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Face-offs promote Freeview
Artem and Clear Post-Production are behind the effects for the commercial launching the BBC's digital service Freeview, writes Barbara Marshall
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QVC sells Christmas
Christmas is coming early to QVC which launches its seasonal look this weekend. Produced and directed by Chris Clarkson, the idents feature a range of costumes designed by Marlin Persson, with make-up by Andrew Savage. The images were shot in-house and composited and finished in Flint and Editbox. The QVC ...
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Presteigne buys kit
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has bought two wireless camera systems from Link Research making it the first hire company to offer the system. The LinkXP system won the IABM Peter Wayne award for design and innovation at this year's International Broadcast Convention and is also up for an RTS Technical Innovation ...
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King-Britton goes S&M
Visual effects firm Smoke & Mirrors has appointed Rebekah King-Britton to jointly head its 3D department in a bid to attract more broadcast work. King-Britton's recent credits include channel idents and launches for Channel 4 and Paramount Channel. She started her career at Electric Image and then moved to Drum, ...
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Pace in Irish NTL deal
Pace Micro Technology has signed a new supply contract with NTL Ireland, Ireland's largest multichannel TV operator. The contract will see Pace supply NTL Ireland with its Di300 set-top box for the next two years
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Sony profits improve
Sony Corporation has improved its year-on-year financial position in its second quarter despite relatively flat sales of Yen 1,789.7bn (£9.3bn). The electronics giant managed to convert a net loss of Yen 13.2bn (£70m) in the quarter ended 30 September 2001 into a net profit of Yen 44.1bn (£230m) in the ...
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Imagina scheduled
Imagina, the international festival for digital images, will be held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco from 3 to 6 February next year. The event, now in its 21st year, combines a conference programme with awards and an exhibition covering 3D, virtual reality and animation. It will also feature for ...
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Discreet rejig sees 37 jobs go
Discreet is to centralise its European systems business in London with the loss of around 37 jobs, writes Barbara Marshall
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XTV joins forces with 601
Broadcast design firm XTV is joining Soho 601 and will be known as XTV at 601, writes Barbara Marshall
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MPC shakes and stirs bond film
Moving Picture Company (MPC) is behind the visual effects for some key sequences in the latest Bond film from Eon Productions, Die Another Day. The plot begins in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea and continues via Hong Kong to Cuba, London and ...
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Pinewood-Shepperton set to broadcast over IP
Pinewood-Shepperton's networking subsidiary Studiolink claims it is now ready to start real-time broadcasting over its IP fibre network, writes Barbara Marshall
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Clear effects boost latest Boyle project
Clear Post-Production is expanding its 3D department and has completed the visual effects for its second feature film, 28 Days Later, writes Barbara Marshall
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Free plug-in for Maya clients
Alias Wavefront has surprised the industry again by giving away the Mental Ray for Maya plug-in for free, writes Barbara Marshall
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Hauppage adaptor
Consumer electronics group Hauppage is launching a digital terrestrial television adapter that plugs into either the TV or the PC. Priced at£129, the adapter will compete with Pace's box but will also plug into a PC's USB port to enable viewers to watch and record DTT channels via the PC
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Pace DVTA download
Pace has successfully downloaded its digital television adapter (DTVA) timer function, marking the first DTT download since the BBC changed to the 16QAM broadcast system. The timer is the latest in an ongoing programme of updates for Pace free-to-view customers and was downloaded over the air for existing DTVA customers ...
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NDS' broadband gong
NDS has won a technical innovation award at the Broadband Communications Europe (BCE) awards for its XTV personal video recording technology. The technology forms the backbone of BskyB's Sky+ service, allowing viewers to record and watch programmes via the set-top box hard disk
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Apple event at Gearbox
Reseller GearBox Soho is co-hosting an Apple Pro Video event next month at its De Lane Lea studios site. Apple product specialists will demonstrate Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools and DVD Studio Pro at the event which takes place on Tuesday 26 November. Further information is available by emailing mail@gearbox.com
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Effects conference
Moving image society BKSTS is holding a four-day visual effects conference on 21 to 24 November. The event will take place at the BFI London Imax cinema and the National Film Theatre on London's South Bank. Sessions lined up include the CGI work on Dinotopia, ...
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Technology & Facilities - Over 300 jobs to go at OpenTV.
OpenTV, the interactive TV firm that owns Static 2358, is to restructure with the loss of
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Technology & Facilities - Leaf gongs go to Framestore & Glassworks.
Framestore CFC and Glassworks led the pack at the 2002 London Effects and Animation Festival (Leaf)