Broadcast Live 2007 Marks European Firsts

At Broadcast Live for the first time in Europe, JVC Professional's new HD microwave equipped camera system will be on display.
The ProHD Libre system provides native 50P HD capture, recording and transmission through a compact, on-board camera-back transmitter, developed for JVC by BMS.
A fully equipped system, complete with camera, lens, microwave transmitter and receiver can be configured for under £30k as opposed to the more usual £100k plus.
Leader Electronics is another company with lots on show. CINELITE, for instance, enables people to determine optimal camera exposure settings much more precisely than is possible with a traditional luminance meter. By detecting the actual signal levels captured during pre-shoot line-up rather than just displaying local light intensity, CINELITE allows a camera's full dynamic range to be used.
Marquis Broadcast is launching PostBox. Designed for fast media transfers from Avid Technology editing systems to a range of servers, PostBox hopes to end the frankly laborious task of outputting to tape and re-ingesting media into the playout server. The company is also extending support for its Medway media highway product to XDCAM HD and DVCPro 100.
OmniBus will show iTX 1.1, its so-called category-defying product that replaces all of the functions of a broadcast master control and playout chain in a single software application.
Pharos, meanwhile, will be showing the latest generation of its Mediator media asset management platform. This incorporates end-to-end workflow control for any media organisation needing to manage and expand its output more efficiently.
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