The Score HD is a specialty sports channel that provides sports news, highlights, information and analysis programming along with live event sports coverage. Recently, The Score underwent a massive system upgrade to its facility in Toronto and Matthew Payne, Director of Broadcast Operations, contracted Applied Electronics to do a total rebuild of their broadcast system to full HD, including its

SMPTE @ The Score The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) Toronto Chapter held their February meeting at The Score’s new street-front HD studio facility. The meeting commenced with presentations and then small groups were taken on tours of The Score’s new HD facility. Catered food was generously provided by Thomson Grass Valley. This meeting had the best attendance of all the SMPTE events in the last 2 years and included members from all of the major networks and broadcasters in the Greater Toronto Area.

John Leermakers Vice President of FinancePaul Stechly, President, is pleased to announce the promotion of John Leermakers to Vice President of Finance. John graduated with an Honours Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and obtained his CMA Designation in 1994. He held the role of Assistant Controller at NSK Bearing and Controller at Computron Software before joining AEL in 1999 as Controller to oversee the finance department.

As V.P. of Finance, John will continue to manage the finance department as well as the ERP “SYACC” system and corporate administration. John reached his 10-year milestone with AEL on January 4, 2009.

John and wife of 16 years, Pam, have 3 children, Courtney (13), Kyle (11) and Cameron (9), and all enjoy camping, curling and other sports activities. In fact, John won the GTA Curling Championship in 2008.

Congratulations, John!

Kim O’Grady 20 Years with AELKim studied in a business program at Sheridan college and worked for companies in the electric and automotive industries. Prior to joining AEL, Kim worked for Dynatec, AEL’s sister company that specialized in medical supplies, as the Shipper/Receiver, and in 1988, Kim transferred to AEL to run its head office warehouse. As Warehouse Manager, Kim is responsible for shipping, receiving and categorizing all products in the Mississauga office and maintaining the warehouse inventory. Kim has done a fantastic job in keeping everything well-organized. Thank you for the dedication, Kim!

Kim and wife of 27 years, Penny, have 3 children, Summer, Kyle and Amber, two of whom have worked at AEL as outstanding summer students.

Michel Bédard 13 Years with AELMichel joined AEL as a Sales Representative in 1995 and became Manager for Québec and Eastern Canada in 1999. Michel had prior broadcast experience with TQS Television Quatre Saisons as Maintenance Supervisor and Tele-Quebec (formerly Radio Québec) as a Technical Instructor, Technical Producer and Maintenance Supervisor.

With a technical background from the Institute de Technologie de Montreal in Electronics and Audio Visual, Michel enjoys the challenges which are constantly presented with new technology in our industry. He is very good at explaining new technology to his clients and colleagues and is highly regarded in the industry.

Michel and wife, Chantel, have 3 sons and in their spare time, they enjoy camping, cross country skiing and travelling.

Congratulations on this anniversary, Michel!

Trevor Joice – 11 Years with AELTrevor’s career in broadcast began 40 years ago when he worked at a radio station in Cobourg after studying Electronics in college. For many years, he was the Director of Engineering at CHIN RADIO/TV and also worked at CJRT-FM in Toronto. Trevor joined AEL’s broadcast sales team in 1998 as a Broadcast Technologist and shares his expertise in intercom, audio and RF systems. He is recognized by many industry peers for his engineering and leadership accomplishments and was honoured with CCBE’s Engineer of the Year Award in 1991 and CCBE’s Ambassador Award in 2008.

Trevor is a beekeeper in his spare time, managing 6 hives with 300,000 bees that produce incredibly flavourful honey.

Trevor and wife, Jean, have two sons, and are anxiously awaiting the birth of their first grandchild in June. Congratulations, Trevor!

Nick Eriksen A/V Installations Technician, CalgaryOriginally from Strathmore, Alberta, Nick graduated from the Broadcast Technologies program at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and worked for the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show and then in rentals & systems integration division for a local AV company in Calgary. Enjoying building and cabling equipment racks, Nick joined AEL as an Audio Visual Technician, performing systems installations and occasionally attending to service calls. Nick takes pride in clean and professional installation work and is a great addition to the AEL family in Calgary.

Nick Johnson A/V Installations Technician, Toronto Nick studied Computer Hardware and Electronics at Lambeth College in the U.K. before graduating from Algonquin College in Canada with a Precision Electronic Assembly Certificate. With over 10 years of hands-on technical experience, Nick joined AEL’s Audio Visual Systems Division as an Installations Technician. With a wide range of installation, service and project coordination skills, he is a welcomed addition to the Mississauga A/V team.

AEL Viewfinder StaffEditor: Gord Ballantyne • Assistant Editor: Lily Yang

Designed: Infinite Graphics Inc.

Thanks to all AEL staff who have made contributions to this edition.

