All Technology articles – Page 514

  • News

    New senior positions at Pepper Post

    2008-09-25T14:59:31Z

    The new owners of Pepper Post have added two directors to the company's board and appointed two new members of staff.

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    News

    Envy delays offline plans for expansion

    2008-09-25T14:55:20Z

    Envy has ditched plans to open a new offline facility in Great Portland Street next month and will instead launch a larger one on Foley Street in January.

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    Features

    Production: Outside broadcast

    2008-09-25T07:10:21Z

    Truck building is an area of outside broadcast technology that is booming, especially as demand for HD services increases. As Nicola Brittain discovers, the complexities involved are leading to greater use of systems integrators.

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    Features

    Megahertz's OB3 for SIS LIVE

    2008-09-25T07:04:36Z

    OBs looking for a particular design rather than a truck stuffed with “best of breed” technology often look to Megahertz - a company with a reputation for meeting customers' specific requirements.

  • Features

    Gearhouse HD timeline

    2008-09-25T06:58:38Z

    Gearhouse Broadcast, in common with Sony Professional Services and Thomson, are positioned to provide big, multi-purpose trucks.

  • Autopilot
    News

    First Cuts software puts editing on ‘auto pilot'

    2008-09-24T14:30:58Z

    A new sub-£200 piece of software that generates a first edit of a documentary by itself is set to divide the editing community.

  • News

    Thomson launches slo-mo system

    2008-09-24T14:25:43Z

    Thomson will hope to put a dent in EVS's dominance of the outside broadcast slow-motion market when it releases a new instant replay controller and media server later this year.

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    News

    Watson becomes transmission adjudicator

    2008-09-24T14:20:34Z

    Ofcom has appointed former NTL broadcast managing director Alan Watson as the official adjudicator for broadcast transmission services in the UK.

  • Autopilot
    Comment

    Should we let the software do the first edit?

    2008-09-24T08:00:08Z

    A new piece of software that works with FCP has the potential to save an editor time - and act as inspiration - by doing the first rough cut by itself. But does this ‘artificial intelligence' take away the craft of the editor, wonders Will Strauss.

  • ITN Source
    News

    Root6 sells ContentAgent to ITN

    2008-09-23T19:52:07Z

    ITN will use Root6's re-purposing platform ContentAgent to help with the transcoding and digitising of its archive.

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    News

    2nd Sense picks up Euphonix console

    2008-09-23T19:48:00Z

    Euphonix has secured the first UK sale for its S5 Fusion digital mixing audio system.

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    News

    SIS Live continues fleet modernisation

    2008-09-23T19:45:16Z

    SIS Live, the broadcast division formed by the merger of BBC Outside Broadcasts and SIS Link, has completed its most advanced HD vehicle to date as part of a modernisation of its fleet.

  • Codex Cbeebies
    News

    Case study: Grandpa in my pocket

    2008-09-23T19:42:19Z

    How a Codex-based tapeless workflow helped the production team on a Cbeebies show to make rapid visual effects decisions while on-set.

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    News

    IBC round-up: Monitors and displays

    2008-09-23T19:00:28Z

    New monitors and displays launched and demonstrated at IBC from Sony, JVC, Barco, Philips, Ikegami and Vutrix.

  • Alchemist PhC
    News

    Clear Cut picks up Alchemist

    2008-09-23T16:47:35Z

    Clear Cut Pictures has taken delivery of a new Alchemist Ph.C-HD motion compensated standards converter from Snell and Wilcox.

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    News

    Sony takes lead role in new BSkyB centre

    2008-09-19T11:57:39Z

    BSkyB is building a new broadcasting facility with a£77m technology fit-out and has named Sony as the lead systems integrator on the project.

  • Acquisition
    News

    Broadcast tech market set for 2009 slowdown

    2008-09-19T11:51:26Z

    The broadcast technology manufacturing market will see single-digit growth through 2009 and 2010, according to the International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers'(IABM) latest Global Market Study.

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    News

    Thomson sells film transfer business

    2008-09-19T11:48:33Z

    Thomson is selling its Thomson Grass Valley digital film transfer equipment business to private investors led by Parter Capital Group, a German private equity advisory firm.

  • Features

    Creative Review - No Heroics

    2008-09-18T12:50:38Z

    Visual effects, completed by Finish, for a new sitcom about four off-duty superheroes.

  • Tess
    Features

    Creative Review - Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    2008-09-18T12:46:35Z

    Visual effects for a four-part drama serial based on the novel by Thomas Hardy.