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Parthenon spends£250,000 on HD upgrade
Natural history and factual specialist Parthenon Entertainment has spent£250,000 on upgrading its in-house high-definition facilities, with the addition of two new suites based on Sony's XPRI HD finishing system and an Avid Xpress Studio HD suite.
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Molinare scores£1m football deal
Molinare has netted more than£1m of business from producer North One, including a two-year deal to produce Football Italiafrom its 1,500 sq ft central London studio.
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TMR moves into mobile content
VTR-owned restoration and telecine specialist TMR has branched out into mobile content with its first commission for 3G platforms.
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Japan plans VR cup
Japan's communications ministry plans to embark on a£5m scheme to develop 3D virtual reality TV in time for the 2018 World Cup. By teaming up with Japanese academics and technology companies, the aim is to turn the tournament into a 3D virtual reality projection in viewers' living rooms.
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Pinnacle head quits
Pinnacle Systems managing director of Europe, Africa and Middle East Richard Scott is to leave the company following its£259m takeover by Avid this month. Avid has not decided whether he will be directly replaced but Avid UK general manager Peter Ramsay takes responsibility for Pinnacle in the interim.
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St Anne's posts war
St Anne's Post has completed the grading on ITV1's latest series of detective drama Foyle's War. Colourist Samantha Hollingdale graded the 2 x 120-minute films on its C-Reality with wet-gate system. The two shows were directed by Jeremy Silberston and Gavin Millar, with Peter Middleton as ...
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Dolby wins Emmy
Dolby Laboratories is to receive an Emmy award for engineering development next month for its Dolby E audio technology, which is credited with bringing 5.1-channel surround sound to DTV and HDTV viewers. More than 325 facilities worldwide now use the Dolby E format, and more than 30 companies make products ...
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Two Way games deal
Two Way TV has licensed its text-to-TV games platform Simcast to Endemol UK along with a clutch of its popular interactive gaming formats. The games will be broadcast on Brainteaser TV, an extended version of Five's quiz show BrainTeaseron Sky. Other broadcasters ...
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Root6 updates tool
Root6's technology division is to unveil the latest version of its ContentAgent workflow tool, which encodes and distributes compressed digital files, at next month's IBC. It offers improved flexibility in handling SD, HD and 2K DPX film projects.
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Cellcast to list
Mobile content and interactive TV specialist Cellcast is planning a launch on AIM next month to raise£4.5m for expansion. The company already broadcasts gameshows on Sky's Get Lucky TV and on a series of Middle East channels, and raises revenues through telcos with its gaming, betting, dating and chat formats.
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Crow posts Trafalgar drama doc
CrowTV has completed the post on Channel 4's Trafalgar Battle Surgeon, a 50-minute drama documentary on the 1805 naval encounter through the eyes of The Victory's surgeon, William Beatty. Directed by Justin Hardy on Digibeta, visual effects and the title sequence were created by Crow head ...
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TCM launches autumn idents
TCM (Turner Classic Movies) has created a series of idents to kick off its autumn season with the tagline 'Escape to a world of film', inspired by classic film imagery. Four separate idents which each begin with an everyday situation but end in the unexpected were created by the channel's ...
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Pepper onlines BBC's Messiah
BBC1 gets in sombre mood this bank holiday with its latest Messiahouting - a harrowing three-part drama starring Ken Stott as DCI Red Metcalfe on the trail of another serial killer. Shot on 35mm by Daf Hobson, the show was transferred on the telecine by Pepper's ...
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ROK to sell sci-fi classics for mobiles
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Wolverhampton company ROK that will see old episodes of Red Dwarfand Doctor Whomade available to mobile phone users. ROK will sell the shows on digital video chips, which cost around£17. The programmes can then be ...
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NewsDr Who goes mobile
BBC Worldwide has signed its first deal to licence full-length TV programmes for broadcast on mobile phones.
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Facilities move to 'Valleywood'
Dragon International Studios, the£330m film and TV studio complex being built in South Wales, has already spawned its first post-production start-up - film and TV facility Digital Dragon.
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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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BBC OB scrubs up to film kidney transplant operation
BBC Outside Broadcasts, which crewed last year's award-winning Breast Cancer: The Operation, has been called in again on a BBC1 show about kidney transplant operations. The unit, headed by manager Steve Hall, worked closely with St Mary's Hospital to ensure health and safety. The shoot used ...
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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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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. ...