MARCH 2009VOLUME 15 • ISSUE 1PRE-NAB ISSUE

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Knowledge is British Columbia’s public Educational Media Service providing high quality, commercial-free documentaries and arts & culture programming. Knowledge contracted Applied Electronics to assist in the building of an end-to-end digital SD solution into their existing facility. Applied Electronics provided consultation, design and supply of the new tapeless digital system comprised of a monitor wall, master control, branding system, automation, and archive storage, which can all accommodate a future upgrade to HD.

The new master control system incorporates Miranda’s Densité series modular products for signal processing and distribution, Kaleido-X (7RU/4RU) fully expandable, multi-image display system with integral router, PresStation master control switching and branding panel, Imagestore SD master control and brand processor, Vertigo X graphics manager, Xmedia Suite’s Xstudio template authoring system for creating and previewing television graphics, and iControl monitor and alarm. Also included is a Sundance Titan automation system and a Sun StorageTek SL500 modular library system for archiving.

In March 2009, Knowledge switched the distribution of their signal from analogue to an all-digital platform, on time and on budget. For more information on this project, please contact Patrick Wells in our Vancouver office.

satellite radio studio. Applied Electronics provided consultation, system design, supply, integration, and commissioning of the entire system. The new 5,000 sq. ft. HD studio, production control room, audio, and central equipment room (CER) are on the main floor while on the third floor are edit suites, the main CER and master control.

The main production and audio control room features a Studer Vista 5 digital audio mixer, 360 Systems DR600 instant replay sound file player, Sharp LCD displays, and a Crestron control system with touch panel. The system also includes a Tandberg ASI encoder, Extron HD router, Nugget HD player, Wohler digital audio monitors, Marshall 5.6 rackmount monitors, and AVP patch fields. Archiving is done with a Front Porch Digital DIVA system and on-air automation is created with an Avid Sundance Titan system. The edit suites each have two Thomson Grass Valley Aurora editors and two recording areas for reporters. The heart of the system are the numerous Thomson Grass Valley K2 video servers, Aurora Edits, Production SAN edit suites, and a Trinix video router, which all help to improve workflow. The Score can now ingest, edit and broadcast up to 22 HD feeds at a time, providing content for television, radio, online and mobile applications. It went live-to-air in complete HD on September 3, 2008. For more information on this project, please contact the Broadcast Sales team in our Mississauga office.

K n o w l e d g e N e t w o r k

The popular CANADIAN SUITE will be staged in the El Dorado Ballroom at the Flamingo Hotel.

For more information, please contact Rosie Patey at Applied Electronics Limited.Phone: (905) 625-4321 ext. 2222 • Fax: (905) 625-4333 • Email: rpatey@appliedelectronics.com

April 20-22, 2009 • 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Refreshments, including beer, wine and soft drinks, will be served.

Dave McGinn 7 Years with AELDave joined AEL in 2002 as a Sales Consultant specializing in News products and then became a full time employee in 2004 as a Broadcast Sales Representative.

Dave’s professional background includes 24 years in television news, including 7 and 14-year stints at CJOH Ottawa and 2 years at CKWS Kingston. Dave was also Station Manager at APTN overseeing the build at their new Winnipeg Broadcast Centre in 1999-2000.

Dave and wife, Jan, have two daughters and recently welcomed a grand-daughter, making Dave a grandpa for the first time. Congratulations, Dave!

Sim Video 2009 Technology Open HouseOn January 29th, Sim Video hosted its fourth annual Technology Open House in Toronto and experienced an unprecedented turnout of industry professionals eager to take in the latest in digital cinematography and high definition production tools. Applied Electronics co-sponsored the event and showcased AJA Video’s FS1 serial digital video interface and converter, MultiDyne’s FTX1500TX transmitter, FTX1500RX receiver and LiGHTBoX® portable fibre kit, Tektronix’s WFM5000 HD/SD-SDI portable waveform monitor, and Panasonic’s BT-LH1710 17” LCD multi-format monitor. The event was, as usual, a great success.

Vancouver8573 Commerce CourtBurnaby, BC V5A 4N5604.439.7228Fax 604.439.7210

Edmonton11442 Winterburn Rd. N.W.Edmonton, AB T5S 2Y3780.462.8275Fax 780.462.8238

Calgary3, 1815-27th Ave. N.E.Calgary, AB T2E 7E1403.291.5143Fax 403.291.5188

Toronto5170B Timberlea Blvd.Mississauga, ON L4W 2S5905.625.4321Fax 905.625.4333

Montréal7715, Boul. Henri-Bourassa OuestSt-Laurent, QC H4S 1P7514.333.3324 Fax 514.333.1512

NAB Booth C5108Ikegami is a world-leading manufacturer of broadcast HDTV cameras, tapeless camcorders, LCD monitors, and other advanced products delivering unsurpassed HDTV image quality, revolutionary workflow advantages, and affordability.

Ikegami’s NAB booth C5108 will feature its acclaimed line of studio, portable, and one-piece multi-format HDTV camera systems.

