NAB 2009: Grass Valley: Business As Usual By Broadcasting & Cable Click here for complete coverage of the 2009 NAB Show Las Vegas -- Grass Valley celebrated its 50th anniversary at the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas by launching a high-end production switcher, Kayenne, announcing a number of major international orders, and proclaiming that it was confident of its future prospects despite parent company Thomson's decision to sell the bu..... ...Read More »

Cisco Buying Pure Digital, Company Behind Flip Cam By Broadcasting & Cable Cisco Systems announced Thursday it is buying Pure Digital, the company that makes the popular Flip Video camcorder. The deal is worth about $590 million in stock. "The acquisition of Pure Digital is key to Cisco's strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking," said Ned Hopper, SVP of cor..... ...Read More »

NAB 2009: Sony Moves To New Stage By Broadcasting & Cable For NAB 2009, Sony Broadcast and Professional Systems is moving from the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center to the back of the Central Hall, the same spot occupied by Sony at the Consumer Electronics Show each year. The new location is near a new drop-off location for NAB shuttle buses, says Sony senior VP Alec Shapiro, and will also allow Sony to repurpose some features fr..... ...Read More »

Social networks are telcos' new best friend By Georgina Prodhan BARCELONA (Reuters) - Everybody at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wanted to be the new best friend of the social networks. ...Read More »

NAB 2009: Panasonic Introduces Low-Cost, High-Quality HD Camcorder By Broadcasting & Cable Filed at 2:15 p.m. EST on Feb. 11, 2009 Panasonic has introduced a new P2 HD solid-state camcorder with 10-bit, 4:2:2 image processing, the AG-HPX300, which will be available in March at a suggested list price of $10,700. One of the first customers for the new HPX 300 camera will be NBC Universal. Panasonic Broadcast president John Baisley announced Wednesday th..... ...Read More »

Panasonic Introduces Low-Cost, High-Quality HD Camcorder By Broadcasting & Cable Filed at 2:15 p.m. EST on Feb. 11, 2009 Panasonic has introduced a new P2 HD solid-state camcorder with 10-bit, 4:2:2 image processing, the AG-HPX300, which will be available in March at a suggested list price of $10,700. One of the first customers for the new HPX 300 camera will be NBC Universal. Panasonic Broadcast president John Baisley announced Wednesday th..... ...Read More »

NAB 2009: Panasonic Intros Low-Cost, High-Quality HD Camcorder By Broadcasting & Cable Panasonic has introduced a new P2 HD solid-state camcorder with 10-bit, 4:2:2 image processing, the AG-HPX300, which will be available in March at a suggested list price of $10,700. The camera, which was formally introduced at a press event in New York Wednesday where Panasonic detailed its plans for the NAB convention in April, uses Panasonic's AVC-Intra advanced compr..... ...Read More »

JVC Bows Final Cut-Friendly Camcorder By Broadcasting & Cable JVC has introduced the next step in its cost-effective ProHD camcorder line with a new shoulder-mounted model, the GY-HM700, which records high-definition video on inexpensive SDHC memory cards in the same native QuickTime (.MOV) format used by Apple's popular Final Cut Pro editing systems. The new camera, which JVC executives say will speed the news editing process by eliminating..... ...Read More »

NAB 2009: JVC Bows Final Cut-Friendly Camcorder By Broadcasting & Cable JVC has introduced the next step in its cost-effective ProHD camcorder line with a new shoulder-mounted model, the GY-HM700, which records high-definition video on inexpensive SDHC memory cards in the same native QuickTime (.MOV) format used by Apple's popular Final Cut Pro editing systems. The new camera, which JVC executives say will speed the news editing process by eliminating..... ...Read More »

Samsung to make more energy-efficient LED TVs By Mark Lamport-Stokes LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday showed off a new line of high-end, ultra-slim, energy-efficient televisions and said it planned to increase the proportion of TVs it makes using LED technol ...Read More »