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UPC Appoints DMC head
UPC has appointed former TV-am chief engineer Jonathan Try to head its Digital Media Centre (DMC) in Amsterdam as vice-president of broadcast operations and engineering. Try joins DMC from RTL Group where he was director of operations for UK Playout Services. Previous roles include MTV Networks Europe vice-president of technical ...
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New sales boss at BT
Digital television engineering specialist Broadcast Technology has taken on BarcoNet UK broadcast sales manager Gilbert Viegas as key account manager. Before joining BarcoNet, Viegas worked for Leitch and Avitel
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Lights poaches short
Lighting supplier Lights Camera Action has appointed Dave Short to the role of sales office manager for the Greenford office. Short has worked in the lighting industry for 15 years and joins from rival London firm Lighting Technology Sales
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Frontline hires two
Frontline Television has just expanded its team with two staff. Editor/designer James Johnson joined this week from London Post and will work on Editbox and Avid DS. Sally Brading joined last week as tape operator after working initially for Digital Arts and then as a freelancer
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Hill joins The TV set
Nats Post Production business development manager Sara Hill joined The Television Set last week, taking on a similar role but working across the group's three businesses - London Post, Arena Digital and The TV Set. Hill joins The Television Set after four years at Nats. Before that, she worked at ...
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Studio 1 is solid home
Olympic Studios, the recording facility famed for its Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix recording sessions, is the home of the UK's first XL 9000 K series console from Solid State Logic. The 80-channel desk has been installed in the recently refurbished Studio 1
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FRAMESTORE CFC WINS AT EMMYS.
Framestore CFC added two Emmys to its collection at the weekend for its work on ground-breaking
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Cintel buys out Innovation TK
Cintel concluded a deal late last week to buy the assets of rival telecine manufacturer Innovation TK (ITK), writes Barbara Marshall
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Quantel wins BBC news project
The BBC has chosen Quantel's generationQ news system to form the basis of its landmark Jupiter project which will centralise the content of its entire London-based news operation, writes Barbara Marshall
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Wireless camera system wins award
The AIBM 2002 Peter Wayne Award for innovation went to the UK's Link Research for its digital wireless camera system, LinkXP, writes Barbara Marshall
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Thomson to extend Grass Valley brand
Thomson Grass Valley revealed at IBC (Thursday 12 September) that its entire product range will soon be rebranded under the 'Grass Valley, a Thomson brand' moniker, writes Barbara Marshall
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ORF Launches 5.1 sound
Austria's ORF is the first European public broadcaster to offer a television service with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Starting early next year, ORF plans to broadcast in 5.1 surround sound not just feature films but original material including live events, concerts, TV documentaries and drama. The broadcaster has already been ...
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Fast sales for fx filter
Formatt Filters was demonstrating at IBC its new filter for blue and green screen applications. The former VFG firm, now part of The Industry, has already attracted£250,000 of orders for the glass camera filter and reported significant interest for the product at the show. The filter corrects fringing and spill ...
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Joe Dunton goes HD
Another British firm, Joe Dunton Cameras (JDC), was showing the world's first high definition (HD) film camera magazine at IBC. Dunton, who only made the decision to exhibit at the show last week, has developed a prototype that allows film crews to capture HD pictures in 1080i format or use ...
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Socratto release delay
Sony has returned its high-end compositing tool and so-called Inferno rival Socratto to the R&D bench just weeks ahead of its expected launch. The system, which was first shown in pre-beta form at NAB last year ( Broadcast, 24.4.01), has been in beta tests with ...
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Austria's ORF is first public broadcaster to go Dolby 5.1
Austria's ORF is the first European public broadcaster to launch a television service with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, writes Barbara Marshall
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Blakstad criticises interactive TV
Glamorgan University professor of digital media and former Workhouse chairman Michael Blakstad has lamented the 'standards mess' and 'consumer confusion' surrounding interactive television (iTV), writes Barbara Marshall
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Quantel and BBC in landmark newsroom deal
The BBC has chosen Quantel's generationQ news system to form the basis of its landmark Jupiter project which will centralize the content of its entire London-based news operation, writes Barbara Marshall
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NewsCintel buys ITK assets
Cintel concluded a deal late last week to buy the assets of rival telecine manufacturer Innovation TK (ITK), writes Barbara Marshall
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Thomson Grass Valley Goes Wireless
Thomson Grass Valley is expected to cause a bit of a stir at IBC as it shows for the first time a digital wireless camera system, writes Barbara Marshall