Ikegami demonstrated the first tapeless camcorder at NAB 1995. Now, at NAB 2009, Ikegami will display the newest, most advanced tapeless camcorder and ENG solution: the GFSeries. Developed in cooperation with Toshiba, a world leader in Flash memory, the GFSeries includes the competitively priced GFCam tapeless HDS-V10 camcorder, the GFStation Flash studio deck, and GFPak removable Flash media with up to 64GB capacity and a USB interface for instant access to file-based video clips.

Ikegami HDTV cameras at NAB 2009 also include: the HDK-79EXIII and HDK-727P HDTV Companion Camera system with newly developed 2/3-inch AIT CCD image sensors (1080i and 720p respectively); the HDK-79EC HD multi-format CMOS camera system, with three 2/3-inch 2.5 mega-pixel CMOS imaging sensors switchable between interlace and progressive-readout modes (including 720/120p for slow motion and 1080/60p in the HDK-79EC/HS-model); and the HDL-50 series of one-piece full-digital native multi-format 2.5 mega-pixel CMOS-equipped HD POV cameras.

NAB Booth N6724Studer RELINK makes broadcast studio interconnection more powerful than ever before.

Studer has announced the availability of the new Studer RELINK Resource Linking I/O Sharing system, which can link numerous Studer consoles in various locations of a Broadcast facility to allow audio source and control data sharing across a wide network. RELINK allows all current console models to share I/O’s.

RELINK is seamless, scaleable, flexible, and can start with a simple link between two Studer consoles, and scale up to multi-console systems

NAB Booth SU10517Founded in 1993, Orad Hi-Tec Systems is a world leading provider of real-time 3D broadcast graphics solutions including news, channel branding, sports production

and enhancement, special events and elections, virtual studios, and virtual advertisement. Orad’s compelling solutions streamline production workflow, enhance viewer experience, and improve production value.

New versions of Orad’s flagship solutions will be show-cased at NAB, such as Morpho 3D graphics and CG platform, Maestro turnkey news graphic system, 3DPlay automated promo and channel branding system, 3Designer authoring software, 3DWeather real-time weather prediction system, ProSet ultimate virtual studio system, RealSet HD/SD virtual system, Motion Video Play (MVP), TrackVision, TrackVision First-Down Line (FDL), AdVision virtual advertising platform, 3DReplay and HDVG (High-Definition Digital Video Graphics).More information is available at: www.orad.tv

NAB Booth N2522The WFM4000/WFM5000 waveform monitors and WVR4000/WVR5000 rasterizers monitor video and audio content efficiently and effectively. The units enable editors and operators to quickly and easily verify and adjust video and audio content from multiple signal sources. The 4000 Series supports standard definition (SD) video and the 5000 Series supports both SD and high definition (HD). Both models offer the capabilities customers most need at an affordable price, and provide the high quality of Tektronix. The models share a similar user interface and menu structure with higher performance Tektronix waveform monitors, including the award winning WFM7120. All models include 16 channels of embedded audio support and one AES audio input (2 channels) as standard capabilities and all provide exclusive Tektronix Gamut Displays (Diamond, Split Diamond and Arrowhead) and CRT- like waveform quality to ensure compliant video content. Both WFM models are packaged in short depth enclosures, enabling these units to fit into virtually any equipment rack on an outside broadcast (OB) van or truck.

NAB Booth SU2807NVISION expands Miranda Master control offering and adds a complete range of routing switchers starting from the ultra compact 16x16 all the way up to the Enterprise class 8500 series routers which features industry leading signal integrity at up to 3Gbps, cross point redundancy and built in fiber i/o in sizes from 144x144 to 1152x1152.

In the playout and graphics area Miranda will be launching the LGK-3901, a new low cost modular logo inserter and keyer capable of inserting up to 4 layers of internally generated or external graphics into SD, HD and 1080p/3Gbps programs. This is believed to be the first modular logo inserter capable of generating and inserting animated graphics into 1080p60 signals. Also new in this area is a low cost and compact control panel to control rich graphics on any of Miranda master control and graphics insertion devices.

The interfacing group will be debuting the latest version of its popular and powerful XVP-3901 up/down/cross converter which provides two independent SD, HD, and 1080p60 (3Gbps) outputs. The new version sports on board (not a separate card) advanced audio processing including Dolby encode, decode and Linear Acoustic Upmixing. The XVP now operates with 1080p60 signals and will be previewed in 3D, stereoscoping processing applications.

In the monitoring area Miranda will be launching the KaleidoX16 a brand new, ultra-compact and economical multi viewer capable of displaying up to 16 images into two high resolution displays. This processor provides all the functionality and signal quality of the flagship KaleidoX series but in a stand-alone fully integrated 1RU package.

Integrating all of its products together, Miranda will be debuting its new RCP-200 a powerful, graphical interface based control panel that can simultaneously control routers, multi-viewers and complex interface cards.

NAB Booth SU9610With the new S-Series, NL-Series and X-Series products, Isilon brings to market a full range of scale-out NAS solutions, enabling customers to accelerate the productivity of mission-critical applications, workflows and processes through an efficient, easy-to-manage storage infrastructure that reduces capital and operational expenditures while seamlessly scaling in lockstep with business growth.Leveraging continued innovation of its hardware platform, combined with Isilon’s proven, fifth-generation OneFS® operating system software, the new products drive increased performance for a full spectrum of file-based data applications and access patterns – from highest performance, I/O-intensive applications with the 54000S, to primary and secondary storage with the 36000X, to nearline archives with the 36NL – all from a single file system architecture.

