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Autodesk buys Alias
US software giant Autodesk is to acquire the 3D specialists Alias, in a deal worth $182m. The deal, due to close within four to six months, will see Autodesk develop the Alias product line alongside its own products and technologies. Alias' products include animation, visual effects and rendering, and it ...
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Pepper adds colour to Jericho
Pepper has completed the post on the ITV/WGBH co-production Jericho, a 4 x 120-minute detective thriller set in the 1950s starring Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Jericho. Pepper's senior colourist Chris Beeton used Pogle Platinum for the grading, with visual effects created by Simon Giblin, who degraded footage using a ...
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Presteigne buys£6.5m Sony HD kit
Hire companies and resellers have invested a total of over£9.3m in HD kit this month. Presteigne Broadcast Hire has ploughed more than£6.5m into HD kit, which includes the purchase of 30 Sony HD VT recorders and slow motion equipment.
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ShortsTV goes 3G
ShortsTV, a movie channel dedicated to short films featuring the likes of Jude Law, Mel Gibson and Minnie Driver, has launched on the MobiTV mobile TV platform. The short film channel is accessible to all Orange TV 3G customers. Other channels signed up to the network include CNN, ITN and ...
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So you want to go tapeless?
Tapeless production is changing the way that people go about making content. Senior BBC trainer Tim Wallbank discusses how the BBC is gearing up towards its move to tapeless.
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NewsBroadcast Freelancer job site launches
Broadcast will launch a new job-finding website for tele-vision freelancers on Monday (17 October).
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Goswami in new TV over broadband venture
2.15pm: Former BSkyB's commercial director Martin Goswami is launching Aggregator, an IPTV service designed to compliment Freeview.
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NewsUK groups line-up for inauguralMobile TV awards
8am: Interactive specialist Yoomedia and Buena Vista International are two of the UK-based nominees shortlisted in the inaugural Mobile TV Screenings and Awards, being handed out at Mipcom next Wednesday (19 October).
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NewsComment: Unlocking the potential of mobile
Online chatrooms are buzzing with rumours that Apple is to unveil a new video iPod this week, a development that mobile TV evangelists have long been predicting will radically transform our viewing habits, writes Dominic Schreiber.
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Rory Peck shortlist
The bravery of freelance cameramen relaying images from disasters and danger zones will be celebrated at this year's Rory Peck Awards, on 8 November. The finalists for the Sony Impact Award, given for footage that has made an international impact, are: Iraqi-born Ali Fadhil, nominated for his depiction of Fallujah ...
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Fuji distributors
Fujifilm has appointed CCK Video Services Ltd, PMD Magnetics and Protape Limited as its new distributors to supply the professional video market. Each distributor will now provide the entire range of Fuji recording media products. This follows the merger of professional video with the company's recording media business unit last ...
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BDS microsoft deal
Broadcasting Data Services has expanded its existing agreement with Microsoft to supply electronic programme guide (EPG) data for the computer giant's digital entertainments application, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. The BBC Broadcast-owned listings bureau will now expand its slate of Microsoft EPGs from the UK, Germany and France into ...
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Cameramen awards
Cameraman Nigel Meakin has received an Award of Merit by the Guild of TV Cameramen (GTC) for his outstanding camera work. The altitude sickness-defying camerman won for his photography on Annapurna to Everest, an episode of Michael Palin's travel series Himalaya. Cameraman ...
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Making drama out of history
The autumn schedule is awash with a royal flush of monarchical drama - but how much of a dramatic licence should programme-makers use when portraying well-documented historical figures? Meg Carter looks at the key ingredients and skills needed for producing historical drama.
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NewsBBC editing move to cost facilities£18m
One of the BBC's biggest production departments, factual and learning, has announced plans to take 75% of all post work in-house by 2007, in a move that could cost the UK facilities sector up to£18m in revenues.
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Endemol teams up with MobiTV for mobile channel
Endemol UK has teamed up with mobile broadcasting platform MobiTV to launch the Reality TV channel on Orange's telecoms network.
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Jetix moves into TV gaming
Jetix UK has launched a free-to-play games service on Telewest which allows kids to watch TV and play games at the same time.
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Imagine upgrade
Reseller Altered Images has fitted out Newcastle-based facility Imagine Nonlinear Post Production with a 4 terabyte LANshare, two new digitising stations and Avid 1000 and Media Composer offline plus four Avid Xpress Pro offline edit suites. Altered Images also gave Imagine's existing Symphony and Avid 1000 digitising stations an upgrade. ...
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Scolnik to Nat Geo
National Geographic has appointed Betsy Scolnik as vice-president of content operations, reporting to Nat Geo digital media president Chris McAndrews. The US-based Scolnik will develop new markets for Nat Geo content in wireless, video games, broadband and education.
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Frontier hiring
Frontier Post has hired online editor/colourist Gareth Williams to boost the facility's finishing team. Williams joins from the BBC where he was an in-house editor for five years. His credits include Panorama, Holidays in the Danger Zone, and ...