters, the Fujitsu IP series of H.264 video encoders and decoders became available for purchase through FOR-A on Oct. 1. Models available for sale through FOR-A include the IP-9500 HD/SD video encoder/decoder (pictured here) and the Fujitsu IP-920. Both feature error correction, a low latency mode, real-time transmission and HDTV/SDTV video.
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TORONTO — CAST Software Ltd. released of Vivien2014, promising richer graphics, some new and improved features, performance enhancements and some Library additions.
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WIXOM, MI — Nationwide Video announced plans to open two new locations in January 2014, in Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. The new locations join existing offices in or near Detroit (pictured here), Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York.
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LONDON — LD Matt Waterfield specified Robe’s new CycFX 8 fixtures for a tour featuring UK post-punk rockers White Lies. Colour Sound Experiment, which is supporting the tour’s gear, purchased 32 of the fixtures directly off the booth at the PLASA exhibition in October.
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