NAB Booth SU5417OmniBus Systems is the worldwide leader in IT-based automation and playout solutions. At NAB 2009 OmniBus will be demonstrating a new version of its next-generation software solution, iTX which allows broadcasters to launch new channels much more cost effectively than conventional hardware-based solutions. iTX replaces the entire transmission chain of costly hardware and software products including video servers, master control switcher, DVE, branding devices and SD/HD/AR converters with a single, integrated suite of software applications.

More information is available at: www.omnibus.tv

NAB Booth SL4508Founded in 2000 (www.signiant.com), Signiant’s software enables immediate cost savings and monetization of digital assets by managing, accelerating, and automating the movement of content securely over networks. With Signiant, users are able to streamline the workflow of their digital media files and ensure that the right content is in the right place at the right time. Signiant is headquartered in Burlington, MA with development facilities in Ottawa, Canada and offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Munich and Singapore.

New Key Features of iTX:

NAB Booth SL7912Christie will be featuring two new products at NAB 2009:

The Christie Vista URS-1608, a universal routing switcher, accepts any source format, converts it, and sends it to any output display. It eliminates most or all of your front- and back-end boxes, reducing your requirements to one piece of equipment and ultimately reduces set up times, resources and maintenance costs.

Digital

using a two-step topology where all signals are matrixed through a central

device, for example the Studer Route 6000 system. To use RELINK,

Studer consoles must be updated to the newest software versions – 4.1 for Vista, 3.1

for OnAir systems and 2.0 for Route 6000 systems.

More information is available at: www.studer-canada.com or contact Trevor Joice in our Mississauga office.

More information is available at: www.christiedigital.com

New WideXGA 3LCD projector – the Christie LW650, is your total-package projector, offering premium features that were designed for installation flexibility and low cost of ownership. Launching at NAB 2009.

• 1080p/24 Support• Multi-Language Track

Audio Mapping• Split Breaks and

Regional Channels• VANC Data Insertion and

SCTE Signaling• External Subtitler Control

• Evergreen Content Replacement for Disaster Recovery Operation

• Extended Content File Support including MXF OP1A/1B, GXF, Omneon, Pinnacle

For more information visit: www.ikegami.com or contact Eugene McEleney in our Mississauga office.

More information is available at: www.miranda.com

Read the Signiant blog at: www.digitalmediagalaxy.com

More information is available at: www.tek.com

NAB Booths C3327 & C3712AG-HPX300 Memory Card Camera RecorderThe world’s first AVC-Intra camera-recorder with 1/3-inch, 2.2-megapixel image sensor, the AG-HPX300 debuts with a totally redesigned body that’s compact, light-weight and has a low center of gravity. Mobility is outstanding. Operation is easy. And the AG-HPX300 comes packed with Panasonic’s most advanced P2 HD technology. Featuring a newly designed image sensor, the AG-HPX300 supports AVC-Intra, the newest motion image compression codec in addition to the DVCPRO codecs. Data is recorded onto reliable P2 memory cards.

More information is available at: www.panasonic.ca

NAB Booth C6021Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of professional camera batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems, is introducing its Dionic® HC high current camera battery at NAB 2009. The Dionic HC is capable of up to 10 amps. With 85 watt-hr capacity, a built-in LCD real-time fuel gauge tracks up to nine hours of run time. Its seven segment numerical icon display indicates hours while the circular arcs illustrate 15-minute time intervals. By introducing the Dionic HC cell pack, Anton/Bauer is able to offer users the level of support required for powering cameras and other pieces of equipment which have gone up in power requirements.

For more information, visit: www.antonbauer.com

Additional information about Isilon can be found at: www.isilon.com

K2 Dyno Replay SystemThe K2 Dyno™ replay system is a powerful and cost-effective controller to address the need for replay control in sports and other live event telecasts. The K2 Dyno controller offers a highly intuitive control panel and user interface, high-quality T-bar and jog knob, touch-panel screen, and attached VGA for dual-screen operation. All of the advanced features of the K2 Summit™ production client are available through the K2 Dyno control panel, including built-in mix effects on each of the four channels, smooth slo-mo playback, and instant replay at the push of a button.

The AG-HPX170 debuts as the lightest member of the P2 Series of camcorders that have revolutionized news gathering and video production. Thanks to an exclusive P2 card recording design, the new model weighs in at only 4.2 pounds (1.9 kg), assuring exceptional mobility. The AG-HPX170 also introduces a newly designed camera section that features a 18mm wide-angle zoom lens – widest in the class – plus a newly developed 1/3-inch 16:9 progressive CCD that provides low-noise, low-smear performance. It also offers a host of advanced features that will be demonstrated in Panasonic’s NAB booths.

