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Every DJ knows a spectacular set requires high-quality headphones. Enter the HDJ-1500s, the pro-DJ headphones that deliver flawless sound reproduction and impressive durability in a seriously stylish package.
The latest addition to Pioneer’s professional headphones range, the HDJ-1500s owe their crystal-clear sound quality to increased output levels, a lower impedance and an exclusive soundproofing chamber specially developed by Pioneer.
The HJD-1500s’ copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils guarantee accurate reproduction of deep base notes and superbly balanced sound across all frequencies. And the exclusive soundproofing chamber eliminates outside noise so DJs can easily monitor the beat –even in the loudest of venues.
Ruggedly built, with lightweight but durable magnesium alloy parts, the HDJ-1500s are perfectly designed to endure the rigors of frequent professional use. And the urethane memory foam ear pads hug the ear for maximum comfort even during the longest sets.
Available in two stunning colors – classy chrome black and sleek deep silver– the HDJ-1500s look good in every venue, while the included carrying pouch means they’re perfectly portable.
Key features of the HDJ-1500
1. Superb sound quality
With high-quality components, the HDJ-1500s deliver perfectly balanced sound across all frequencies. The headphones feature copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils, large 50 mm driver units, rare earth magnets and 38μm-thick diaphragms, guaranteeing accurate reproduction of deep base notes and clear delivery of other low to medium frequencies, such as kicks and snares. Output levels are 1 dB greater than Pioneer’s HDJ-1000 headphones, and a lower impedance offers even greater sensitivity, so DJs get pristine sound reproduction every time, regardless of what device the HDJ-1500s are hooked up to.
2. WORLD EXCLUSIVE: groundbreaking soundproofing component
Monitoring tracks on a heaving dance floor is a breeze with the HDJ-1500s, no matter how rowdy the party gets. Sound insulation around low and medium frequencies (300 Hz to 1,300 Hz) has improved by an impressive 4 dB compared to the HDJ-1000s thanks to the innovative sound-isolation chamber on the bass reflex port, which eliminates background noise.
3. Durable design for professional use
The HDJ-1500s’ moving headband and hinges are composed of rugged yet lightweight magnesium alloy to withstand the rigors of professional use. Plus, the single-sided cable can be easily replaced if it gets damaged, further prolonging the life of the headphones.
4. Supreme comfort with interchangeable urethane foam ear pads
The narrow ear cup design creates a tight seal on your ear to block out external sound, while the low-resilience urethane memory foam ear pads make sure the HDJ-1500s are easy on the ears even during prolonged use. The included ear pads can be replaced with the HDJ-EP01s –open-cup protein leather ear pads which sit around the ears and are sold separately –so DJs can choose the best option to suit their comfort and listening style.
5. Available in two colors: chrome black and deep silver
DJs can coordinate their headphones with the club, the studio, their kit, their set, their clothes or even their mood as the HDJ-1500s come in two striking colors¬–classy chrome black and sleek deep silver.
6. Included accessories
The compact carrying pouch means the headphones can be safely transported to the club or the studio in style. The HDJ-1500s also fit perfectly in the slim and lightweight HDJ-HC01 carrying case. Accessories such as USB memory sticks and SD cards can be stored in specially designated pockets within the carrying cases for added convenience.
Main specifications – HDJ-1500
Description Enclosed dynamic stereo headphones
Impedance 32 Ω
Sensitivity 108 dB
Frequency range 5 Hz to 30,000 Hz
Maximum input 3,500 mW（JEITA）
Drive units φ50 mm domes
Cable length 1.2 m single-sided coiled cable (approximately 3.0 m when extended ¬¬– removable type)
Plug φ3.5 mm stereo mini-jack (gold-plated, two-way, screw type)
Ear pads Polyurethane (leather type)
Weight 285 g (excluding cable)
Included accessories φ6.3 mm standard stereo adapter (gold-plated, screw type) and carrying pouch
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Monday, 9 April 2012
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Sunday, 8 April 2012
Fasthosts, GameShadow and epic.LAN join forces for online gaming tournament
Launching on 14 May, GameShadow Battles invites gamers to take part in a series of challenges within two featured games: 'Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Challenge' and 'Counter Strike: Source Challenge'.
Up to 128 teams will be able to take part in the tournament, with each team consisting of five players.
The prize fund, which is being provided by Fasthosts, will be divided equally between the two challenges, with each £5,000 prize to be shared between the top three finishing teams. The winning teams will collect £2,750, the runners up £1,500, and bronze medalists £750.
Additional prizes will also be on offer for teams who top the weekly scoreboards. The tournament brings together the best of the best with GameShadows' significant following, Fasthosts world class hosting services and epic.LAN providing the gaming software and administering the tournament.
Mark Townsend, CEO of GameShadow commented: "We believe that this will be a thrilling battle with some of the best gamers around the UK teaming up to win not only a cash prize but also recognition in the gaming community. We are excited to be working with epic.LAN and Fasthosts, and are grateful to them for providing the support we need for such a substantial tournament. We can't wait for the action to start."
