Chelmsford, Massachusetts  As part of a unique partnership, students from Canadore Colleges Broadcasting and Video Production program in North Bay, Ontario, use a Broadcast Pix¢ Granite¢ 2000 integrated production switcher to provide scoreboard video coverage of the North Bay Battalion hockey team at the North Bay Memorial Gardens Sports Arena. The city owns the arena, but the Canadore staff built the control room and provides engineering services for its video equipment.

At next months NAB Show, to be held April 16-19 in Las Vegas, FOR-A will showcase a wide range of 4K technology and key product integration solutions for every step of the video production workflow. The company will specifically focus on solutions ideal for sports, 4K and live productions, and in celebration of its 45th anniversary, will showcase a variety of solutions aligning with its show theme of FOR-A World of Possibilities in Booth C5117.

California-based Abracadabra Presentation Graphics, Inc. has produced its large-scale events, corporate videos and presentations with FOR-A switchers for a decade. Having had much success with two of FOR-As HVS-110 portable video switchers, the company didnt hesitate to select another FOR-A unit when they recently were in need of a larger switcher. Abracadabra chose FOR-As new HVS-2000 unit. The new switchers first big test was when Abracadabra worked with entertainment technology company, FNTech, for production of a cloud computing conference held last October in Tokyo.

FOR-A announces its continued video switcher success among worship facilities of all sizes over the past year. In 2015, the company welcomed many new house of worship customers of its popular video switcher line, including the HVS-2000 (new), HVS-390HS and HVS-100/110 portable video switcher units.

FOR-A announces plans to exhibit at the upcoming Content and Communications World (CCW) Expo, taking place November 11-12 at the Javits Convention Center in New York. The company spotlight at the event will be on its popular video switchers and signal processors. As Fujitsus exclusive North American distributor, FOR-A will also be showcasing Fujitsu encoding and decoding technology at CCW within Booth #816.

Orlando-based rental and staging company Kobryn Communications (KCI) creates durable flypack road systems for live events throughout North America. Already a FOR-A user who owns the HVS-390HS switcher, KCI recently selected FOR-As HVS-2000 as its video switcher of choice for a 3G-compliant flypack. The HVS-2000-equipped system was first put through its paces during a production in August, and KCI has been relying on the unit for productions ever since.

At the upcoming CAPER show, taking place October 28-30 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, FOR-Awill showcase its popular video switcher, signal processor and multi-viewer solutions. The company will also demonstrate Fujitsus encoding/decoding technology. FOR-A, who is celebrating its 45th company anniversary this month, will be located within its partner SVCs (Sistemas de Video Comunicacin) booths, C10 and C11.

With a desire to reach into its surrounding communities and provide meaningful worship to its rapidly growing congregation of over 30,000 parishioners, Georgia-based 12Stone Church® sought to transform five area schools into houses of worship on Sunday mornings. One location could adapt the school gymnasiums system, but the remaining locations called for identical production systems. Long-time technology partner Technical Innovations Blue Hat Design developed a comprehensive, innovative, portable solution that provided a complete A/V/L set-up in under an hour. Key to the systems overall design was a compact video switcher that would transport easily while providing a robust variety of video production features, and FOR-As HVS-100 portable video switcher was the perfect choice.

FOR-A Corporation of America announces that broadcast television station Bolivia TV has purchased a variety of video production equipment from the company as part of the stations transition to HD. The La Paz-based station provides public broadcasting content catered to a wide audience, including newscasts, public affairs programming and cultural shows. Bolivia TVs FOR-A equipment order included video switchers, character generators, signal processors and routing switchers.

FOR-A announces its participation at the upcoming InfoComm Show, where the company will showcase video switcher, video transmission, multi-viewer and character generator technology. Taking place June 17-19 in Orlando, FL., InfoComm is the worlds largest event for professional AV. FOR-A will exhibit in Booth #4361.