As part of its strategy for offering solutions tailored to the full range of broadcast, corporate, government, and editorial workflows and budgets, Volicon has announced a significant expansion of its award-winning Observer family of digital video logging and monitoring systems.

AmberFin has launched the new iCR Standards Converter, joining its award-winning iCR software range.

Standards conversion is a key tool for monetising existing content in markets with different frame rates, and as companies migrate towards file-based working, there is increasing demand for file based standards conversion, that does not require costly videotape layback.

One of the drivers of the current success of Indie films is an improved image resulting from high resolution digital video cameras and high performance lenses. The combination is proving so successful that as cinematographers and directors make the move to feature films, they're bringing the technology with them.

Calrec Audio's new Artemis console made its UK debut at BVE this month. Based on the award-winning Apollo platform, Artemis utilises the same core technologies such as Bluefin2 and Hydra2 which equips the console with an enormous routing and processing capacity.

Bluefin2, the next generation of Calrec's trademark Bluefin High Density Signal Processing platform, provides substantial resources at multiple sample rates. At 48kHz, Bluefin2 gives Artemis up to 640 channel processing paths, 128 program busses, 64 IFB/Track outputs and 32 auxiliaries.

Telegent Systems and Brightstar Corp have announced a partnership to bring a low-cost handset that delivers live, free-to-air broadcast TV to Latin American and African consumers prior to this summer's 2010 football World Cup in South Africa. Brightstar's Avvio 505 device, which incorporates Telegent's free-to-air analogue mobile TV receiver, will provide consumers on the go with an affordable way to view this summer's football matches.

Following strong market interest Panasonic Professional Broadcast & IT Systems (PBITS) Europe has announced that it is to extend its Grass Valley EDIUS Neo 2 Booster nonlinear editing software bundling promotion. The software will continue to be bundled for free with purchases of selected camcorder models until 30 September this year.

Volex Group plc, global electrical and electronic cable assemblies group, has announced the launch of its Robust Optical Connector - a multi-fibre optical connector for use in harsh environment applications. The Robust Optical Connector, made up of a plug and socket assembly, is IP68-rated to ensure protection against submersion in water, while maintaining excellent optical performance in a temperature range between minus 40oC and plus 85oC.

JVC has announced the early-March launch of the DLA-SH7NL, a 4K2K D-ILA projector. It incorporates three 1.27-inch 4K2K D-ILA display devices for high-quality imaging and dual ultra-high-pressure mercury lamps for 5000 lumens of brightness. Combining superb definition and resolution with low-cost maintenance, the 4K2K D-ILA projector is expected to be widely accepted for planetariums, museums, simulators and medical institutions, as well as used for high-spec designing and monitoring.

Espial, developer of TV on-demand software and solutions, has announced the latest version of its TV browser product for connected TVs and set-top boxes.

Phabrix will show its complete range of portable test and measurement instruments for the broadcast industry at this year's BVE. This includes the SxA with its combined toolset for generation, analysis and monitoring, the award winning eye and jitter SxE and now the new multi format SxD capable of delivering 350 different formats including dual link, 4:2:2 YUV, 4:4:4 RGB, and 4:4:4 YUV at 10/12.