TV Technology Announces STAR & Mario Award Recipients
Falls Church, VA - TV Technology has announced the winners
for the coveted STAR and Mario Awards presented at NAB2005.
Now in its sixth year, the STAR Awards (for Superior Technology
Award Recipient) are designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent
technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. A
panel of judges consisting of TV Technology editors and columnists
reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications
and their overall contribution to the industry, and then submitted
their award nominees.
"Our panel of editors walked the show floor in search of innovative
and ground-breaking new products," said Tom Butts, TV Technology
Editor. "The products and technology we selected made the cut
- they demonstrated their ability to help advance the acquisition
and dissemination of audio and video in the professional video marketplace."
Organized in 1993, the Mario Awards were established to recognize
manufacturers whose products represent significant technical breakthroughs
-- many of these products have gone on to significantly impact the
future of video technology. The awards are named after Mario Orazio,
a pseudonym for a nameless engineer and a renowned technology columnist
for TV Technology who pens the industry's most widely read
column "The Masked Engineer." The awards are given out
annually at the NAB convention to companies that demonstrate forward
thinking and technical excellence in their products.
Recipients of the STAR awards are:
Adobe - Photoshop CS2
Arriflex - D-20 Film Style Digital Camera
Avid Technology - DNxchange
Axcera - DVB-H Transmission Technology
Blackmagic Design - Multibridge Extreme Studio
Canare - Pocket-Sized Hybrid Fiber Optic Cable Checker
Canon - HJ17ex7.6B Lens Series for ENG
Clear-Com - Cellcom Digital Wireless Intercom
EchoLab - NovaIdentity4 Production Switcher
Frezzi - Full Spectrum LED Light
Fujinon - Precision Focus Assist System for HD
Helissio Technologies - 720/24p AVC Encoder
JVC - GY-HD100U ProHD Camcorder
Kodak - HD Vision 2 Film System for TV
Leitch Technology- X75 Multiple Path Converter/Synchronizer
Linear Acoustic - Streamstacker
Linear Acoustic - LA5124 Autonorm
Matrox - Axio
Miranda Technologies- HD-Bridge DEC
Network Electronics - Mot-Box
Panasonic - AG-HVX200 P2 DVCPRO HD Camcorder
PESA Switching Systems- Cheetah V5
Prime Image/Editware - Fastrack TT
Riedel Communications - Performer C3 Digital Beltpack
Rohde & Schwarz - FSH3-TV Handheld TV Analyzer
Serious Magic - Ultra 2 Keyer and Virtual Set Software
Shook Mobile Technology - A-15 HD EFP Production Vehicle
Shotoku - TP-80 Pneumatic Camera Pedestal
Sigma Electronics - Arbalest for Audio Lip Sync
Snell & Wilcox - Kahuna Production Switcher
Sony - HVR-Z1U HDV Video Camera and Deck
Synthetic Aperture - Color Finesse 2.0
Telecast Fiber Systems- Rattler Compact USB-Powered HD/SD
Transmitter/Receiver
Thales Angenieux - V-3 3D Optics System
Tiffen/Steadicam - Merlin Stabilizer
TV One - C2-7200 Dual-Channel Video Processor
Quantum5x Systems/VFGadgets - QT-256WP Mini Transmitter
Zaxcom - TRX900 Wireless Mic Transceiver & IFB900 RF
Remote Control
Recipients of the Mario Awards are:
Belar - JA-1 Jitter Analyzer
Digidesign - Venue Live Audio Mixer
Helissio Technologies - 720/24p AVC encoder
Ikegami - HDN-X10 HD Editcam
Linear Acoustic - LA-5124 AutoNorm
Manfrotto - Fig Rig System
P+S Technik - Skater Dolly
Pin-Mic - The Pin-Mic
Reversica - Gyre 6300 hardware
Rololight - Softbox System
TV Technology is the industry's leading magazine for technology
news and reviews. The magazine is published by IMAS Publishing,
the world's largest publisher of audio and video publications.
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