Image of the El Rodeo Nightclub’s main area.

Los Angeles, CA – March 2011… Situated in the Pico Rivera section of Los Angeles, the El Rodeo Nightclub is a popular social gathering spot and restaurant that recently completed a substantial facility upgrade to better accommodate the ever-increasing weekend crowds. Live entertainment is a huge part of the club’s attraction and, to provide the best possible sound for the various bands that perform there, the decision was made to improve the house sound reinforcement system. Now, the El Rodeo is the proud owner of a new loudspeaker setup drawn from the Aero Series 2 catalog of D.A.S. Audio. more

Brett Babick, co-owner of 3 new southern California Buffalo Wild Wings, installed ELAN g! to give his staff simple, fluid A/V control for up to 62 TVs.

CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, March 14, 2011 – Brett Babick, David and Mike Gianascoli, and Chris Paphites, the partners of Desert Wings, LLC, can turn on, set up and change the channel on all 62 TVs at once at each of their three Southern California Buffalo Wild Wings locations, and all from an iPod touch with the ELAN g! Control System. With this innovative system, it doesn’t take a whole team of employees to manage and constantly change the channel on 62 TVs, which was precisely the problem they had in a restaurant they previously owned.

“In the old restaurant, we used a system that we thought gave us top-of-the-line video distribution and control,� recalled Babick. “All the TVs were physically controlled from more

LOS ANGELES, CA, MARCH 15, 2011—Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, has been providing start-to-finish operational and engineering support for the NBA All-Star Weekend since 1998. This year was no different. However, in its 13th year, the team was presented with a new kind of challenge—both the Grammy Awards and the NBA All-Star Game were scheduled to take place at the Staples Center, less than one week apart. From optical fiber to around-the-clock editing facilities, Bexel greeted this challenge and provided streamlined support to Turner Sports and the NBA. more

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BALTIMORE, MD, March 15, 2011 – Event Tech, a leader in full production services headquartered in Baltimore, MD, is pleased to announce the promotion of Matt Totaro to Vice President of Operations.

Matt joined Event Tech in 1999 as an Audio Engineer and quickly rose to Chief Systems Engineer. In 2004 he became the company’s Operations Manager and transitioned from running shows to running the shop. Totaro most recently lead the fabrication of Event Tech’s Folding Ballast Truss – a self-contained water ballast system designed for the company’s truss towers that allows for extended height and high capacity structures to be built with a minimal footprint.

In his new role, Totaro will focus on Event Tech’s efficiency and internal processes which will more

One particularly ground-breaking recent application for Dataton WATCHOUTâ„¢ was an architectural projection mapping solution for the city of Al Ain.

See Dataton at PALME 2011, Stand S2E60

Amazing architectural projection mapping project sets scene for company’s PALME show activity

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Dataton, the Swedish-based image processing and show-control specialist, returns to the PALME exhibition in Dubai this year with an increasingly impressive track record of Middle Eastern project work under its belt.

Exhibiting on Stand S2E60 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre from 26-28 April, Dataton will showcase both its established WATCHOUT multi-display presentation software and its more recent innovation for the audio tour-guide marketplace, Pickup.

Fredrik Svahnberg, Marketing Director, Dataton, comments: “Middle Eastern more

The F35 wqxga is also supported by projectiondesign’s unmatched 24/7 warranty, which can be supported for up to five years.

The world’s first 2,560 x 1,600 WQXGA resolution DLP® projector is now available from projectiondesign®.

“projectiondesign is known to be first with introducing the industry’s most innovative products, and our F35 wqxga projector continues that tradition. The F35 wqxga was first shown in 2010 more

The VXL150 is a combined format converter and scan converter compatible with SD & HD SMPTE formats as well as VESA & CEA standards.

See Calibre at NAB, Booth # N3512, 11-14 April, Las Vegas Convention Center

VideoExcel range showcases all that’s best from 23-year established manufacturer

Yorkshire’s Calibre UK returns to NAB this year with a complete line of high-quality image-processing products. A particular highlight is the company’s VideoExcel range of broadcast format converters, which boast 3G-SDI support, powerful noise reduction and image enhancement, and uncompromised performance thanks to their built-in Realta processors.

There are three products in the range: VXL75, VXL100, and VXL150. All three promise true broadcast-grade HD more

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Iroquois, ON, Canada – March 15, 2011 – Ross Video’s XPression – 2D/3D CG and motion graphics system was selected by L.A.-based production company, Mdots/Fontastics, to provide graphics for the 83rd Academy Awards®, which aired live on ABC, Sunday, February 27th. more

E! News

When E! News, the nightly entertainment newsmagazine on E! Entertainment Television, hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Guiliana Rancic, expanded to one hour and introduced a new set design, the network selected a Vista Spyder X20 video processor to meet its new and extensive graphic needs.

The new set features two large NEC monitor walls: one 3 x 4 and one 3 x 3 in slightly curved configurations, and a bank of three more NEC monitors adjacent to the anchor desk. It also boasts 103-inch and 85-inch plasma screens, two vertical NEC monitors, three 3 x 1 ‘windows’ and two 1 x 3 ‘windows.’

“We used to have a smaller set with fewer video elements, but now the Spyder X20 0808 allows us to do a lot more visually in the new, more

Huntsville, Alabama – March 14, 2011: PESA, a 38 year veteran of manufacturing high quality audio and video routing and signal processing solutions will present the latest technologies supporting high definition video at this year’s NAB show in Las Vegas (booth N4123) April 11-14. Using the world’s most prestigious radio, film and television exhibition as the forum, PESA will offer hands-on demonstrations of their enterprise-based control system and other unified signal management solutions for 3G-SDI Video, Distributed Audio Routing and Signal Processing.
Cheetah Enterprise Audio Routing System (EARS) up to 6144X6144 – Designed specifically for large venue environments, the PESA Enterprise Audio Routing System provides a “unified� solution for audio and time code applications. At the heart of each distributed audio system is a 1RU Data Exchange Engine (DXE) Chassis that connects up to 24 independent I/O frames which can be stacked to serve as a centralized system; more