Sports-centric NAB attendees will want to put two items on their checklist for today. First, SVG editorial director Ken Kerschbaumer and Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Charles Morgan will discuss the IMS move to HD at 1 p.m. in Sony's booth (SU906). And at 4 p.m. in the content theater (Central Hall 1060) the NBA and Fox Sports Southwest will discuss the recent Dallas Mavericks game that was shot in 3D HD.

Michael Phelps won’t be alone in his quest to dominate the Beijing Olympics as Panasonic, courtesy of a wide ranging deal with the IOC, the Beijing Organizing Committee and Beijing Olympic Broadcasting (BOB) will supply approximately 100 P2 HD and DVCPRO-HD camcorders, 250 DVCPRO-HD, P2HD, and DVCPRO50 studio decks, and more than 1,500 monitors.

Harris Broadcast Communications is introducing more than 64 new products this year but advances in the company’s MPH (Mobile Pedestrian and Handheld) technology along with LG Electronics that should excite TV sports networks and leagues. The system uses a small slice of a TV station’s DTV signal to deliver broadcast-quality content to mobile devices and will now have the ability to offer PPV services, VOD, a program guide, and dynamic advertising thanks to EXPWAY.

JVC Professional Products Company today introduced the new 720p and 1080i signal selectable GY-HD200UB ProHD camcorder and is also previewing the next generation of file-based recording that combines affordable solid-state memory and long hard-disk recording times. The MR-HD200U is a new camera-mounted media recorder that attaches directly to any of JVC's award winning ProHD 200 Series camcorders.

NAB marks the rollout of the complete Harris NewsForce HD/SD newsroom and sports production product family as well as the launch of the Harris Inscriber G7 integrated broadcast graphics system. Tim Thorsteinson, Harris Broadcast Communications president, says the company expects revenues for 2007 to top out around $650 million, more than doubling the company’s revenues in 2004, prior to a spate of acquisitions that transformed the company into one that offers everything from signal management equipment to traffic and billing systems. And a new interoperability lab promises that customers can rest assured that a new Harris-based infrastructure works properly not only within the Harris product family but also with third-party products. “This allows integrators to more easily install systems and put them together,” says Thorsteinson.

Screen Subtitling Systems Ltd, a world-leader in closed captioning technology, is heading to the U.S. with SysMedia Ltd has the company’s have formed a partnership to jointly market interoperable products for closed captioning and cross-platform publishing in the United States as “Screen and Media.”

Vinten and Canon continue to expand their relationship as the Vector 950 Active pan and tilt head that complements Canon Broadcast's lens stabilization Optical Shift Image Stabilizer ("Shift-IS") technology can now be used with most existing Canon HD field "Shift-IS" lenses.

IBM ( NAB booth SU-3614) has introduced IBM Management Complexity Factor for Media, what the company calls the first media-industry specific methodology and toolset designed to dramatically improve digital media storage environments. "Media companies are facing a double-edged sword with the exponential rise in digital media storage needs, coupled with concerns about optimizing storage to be more efficient," says Steve Canepa, vice president of Media and Entertainment, IBM. "By quickly and cost-effectively analyzing the interconnected IT and storage environments that increasingly comprise media operations, MCF for Media helps our clients identify opportunities for improvement and align their IT and business strategies."

Gepco International hits NAB with the V-CON Connector System, designed to withstand the harsh environments posed by outdoor broadcast, mobile production and staging applications. The core of the V-CON system, Gepco V-CON connectors feature an all-metal body, locking set-screw, and integrated cord grip—all in a weather-tight design.

Panasonic is unveiling a gamut of new cameras, switchers and other cutting-edge technology solutions at NAB 2008, but for sports fans, the AJHPX 2700 camera is the top of the line. The 2700 utilizes P2 technology with VariCam framerate flexibility to create a camera uniquely crafted to answer the questions poised by sports production.

Mogulus and Kulabyte have launched what they call "the first Internet video portal platform will support high quality Live Flash encoding and streaming up to HD resolutions." The partnership brings Kulabyte's XStream and XPress Live Flash encoding solutions together with the growing 50,000 worldwide Internet TV producers who use Mogulus Studio applications for Live and on demand broadcasting and streaming over the Web.