Steve Holford, Marketing Director of Fasthosts, stated: "We are delighted to support this inaugural GameShadow Battles tournament. It’s a great opportunity for us to showcase to the gaming community the quality, performance and value of our range of hosted services and servers. Over a million customers rely on us every day to provide their websites, email and other online services, and as such this is a natural development and one we are delighted to partner with GameShadow and epic.LAN on."
Jon Winkle, Managing Director at epic.LAN, commented: "We're really excited to be involved in an online tournament on this scale. We hope that the gaming community will turn out in their droves. With the prizes on offer, it should be an unmissable opportunity for any gamer."
Monday, 2 April 2012
Garsington Opera general director is retiring. Search for new artistic director is on!
Garsington Opera also announces that Chairman Iain Mackinnon will retire in September. The Board have nominated Bernard Taylor as Chairman-Designate, and Miranda Curtis as Deputy Chairman.
Anthony Whitworth-Jones said: “Garsington Opera has a bright and expanding future. I was honoured to be asked by the Board of Directors to take over the running of the company and now, after seven years in the job, it is the right time to hand over to a new regime. When I started in 2005, the future of the Opera, in spite of a very successful festival that year, was uncertain.
"After five seasons at Garsington Manor generously allowed by the Ingrams family following Leonard Ingrams’ death, we have found the most wonderful new home at Wormsley Estate. With the enthusiastic support of an expanding audience, the firm encouragement of Mark Getty and his Estate team, the welcome of Wycombe District Council and the local community, and, not least, the continuing efforts of the talented Opera staff, the future prospects are thrilling.”
Iain Mackinnon, Chairman of the Board of Directors said: “Garsington Opera was lucky to secure Anthony Whitworth-Jones with the foresight and energy to run the opera and take forward the festival created by Leonard Ingrams. Anthony’s conception of what the Garsington Opera festival could become came to fruition with the move to its new home at Wormsley and the creation of the magnificent new auditorium there. We all owe Anthony a great deal for his energy and effort in developing the opera festival as he has done over the past seven years.”
Garsington Opera’s 2012 season runs from 2 June – 3 July in its spectacular new home on the Wormsley estate in the Chiltern Hills. It presents Vivaldi’s rarely performed L’Olimpiade, Offenbach’s charming operetta La Périchole and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. General public booking opens 16 April.
BOX OFFICE Telephone 01865 361636 The Old Garage, The Green, Great Milton, Oxford OX44 7NP www.garsingtonopera.org
The Royal Mint marks 100th anniversary of the Titanic with commemorative £5 coin
The Titanic coins depict the instantly recognisable profile of RMS Titanic with the goddess Thane looking down on the ship as it sails through the Atlantic Ocean. Erected on 26th June 1920 as a memorial to all those who died, the marble figure of the goddess stands in Belfast, home of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, the biggest in the world at the time, where Titanic was constructed.
Commenting on his design, Jones said: "My design is concerned with the spectacle of the ship and her story. Thane, the goddess of death, is to reflect the significance of the event; she symbolises respect and sorrow for the loss that ultimately occurred. Her stark silhouette contrasts with the detailed image of Titanic, cutting through the waves with purpose and pride."
The first voyage of RMS Titanic, the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time, began on 10 April 1912, when she set sail from Southampton to New York, with 2,223 people on board. Owned by the White Star Line, the luxurious passenger liner was one of three sister 'Olympic class' ships built to cater for the most elite passengers, her lavish fittings reflecting the opulence and elegance of the Edwardian age.
Late on the morning of 14 April 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg leading to the ship sinking less than three hours later, a disaster that resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives.
Commenting on the new coin, Dr Kevin Clancy, Director of The Royal Mint Museum, said: "The story of Titanic has long captured imaginations. The passing of 100 years has not lessened the interest in the tragic outcome of her maiden voyage, the personal stories of those on board or the achievement of the iconic ship as a feat of British engineering. The Royal Mint’s coin will mark this occasion and, we hope, will be passed on to future generations to honour the lives that were lost, underlining the significance of RMS Titanic in British history."
The Titanic Alderney* £5 coin has an uncompromising finish; struck to a higher quality than every day coinage. For more stand-out brilliance you can view silver coins available from the Royal Mint. For further information, please visit www.royalmint.com.
FACTFILE:
*The commemorative £5 coin is issued under the authority of the Channel Island of Alderney. The coin is legal tender in both the Channel Island and the UK, but it will not be issued into circulation. Alderney has issued commemorative coins since 1989.
The Royal Mint has a history dating back over 1,000 years. By the late thirteenth century the organisation was based in the Tower of London, and remained there for over 500 years. By 1812 The Royal Mint had moved out of the Tower to premises on London’s Tower Hill. In 1967 the building of a new Royal Mint began on its current site in Llantrisant, South Wales. There were estimated to be 28.6 billion UK coins in circulation at 31 March 2011, with a total face value of £3.8 billion - all manufactured by The Royal Mint. 1.1 billion UK coins were issued during 2010-11.
The Royal Mint's Llantrisant site was recently chosen to host the Prime Minister David Cameron's first government cabinet meeting in Wales.
