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JVC moves UK HQ
Camera manufacturer JVC Professional Europe is moving its headquarters to new purpose-built premises at Staples Corner, north London next month, bringing its UK-based consumer and professional divisions under one roof. JVC has also launched the tapeless DR-HD100 40GB and 80GB hard disk drive as its latest ProHD recorder, to enable ...
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BBC hires Blomberg
BBC Broadcast has appointed Thomas Blomberg - former managing director of the UK arm of global subtitling group, SDI Media - in a newly created role as its head of language services. The position was created to facilitate BBC Broadcast's expansion in the translation broadcast market; it will now offer ...
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Mansi to Clear Cut
Clear Cut Pictures has appointed online editor/colourist Bruno Mansi to head the company's online team. Mansi joins Clear Cut from Hillside Studios where he was senior editor for four years. His recent credits include 90-minute doc The Spy Who Stole my Lifefor Five and C4's ...
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Audio SOS: emergency treatment
The 'fix it in post' mentality may work for video, but sound is hard to salvage in the edit. From background noise to inaudible productions shot on cheap cameras, the number of casualties in audio post's emergency rooms is on the up. Andy Stout asked four audio specialists about aurally ...
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Whitfield St calls in administrators
Whitfield Street Studios, one of London's largest recording facilities, has called in the administrators after negotiations with Pinewood Shepperton to buy the central London business collapsed.
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Panasonic pulls out of next IBC
Panasonic is to pull out of next year's IBC, arguing that the costs of taking part in Europe's biggest broadcasting technology event outweigh the benefits.
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Terrestrial channels sign up for mobile trial
Fourteen of the 16 channels lined up for Arqiva's mobile television broadcast trial, scheduled to begin later this month, have been confirmed, with BBC1 and BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2, Channel 4, Five and BBC News 24 all signing up to take part.
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BBC spends£2m on HD upgrades
BBC Post Production has ploughed£2m into HD upgrades of its operations in London, Birmingham and Bristol.
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HD cameras at IBC
The camera wars heated up at IBC this year with Grass Valley launching its new Infinity camcorder, a low-end HD camera aimed at taking on Sony's HDV market. Sony completed its line-up of HD formats with the launch of the HD version of its tapeless XDCAM, positioned between its HDV ...
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Resellers for Nitris
Altered Images, Root6 and Dublin-based Tyrell have been appointed as resellers for Avid's Symphony Nitris, the first time the long-form finishing kit has been offered to third-party dealerships. Symphony Nitris offers real-time uncompressed HD and SD finishing and primary and secondary colour correction.
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Dubbing expands
Glasgow-based audio post facility The Dubbing Theatre has moved to the city's The Waterfront Studios and doubled its capacity because of increased bookings. It now offers five studios with Protools, Avid Audiovisions and Digital performer.
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Quantel's new suite
Quantel has launched a new grading option the Pablo Suite, combining image processing hardware and colour correction software. Founded on eQ and iQ, the suite offers a complete digital intermediate system. Three Pablo models have been developed: the eQ for HD applications, the iQ2 for 2K digital intermediates and the ...
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Sport deal renewed
Arqiva has renewed its contract with British Eurosport in a five-year deal worth over£6m. The channel will move from Arqiva's Langley studio to the company's Broadcast Media Centre at Feltham, which will be British Eurosports' production and administration base. Arqiva receives worldwide feeds and provides playout to Sky at Osterley ...
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Framestore tends Gardener FX
Framestore CFC has supplied the special effects for Focus Features' new film The Constant Gardener, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. Set in Kenya, the film recounts a man's quest to expose corruption in the pharmaceutical industry after his wife is murdered. Digitally supervised by Adrian ...
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3sixtymedia titles Gameshow
3sixtymedia Creative produced titles and graphics for ITV1's Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathonfrom Granada/Talkback Thames. Creative director Paul Kearton and designer Sue Bodicoat designed and directed the opening sequence in which Ant and Dec appear in seven old gameshows. Bluescreen footage was shot of the duo ...
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The Hive animates UKTV idents
VTR design house The Hive has created new idents for UKTV Gold's latest season of programmes. The concept is simple - the new programmes arriving are represented by an animated box with UKTV Gold's logo on it falling at high speed through a brightly coloured cloudy sky. Designed by Dunning ...
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BBC website revamps to plug key shows
The BBC TV channels' website is to be revamped to focus promotion on just a few key programmes.
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Yoomedia develops Baywatch game
Baywatchand Blockbustersare being made into interactive TV games on the YooPlay games portal. Telewest and NTL have approved the games, developed by YooMedia under licence from Fremantle Media. All UK digital cable subscribers can play the new games, which allow players to win prizes, on a ...
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The BBC's next techno-revolution
Every year the BBC spends£60m on new media and, of the£355m annual savings director general Mark Thompson hopes to make, almost two-thirds will be channelled into new media. We took four emerging technologies at the heart of the BBC's new media strategy and asked a panel of commentators to assess ...
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NewsBennett mulls online BBC2
BBC director of television Jana Bennett is looking at offering BBC2 over the internet.