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da Vinci Systems develops software tools for digital post-production. The company has just announced company support for Bright Systems‘ BrightClip intelligent data recording technology. Shown for the first time at IBC2007, BrightClip provides disk recording and playback of media within the digital post-production environment without need of disk optimization. da Vinci plans to integrate its leading post-production systems, including the Resolve digital mastering suite, Splice nonlinear option for the da Vinci 2K, and Revival restoration system, with the new BrightClip technology, starting with the next software releases. BrightClip can be set up for use with applications either directly through an API or indirectly through an administrative interface. Company website: www.davsys.com—Coral Springs, Florida







Microwave Radio Communications announced that their Link High Definition (HD) Wireless Diversity camera systems powered FOX-TV Sports‘ state-of-the-art, high-resolution coverage of baseball’s American League Championship Series, and the Boston Red Sox World Series sweep of the Colorado Rockies. The Link HD Wireless Diversity system provided true HD transmission without down/up conversion, complete freedom of camera movement, and latency elimination. FOX-TV production crews could inter-cut camera shots seamlessly with no vision or sound delay problems. CP Communications provided the Link HD wireless camera systems to FOX for use with Thomson LDK6000 camera heads and OCP400 camera controls panels—North Billerica, Massachusetts







OmniBus Systems provides broadcast automation and content management solutions. They have just announced Belgian facilities company VIDEOHOUSE is broadcasting three channels with OmniBus iTX. This is a software-based playout and automation system. In fact, VITAYA, which is a lifestyle-themed channel offered in SD, has been hosted on iTX since September 13th of this year. Health channel VITALITEIT and a third, property themed channel, both digital, then followed suit. iTX is comprised of the three main on-air channels with logo generation and graphics, an ingest channel plus a backup channel. The traffic system with dynamic CGs added in iTX scheduled secondary events. Avid systems content is transferred automatically to the iTX storage for insertion into the playlists. Company website: www.omnibus.tv—London, United Kingdom







There is a new director of sales ops at Utah Scientific, a company manufacturing routing switchers and other products for the broadcast industry. Industry pro Steve Monsen has joined the firm and he’ll work directly with Tom Harmon, the president of Utah Scientific. His task will be to enhance and streamline the sales process as well as provide support to the regional sales managers and customers. Company website: www.utahscientific.com—Salt Lake City, Utah