All Technology articles – Page 576
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NewsBringing the World Cup back home
Production teams have already been working for months on the forthcoming World Cup coverage
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NewsMost OAPs have problems with digital TV equipment, study finds
Almost three quarters of pensioners and people with significant disabilities will need substantial help switching to digital television, according to the results of a nine-month trial.
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Rights tracked
Rights Tracker - which manufactures an IP-based rights-tracking system, has been appointed by UK independent producer/distributor Bullseye Television to provide a range of its rights-tracking software. They include modules such as programme maintenance, screener requesting and a bespoke 'clip module' designed to commercially manage Bullseye's library of clips.
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The Mill upgrades
Visual effects facility The Mill has upgraded its 17 Flame systems to Flame 9.5 and its five Smoke systems to Smoke 7. The company has also added a new Flame running on Linux as well as upgrading its Autodesk Backdraft media management and I/O software.
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Mr & Mrs Smith serves up lips
Mr & Mrs Smith has designed the graphics and titles for Tiger Productions' Lip Service. The 8 x 30 minute comedy review features clips from chat shows all over the world. The titles aim to introduce the two presenters in a fun and creative way. ...
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Skaramoosh staff face uncertain future
Design and animation outfit Skaramoosh has put seven of its 29 staff on provisional redundancy after disappointing profit margins, according to its managing director Daniel Slight.
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Evolutions hires
Soho facility Evolutions has recruited TSI's editor and colourist of 12 years, Dicky Everton. Everton has worked on the BBC's Child of Our Time, A Bear's Talefor Bellyache and Supernannyfor Ricochet.
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FX idents play with boys' toys
BDA has created the channel branding, idents, bumpers and stings for the FX channel. The new FX graphics were designed to refer to icons from men's lives from adolescence to adulthood. The graphics show beams from the FX logo distorted by the objects they pass over. BDA 3D animator Dominic ...
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Sky box delay
Sky customers who pre-ordered the broadcaster's high-definition television (HDTV) service have been told they may not receive it in time for the start of the football World Cup. Sky has delayed the installation of HDTV in up to 17,000 homes, after the company's set-top box supplier, French electronics company Thomson, ...
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Blue recruit
Post house Blue has appointed dubbing mixer Phitz Hearne to join its 14-strong audio department. Hearne joins the team from The Sound Store, where he worked for a year on programmes including the BBC's Panoramaand Darlow Smithson's Tsunami. Hearne will ...
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Blue skies unit to imagine the future for ITV
ITV is to tackle concerns that it lacks long-term vision by setting up a new research and development 'blue skies' unit aimed at producing innovation across the entire business, including developing new programme ideas.
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BBC DEC draws up supplier shortlist
The BBC's drama, entertainment and children's departments (DEC) have nominated 31 UK post-production houses, including west London-based Clear Cut Pictures, Noho facility Suite and Manchester's Sumners as preferred suppliers for its post-production services.
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Three wins for Bleak House at Bafta Craft
BBC1 drama Bleak House triumphed at this year's Bafta Craft Awards, scooping three awards.
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First audio awards
Facilities body UK Post has launched The Conch Sound Awards, created to recognise the audio talent of facilities, sound editors and dubbing mixers in audio post production of television, film and commercials. The awards claim they are the first dedicated event celebrating the British audio industry's achievements in film and ...
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BBC selects Arqiva
The BBC has appointed broadcast specialist Arqiva to manage its new digital transmission services in a deal reported to be worth£1bn. The contract is for the design, deployment and operation of the new high-powered digital terrestrial television (DTT) network for the BBC, which comes into service as part of the ...
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Component animates Big Ron
Component Graphics has completed the titles and content graphics for North One Television's Big Ron Manager. The 6 x 60-minute show, series produced by Dave Lewis, follows ex-football manager and TV pundit Ron Atkinson's work as a consultant to Peterborough United Football Club. Component designers ...
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Picking up the tools of the trade
Graduate trainees talk about their experiences on production courses
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News24 goes interactive on Sky
Sky One is using interactivity to limit the potential ratings damage to its key Sunday night drama 24during the World Cup next month by introducing an option allowing viewers to use the red button to choose their own start time for the show.
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NewsBBC pushes for change to catch-up window
The BBC's director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield has said the corporation is pressing ahead with attempts to change the terms of its seven-day catch-up window, as negotiations over new media rights near a conclusion.
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News17,000 Sky homes face HDTV delay
Sky has delayed the installation of high-definition television (HDTV) in 17,000 homes, after the company's supplier failed to deliver enough set-top boxes.