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    Eskenazi joins Nats

    2002-11-06T12:05:04Z

    Nats editor Marc Eskenazi has left the company to join the creative team at Oasis Television. Marc joins long-time colleagues Pat Gale and Liz Hayward who are now business development and marketing managers at Oasis respectively. Oasis has recently finished work on BBC's The Ship, ...

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    More Discreet for MPC

    2002-11-06T12:04:33Z

    Soho visual effects facility The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has ordered another Discreet Inferno HD compositor. The purchase comes as demand for high-end commercials work is soaring. The purchase brings its total of Discreet systems to 10, which includes four Infernos, two Fire effects editors, three Combustion desktop compositors and ...

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    Dunton wins award

    2002-11-06T12:04:03Z

    The Moving Image Society recognised innovator Joe Dunton's services to technology development by giving him the technical and scientific achievement award at last week's BKSTS prize-giving ceremony. Dunton was praised for his invention of a product that is an Ikegami HD digital video camera squeezed into the confined space of ...

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    Broadcast competition

    2002-11-06T12:03:32Z

    Broadcast , its monthly supplement B+and Soho Editors are offering three people the chance to win£1,000 worth of professional audio training. Up for grabs are three prizes of three days fully accredited Digidesign pro-tools training with a Soho Editors tutor. ...

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    'Soho-style' facility to drive LPC growth

    2002-10-30T14:00:59Z

    RTL-owned London Playout Centre (LPC) plans to add a 'Soho-style' post-production facility to its Stephen Street base as part of a bid to become a full-service facility house, writes Barbara Marshall

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    Mixdown and Arena unveil new audio suites

    2002-10-30T14:00:08Z

    London-based Arena Digital and Mixdown Audio have both opened new audio suites in the past few weeks, writes Barbara Marshall

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    Face-offs promote Freeview

    2002-10-30T13:59:25Z

    Artem and Clear Post-Production are behind the effects for the commercial launching the BBC's digital service Freeview, writes Barbara Marshall

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    QVC sells Christmas

    2002-10-30T13:56:16Z

    Christmas is coming early to QVC which launches its seasonal look this weekend. Produced and directed by Chris Clarkson, the idents feature a range of costumes designed by Marlin Persson, with make-up by Andrew Savage. The images were shot in-house and composited and finished in Flint and Editbox. The QVC ...

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    Presteigne buys kit

    2002-10-30T13:54:38Z

    Presteigne Broadcast Hire has bought two wireless camera systems from Link Research making it the first hire company to offer the system. The LinkXP system won the IABM Peter Wayne award for design and innovation at this year's International Broadcast Convention and is also up for an RTS Technical Innovation ...

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    King-Britton goes S&M

    2002-10-30T13:53:05Z

    Visual effects firm Smoke & Mirrors has appointed Rebekah King-Britton to jointly head its 3D department in a bid to attract more broadcast work. King-Britton's recent credits include channel idents and launches for Channel 4 and Paramount Channel. She started her career at Electric Image and then moved to Drum, ...

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    Pace in Irish NTL deal

    2002-10-30T13:52:07Z

    Pace Micro Technology has signed a new supply contract with NTL Ireland, Ireland's largest multichannel TV operator. The contract will see Pace supply NTL Ireland with its Di300 set-top box for the next two years

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    Sony profits improve

    2002-10-30T13:50:37Z

    Sony Corporation has improved its year-on-year financial position in its second quarter despite relatively flat sales of Yen 1,789.7bn (£9.3bn). The electronics giant managed to convert a net loss of Yen 13.2bn (£70m) in the quarter ended 30 September 2001 into a net profit of Yen 44.1bn (£230m) in the ...

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    Imagina scheduled

    2002-10-30T13:48:00Z

    Imagina, the international festival for digital images, will be held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco from 3 to 6 February next year. The event, now in its 21st year, combines a conference programme with awards and an exhibition covering 3D, virtual reality and animation. It will also feature for ...

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    Discreet rejig sees 37 jobs go

    2002-10-23T12:59:55Z

    Discreet is to centralise its European systems business in London with the loss of around 37 jobs, writes Barbara Marshall

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    XTV joins forces with 601

    2002-10-23T12:59:22Z

    Broadcast design firm XTV is joining Soho 601 and will be known as XTV at 601, writes Barbara Marshall

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    MPC shakes and stirs bond film

    2002-10-23T12:58:48Z

    Moving Picture Company (MPC) is behind the visual effects for some key sequences in the latest Bond film from Eon Productions, Die Another Day. The plot begins in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea and continues via Hong Kong to Cuba, London and ...

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    Pinewood-Shepperton set to broadcast over IP

    2002-10-23T12:57:22Z

    Pinewood-Shepperton's networking subsidiary Studiolink claims it is now ready to start real-time broadcasting over its IP fibre network, writes Barbara Marshall

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    Clear effects boost latest Boyle project

    2002-10-23T12:56:27Z

    Clear Post-Production is expanding its 3D department and has completed the visual effects for its second feature film, 28 Days Later, writes Barbara Marshall

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    Free plug-in for Maya clients

    2002-10-23T12:55:51Z

    Alias Wavefront has surprised the industry again by giving away the Mental Ray for Maya plug-in for free, writes Barbara Marshall

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    Hauppage adaptor

    2002-10-23T12:54:12Z

    Consumer electronics group Hauppage is launching a digital terrestrial television adapter that plugs into either the TV or the PC. Priced at£129, the adapter will compete with Pace's box but will also plug into a PC's USB port to enable viewers to watch and record DTT channels via the PC