So as the saying goes: 'work hard, play hard' and it's seems we're firmly committed to both. With a strong team spirit both in and out of the office, its not surprising the launch of something like 'Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2' sparked some interest.

While many of us aren't into the 'gaming' thing, it seems we've still been drawn into the offices ungrounded movement. With battles taking place in evening and weekends from the comfort of their own homes, we've heard tales of casualties and disaster as well as gloats of success (you know who you are!), not to mention the surprising and most welcome interest from several clients who have joined the throng as the battle continues.

So if your at a loose end one evening/weekend and fancy a game or are just interested who's on the leader board drop us mail. (18 and over only please!)

With the Winter Olympics and the Fifa World Cup coming up we're expecting a busy 2010. We're already discussing editing requirements with various broadcasters and with this in mind we've just taken delivery of another five Avid Unity MediaNet v5 shared storage systems.

Avid Unity offers true simultaneous sharing of media in SD & HD and is expandable up to a massive 128TB. UnityRAID protection ensures reliabilty allowing the system to ride through a drive failure and the latest software version allows both Media Composer and Final Cut Pro systems to be connected.

Other Hyperactive Unity systems are currently in constant use on feature film and drama productions.

We're celebrating after a fantastic week at the Roundhouse for the BBC's Electric Proms 2009. Another first for Hyperactive and the BBC - This time a complete DNxHD Avid/EVS workflow saw an increased 185M/bits per second travel across the network offering the very best quality throughout, and feeds for both BBC HD and BBC Two. The production staff loved the media management facilities and we loved every second of making it happen. Thanks to all concerned and to the BBC for another great job.

One of the highlights of this year's IBC was Avid's launch of its latest Media Composer version 4. New features include the ability to mix and match frame rates (as well as formats and resolutions) in the same timeline and improved support for 3D stereoscopic workflows.

Hyperactive has the new software available already so, if you'd like to give it a try, please give us a call.