AG-HPX170 Memory Card Camera-Recorder

NAB Booth SL106K2 Summit Production ClientThe K2 Summit™ production client is an expansion of the current K2 server family that offers next-generation server capability. It has new features that optimize it for live events and production applications, as well as all

of the current K2 capabilities that address the traditional K2 broadcast and news markets.

More information is available at: www.thomsongrassvalley.com

grass valley

NAB Booth C5108Ikegami is a world-leading manufacturer of broadcast HDTV cameras, tapeless camcorders, LCD monitors, and other advanced products delivering unsurpassed HDTV image quality, revolutionary workflow advantages, and affordability.

Ikegami’s NAB booth C5108 will feature its acclaimed line of studio, portable, and one-piece multi-format HDTV camera systems.

Ikegami demonstrated the first tapeless camcorder at NAB 1995. Now, at NAB 2009, Ikegami will display the newest, most advanced tapeless camcorder and ENG solution: the GFSeries. Developed in cooperation with Toshiba, a world leader in Flash memory, the GFSeries includes the competitively priced GFCam tapeless HDS-V10 camcorder, the GFStation Flash studio deck, and GFPak removable Flash media with up to 64GB capacity and a USB interface for instant access to file-based video clips.

Ikegami HDTV cameras at NAB 2009 also include: the HDK-79EXIII and HDK-727P HDTV Companion Camera system with newly developed 2/3-inch AIT CCD image sensors (1080i and 720p respectively); the HDK-79EC HD multi-format CMOS camera system, with three 2/3-inch 2.5 mega-pixel CMOS imaging sensors switchable between interlace and progressive-readout modes (including 720/120p for slow motion and 1080/60p in the HDK-79EC/HS-model); and the HDL-50 series of one-piece full-digital native multi-format 2.5 mega-pixel CMOS-equipped HD POV cameras.

NAB Booth N6724Studer RELINK makes broadcast studio interconnection more powerful than ever before.

Studer has announced the availability of the new Studer RELINK Resource Linking I/O Sharing system, which can link numerous Studer consoles in various locations of a Broadcast facility to allow audio source and control data sharing across a wide network. RELINK allows all current console models to share I/O’s.

RELINK is seamless, scaleable, flexible, and can start with a simple link between two Studer consoles, and scale up to multi-console systems

NAB Booth SU10517Founded in 1993, Orad Hi-Tec Systems is a world leading provider of real-time 3D broadcast graphics solutions including news, channel branding, sports production

and enhancement, special events and elections, virtual studios, and virtual advertisement. Orad’s compelling solutions streamline production workflow, enhance viewer experience, and improve production value.

New versions of Orad’s flagship solutions will be show-cased at NAB, such as Morpho 3D graphics and CG platform, Maestro turnkey news graphic system, 3DPlay automated promo and channel branding system, 3Designer authoring software, 3DWeather real-time weather prediction system, ProSet ultimate virtual studio system, RealSet HD/SD virtual system, Motion Video Play (MVP), TrackVision, TrackVision First-Down Line (FDL), AdVision virtual advertising platform, 3DReplay and HDVG (High-Definition Digital Video Graphics).More information is available at: www.orad.tv

NAB Booth N2522The WFM4000/WFM5000 waveform monitors and WVR4000/WVR5000 rasterizers monitor video and audio content efficiently and effectively. The units enable editors and operators to quickly and easily verify and adjust video and audio content from multiple signal sources. The 4000 Series supports standard definition (SD) video and the 5000 Series supports both SD and high definition (HD). Both models offer the capabilities customers most need at an affordable price, and provide the high quality of Tektronix. The models share a similar user interface and menu structure with higher performance Tektronix waveform monitors, including the award winning WFM7120. All models include 16 channels of embedded audio support and one AES audio input (2 channels) as standard capabilities and all provide exclusive Tektronix Gamut Displays (Diamond, Split Diamond and Arrowhead) and CRT- like waveform quality to ensure compliant video content. Both WFM models are packaged in short depth enclosures, enabling these units to fit into virtually any equipment rack on an outside broadcast (OB) van or truck.

NAB Booth SU2807NVISION expands Miranda Master control offering and adds a complete range of routing switchers starting from the ultra compact 16x16 all the way up to the Enterprise class 8500 series routers which features industry leading signal integrity at up to 3Gbps, cross point redundancy and built in fiber i/o in sizes from 144x144 to 1152x1152.

In the playout and graphics area Miranda will be launching the LGK-3901, a new low cost modular logo inserter and keyer capable of inserting up to 4 layers of internally generated or external graphics into SD, HD and 1080p/3Gbps programs. This is believed to be the first modular logo inserter capable of generating and inserting animated graphics into 1080p60 signals. Also new in this area is a low cost and compact control panel to control rich graphics on any of Miranda master control and graphics insertion devices.

