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NewsFreeview plans PVR challenge to Sky
Freeview is set to take on Sky+ with the launch of Freeview Playback, a personal video recorder (PVR), in September.
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NewsFirst UK made-for mobile chat show launches
The UK's first made-for-mobile sports chat show, to be presented by ex-footballer Neil 'Razor' Ruddock, has launched today [Monday] on the O2 network.
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Thomson IPTV move
Media giant Thomson has acquired French IPTV platform provider Thales Broadcast & Multimedia for around£87.7m. The deal will give the Thomson group end-to-end products and services in the IPTV, mobile TV and digital terrestrial transmission (DTT) markets. It is the second acquisition made by Thomson this month, after it bought ...
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Fuji row settled
Fujifilm and media supplier First4media have settled their dispute which erupted earlier this year (Broadcast, 16.6.05). The fallout saw Fuji's broadcast divisional manager, Eric Mould, and the directors of stock supplier Transco Group plc - which trades as First4media - taken to court by Fuji over alleged trading irregularities. The ...
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Pepper finishes Life on Mars
Pepper has completed the post-production on BBC Production's Life on Mars, a 6 x 60-minute drama series about a detective who wakes from an accident to find himself living in 1973. Shot on super 16mm Kodak stock, the grade was designed to give a 1970s film effect. Senior colourist Jet ...
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Feeney to Golden Sq
Golden Square has taken on freelancer Sean Feeney as senior producer. Feeney worked at MPC for seven years, working his way up to senior VFX producer. He then moved to Jim Henson's Creature Shop to become head of animation and post-production. At Golden Square, he will be helping to build ...
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Kodak hit by Hemel oil explosion
Kodak Film Supplies' headquarters has been badly damaged by the oil explosion and consequent raging fires at Hemel Hempstead.
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Evolutions grades Snow Queen
Evolutions has completed the mastering and grading of Intro's first film venture, The Snow Queen, a 56-minute film based on the Hans Christian Andersen fantasy story combining music by composer Peter K Joyce and poetry. Evolutions senior editors Nick King and Owen Tyler conducted the mastering using a digital tape ...
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Soho Editors expands worldwide
Post-production talent agency Soho Editors is to plough around£4m into expanding its business worldwide, to cover the Middle East, West Coast USA, South Africa and Ireland.
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Edifis for Clear Cut
Post-production house Clear Cut Pictures has splashed out£200,000 on an Edifis f/stop grading and colouring system as part of its drive into feature film post. It will be installed in January and used for colour correction, to create 2k, HD, PAL and NTSC deliverables, grade across Final Cut Pro material ...
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New tax breaks for film industry
The UK film production industry has welcomed the government's announcement last week of a long-awaited new tax credit system, geared to allow producers to offset certain production costs against tax.
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BDA rebrands ESPN
Design company BDA has rebranded the ESPN Classic sports channel, with new idents and on-air elements. Senior designer Andrew Olley created the new look, using Clarity Pixel Promo. The new on-air design airs early next year.
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BBC HD doc finished
BBC Resources has secured the editing and grading work on the three-part HD documentary Galapagos for BBC Natural History and the National Geographic Channel. BBC Post Production Bristol is providing the HD tapeless post-production solution to support the series, which explores the history, landscape and wildlife of the islands, and ...
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Baselight for Envy
Start-up post house Envy has spent£225,000 on Filmlight's Baselight Four grading system for colour grading and finishing. It will be used for high-end grading for film and broadcast work and will be installed in the facility's grading suite.
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Studio AKA does Nick Jr idents
Studio AKA has created the channel idents for Nickelodeon UK's Nick Jr channel. The idents, directed by AKA's Mic Graves, depict a pop-up world featuring cut-out animals in festive mode. Ben Boquelet, Emilie Boyard, Boris Kossmehl, Rob Latimer and Fabienne Rivory animated in 3D using Softimage XSI. James Gaillard rendered ...
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Listening to the voice of VoD
When is a TV programme not a TV programme? That is the big question troubling Ofcom, which last week was forced to postpone its long-awaited Television Production Sector Review as it struggled to work it out.
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Keeping us posted
Our end-of-year round-up finds facilities struggling to find the cash to invest in HD while at the same time the advent of desktop editing is putting pressure on them to cut their rates. By Simon Meek.
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Downloading the revolution
David Docherty on a year in which digital technology made huge advances with podcasting, VoD, PVRs and mobile TV - helped by the rise and rise of the citizen reporter.
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Studios' year rises above gloom
Despite a flurry of bleak news stories, the studios sector has had a reasonably good year and, by increasing flexibility and preparing for HD, should be in a strong position for 2006. By Andy Stout.
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NewsBSkyB: no plans to follow NTL into mobiles
BSkyB is not planning to offer mobile phones as part of its package anytime in the near future, Jeremy Darroch, chief financial officer has said.