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