All Technology articles – Page 574
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NewsGolden Square move
Soho facility Golden Square is expanding and relocating its 3D and design department with the whole 10-strong team moving to 4 Golden Square. The new building will also house the recently launched Disqo, a Golden Square company set up to offer creative and production expertise in the digital arena. Disqo ...
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NewsGaming 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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NewsLocation 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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NewsAscent 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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NewsAvid 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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NewsRushes 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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NewsBroadcast 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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NewsA 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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NewsThe 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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NewsHit 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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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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NewsEvolutions poaches
Evolutions has poached The Facility's facilities director, Tracy Thomas, as business development manager. Thomas had also overseen sales and marketing with clients such as North One Television, Al-Jazeera, Endemol and RDF. She will join the business development team working across both Evolutions and Nats.
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NewsHD Smoke for Jelly
Bristol-based post facility Jelly Television has invested in a Smoke HD editing and finishing system running on Linux, in addition to upgrading its existing Smoke system to version 7. The newly installed system will be used to create the graphics for the second series of BBC's ...
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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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News10 rules for digital TV production
How do multichannel producers make quality shows cheaply and quickly
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NewsStrongroom and Air become Breathe
Shoreditch-based facility Strongroom Post and Hampstead-based Air Studios are to rebrand as Breathe Post Production. The move follows Strongroom owner and director Richard Boote's multimillion pound acquisition of Air in February this year.
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NewsMTV to air Beautiful games
Beautiful TV has created the graphics for four themed programming blocks and channel bumpers on MTV Hits and VH1 to tie in with the World Cup.


















