The hottest property in European sports broadcasting right now is not going to be sold off, at least not in the near future. The owners of Setanta Sports have confirmed that, although several offers have been received, there are no plans to sell the company, despite its present high currency in a troubled market.

When designing its newest 53-foot double-expando HD video production truck Cobalt, Sweetwater Digital Productions chose NVISION’s NV8288 Digital Video Router, NV9000 Router Control and Panels, and Synapse signal processing equipment.

SVG would like to announce that Jittr has changed its company name to Vusion. Vusion is a platinum sponsor of the Sports Video Group.

QuStream Corporation appoints Team4 as master distributor for England, Scotland and Wales. This agreement covers the entire QuStream family of routers, optical links, interfaces, signal processors.

Clear-Com Communication Systems is bringing control of its Eclipse Digital Matrix Intercom System to the users’ fingertips with the new, compact V-Series Desktop unit. This latest addition to its family of V-Series Panel products can sit on a tabletop or can be wall-mounted for quick access and increased convenience. An innovator of communications solutions for the broadcast, live performance, government and commercial markets, Clear-Com will be showcasing the V-Series Desktop at NAB 2008 in their Booth C5908.

Calrec Audio and Ross Video Ltd. have developed a software interface that enables Calrec audio consoles to be controlled remotely by the Ross OverDrive Automated Production Control (APC) system. For broadcasters, this tight integration can mean significantly reduced production costs and more flexibility, in that a single operator can run both video and audio in situations where a full crew is not available or not required, such as for late-night breaking news cut-ins.

WASP3D, the workflow based 3D broadcast graphics solution will showcase its HD ready, cutting-edge real-time 3D graphics system at the NAB show, Las Vegas. WASP3D can be seen in action at stand # SL9908 from April 14th through 17th, 2008.

Fujinon’s new HA23x7.6BE HDTV lens, a Premier Series lens offering advanced optical technology, is being introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2008 convention in Las Vegas, from April 14-17. Fujinon will be located in booth #C4210 at the NAB convention.

Solid State Logic, a manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles and provider of creative tools for film, audio, video and broadcast professionals, is pleased to showcase the C200 HD Digital Production Console with an enhanced feature set, along with its entire C Series product portfolio at NAB 2008, April 14-17, at the Las Vegas Convention Center (booth #N4031). Of particular interest to broadcast clients is the remote I/O capabilities that are ideal for live broadcast applications.

Snell & Wilcox has integrated its Kahuna SD/HD multiformat production switcher with the NewsForce SD/HD newsroom system from Harris Corporation. As part of this collaboration, engineers from Harris and Snell & Wilcox worked together over a period of several months to integrate Kahuna with a broad range of Harris products including the Harris Platinum router, NEXIO AMP server, ADC automation system, Inscriber G7 3D graphics systems, and the CENTRIO multiviewer.

EVS heads to NAB with Media Importer, a new EVS plug-in application that is available directly from the Apple Final Cut Pro File/Import menu. It allows the import of any clips available on the EVS XT[2] production server to be made directly available for editing. Also expect to see XT[2]-EditRec, the latest EVS multi-channel disk recorder solution for linear and hybrid editing workflows.

TANDBERG Television will demonstrate the newest features of its encoders, multiplexers and new professional receivers at NAB in its booth #SU4210. New features include support of SMPTE 2016-1-2007, "Format for Active Format Description and Bar Data", for the E5700 series encoders and PSIP carouselling for the MX5620 multiplexer. Additionally, NAB marks the launch of the RX8320 ATSC Broadcast Receiver, designed specifically to ease the digital transition for broadcasters and service providers alike.

Linear Acoustic, a manufacturer of customer-centric multichannel sound solutions for digital broadcast, will be showing the new AEROMAX:one digital television audio processing system, which supports built-in Dolby(R) Digital (AC-3) encoding at NAB 2008.

Miranda Technologies and NVISION have launched one of the largest high-quality multi-image/routing systems. The routing systems results from a tight integration between Miranda's Kaleido-X multi-viewer and NVISION's new NV8576 Large-Matrix Digital Multi-Format Router and router product line with native 3Gig capability. The system can be expanded to provide up to 1152 HD/SD video inputs and 128 multi-image display outputs.

QuStream Corporation has appointed Alan Bunting as Director of Sales, Europe, Middle East & Africa. Based in Cambridge, England, he reports to Karlton Burn, QuStream Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing.

Utah Scientific introduced two new additions to its master control switcher product family. The MC-4000 delivers two complete signal processing channels in a 3-RU package, offering larger broadcasters a fully integrated system for the most demanding on-air operations. For smaller applications, the MC-40 provides a standalone package that integrates the company's widely successful MC-400 channel branding board along with an 8-input board that allows the MC-40 to be used separately from the UTAH-400 routing switcher.

Scopus Video Networks Ltd. a provider of digital video networking solutions will present comprehensive systems for digital content distribution and advanced encoding/decoding for contribution at the 2008 NAB Show in their booth SU11228. These solutions feature advanced compression, bandwidth optimization, and enhanced modulation techniques designed to meet the critical requirements that broadcasters, content providers and satellite operators face as they deal with increasing demand for HD programming.