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Both Integra and Onkyo have added an update to their firmware late last week, introducing two major features Amazon Music and Works with Sonos turn-on volume facility.

DPA have listened to the theatre, film and television industry and have added the smallest ever high end pro audio microphone capsule to its d:screet and d:fine ranges.

Just in time for Christmas, Optoma has announced the launch of UHL55 - the world’s first ever 4K LED smart projector for residential applications.

Packed with smart features like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, it offers hands-free operation and IFTTT (unilateral) all on a single Android platform.

The UHL55 is the ultimate in 4K home projection, boasting PureMotion frame interpolation, precision optics and HDR.

Let the UHL55 plan all your festive celebrations with Infowall. This feature is personal, powerful and informative and completely customisable through programming and scheduling. Anything from setting personal reminders to creating multiple playlists, the UHL55 is super versatile and convenient.

Solid State Logic’s (SSL) new all-analogue 2U outboard processor Fusion is designed for contemporary hybrid studio use. Incorporating five new analogue colouration tools, it combines the perfect mix of added tonal character, weight and space to your mix bus or stereo stems, with the attention-to-detail, warmth and finesse that only true analogue circuits can provide.

Marco Caviglia, vocalist and guitarist with Dire Straits Legacy, has switched to a DPA d:facto Vocal Microphone for all of his live performances.

A number of brands distributed by Amber Technology in Australia and New Zealand have been making an appearance on legendary UK singer-songwriter Sam Smith's world tour. Smith rose to instantaneous world fame following the release of his debut album Lay Me Down in 2013. In 2018, he's enjoying a cool 2.3 million sales off the back of his second album titled The Thrill of it All and continues to smash the charts while performing on the world stage for his ongoing album titled concert tour for 2018.

In a world first, DLP projector manufacturer Digital Projection have launched the INSIGHT Laser 8K - the highest resolution projector on the global market - at the CEDIA expo this month in San Diego. Boasting 25,000 lumens of laser illumination, the company’s flagship projector is in a league of its own, offering up unrivalled brightness and 33 million pixels to marvel at.

The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) has a vast fan base. Their televised races draw eyes and ears from around the world but they’re not alone when it comes to the challenge of mimicking the highly ear-splitting, earth-shaking racetrack experience on-screen for their viewers. Although the Association broadcasts races in Dolby Atmos, the bottlenecked technology didn’t have the accompanying microphone that could reproduce the low-frequency component of the sound of 11,000 horsepower cars launching from the starting line. Mike Rokosa, technology executive at the NHRA, went for the d:dicate™ 4007 Omnidirectional Microphone from DPA Microphones.

The annual Golden Horse Awards in Taipei has long been a magnet for prestigious film directors and producers in the Chinese language cinema realm. Last November, the movie-making industry stood still to celebrate the magic of Chinese cinema and those who make it what it is today.

The state of the art System T by Solid State Logic has been installed at the renowned The Hospital Club Studios in London UK. The project for the broadcast audio production facility was undertaken by EB Broadcast.