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UK digital switchover exec chosen to lead Digital Australia (25-Jul-2008)
Andrew Townend - who since 2005 has been the chief operating officer of Digital UK, the body coordinating the switchover to digital television in the United Kingdom - has been appointed as the executive director of Digital Australia. report

Belsham is new editor of ABC online (25-Jul-2008)
The executive producer of ABC’s current affairs program Four Corners, Bruce Belsham has been appointed as the new editor of abc.net.au. report

Dielectric appoints VanAtta as new GM (25-Jul-2008)
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Camera support devices (25-Jul-2008)
At IBC 2007, Sachtler is set to present a host of new products. The company is going to unveil the basis version of its multifunctional tool, which is designed for professional and semi-professional film makers on location with their MiniDV and (H)DV cameras. report

Miranda's HD/SD master control to make Euro debut at IBC (25-Jul-2008)
Miranda Technologies’ Imagestore 750 processor will be shown to the European market for the first time at IBC along with the Vertigo XG graphics system and Xpanel playlist-based 'soft' control panel. report

Klotz’ new radio on-air console (25-Jul-2008)
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Mastering audio monitoring (25-Jul-2008)
At IBC, TSL will be showing the AMU2 8HD Dolby (pictured), the latest version of TSL’s flagship audio monitoring solution that provides a multi-functional solution for HD/SDI master control, playout, production and outside broadcast monitoring requirements. The AMU2-8HD is HD, and fully Dolby E and D compatible. report

Samsung launches multi-standard mobile chipset (25-Jul-2008)
Samsung has introduced a multi-standard channel decoder and multi-band radio frequency tuner chipset which supports multi digital mobile TV standards including DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T, and terrestrial DMB for the multiple standards in the different countries around the world. report

Understanding a new Protocol (25-Jul-2008)
The march of Internet Protocol (IP) into the infrastructures of broadcasters is relentless. As IP becomes a ubiquitous technology in the provision of all kinds of data transfer, broadcasters are having to solve the specific problems around the reliable and fast carriage of both audio and video signals over IP. Nick Radlo finds out how they are going about doing just that report

Euro stramash over DVB-H backing (25-Jul-2008)
The European Commission has announced its backing of Nokia’s DVB-H mobile broadcast TV standard. Independent market analyst Datamonitor considers that the development will notably aide in the mass-adoption of mobile broadcast TV services as a whole but that it might come at the price of reducing open market competition. Those competitors are, naturally, up in arms at the decision report