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In the November 16, 2009 Issue:

Cambridge hopes wireless industry goes InCognito for white space devices
Noise wars
CEA's Shapiro says 'writing is on the wall' for broadcast spectrum
FCC tackles broadband this week
Gepco develops new distribution racks
Telefonica compresses with Grass Valley encoders for IPTV

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 Top Story
Cambridge hopes wireless industry goes InCognito for white space devices

The new wireless transmission technology won't interfere with broadcasters’ signals in the unlicensed 700MHz spectrum.

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Noise wars

The boom boom began at about 8 p.m. At first, I thought I’d left a TV on in the basement. One step onto my patio revealed the true source of the racket.

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 News
CEA's Shapiro says 'writing is on the wall' for broadcast spectrum

He calls the shortage of spectrum a “national crisis.”

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Opening video sequence of ‘Saturday Night Live’ shot with Canon digital SLR cameras

The EOS 5D Mark II and newer EOS 7D digital SLR cameras were used in HD video capture mode.

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Charter Cable dumps Kentucky’s WKAG-TV

The channel was denied carriage after an unresolved dispute over who would provide bandwidth for the station’s feed.

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$500 million in DTV coupons unused

Last week, the final 200,000 coupons mailed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in mid-August reached the 90-day expiration date.

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 FCC & Industry Update
FCC tackles broadband this week

The FCC’s open meeting will deal with the expansion of broadband access in the United States.

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First mobile DTV in-car tuner introduced

The tuner will work with any after-market or OEM monitor with RCA outputs.

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Chyron opens European headquarters in London

Power Road Studios is located a short distance from Heathrow Airport and Central London.

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 New Products & Reviews
Gepco develops new distribution racks

Each SMPTE 304M hybrid connector position of the rack externally breaks out to separate ST fiber and electrical connectors on the rear of the chassis.

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TBS Network’s ‘Lopez Tonight’ produced on Sony XDCAM HD

The HD 4:22 decks can be used for recording program material, program mastering, post production and archiving program material.

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TANDBERG Television drives largest on-demand TV service in Australia

Hybrid TV will give New Zealand customers access to a wide range of movies and TV programming via a TiVo-branded media device.

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Moscow’s Valeriya/SVIP Studio installs Euphonix

Russian music superstar Valeriya has installed a Euphonix, S5 Fusion console for music, TV and film post production.

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RTW SurroundMonitor 10800X adds loudness metering

Among several new features, the new 6.0 software offers an RLB (K) weighting filter as specified by the current ITU recommendation.

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Telefonica compresses with Grass Valley encoders for IPTV

The EM2000 encoder delivers MPEG-4 compression of SD television signals in smaller bandwidths with superior picture quality.

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Avid joins ABC News for on-campus ENG training

Students working with ABC News On Campus capture, produce, edit and distribute news stories that are often featured on ABC News programs.

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Petrol offers rain cover for the Red One camera

The one-piece design makes the PRC-RED-1 easy to install while shooting.

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India’s Sahara Samay selects Omneon for Hindi news channel

The leading Indian news channel has deployed two Omneon Spectrum media server systems.

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Sound Devices introducs new production mixer

The mixer has an integrated two-track, 24-bit digital audio recorder that writes broadcast WAV files to SD and SDHC media.

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Podcast
At the recent SMPTE Annual Tech Conference and Expo, Bitcentral CEO Fred Fourcher presented a paper on what stations must consider if they wish to submit HD news stories from the field via available broadband networks. Click here.
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Sennheiser’s Wireless Systems Manager software enables audio equipment to be preprogrammed, helps to locate free radio channels, shows where there may be reception problems, and displays all transmitter and receiver parameters live on a computer. Click here.
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