The interfacing group will be debuting the latest version of its popular and powerful XVP-3901 up/down/cross converter which provides two independent SD, HD, and 1080p60 (3Gbps) outputs. The new version sports on board (not a separate card) advanced audio processing including Dolby encode, decode and Linear Acoustic Upmixing. The XVP now operates with 1080p60 signals and will be previewed in 3D, stereoscoping processing applications.

In the monitoring area Miranda will be launching the KaleidoX16 a brand new, ultra-compact and economical multi viewer capable of displaying up to 16 images into two high resolution displays. This processor provides all the functionality and signal quality of the flagship KaleidoX series but in a stand-alone fully integrated 1RU package.

Integrating all of its products together, Miranda will be debuting its new RCP-200 a powerful, graphical interface based control panel that can simultaneously control routers, multi-viewers and complex interface cards.

NAB Booth SU9610With the new S-Series, NL-Series and X-Series products, Isilon brings to market a full range of scale-out NAS solutions, enabling customers to accelerate the productivity of mission-critical applications, workflows and processes through an efficient, easy-to-manage storage infrastructure that reduces capital and operational expenditures while seamlessly scaling in lockstep with business growth.Leveraging continued innovation of its hardware platform, combined with Isilon’s proven, fifth-generation OneFS® operating system software, the new products drive increased performance for a full spectrum of file-based data applications and access patterns – from highest performance, I/O-intensive applications with the 54000S, to primary and secondary storage with the 36000X, to nearline archives with the 36NL – all from a single file system architecture.

NAB Booth SU5417OmniBus Systems is the worldwide leader in IT-based automation and playout solutions. At NAB 2009 OmniBus will be demonstrating a new version of its next-generation software solution, iTX which allows broadcasters to launch new channels much more cost effectively than conventional hardware-based solutions. iTX replaces the entire transmission chain of costly hardware and software products including video servers, master control switcher, DVE, branding devices and SD/HD/AR converters with a single, integrated suite of software applications.

More information is available at: www.omnibus.tv

NAB Booth SL4508Founded in 2000 (www.signiant.com), Signiant’s software enables immediate cost savings and monetization of digital assets by managing, accelerating, and automating the movement of content securely over networks. With Signiant, users are able to streamline the workflow of their digital media files and ensure that the right content is in the right place at the right time. Signiant is headquartered in Burlington, MA with development facilities in Ottawa, Canada and offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Munich and Singapore.

New Key Features of iTX:

NAB Booth SL7912Christie will be featuring two new products at NAB 2009:

The Christie Vista URS-1608, a universal routing switcher, accepts any source format, converts it, and sends it to any output display. It eliminates most or all of your front- and back-end boxes, reducing your requirements to one piece of equipment and ultimately reduces set up times, resources and maintenance costs.

Digital

using a two-step topology where all signals are matrixed through a central

device, for example the Studer Route 6000 system. To use RELINK,

Studer consoles must be updated to the newest software versions – 4.1 for Vista, 3.1

for OnAir systems and 2.0 for Route 6000 systems.

More information is available at: www.studer-canada.com or contact Trevor Joice in our Mississauga office.

More information is available at: www.christiedigital.com

New WideXGA 3LCD projector – the Christie LW650, is your total-package projector, offering premium features that were designed for installation flexibility and low cost of ownership. Launching at NAB 2009.

• 1080p/24 Support• Multi-Language Track

Audio Mapping• Split Breaks and

Regional Channels• VANC Data Insertion and

SCTE Signaling• External Subtitler Control

• Evergreen Content Replacement for Disaster Recovery Operation

• Extended Content File Support including MXF OP1A/1B, GXF, Omneon, Pinnacle

For more information visit: www.ikegami.com or contact Eugene McEleney in our Mississauga office.

More information is available at: www.miranda.com

Read the Signiant blog at: www.digitalmediagalaxy.com

More information is available at: www.tek.com

NAB Booths C3327 & C3712AG-HPX300 Memory Card Camera RecorderThe world’s first AVC-Intra camera-recorder with 1/3-inch, 2.2-megapixel image sensor, the AG-HPX300 debuts with a totally redesigned body that’s compact, light-weight and has a low center of gravity. Mobility is outstanding. Operation is easy. And the AG-HPX300 comes packed with Panasonic’s most advanced P2 HD technology. Featuring a newly designed image sensor, the AG-HPX300 supports AVC-Intra, the newest motion image compression codec in addition to the DVCPRO codecs. Data is recorded onto reliable P2 memory cards.

More information is available at: www.panasonic.ca

NAB Booth C6021Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of professional camera batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems, is introducing its Dionic® HC high current camera battery at NAB 2009. The Dionic HC is capable of up to 10 amps. With 85 watt-hr capacity, a built-in LCD real-time fuel gauge tracks up to nine hours of run time. Its seven segment numerical icon display indicates hours while the circular arcs illustrate 15-minute time intervals. By introducing the Dionic HC cell pack, Anton/Bauer is able to offer users the level of support required for powering cameras and other pieces of equipment which have gone up in power requirements.

