Gulf Broadcast

CBS News has begun a migration to high-definition news acquisition. In March, the network’s owned-and-operated stations at WBZ-TV, in Boston, and WBBM-TV, in Chicago, will be the first to use Sony’s XDCAM HD Professional Disc system for its local programming. The other 15 CBS stations will begin converting to XDCAM HD throughout 2006 and 2007. [...]

A seminar on the spread of short messages SMS in Arab Satellite Channels held here today within the functions of the ninth Gulf festival for radio and TV hosts by Bahrain on the period of 20-23 of March. Key speakers in the seminar were Gazi Al Zedjali, Dr. Mohammed Al Mutawa, Gassan Obaidat and Dr. [...]

Avid Technology, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Avid® Deko® 4.0 software, a significant upgrade for the entire Deko family of real-time on-air graphics systems. Ideal for standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) broadcast operations, Avid Deko 4.0 software offers unique real-time animation features for creating sophisticated effects as well as tight interoperability between production [...]

Update to industry-leading 3D character animation software focused on games pipeline interoperability; native COLLADA 1.4 support now included Softimage Co., a division of Avid Technology, Inc., today announced the latest update to the company’s flagship character production software – SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® v.5.1. This release offers a range of new features designed to simplify deployment and asset [...]

Harris Corporation today announced that its award-winning Leitch X75™ M-PATH Multiple Path Up/Down/Cross Converter Synchronizer is now included in the Dolby® E Partner Program. The X75 synchronizer is the latest in a number of Harris products that have qualified for the Dolby Laboratories program, including the Videotek® TVM series of video and audio signal analyzers [...]