With a crowd of 75,000 followers, Pope Benedict XVI’s voice during mass at the Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, Scotland was entrusted with SSE Audio Group’s deployment of two Soundcraft Vi6 digital consoles. With a 35-piece orchestra, 800-piece choir and pre and post-show concerts, the religious event required reliable and vast amounts of digital channels to ensure no note or prayer was unheard. more

Bringing together more than 50 nations from around the world, the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India opened its 12-day athletic competition with a large, multi-array JBL VerTec line array system powered by Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers to support the opening ceremonies. The system successfully filled the Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, occupied by more than 60,000 spectators and nearly 5,000 athletes. Audio production companies Norwest Productions (Australia) and Sound.com (India) collaborated to implement Auditoria’s sophisticated event system design in the field. more

A Broadcast Pix Slate 5000 video production system is at the heart of a new HD production workflow at Jubilee Christian Center.

Billerica, Massachusetts – Broadcast Pix™ today announced that Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, Calif., is using the Slate™ 5000 video production system to produce in-house video presentations during services, as well as video productions for television and Internet audiences. Services are streamed live to Jubilee’s Web site, www.jubilee.org, and later broadcast on KTLN, which serves the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market (DMA #6), and a leased access channel on the local Comcast cable system. more

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, OCTOBER 27, 2010 – Anton/Bauer®, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries will showcase the DIONIC® HCX 120 watt-hour capacity battery featuring a brand new motion detection sensor that protects against capacity loss, its cutting-edge Tandem® 150 Modular Power System and ULHM-LED and EledZ LED light solutions at CAPER 2010 from October 28 thru October 30. more

Screenshot from EASE Focus v2.

Greensboro, NC – October 2010… WorxAudio Technologies, a leading manufacturer of loudspeaker systems for the pro touring and install markets, is pleased to announce that the company has licensed its brand to EASE Focus v2. Bundled with all purchases of its TrueLine line array systems to assist customers with line array aiming and acoustic modeling, WorxAudio Technologies is among professional audio’s first loudspeaker manufacturers to invest in the enhanced software. more

PLANO, Texas, October 27, 2010 – ViewCast Corporation (OTCBB: VCST), a developer of industry-leading solutions for the transformation, management and delivery of digital media over enterprise, broadband, and mobile networks, today announced that Major League Gaming (MLG), the largest professional video game league in the world, has selected ViewCast’s Osprey® 700e HD video capture cards to underpin its live streaming infrastructure. Delivering over 1.9 million streams of its live events in HD to viewers around the globe for up to 60 hours at a time, MLG counts on Osprey 700e’s unmatched performance and reliability to ensure a highly immersive viewing experience for legions of passionate gamers and gaming fans. more

SEATTLE, WA – Premier systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) announced today the continued success of the Audio, Visual, Lighting Conference and Expo (AVL Expo). Produced in collaboration with Experience Church.tv®, the third AVL Expo was held Oct. 1 at Experience Church in Puyallup, Wash., and attracted approximately 125 attendees. more

Covers Essential 3DTV Technology, Enabling Viewing of 3D Content in 2D

MONTREAL — Oct. 25, 2010 — SENSIO Technologies Inc. (SENSIO) (TSX-V: SIO) today announced that the Indian Patent Office has granted patent no. 242873 covering the SENSIO(R) S2D Switch. SENSIO already holds a patent covering this product in the United States. more

Nocturnal Fest

Insomniac’s 16th Annual Nocturnal Festival in San Bernardino, California on September 25 proved to be a fun alternative to a good night’s sleep. The all-night music festival featured six stages of entertainment with the grandMA controlling a wide array of lighting instruments on five of them. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of the grandMA in North America. more

Bergen, Norway, Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ)

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, today announced that it has formalized its strategic collaboration with Stergen Hi-Tech Ltd., as published at IBC 2010. Stergen is a developer of 2D to stereoscopic 3D video conversion software. Vizrt now offers tight integration between Stergen stereo 3D conversion software tailored to sports TV networks, sports leagues and webcasters and its own stereo 3D graphics portfolio. more