All Technology articles – Page 574
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NewsVTR Group moves to dismantle TMR
The VTR Group is dismantling its loss-making archive and restoration subsidiary TMR, which includes closing its two Soho offices and making redundancies.
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Hit meets demand
Kids TV production company and rights owner Hit Entertainment has installed universal encoding platform ContentAgent-XR from Root6. The new kit will be used to help generate and distribute material for client and sales presentations more quickly. The purchase comes in response to an increased demand for encoded clips on DVD.
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The Convent completed by Envy
Envy has completed the post for Tiger Aspect's The Convent. Produced and directed by Sandi Scott and Rebecca Ciallella, the 4 x 60-minute series follows four women who leave everything behind to live for 40 days with a community of nuns at Arundel in Sussex ...
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A Productions trails CBBC site
Bristol-based A Productions has just completed CBBC's World Cup website promo. The trailer was turned around in just over a week. It shows a football literally bursting with features from the CBBC website. A Productions' Duncan Fraser and Paul Hill animated using 3DS Max and After Effects for the light ...
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Broadcast Live
IPTV platform GDBTVT will be transmitting live footage over broadband from next week's Broadcast Live show in Earls Court 2 to 76 countries worldwide. A local TV studio will be built within the show, and will be transmitted live with a mixture of interviews and technical demonstrations. The live delivery ...
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Rushes scores with BBC titles
Rushes post production has completed the post for the BBC's World Cup title sequence from Red Bee Media. The titles feature football stars including Steven Gerrard being teleported into iconic Berlin locations and showcasing their ball skills. Rushes head colourist Adrian Seery started the full grade of the background plates ...
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Avid wins contract to kit out BBC Pacific Quay
Avid has clinched a deal with Siemens Business Services worth an estimated£4m to kit out BBC Scotland's forthcoming Pacific Quay headquarters .
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Ascent goes to MK
Ascent Media Management Services is spending around£500,000 on a purpose-built facility in Milton Keynes specialising in archive storage for film, tape and file-based formats. Clients will be able to allocate their stored content between Ascent's Drummond Street facility and the Milton Keynes site, while Drummond Street will focus exclusively on ...
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Location Guide 2007
The Location Guide, aimed at producers and production companies involved in location and studio shoots, has launched its 2007 edition with several new features. It now includes co-production treaties in all the countries in the manual, information on tax incentives, a global location report on location filming worldwide, climate chart ...
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Gaming group pays£20m for Red Vision
Bafta-winning visual effects outfit Red Vision has been snapped up by Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) for up to£20m.
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NewsBBC plans commercial downloads service
The BBC will launch a commercial version of its online catch-up service, the iPlayer, whether or not the free offering is approved by the board of governors.
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NewsTinopolis sells Hawk-Eye
Tinopolis, the Welsh production company which bought Television Corporation, has sold its famous Hawk-Eye technology business to cricket publishers Wisden for£4.4m.
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NewsNTL launches World Cup webcast
NTL has launched a weekly World Cup webcast hosted by Harry Harris of The Daily Express.
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Rainbow upgrade
Rainbow Post has doubled its surround sound facilities with the upgrade of its Studio 2 to 5.1 surround sound with Dolby E.
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Spencer moves on
The Edit Store Group has nabbed De Lane Lea Sound Studios' dubbing mixer Jez Spencer.
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Jump kicks off Jetix kids' slot
Jump has created the opening ident for Jetix kids channel's breakfast slot.
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Everett to set Pinewood's post-production strategy
The co-producer of award-winning series Band of Brothersand former managing director of St Anne's Post, Bruce Everett, has joined Pinewood Shepperton Studios as strategy director for post-production.
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EC inquiry could see camera prices rise
Thomson Grass Valley has filed a complaint with the European Commission over the 'dumping' of Japanese-made professional cameras on the European market which, if accepted, could lead the price of cheap three-chip cameras to rocket.