For more information, visit: www.antonbauer.com

Additional information about Isilon can be found at: www.isilon.com

K2 Dyno Replay SystemThe K2 Dyno™ replay system is a powerful and cost-effective controller to address the need for replay control in sports and other live event telecasts. The K2 Dyno controller offers a highly intuitive control panel and user interface, high-quality T-bar and jog knob, touch-panel screen, and attached VGA for dual-screen operation. All of the advanced features of the K2 Summit™ production client are available through the K2 Dyno control panel, including built-in mix effects on each of the four channels, smooth slo-mo playback, and instant replay at the push of a button.

The AG-HPX170 debuts as the lightest member of the P2 Series of camcorders that have revolutionized news gathering and video production. Thanks to an exclusive P2 card recording design, the new model weighs in at only 4.2 pounds (1.9 kg), assuring exceptional mobility. The AG-HPX170 also introduces a newly designed camera section that features a 18mm wide-angle zoom lens – widest in the class – plus a newly developed 1/3-inch 16:9 progressive CCD that provides low-noise, low-smear performance. It also offers a host of advanced features that will be demonstrated in Panasonic’s NAB booths.

AG-HPX170 Memory Card Camera-Recorder

NAB Booth SL106K2 Summit Production ClientThe K2 Summit™ production client is an expansion of the current K2 server family that offers next-generation server capability. It has new features that optimize it for live events and production applications, as well as all

of the current K2 capabilities that address the traditional K2 broadcast and news markets.

More information is available at: www.thomsongrassvalley.com

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The Score HD is a specialty sports channel that provides sports news, highlights, information and analysis programming along with live event sports coverage. Recently, The Score underwent a massive system upgrade to its facility in Toronto and Matthew Payne, Director of Broadcast Operations, contracted Applied Electronics to do a total rebuild of their broadcast system to full HD, including its

SMPTE @ The Score The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) Toronto Chapter held their February meeting at The Score’s new street-front HD studio facility. The meeting commenced with presentations and then small groups were taken on tours of The Score’s new HD facility. Catered food was generously provided by Thomson Grass Valley. This meeting had the best attendance of all the SMPTE events in the last 2 years and included members from all of the major networks and broadcasters in the Greater Toronto Area.

John Leermakers Vice President of FinancePaul Stechly, President, is pleased to announce the promotion of John Leermakers to Vice President of Finance. John graduated with an Honours Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and obtained his CMA Designation in 1994. He held the role of Assistant Controller at NSK Bearing and Controller at Computron Software before joining AEL in 1999 as Controller to oversee the finance department.

As V.P. of Finance, John will continue to manage the finance department as well as the ERP “SYACC” system and corporate administration. John reached his 10-year milestone with AEL on January 4, 2009.

John and wife of 16 years, Pam, have 3 children, Courtney (13), Kyle (11) and Cameron (9), and all enjoy camping, curling and other sports activities. In fact, John won the GTA Curling Championship in 2008.

Congratulations, John!

Kim O’Grady 20 Years with AELKim studied in a business program at Sheridan college and worked for companies in the electric and automotive industries. Prior to joining AEL, Kim worked for Dynatec, AEL’s sister company that specialized in medical supplies, as the Shipper/Receiver, and in 1988, Kim transferred to AEL to run its head office warehouse. As Warehouse Manager, Kim is responsible for shipping, receiving and categorizing all products in the Mississauga office and maintaining the warehouse inventory. Kim has done a fantastic job in keeping everything well-organized. Thank you for the dedication, Kim!

Kim and wife of 27 years, Penny, have 3 children, Summer, Kyle and Amber, two of whom have worked at AEL as outstanding summer students.

Michel Bédard 13 Years with AELMichel joined AEL as a Sales Representative in 1995 and became Manager for Québec and Eastern Canada in 1999. Michel had prior broadcast experience with TQS Television Quatre Saisons as Maintenance Supervisor and Tele-Quebec (formerly Radio Québec) as a Technical Instructor, Technical Producer and Maintenance Supervisor.

With a technical background from the Institute de Technologie de Montreal in Electronics and Audio Visual, Michel enjoys the challenges which are constantly presented with new technology in our industry. He is very good at explaining new technology to his clients and colleagues and is highly regarded in the industry.

Michel and wife, Chantel, have 3 sons and in their spare time, they enjoy camping, cross country skiing and travelling.

Congratulations on this anniversary, Michel!

Trevor Joice – 11 Years with AELTrevor’s career in broadcast began 40 years ago when he worked at a radio station in Cobourg after studying Electronics in college. For many years, he was the Director of Engineering at CHIN RADIO/TV and also worked at CJRT-FM in Toronto. Trevor joined AEL’s broadcast sales team in 1998 as a Broadcast Technologist and shares his expertise in intercom, audio and RF systems. He is recognized by many industry peers for his engineering and leadership accomplishments and was honoured with CCBE’s Engineer of the Year Award in 1991 and CCBE’s Ambassador Award in 2008.

Trevor is a beekeeper in his spare time, managing 6 hives with 300,000 bees that produce incredibly flavourful honey.

Trevor and wife, Jean, have two sons, and are anxiously awaiting the birth of their first grandchild in June. Congratulations, Trevor!

