NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Calrec Audio equipment for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, which kicked off last night and runs through February 25.

Belden has completed the acquisition of Snell Advanced Media (SAM). Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but SAM will be incorporated into Grass Valley. The company will be led by Tim Shoulders with the headquarters based in Montreal. Grass Valley said many of SAM's product brands will be retained, although full details are yet to be determined.

The Olympics moment is here for RTW, as the company has announced that it has supplied Broadcast Network Connections GmbH with a number of TM3-3G Smart TouchMonitors for the International Broadcast Centre editing suites during the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Get Out: a $4.5M budget horror movie by Director Jordan Peele and Cinematographer Toby Oliver (ACS) (released in Spring 2017) finished on the top 15th 2017 grossing movies in the US with more than $175M gross revenue. Get Out is now in the race for Best Picture Academy Award 2018.

Eurosport is to offer fans the first live VR coverage of the Olympic Winter Games across most European countries. The Winter Olympics Eurosport Virtual Reality app will deliver more than 50 hours of live coverage from PyeongChang during the Games.

Sony has made a few last minute changes to the VENICE just before the camera starts to ship. New capabilities include a “Dual Base ISO” mode. Along with the previously announced native ISO of 500, Sony has added an additional 2500 ISO base as well. VENICE will also benefit from the unique addition of a built-in 8-step optical ND filter servo mechanism.

AJA just released free v2.0 software for its FS-HDR enables greater control over color processing and HDR conversion, transforms and expands camera format support. FS-HDR v2.0 software introduces, according to AJA, intuitive new parametric controls that allow users to fine tune the look of final transforms in FS-HDR, and adds support for camera formats Sony S-Log3, S-Gamut Cine and S-Log3 BT.2020.

Alchemist Live SDI carries out motion compensated framerate conversion for live SDI media streams, free of artefacts, in real time so that video can be distributed worldwide without adding further manual steps to delivery workflows.

K-Tek has announced the Squid, a multi-purpose mounting solution to connect a transmitter, monitor, mobile device or remote to a boom pole, tripod, handgrip or other tube shaped object.

TNDV Television has added a new tool to its Exclamation 53-foot double-expando 3G/4K mobile truck with the purchase of multiple Sony HDC-4300 cameras.