posted by Deborah D. McAdams

Bitcentral announced that CORE:news and its Active Panel are now certified with Ross Video’s Inception newsroom computer system.

Amazon announced that Prime members and customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany will be able to watch movies and TV shows in high dynamic range this year.

Volicon and Nexidia announced the release of a joint platform for automated compliance monitoring of closed-caption quality and descriptive video.

Agendas for both the upcoming ATSC 3.0 Boot Camp on May 13 and the ATSC Broadcast Television Conference on May 14 have now been released. Registration for both events is now open.

Tedial announced a major sale of its Tarsys enterprise MAM system to Indian public service broadcaster, Doordarshan.

Version 8.4 with BXF 3.0 is scheduled for Q2 2015 release.

Fifteen of the PX5000Gs will be assigned to cover the inaugural European Games that will be held this month in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.

Envivio is participating in the live 4K telecast of this year’s French Open.

Ericsson announced that Tata Sky has tapped Ericsson for its AVP 4000 system encoder technology.

The Guild of Television Cameramen’s 42nd annual awards presentations were held May 18 at The Great Barn in Upper Aynho, Oxfordshire, England.

Google is partnering with GoPro to commercialize its new VR camera system.

Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Chief Alison Kutler appointed Parul P. Desai to serve as the Open Internet ombudsperson.

"It worked surprisingly well."

SNTV, the sports news video agency jointly owned by IMG and The Associated Press, is opening a new bureau in Dubai, UAE, to cater for the increased interest in sports news from the Gulf Region.

TVB announced that Steve Sturm has been appointed to the new position of executive advisor for Automotive in its National Business Development division, effective June 1.

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