Cool picture of Ben Ainsley in the 2012 olympics taken by a friend who was one of the marshalls. It took 3 years of training to just become at marshall.....so you can imagine how much effort Ben has invested into his fantastic gold medal. What a race and what a master of tactics!

CoreEL Technologies are now shipping their new H.264/MPEG2 decoder module VDMS6HD. Designed to fit right onto your own base card, this module provides ASI or IP inputs / SDI or parallel video outputs (you can implement HDMI very simply from there) with simultaneous H.264/MPEG2 decode up to HD (1080P/30) 4:2:2 10bit broadcast quality. Full details available on our website http://www.l2tek.co.uk/

Award win for Stagebox Technology from BBC R&D

Stagebox was the recipient of the InTECH (Technical Developments) Award at NAB 2012.

Stagebox technology licensed from BBC research & development by L2tek and being manufactured by Bluebell Opticom, is the world's first camera accessory streaming bi-directional HD SDI / Audio / Genloc /Tally / Camera control, over a time synchronised IP network. Using standard low cost networking components, Stagebox employs 100Mbps AVCi compression from CoreEL Technologies and interfaces directly to editing suites to allow remote production such as in Distant Outside Broadcasting (DOB) applications.

http://www.inbroadcast.com/Editors_Awards.asp

Latency in compressed systems is a big thing and intoPIX have just the solution with their JPEG2000 CODEC capable of less than 1 frame latency. intoPIX is a leading supplier of compression technology with FPGA IP cores and board level solutions. They are also a passionate group of people dedicated to this business and so a great bunch of people to work with!

These suppliers will have stands at IBC 2011:

Gennum Corporation - Hall 9 Booth 9.A45 - New long range equalisers, crosspoints and SFP modules
CoreEL Technologies - Hall 1 Booth 1.F96 - Demonstrating AVCi Encode and Decode FPGA cores
Phabrix Ltd - Hall 8 Booth 8.E25 - Presenting new rack mount version of their world leading video testers
intoPIX - Hall 10 Booth 10.D31 - J2000 compression technology

Call us to make an appointment, Geoff, Tim, Mark and Tina will be at the show this year.

In what represents a significant step-up for L2tek, this year we have booked the Amstel Botel for IBC 2011. No more camping for us, but I hope we don't get sea-sick! See you there.

Thanks you to Graeme Kelly (Now of Snell Ltd) for sending the following link regarding Apple's Thunderbolt cables.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/30/apple-thunderbolt-cable-gutted-a-dozen-other-things-found-withi/

I recognise the logo on that chip!