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Arqiva playout deal
Arqiva, formerly NTL Broadcast, has signed a£2m, five-year deal to provide integrated playout, uplinking and satellite capacity for Home Entertainment Corporation's ChoicesUK TV, a DVD retail channel launching on Sky Digital this week. HEC will manage playout using the remote scheduling and file-transfer capability at Arqiva's Broadcast Media Centre in ...
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Al Jazeera graphics
Arabic news channel Al Jazeera has ordered real-time 2D and 3D graphics from Norwegian graphics specialist Vizrt. The system will run in Al Jazeera's four broadcast centres in Doha, London, Kuala Lumpur and Washington from the beginning of 2006 and will provide news graphics through the Octopus newsroom editing system. ...
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Slowdown forces Lynx into administration
Denham-based Lynx Digital, one of the UK's oldest facilities, has gone into administration, writesDavid Wood.
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Soho shows appetite for 4K Telecine
The Mill is the latest Soho post house to splash out£1m on a 4K Telecine, bringing the number of companies to own one of the high-spec Grass Valley film scanning machines to five.
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Artem 3D capture
Artem Digital is expanding its 3D scanning service with the purchase of six more Canon 350 eight-megapixel cameras following increased demand from commercials producers and the computer games industry. The cameras will enable Artem to capture 3D images faster and at better quality.
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Why broadband is redefining TV
Two broadband TV formats are vying for viewers' attention: one PC-based the other via the set-top box into the television.
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The net gains from Broadband TV
With technology barriers starting to fall, broadcasters are piling into internet video on demand. David Woodexamines the programming and production techniques the new medium is likely to adopt.
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NewsNighty Night goes mobile
The BBC is launching its first experiment with mobile phone broadcasting, making clips of BBC3 comedy Nighty Nightavailable over videophones.
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NewsBBC employee faked Wikipedia entry
Users of encyclopaedia website Wikipedia claim the site has been exploited for a viral marketing campaign for a BBC project.
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NewsBBC dogged by spoof news story
The BBC is still being dogged by a spoof BBC News web page which reported the death of 28 midgets in a fight with a lion.
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New in-car TV tuner
Spanish-based hi-fi firm Vieta is to launch a compact Freeview in-car tuner that will enable passengers to watch Freeview broadcasts en route. The TDT500C tuner is designed to operate with Vieta's range of in-car LCD monitors. The tuner aims to put an end to the drawbacks that have always plagued ...
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Sky's HD sat move
Sky has leased three extra transponders from satellite firm SES Astra to transmit its package of HD services, expected to launch in the UK in the first half of next year. Sky chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein said that the HD launches would be a key part of the satellite ...
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Martyr gets Nitris
London post house Martyr has beefed up its HD finishing, spending£250,000 on an Avid DS Nitris editing system, plus HD monitoring and a Sony HDCam VTR. Martyr is already using the HD kit and its Edifis Finaliser HD grading system on Talkback Thames' HDCam series Murder ...
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The Hive provides the fear factor
VTR's graphics specialist The Hive has teamed up with ITV's promos unit to create a 30-second spot for reality hit The X-Factor. The sequence is based on the journey contestants take to reach their auditions through a long and ominous corridor lined with footage of people being ...
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London Post dresses the part
Titles for BBC2's 8 x 30-minute factual series A Week of Dressing Dangerouslywere created in Softimage XSI by London Post's 2D and 3D graphics designers Toby Goulding and Simon Hooley. The duo used the idea of a zip fastener to introduce the BBC in-house series which ...
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DI kit for Resolution
Resolution has bought a Discreet Smoke DI editing system running on Linux from Autodesk through reseller XTFX. The Smoke DI system will replace Resolution's Quantel Editbox for short-form and long-form work. The facility also expects the system to bring in more HD work.It's the second Discreet system that Resolution has ...
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Pepper Post revamps to grab film business
Pepper Post has restructured its senior management team, creating the new posts of head of operations and head of film as part of a fresh drive to win more film business.
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BBC's Belgian job
BBC Broadcast has created a fresh football brand for Belgian telco Belgacom and public service broadcasters VRT and RTBF. The idents will be used on football broadcasts and matches streamed on the web. Produced by Louise Braham and designed by Katy Jones the work was posted in 3D by Andy ...
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BBC factual trials in-house editing
The BBC's latest scheme for cutting the cost of programme-making will be tested at the corporation's London-based factual and learning department later this year with the introduction of low-cost desktop editing systems for production teams.
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Top Banana studio
Birmingham-based commercials production company Top Banana has acquired Optical Image's Stourbridge facilities business, which includes the lease on a 9,000sq ft studio, five edit suites and the company's existing client base and has relocated to Optical's site in Broome, near Stourbridge. Optical Image has refocused its activities, but will continue ...