Nick Eriksen A/V Installations Technician, CalgaryOriginally from Strathmore, Alberta, Nick graduated from the Broadcast Technologies program at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and worked for the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show and then in rentals & systems integration division for a local AV company in Calgary. Enjoying building and cabling equipment racks, Nick joined AEL as an Audio Visual Technician, performing systems installations and occasionally attending to service calls. Nick takes pride in clean and professional installation work and is a great addition to the AEL family in Calgary.

Nick Johnson A/V Installations Technician, Toronto Nick studied Computer Hardware and Electronics at Lambeth College in the U.K. before graduating from Algonquin College in Canada with a Precision Electronic Assembly Certificate. With over 10 years of hands-on technical experience, Nick joined AEL’s Audio Visual Systems Division as an Installations Technician. With a wide range of installation, service and project coordination skills, he is a welcomed addition to the Mississauga A/V team.

AEL Viewfinder StaffEditor: Gord Ballantyne • Assistant Editor: Lily Yang

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Thanks to all AEL staff who have made contributions to this edition.

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Knowledge is British Columbia’s public Educational Media Service providing high quality, commercial-free documentaries and arts & culture programming. Knowledge contracted Applied Electronics to assist in the building of an end-to-end digital SD solution into their existing facility. Applied Electronics provided consultation, design and supply of the new tapeless digital system comprised of a monitor wall, master control, branding system, automation, and archive storage, which can all accommodate a future upgrade to HD.

The new master control system incorporates Miranda’s Densité series modular products for signal processing and distribution, Kaleido-X (7RU/4RU) fully expandable, multi-image display system with integral router, PresStation master control switching and branding panel, Imagestore SD master control and brand processor, Vertigo X graphics manager, Xmedia Suite’s Xstudio template authoring system for creating and previewing television graphics, and iControl monitor and alarm. Also included is a Sundance Titan automation system and a Sun StorageTek SL500 modular library system for archiving.

In March 2009, Knowledge switched the distribution of their signal from analogue to an all-digital platform, on time and on budget. For more information on this project, please contact Patrick Wells in our Vancouver office.

satellite radio studio. Applied Electronics provided consultation, system design, supply, integration, and commissioning of the entire system. The new 5,000 sq. ft. HD studio, production control room, audio, and central equipment room (CER) are on the main floor while on the third floor are edit suites, the main CER and master control.

The main production and audio control room features a Studer Vista 5 digital audio mixer, 360 Systems DR600 instant replay sound file player, Sharp LCD displays, and a Crestron control system with touch panel. The system also includes a Tandberg ASI encoder, Extron HD router, Nugget HD player, Wohler digital audio monitors, Marshall 5.6 rackmount monitors, and AVP patch fields. Archiving is done with a Front Porch Digital DIVA system and on-air automation is created with an Avid Sundance Titan system. The edit suites each have two Thomson Grass Valley Aurora editors and two recording areas for reporters. The heart of the system are the numerous Thomson Grass Valley K2 video servers, Aurora Edits, Production SAN edit suites, and a Trinix video router, which all help to improve workflow. The Score can now ingest, edit and broadcast up to 22 HD feeds at a time, providing content for television, radio, online and mobile applications. It went live-to-air in complete HD on September 3, 2008. For more information on this project, please contact the Broadcast Sales team in our Mississauga office.

K n o w l e d g e N e t w o r k

The popular CANADIAN SUITE will be staged in the El Dorado Ballroom at the Flamingo Hotel.

For more information, please contact Rosie Patey at Applied Electronics Limited.Phone: (905) 625-4321 ext. 2222 • Fax: (905) 625-4333 • Email: rpatey@appliedelectronics.com

April 20-22, 2009 • 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Refreshments, including beer, wine and soft drinks, will be served.

Dave McGinn 7 Years with AELDave joined AEL in 2002 as a Sales Consultant specializing in News products and then became a full time employee in 2004 as a Broadcast Sales Representative.

Dave’s professional background includes 24 years in television news, including 7 and 14-year stints at CJOH Ottawa and 2 years at CKWS Kingston. Dave was also Station Manager at APTN overseeing the build at their new Winnipeg Broadcast Centre in 1999-2000.

Dave and wife, Jan, have two daughters and recently welcomed a grand-daughter, making Dave a grandpa for the first time. Congratulations, Dave!

Sim Video 2009 Technology Open HouseOn January 29th, Sim Video hosted its fourth annual Technology Open House in Toronto and experienced an unprecedented turnout of industry professionals eager to take in the latest in digital cinematography and high definition production tools. Applied Electronics co-sponsored the event and showcased AJA Video’s FS1 serial digital video interface and converter, MultiDyne’s FTX1500TX transmitter, FTX1500RX receiver and LiGHTBoX® portable fibre kit, Tektronix’s WFM5000 HD/SD-SDI portable waveform monitor, and Panasonic’s BT-LH1710 17” LCD multi-format monitor. The event was, as usual, a great success.

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