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| News Stories and Events June 2004 Archived News Stories 2004 Archived News Stories 2003 Archived News Stories 2002 |
| Euro 2004 Makes the News ITN, one of the largest news organisations in the world used a D-Cam 'Clip-on' wireless camera system hooked into one of their SNG truck to provide live news coverage and interviews from Euro 2004.
"The D-Cam 'Clip-on' made our coverage of Euro 2004 so much easier. With matches being held in different stadiums all over Portugal, flexibility was a key issue, and the D-Cam 'Clip-on' It meant that we could set up and go live in a very short time. In the car park behind the stadium in Coimbra, we bumped into Bobby Robson and asked him for an interview. He agreed on the condition that we did it there and then. If we had needed to run cables we would have missed out on the interview.
I particularly like the Intra-slice mode! On those odd occasions when a digital link breaks up I think that the way intra-slice modulation recovers is much more acceptable than conventional MPEG." The above photo shows Donald Begg (Right) with fellow engineer, aptly named Rob Robinson, outside the 'Estádio da Luz'.
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| Designed for Champions! The Singapore Turf Club racecourse at Kranji is designed for champions. The best features from leading racecourses around the world have been incorporated into its design.
Singapore - June 04 |
| Gigawave Product Training Courses Each year dozens of engineers from around the world visit the Gigawave Technical Centre to attend in-house training courses given by Gigawave's specialist customer support engineers.
Gigawave Technical Centre - June 04 |
| D-Cam Day Celebrations! ITN's live coverage of the celebrations to mark the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Brittany was a major outside broadcast by any standards. The series of special programmes, over the weekend of 05/06 June, were produced by ITN on behalf of the ITV Network.
One of the D-Cam's was at Pegasus Bridge to cover ITN presenter Mary Nightingale, whilst a second D-Cam was used to transmit live pictures from the 'MV Van Gough', a cruise ship moored approximately 12 miles out to sea! Pictures from the D-cam aboard the MV Van Gough were received at the ferry port of Ouistreham, 15 km north of Caen, whilst a further two D-Cams were used to cover the official opening, by Prince Charles, of a new garden at the Peace Museum, in Caen.
Down in the town square of Arromanches, one of the four D-Cam's was used to cover ITN's anchor man Mark Austin, whilst a second D-Cam was located in a flat overlooking the activities in the square below. in the bay of Arromanches, a third D-Cam was used to transmit live pictures from a landing craft used as part of a re-enactment of the landings there sixty years previously, whilst the fourth D-cam was used to provide coverage from Ranville War Cemetery where 2151 British soldiers are buried.  Brittany, France - June 04 |
| Broadcast Asia a 'Great Success' Commenting at the close of this year's Broadcast Asia exhibition, Gigawave's Sales and Marketing Director, Simon Clifford, hailed the show, Gigawave's first in Asia, a great success.
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| Beijing Motor Show With the market for new cars in China growing at a rate of 30% per annum the world's leading car makers have been vying for space at the seventh Beijing Motor Show - Auto China 2004.
The requirement for the systems were to provide coverage for the Mazda, Ford, Jaguar and Landrover stands, capturing the opening ceremony, press conference and stage shows. The pictures were fed live to the LED wallscreens situated around the exhibition halls, and were also recorded.
Beijing, China - June 04 |
| Olympic Torch Arrives in Beijing The Olympic torch arrived in Beijing early on June 8, on the fifth stop of the first truly global relay in the Olympic history. The Olympic flame arrived in China aboard a specially chartered jumbo jet festooned in Olympic colours.
A second D-Cam covered the University leg of the relay route, whilst a third covered the Asian Games Village. A final D-Cam covered the last leg of it’s journey through the Summer Palace park. This included a section where the torch was carried on a traditional Chinese ferry boat to finish its journey on an elaborate stage built in the middle of a lake.
The relay ended at the Summer Palace, where the last torchbearer, Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, who was selected by the Chinese Olympic Committee, ignited a ceremonial cauldron. A celebration gala show concluded the two-day event. |
| Broadcast Asia Opens in Singapore This year, for the first time Gigawave is exhibiting at Broadcast Asia, the region's most important electronic media event. The exhibition is being held at 'Singapore Expo', close to Singapore's Changi International Airport.
If you are planning to attend Broadcast Asia you will find the Gigawave stand (2J2-03) in the United Kingdom Pavilion, in Hall 2 of 'Singapore Expo' . On the stand, you will find two senior members of the Gigawave Sales Team, Sunny Yeung and Trevor Vizard. Sunny Yeung, who is based in Hong Kong is Regional Sales Manager for the Far East, whilst Trevor Vizard is based at the Gigawave Technical Centre, in the UK.
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