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  • 142 Ascent
    News

    Ascent restructures ready for expansion

    2008-07-02T14:31:17Z

    Ascent Media Group has consolidated four of its UK businesses and rebranded them as Ascent 142 while also lining up a “war chest” for further acquisitions.

  • News

    Upgrade for iCR software

    2008-07-02T14:28:33Z

    AmberFin has upgraded its iCR software so that it now supports both Sony XDCam and Panasonic P2 standard-definition and high-definition encoding.

  • 1080p TV set
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    Pay-TV stunting Euro HD

    2008-07-02T14:22:05Z

    The lack of access to free-to-air HD channels is a key reason behind the low take-up of HD in Europe, according to media analysts Screen Digest.

  • News

    Harris HD kit set for Beijing

    2008-07-02T14:18:42Z

    Harris Corporation will Gearhouse Broadcast with HD image-processing equipment for use at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.

  • Snell and Wilcox switcher
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    Snell and Wilcox adapts Kahuna for EVS XT2

    2008-07-02T14:16:47Z

    British manufacturer Snell and Wilcox has adapted its popular Kahuna SD/HD multi-format vision mixer so that it works directly with the EVS XT2 production server.

  • TV aerial
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    BBC testing DVB-T2 in run-up to HD Freeview

    2008-07-02T14:13:32Z

    The BBC has begun test transmissions of DVB-T2 in preparation for the launch of high-definition services on Freeview.

  • Beijing Olympics
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    Camera Corps ready for Beijing role

    2008-07-01T17:43:06Z

    UK specialist camera systems company Camera Corps will play a key role in providing coverage of next month's Beijing Summer Olympics.

  • Roger Federer
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    US broadcasters benefit from tapeless Wimbledon

    2008-07-01T17:40:39Z

    NBC, ESPN and Tennis Channel are making use of an on-site tapeless production set-up to provide coverage of this year's Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

  • NI Assembly
    News

    TSL to upgrade NI assembly broadcast system

    2008-07-01T17:37:34Z

    Systems integrator TSL has won a contract to re-furbish the broadcast facilities within the historic Parliament buildings in Belfast where the Northern Ireland Assembly meets.

  • Sony PMWEX3
    News

    Sony takes EX3 on the road

    2008-07-01T17:30:15Z

    Sony will showcase its new EX-range camera technology and the HDCAM SR mastering format during a UK road show in July.

  • Justin Engineer
    News

    DVB-T2: how the tests will work

    2008-07-01T17:27:09Z

    As preparations for the launch of HD on Freeview begin, Justin Mitchell from BBC research and innovation offers up some detail on the DVB-T2 trials.

  • Kayak switcher
    News

    Kayak sales reach 2,500

    2008-07-01T08:42:26Z

    Thomson has sold the 2,500th unit of its Thomson Grass Valley Kayak switcher.

  • S4C Sheep
    News

    S4C completes first HD children's programme

    2008-07-01T08:39:45Z

    Welsh-language broadcaster S4C is a step closer to its goal of making all programming in HD by 2012 after completing filming on its first high-definition children's programme.

  • News

    Noise goes quiet

    2008-06-25T16:17:42Z

    Hollen Street-based sound post house Noise London has gone into liquidation.

  • Film scanner
    News

    Technicolor moves to Soho

    2008-06-25T16:13:01Z

    Technicolor will open a new seven-storey facility in Soho's Lexington Street in late autumn as part of a multimillion pound project to move its post-production and its creative services division from West Drayton.

  • Avid Nitris
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    Evolutions takes on ex-Sanctuary facility

    2008-06-25T16:02:51Z

    Evolutions has taken a 10-year lease on the Great Pulteney Street facility previously owned by Sanctuary Post and is spending£2m on new equipment to kit it out.

  • News

    BBC seeks IPTV standard

    2008-06-25T15:44:33Z

    The BBC is in talks with other public service broadcasters to agree a standard technology that would make IPTV content available on traditional television sets.

  • shows_robin_hood
    News

    True HD migration may remain slow till 2012

    2008-06-25T13:23:24Z

    A large HD 'content gap' will remain in 2012 with a majority of Europeans still watching standard definition TV on their HDTV displays.

  • Vince Pace
    News

    Pace puts forward case for stereo 3D

    2008-06-24T16:18:18Z

    Vince Pace used his presentation at last week's Broadcast's Technology Summit to try to persuade UK programme makers that stereoscopic content is a viable production option.

  • Nelson Mandela
    News

    Visions gets Mandela gig

    2008-06-24T16:14:49Z

    NEP Visions is working with Serpent Productions to deliver host broadcast coverage of the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday concert in Hyde Park this weekend.