Funeral for a Friend‘s FOH engineer Clem Bennett is using a Midas Heritage 3000 for the Welsh band‘s biggest tour to date. The tour began in the UK and Europe in April before heading out to the US, returning to Europe for summer festivals then continuing onto the Far East and Australia, and wrapping up the year with a headline tour of the UK in December, finishing in Cardiff on Dec 22. more

New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), founded in 1988, is India‘s first and largest private producer of news with over 1000 employees, current affairs and entertainment television. NDTV is home to the country‘s best and brightest reporters, anchors and producers; 23 offices and studios across the country host India‘s most modern and sophisticated production and news gathering facilities. more

The Oregon Symphony starts its annual concert season in style at the end of each summer, celebrating popular classics in the heart of the community with outdoor performances staged in Portland‘s public parks. more

Belgian rental company DEE Digital has added a Midas XL8 Live Performance System to its inventory. Formed a year ago as a subsidiary of established rental and production company Dee Sound & Light, DEE Digital has been set up to address the growing demand for digital console rentals. more

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 2007: Klark Teknik showed a pre production unit of the DN 9696, the industry‘s first high resolution hard disk recorder aimed at the live performance environment, on stand J33 of the PLASA show.

In developing the DN9696, Klark Teknik has responded to a changing market, which is experiencing live recording as a new revenue source. more

Cascade Sound debuted their new DVX woofer-loaded Electro-Voice XLC line array system at this year‘s Oregon State Fair in Salem, which featured sold-out shows by classic rockers Heart and Steppenwolf, country artists Joe Nichols and Craig Morgan, and “American Idol” Daughtry. more

A self-proclaimed audio and technology fanatic, Montoya brings over 15 years of system design experience–in both the pro audio and high-end home audio worlds–to his new position.

“Juan‘s comprehensive experience and training in multiple areas of audio will prove invaluable as we address new concepts in systems integration with new technologies,” says Thomas Hansen, VP Sales, The Americas, Bosch Communications Systems. more

The Klark Teknik business unit of Telex Communications UK Ltd has purchased the assets of the SuperMAC and HyperMAC audio networking business previously operated by Sony Oxford, a division of Sony United Kingdom Ltd, effective September 2007. The assets include all the SuperMAC and HyperMAC technology implementations currently available from Sony Oxford. more

Chernock‘s DTV Presentation to Explore Value of Adding Non-Real-Time Delivery of Content to Traditional Linear Programming

PRINCETON, N.J. — Sept. 26, 2007 — Triveni Digital, a subsidiary of LG Electronics (LGE), today announced that Richard Chernock, director of technology at the company, will be presenting at the 57th Annual IEEE Broadcast Symposium (www.ieee.org/bts) on Nov. 1, 2007 in Washington, D.C. His DTV session, titled “Non-Real-Time Services,” will address the emergence of non-real-time (NRT) services and how this model for content delivery enables broadcasters to capitalize more fully on their media assets. The presentation will introduce the basic concepts and technical requirements of NRT services, and provide illustrative scenarios. more

Atlanta, GA — Visix, Inc., a leading developer of web-enabled communications software, has been selected to provide the University of Virginia (U.Va.) with a sophisticated, campus-wide communication solution to deliver relevant news, information and emergency alerts to students, faculty and staff. An integrated suite of application tools will deliver timely content to thousands of overlapping endpoints including flat-screen displays, projectors, desktops, cell phones and RSS enabled devices. more