The enthusiastic team at Switzerland’s screenIMAGE had a vision and a corresponding business plan: a wide-area digital display network across 50 select, upscale bars that would generate sales and increase profits for all parties using Point of Sales (POS) advertising.

screenIMAGE therefore needed to come up with a pricing model that wouldn’t cost the bars any cash outlay. The company decided to fund the installation of the screens, to generate income by selling advertising, and to share profits from the advertisers with the bars. Today this is a very common pricing model for digital signage applications but again, at the time, it was as revolutionary as the idea of the application itself. more

True Visions, one of the largest cable and satellite television providers in Thailand and South East Asia, has installed Jünger Audio LEVEL MAGIC™ processors in its final programme chain to help balance audio levels across its pay-TV channels.

Audience enjoyment is a key factor for the broadcaster, which is renowned for the quality of its flagship news, sport, documentary and light entertainment programming. Three years ago, it installed a number of Jünger Audio LEVEL MAGIC processors at its facility in Bangkok and these worked so well that it decided to invest in more. more

Dynamics processing specialist Jünger Audio has supplied three B41 SDI audio limiters to the US division of IFE Services Inc., a company that primarily provides content to the Airline Entertainment Industry. more

Singapore recently upgraded its in-house sound system with a Soundcraft Si2 console to easily manage all entertainment from background music to multiple live bands each night, keeping tourists, locals, musicians and celebrities continuously coming back for more. more

In a unique application of JBL VERTEC® line arrays, SW Audio Visual deployed a complete outdoor wintertime entertainment audio system to accommodate up to 50,000 people for the Richmond O Zone, one of the official celebration sites of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The O Zone was open for the duration of the Games from February 12-28, and featured live performances by some of Canada’s most successful musical artists across a broad range of genres. more

The Customer
One of the biggest malls chains in the world, boasting both the largest and second largest malls on earth, wanted to uplift the look of six large malls in the Philippines through high-end digital signage deployments. The malls had been using players on screen but found this limited the number of screens to which they were able deploy due to the cost of player equipment, software licenses, as well as operations and management. more

The state-owned Kino Centrum, in the large Slovakian town of Michalovce, has recently undergone a major refurbishment. Following the foyer came the technical control areas and main screening room–which now features a JBL cinema system, driven by Crown mission-specific cinema amplifiers. more

With more artists swapping time in the studio for time spent on the computer, recording studios need to differentiate themselves now more than ever in order to survive and thrive. Keeping that in mind, GRAMMY-nominated engineer/producer Hal Winer makes certain that his facility, BiCoastal Music, offers something that computer programs can not: a warm, smooth and rich vintage sound provided by his new AKG Perception 820 Tube mic. more

Innovative Audio Restoration Plug-ins To Refurbish Historical Archives

PARIS: INA, the French National Audiovisual Institute, is a repository of the French radio and television audiovisual archive. Featuring a search tool indexing over 100,000 archives and 20,000 + hours of historical programming, in 2006 INA introduced www.ina.fr as a free online consultation website for students, journalists and researchers. To ensure the highest possible sound quality for these historic broadcasts, Vincent Fromont of the Institute’s Restoration/Mastering Audio Department recently acquired six Sonnox Restore Suites. more

CAMBRIDGE, UK ─ Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, is pleased to announce that the France 2 television network, part of the government-owned France Télévisions, has outfitted its new HD OB van with Clear-Com’s Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom system, six IP-enabled V-Series 12-lever user panels and one V-Series 24-lever panel. The broadcaster, which transmits news, sports and entertainment programming to viewers throughout France, first used the Clear-Com systems to help facilitate coverage of the recent RBS 6 Nations Rugby Tournament. more