Vision247™ solves time delay issues for live programming over the internet
• Reduces delay to just 5 seconds in most popular protocol for global live streaming
• Company sets new industry low HLS latency record
Miptv Cannes, Stand G3.20 – Broadcast specialist Vision247, has cracked the issues of time delay in live video transmissions with the launch of a new low latency service which reduces the delay in HLS (HTTP live streaming), the de facto delivery protocol for streaming broadcast content to any device over the internet.
The issue of latency in broadcast, most recognisable as the time delay when a live news reporter is speaking from the other side of the world, is a particular challenge for the latest generation of content distribution networks. As live news, live auction and gambling channel operators move to online video platforms for content distribution, the demand is there to compare and match the sync achieved with satellite or terrestrial transmission with the over the top internet stream onto any device. This is a particular challenge, especially onto mobile devices which can potentially access a stream from anywhere on the planet
Despite HLS (HTTP live streaming) gaining market share to become the delivery protocol for OTT streaming, the latency it exhibits - on average as much as five times that of Flash streaming – can prove a considerable disadvantage when seeking to broadcast live. With a proven track record in delivering low latency streaming service which are comparable to a satellite broadcast with Flash and Silverlight, Vision247 has turned its attention to delivering new encoder and server technology to reduce HLS streaming latency to a minimum.
Matt Vidmar, Vision247 chairman and group CTO explained: “Measuring from video input to client device screen, we set ourselves the task of achieve around a five to a maximum of seven seconds delay. That is a real challenge, especially when it comes to fine tuning HLS streaming to mobile devices.”
With the commercial launch this week of Vision247’s new encoder and server, the company’s new low latency service has achieved this remarkable benchmark observing a delay of only 5 seconds, fluctuating typically by maximum 350milliseconds for even the most remote regions globally.
For a demonstration of this low latency HLS solution, visit Vision247 at MIPTV, 1st – 4th April 2012, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France, stand G3.20
FACTFILE:
First to market in the provision of functional internet delivered broadcast, Vision247 provides a complete solution to clients wanting to create compelling TV and video services for connected audiences worldwide. The Vision IPTV platform can be customised for clients and supports all current commercial models from subscription, pay-as-you-go to PPV and advertiser funded. www.vision247.tv
Sunday, 1 April 2012
BBC Three Commissions STV Productions To Produce Pilot Panel Show, 'Fake Reaction'
STV Productions has won its first ever commission from BBC Three, which will see the company produce a new panel show pilot for the channel.
'Fake Reaction' will be hosted by Matt Edmondson (Radio 1/ T4 /PocketTV).
It sees six celebrities battle it out over a series of rounds where the aim is to hide their natural reaction as they face an array of unusual situations that test all of their senses. If they can conceal their real reaction and fool the rest of the panel, they win.
The commission follows a successful run-through for the channel which featured comedian Chris Ramsey, musician Skepta and 'Harry Potter' actress Jessie Cave.
'Fake Reaction' was ordered by Zai Bennett Controller, BBC Three and Alan Tyler, Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning. It will be filmed at Pacific Quay in Glasgow in April.
Gary Chippington, Head of Entertainment for STV Productions, said: "We're thrilled to be working with the team at BBC Three on this enormously exciting project."
Alan Tyler, Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning at BBC said: "Matt is a terrific talent whose rapier sharp wit really brought a funny and inventive format to life. We're delighted to be working with STV on the pilot".
Executive Producer for STV Productions is Gary Chippington. Series Producer is Paul McGettigan (The Sarah Millican Television Programme, Frank Skinner's Opinionated, The Bubble, Room 101).
STV Productions developed the 'Fake Reaction' format with LA-based production company Kinetic Content, with whom they have an established partnership. Fake Reaction is based partly on a Fuji TV game show format.
'Fake Reaction' will be hosted by Matt Edmondson (Radio 1/ T4 /PocketTV).
It sees six celebrities battle it out over a series of rounds where the aim is to hide their natural reaction as they face an array of unusual situations that test all of their senses. If they can conceal their real reaction and fool the rest of the panel, they win.
The commission follows a successful run-through for the channel which featured comedian Chris Ramsey, musician Skepta and 'Harry Potter' actress Jessie Cave.
'Fake Reaction' was ordered by Zai Bennett Controller, BBC Three and Alan Tyler, Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning. It will be filmed at Pacific Quay in Glasgow in April.
Gary Chippington, Head of Entertainment for STV Productions, said: "We're thrilled to be working with the team at BBC Three on this enormously exciting project."
Alan Tyler, Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning at BBC said: "Matt is a terrific talent whose rapier sharp wit really brought a funny and inventive format to life. We're delighted to be working with STV on the pilot".
Executive Producer for STV Productions is Gary Chippington. Series Producer is Paul McGettigan (The Sarah Millican Television Programme, Frank Skinner's Opinionated, The Bubble, Room 101).
STV Productions developed the 'Fake Reaction' format with LA-based production company Kinetic Content, with whom they have an established partnership. Fake Reaction is based partly on a Fuji TV game show format.
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