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Filmlight ups scanner range
UK manufacturer Filmlight has developed a new dual-gauge version of its successful Northlight film scanner that will now scan 16mm as well as 35mm film.Originally introduced in February last year as a 35mm scanner for feature films, the Northlight has proved so popular that the company decided to introduce a ...
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Silicon cuts jobs
High-end US computer manufacturer Silicon Graphics is to make a further 600 of its staff redundant. According to the company: ?The steps will bring costs in line with revenue targets for fiscal year 2004.? Together with the elimination of approximately 400 positions announced in May this year, the company's headcount ...
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Evolutions expands
Evolutions Television has hired former Technicolor DVD and video streaming specialist, Daniel Hurley, to run a new digital media division. With broadcasters looking to encourage more audience participation and add value to their programmes, the new department will help to re-purpose content for digital delivery via inter-active TV, DVD, ...
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French exclusive
French 3D digital animators Florian Perrett and Martine Delage-Vanderhaegen have signed an exclusive contract with Soho Editors to head the company's Softimage XSI team. Soho Editors head of animation Sarah Cloutier said: ?With projects such as The Matrix, Titanic and Dante's Peak to their credit, Florian and Martine will add ...
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Discreet IBC launch
Discreet will reveal a new version of its non-linear editing and finishing system Smoke at this week's IBC in Amsterdam. Smoke 6 will feature a new flexible software design for multi-resolution post-production, including the ability to work at any resolution at any time, and to mix resolutions within projects ...
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NewsVodafone's Fawlty connection
Mobile phone users will soon be able to download clips of Fawlty Towers and other BBC comedies to their handsets for the first time after BBC Worldwide signed a deal with Vodafone, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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All-in-one system set for IBC debut
TWI interactive, the digital media and technology arm of Transworld International, has developed what could be the world's first all-in-one digital system for producing and delivering both new media and broadcast content, writes Will Strauss.
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Waterside demise adds to Edinburgh woes
Edinburgh production and facilities company Waterside Television has gone into liquidation resulting in the loss of around 17 jobs, writes Ian White.The company, which majored in corporate and commercials work,
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Reuters touts digital news
Reuters will be the first global news agency to deliver video, scripts and story information to broadcasters in a single integrated digital file when it debuts a new service at the
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Farm's BBC coup
The key production and management team has been put in place for the launch of The Farm Group's new facility, Uncle. Andrew McKerlie, formerly the BBC's relationship manager within factual and learning, joins as general manager, which The Farm called
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Bowie at pictures
As part of the first event of its kind, a David Bowie concert will be broadcast live from Riverside Studios to cinemas across Europe next week. The show will be broadcast in 5.1 surround sound to the Odeon West End in London and theatres in Paris, Munich and Zurich. The ...
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Touch upgrade
Lightworks has released the latest version of its software for its Lightworks Touch editing system. Version 1.5 has more than 300 enhancements after seven months R&D. The most significant change is that the software now includes low bandwidth shared storage networking as a standard non-chargeable feature. V1.5 is now shipping ...
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Vitec profits dive
The Vitec Group has announced a halving in interim pre-tax profits for this year. The company, which makes camera and lighting equipment, blamed the ongoing squeeze in ad spend, a strong Euro and reduced capital expenditure by clients for the loss. Its broadcasting services division was the worst hit in ...
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Reuters to provide news on single digital files
Reuters will be the first news agency in the world to deliver video, scripts and story information to broadcasters in a single integrated digital file when it debuts a new service at the end of 2003, writes Will Strauss.
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TV Corp faces call for post closures
The results of a City investigation into independent television production in the UK released this month will make bad reading for TV Corporation's 30-year-old post subsidiary, Molinare, and its sister company, Visions, writes Sam Espensen.
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Reality looks to SMS for hit
A sms text-based reality TV show could be the next big money spinner, according to a panel at the Edinburgh TV Festival, writes Sam Espensen.
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Brands bolster 3G
Revenue from 3G phones is likely to be generated by using existing brands rather than original content, according to the head of interactive at Endemol. Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival in a session examining the future for 3G technology, Peter Cowley said: 'brand new content is problematic. How is ...
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NDS nabs IDP assets
Digital pay-TV technology provider NDS has snapped up some of the assets of the French interactive TV technology company Interactif Delta Production (IDP), which was recently put into administrative receivership by the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris. The News Corporation company acquired all of IDP's intellectual property assets, including the ...
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McMillan buys DRCs
The rental division of McMillan has bought four of the BBC's new WiScape Digital Radio Cameras (DRCs). The cameras, which retail for about£36,000, will be used for outside broadcast, sport and corporate events for clients like STV and Carlton. Business development director at McMillan Angus Knight said the DRCs are ...
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B&S gets Treatment
PR and marketing agency Bubble & Squeak has launched a programme and film development division. The Treatment Salon will offer services including negotiating product placement, set design proposals, assistance in presenting pitch tapes and documents, and help with commissioning editors. The department is already working on several projects, including documentaries ...