TSL has announced that it will soon be opening the doors to a new office in Dubai. This new facility is planned to be based in Studio City. Following in the footsteps of the famous Media City, Studio City will cater to the production needs of facilities in the region and will house major movie studios.

This announcement significantly strengthens TSL’s long-standing presence in the Middle East region, increasing the local and regional opportunities for the company’s systems integration and professional products divisions.

Frost & Sullivan has announced that Thomson is the recipient of its 2007 ‘Product Line Leadership of the Year' award, based on the global market success of its comprehensive Thomson Grass Valley line of standard- and high-definition broadcast and digital cinematography camera products and customers' worldwide adoption.

Reuters, the global information company, has adopted Panasonic's P2 as the acquisition format for its global network of news bureaux. Standardising on Panasonic AJ HPX2100 cameras, Reuters' news bureaux will begin upgrading to solid-state tapeless P2-based operation in Q2 2008.

BSkyB has launched a legal challenge against key conclusions of the Competition Commission's report on its investment in ITV plc and the Secretary of State's consequent decision that it should dispose of the majority of its 17.9% shareholding.

Sky lodged its application with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on Friday 22 February 2008. The CAT has the power to quash part or all of the previous findings and to send the case back to the Competition Commission for further consideration.

Disney's Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour not only broke box office records when it was released earlier this month, playing to sold out shows across the United States - it also made history. It was the first live action feature to open in digital 3-D, and it was the first film produced using Quantel's Pablo 4K with the Stereoscopic 3-D option.

Zaxcom, provider of professional audio equipment for the television and film industries, has announced that its Deva 5.8 hard-disk audio recorder was chosen as the winner in the Production category of the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Fourth Annual Awards for Technical Achievement. The awards were announced in a sealed-envelope ceremony at the 44th Annual CAS Awards, held recently at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

BigBand Networks, Inc., pioneer and deployer in switched digital video (SDV), has announced that it has reached a milestone for SDV deployment in Motorola set-top-box environments. The company is in the process of deploying across three Motorola cable systems with two different cable operators that collectively pass more than 1 million households.

Autoscript has announced that its Distributor of the Year 2007 is leading Indian systems integrator Cinecita Comoptronics Industries Pvt Ltd. The inaugural award celebrates a year of exceptional sales and customer service.

Autodesk, Inc. has announced that developers of its Autodesk Maya Fluid Effects System have been awarded Technical Achievement Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Maya Fluid Effects System allows digital artists to create realistic animations of liquids and gases using novel simulation techniques for accuracy and speed, as well as a unique scripting language for working with volumetric data.

Red Bee Media has supplied its Piero 3D graphics technology with its new ‘moveable player' feature to CANAL+. Having Piero enables CANAL+ to enhance its coverage of football and rugby.

CANAL+ will use Piero on its Ligue1, Champions League and Premier League games each week as well as in its weekly magazine shows. The broadcaster will also use Piero's 3D graphics in its rugby analysis to illustrate tactics to its viewers.