Sponsors

Gold Sponsors:

Dolby Laboratories is the global leader in technologies that are essential elements in the best entertainment experiences. Founded in 1965 and best known for high-quality audio and surround sound, Dolby creates innovations that enrich entertainment at the movies, at home, or on the go. Visit www.dolby.com for more information.

Hamlet is celebrating 23 years of developing, manufacturing and delivering high quality test, measurement, monitoring and quality control instruments for video and audio professionals. The 23 years in the business have given us exceptional knowledge and experience of what engineers and operators needs are, and the ability to deliver uncompromising precision, reliability, usability with a high R.O.I. Thank you for your support over the last 23 years. We look forward to continuing to lead the market with innovative and affordable quality equipment in the future. Our success is in your excellence.




NTT Electronics is a market leader in the fields of digital video, photonics and broadband networking. As a member of the NTT Group, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, NTT Electronics develops and supplies LSI devices and equipment incorporating superior, state-of-the-art technology for video processing and communications.
The company's video compression technologies are adopted by many broadcasting stations and are highly rated in both domestic and overseas markets. Under the slogan of “Creator of Real High Definition," the company has been strongly supporting broadcasting stations to enable the transmission, editing and broadcasting of high-quality videos.
NTT Electronics will exhibit Professional 4:2:2 IRD “HVD6100” and AVC/H.264 HDTV/SDTV encoder “HVE9100” at the HD Masters conference in June 2009.

PHABRIX Limited, based in the UK, designs and manufactures products for the professional broadcast market which it distributes internationally. Specializing in SDI test signal generation, analysis and monitoring, PHABRIX supports the new 3G infrastructure requirements within its product line-up. In 2008 the company launched the PHABRIX SxA, the world’s first portable 3G-SDI, HD-SDI and SD-SDI combined test signal generator, analyzer and monitor which received the IABM’s highest award, - the Peter Wayne Award for Design and Innovation presented at IBC2008 Amsterdam. At NAB 2009 the company launched the new hand held PHABRIX SxE eye and jitter variant of its successful Sx range and was awarded Broadcast Engineering’s Pick Hit at the show. The PHABRIX SxE is due for release July 2009 with eye and jitter analysis at 3G-SDI, HD-SDI and SD-SDI. An advanced analysis option further adds decade filters, histograms, multiple eye selection and a full screen jitter display to the SMPTE compliant toolset of the standard model.
New developments for PHABRIX include a new modular rack mount range based upon the Sx archietecture.
PHABRIX will be on show at the HD Masters conference in June 2009 and looks forward to discussing the developments of HD with the delegates.

As the Broadcast Production Community is asked to produce more and higher quality HD content, Panasonic is well placed to offer elegant solutions to these modern production requirements.
Panasonic P2 products have become firmly placed in all the Broadcast industries’ genres from News to Drama and everything between.
DVCPRO HD, and now AVC-Intra and AVCHD give producers the opportunity to adopt completely tapeless workflows saving both time and money throughout the production process while maintaining the highest quality pictures and the BBC adopting AVC-Intra as its archive and delivery format gives this codec its best testimonial.
With the introduction of the new ‘E’ series P2 cards, costs involved in the content production stage is greatly reduced while the P2 Camera equipment and peripherals give productions complete flexibility with multi format and multi regional content capture.
Piece of mind and low cost of ownership comes with long warranties due to the rugged construction of the solid state internals.
Support form the major NLE manufactures improves all the time making completely tapeless workflows available to all levels of production. Faster processors and cheaper storage have brought down the cost of IT workflows while efficient modern servers give access to many post operators working on the same project with the minimum of fuss.
Panasonic has been at the forefront of HD and IT production and maintains its position as the manufacturer with the most experience in HD and tapeless workflows.

Silver Sponsors:

 

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Digital Rapids is the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences.  Digital Rapids solutions span the critical points in today’s sophisticated media workflows, including ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming, playout and delivery. Digital Rapids combines innovative technology with proven expertise to help our customers efficiently and effectively repurpose their media for new distribution opportunities. Scaling from individual appliances to enterprise and global workflows, Digital Rapids systems empower applications including Internet TV, IPTV, VOD, post production, webcasting, mobile video, corporate and government
communications, education, archive and more.

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EVS is a leading manufacturer of production servers and related broadcasting technologies dedicated to live and studio productions of sports, TV programs and News.

Its renowned Live Slow Motion (LSM) system revolutionized live sports broadcasting. Today, EVS technology is widely used in OB vans and production studios, offering a true alternative to VTRs due to its speed, simplicity, reliability and networking possibilities.

EVS solutions are used by more than 6,000 operators all over the world in a multitude of applications including:

• Multi-camera recording and control
• Live replays, slow-motion and instant highlights creation
• On-the-fly editing
• Clip and content management including logging, browsing and archiving
• Post-production workflow optimization
• Playout control

Visit EVS at www.evs.tv

The company sells their branded products in more than 70 countries and is capable of providing service in any region. The company has offices in Belgium, Australia, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, France, Italy, India, Spain, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, China and the United States.

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Harris Broadcast. Always innovating. Always there.

For nearly a century, Harris has pioneered the technologies that drive the world’s leading television and radio broadcast operations. To compete in an industry speeding towards total media convergence, you need interoperable solutions that fuel today’s advanced media workflows. Our unique ability to merge traditional broadcast and IT systems enables allows you to work more efficiently, save money and profit from new revenue streams.

Where are we headed in the coming decades? Wherever you – and your audience – want to go.

Visit www.broadcast.harris.com for more information.

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About Screen Subtitling Systems

Screen Subtitling Systems is the largest and most experienced supplier of captioning and subtitling systems in the world.

We provide a range of products to cater for all your subtitling needs, from software for subtitle preparation through to subtitle transmission and monitoring systems, all supported through our 24 hour customer care team.

Since developing the very first electronic subtitling system back in the 70s, we've been associated with every technical advance within the industry. Broadcast and new media technologies are constantly changing and we work hard to provide subtitling solutions to fit with these new and emerging possibilities.

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Sony Professional’s position as a market leader means that we are the trusted partner to many of Europe’s leading broadcasters, production companies, rental houses and film-makers. Sony can offer bespoke solutions to specific problems and this enables Sony to provide the best combination of format, workflow and media to meet the needs of our customers. This breadth of choice resonates with the industry and is undoubtedly one of the reasons that independent research continues to highlight Sony as the number one choice for broadcast professionals producing in HD.

For more information please visit www.sonybiz.net  

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Promote your business and network with HD visionaries at this unique conference. 

There are a number of key sponsorship and promotional opportunities available at HD Masters 2009.

Contact Steve Grice on +44 (0)20 7921 8307 or email steve.grice@ubm.com
or Alex Hall on +44 (0)207 921 8305 or email  alex.hall@ubm.com