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CX Roadshow has expanded with a National Broadcast Tech Conference, hosted by John Maizels. The conference will be one of many breakout events held across the one day event in five main capital cities.

Topics to be covered at the Broadcast Tech conference include Broadcast Loudness, which has become controversial due to moves to legislate the 'volume' of advertising on TV. Special guest Thomas Lund

will describe how international broadcast is moving towards loudness measurement and normalization for more predictable control of audio in DTV. Thomas will present the guidelines from ITU-R BS.1770, and will describe transparent normalization of commercials, differences between OP-59, ATSC A/85 and R128, and EBU’s strategy for cross-platform broadcast is discussed. This session will demystify LUFS, LKFS, LU, Program Loudness, Loudness Range, Max Loudness, Short-term Loudness and True-peak level. If you are involved in broadcasting, live sound, post production this is a topic that you cannot afford to misunderstand.

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• Brisbane Monday 20 Feb. Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
• Sydney Wed 22 Feb. SMC Conference Centre (Cnr Castlereigh and Golburn streets)
• Melbourne Monday 27 Feb. Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre
• Adelaide Wed 29 Feb. Adelaide Convention Centre
• Perth Tuesday 6 March. Hyatt Regency

The truck is loaded and coming to you!

Join us for the inaugural CX SUMMER ROADSHOW next February, as we truck 12 major equipment suppliers to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth!

We have a full day of Seminars and Workshops, and an exhibition floor (free entry!) that is intimate enough to navigate in just a few hours or even minutes if you are only window shopping.

Conference starts 9.30am, exhibition doors open at 12 midday. Happy hour (free drinks) at 5.30pm, and the event concludes at 7pm. If you are registered, and actually present when we do the draw around 6pm, you could win an Ipad2. We have one iPad 2 at each event to give away to someone who is there!

FREE TRADE SHOW REGISTRATION HERE!

This week ETC have been running an event called "CUE (Create, Understand, Experience) Conference". This event was a chance for people from novices to the experienced to learn more about ETC gear, train and attend debuts. Well it seems that a Keynote presentation of ETC's CEO, Fred Foster, that they also demonstrated ETC's next foray into LED technology. During his keynote a S4 LED fixture was used, and many did not know until it was brought to their attention. This is certainly going to generate more interest in LED fixtures.

They said it wouldn't happen. After the worst misinformation campaign, the biennial show opened on a grey Tuesday and shortly after the rains came. It almost always rains on ENTECH - of ten events seven have been wet. But this one was different.

Scheduled as usual in February 2010 that event was called off with the tail end of the GFC and the new competition of the Integrate expo already held in Sydney. The Integrate team scheduled again and again, running their show each year and attracting a good number of exhibitors with discounts and magazine advertising bundles swaying the savvy. But they didn't crack the lighting or the venue market in any serious way, and these were the mainstay of the 2011 ENTECH just concluded.

"TOD fees" or "Contractor Supervisor Charges" were a subject brought up in the "AV Unravelled" session at the MEA National Conference, held in Brisbane. What are TOD fees? Are they necessary? Can you avoid them?

ACETA - the new industry body for the commercial and entertainment technologies sector - was formally established at its first AGM on Monday 6 June 2011.