Visit the CAMERON PACE Group booth at the NAB Show this week, and you are bound to hear the term zero delta thrown around a lot. But the zero delta, or the point at which producing a 3D telecast adds no additional cost or disrupts none of the traditional workflows in the 2D production, is not just a hollow marketing term. CPG Co-Chairman Vince Pace believes it is a true possibility and is essential to the maturation of the 3D-production business.

A search through this year’s NAB halls for “most transformative” booth will uncover a few interesting candidates, but it’s Canon, which expanded the size of its booth to allow for a heavy emphasis on 4K products and workflows, that wins the prize.

Several new ultra-slow-motion high-speed cameras are making their first appearance at the NAB Show this week, and Vision Research’s latest Phantom Camera, the v242, is among the most hyped for sports production. Although the Phantom Cam has been a regular production element for high-profile sports telecasts for years, it has recently made its way into more regional and second-tier sports shows. As a result, Vision Research, which started as an industrial-oriented company, has placed a larger priority on the live-broadcast market.

Haivision has been a force in the streaming-video market since the company was founded in 2009. However, its systems were limited to a local-area network (LAN). However, at the NAB Show this week, Haivision reports that it has broken out of its LAN cage with an arsenal of new products, including the KulaByte Internet encoder.

On display at the Azzurro Systems Integration booth at the NAB Show this week, AzzurroCam 3.0, the latest edition of the HD-camera series, features a completely new graphical user interface and gives users the ability to manage multiple remote sites equipped with single- or multiple-camera studio configurations from one or multiple locations.

In sports, getting the most stunning 3D images possible requires mobility. Smaller 3D camera systems and wireless transmission that can handle 3D content allow operators to untether themselves from fixed locations and act more as an RF-handheld operator. At the NAB Show, first-time exhibitor Broadcast Sports Inc. (BSI) is demonstrating its Dual Stream Mini Transmitter, which allows simultaneous transmission of two signals wirelessly, and its ability to transmit both as a live 3D feed.

Australian DAW manufacturer Fairlight has quietly but steadily been making inroads into U.S. sports-broadcast postproduction. In addition to implementing several of its Evo production systems at NFL Films, it has installed systems for MLB, NBA, NBC Sports, NASCAR, Golf Channel, and others.

The overarching theme of this year’s NAB Show is ‘The Great Content Shift', the demand for content anytime anywhere. Nowhere is that more prominent than on the sports side as the terms second screen, streaming, and over-the-top have been thrown around like Frisbees on the beach.

Audio mixers heard things a bit better in 2011, and that’s carrying over into 2012, says Will Eggleston, director of marketing for speaker manufacturer Genelec. “We saw an improving trend in terms of sales of smaller systems into broadcast last year, which we believe translates into installations in outside-broadcast trucks,” he says. “That same [sales] trend has extended into 2012, so we expect to see ongoing improvement in remote monitoring for sports broadcast.”

For suppliers in the digital-asset–management business, one of the toughest challenges is selling a client on the importance of making the investment in a digital archive. At the NAB Show this week, though, Spectra Logic has seen a notable spike in interest in the storage and monetization systems it provides.

Music libraries are targeting sports-broadcast production with renewed emphasis via exclusively licensed music. Killer Tracks, one of the largest music libraries serving broadcast, announced at the NAB Show this week that it has been signing original-music artists and has been particularly seeking artists whose music pairs well with sports programming.

VidyoCast, known for its ability to transmit live, broadcast-quality feeds over various networks, including IP, is showing its commitment to focusing on mobile broadcast solutions. The ability to broadcast and go live anytime, anyplace in an instant is key to VidyoCast VP of business development Eyal Hillman’s strategy.

GlobeCast has unveiled MyGlobeTV — a new over-the-top (OTT) platform for international broadcasters in the Americas and a B-2-C television bouquet that brings international and genre-based audiovisual content directly to subscribers.

Loudness monitoring and measurement might just turn out to be the most fecund digital-audio product category since the microphone. The NAB Show has seen multiple new entries into an already crowded field. On Tuesday, we looked at some of them. Here are more new products.

iStreamPlanet will provide live and on-demand encoding-workflow services as part of Windows Azure Media Services, Microsoft’s cloud-based media-services platform. iStreamPlanet’s workflow services are intended to bring dynamic scaling, high reliability, and elasticity to meet growing consumer demand for online video.

Avid will deploy the most comprehensive Avid workflow in the history of NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, to support its coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games taking place in London this summer.

NBC’s Olympics division will use a managed private networking system from AT&T to help deliver its high-definition broadcast coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Anton/Bauer will provide 24/7 access to products, repair, service, and support to NBC Olympics’ production of the 2012 London Olympic Games

MIRA Mobile Television’s new M12HD represents the next generation of technologies the company will deploy in its mobile units. The unit is already contracted to service the new Pac-12 Networks’ premier college football and basketball games. It goes on the road in June and will begin its work for the Pac-12 Networks in August.

NESN, the New England Sports Network, has selected Sony’s Media Backbone Production System for content management. After making the difficult decision to carry out a global changeover from their legacy system a year ago, NESN completed an exhaustive nine-month examination of existing technologies reviewing some ten different systems.