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Ascent offers iTV
Ascent Media Network Services Europe and Chellomedia have paired up to offer interactive TV (iTV) capabilities at Ascent's London-based playout facilities. Interactive content will be encoded for multiple platforms and inserted at the point of playout. The offering is due to kick off in November.
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Broadcast Awards call
Broadcast is searching for the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
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BBC Broadcast unveils rebrand
After months of brainstorming BBC Broadcast has finally come up with a new name and corporate identity: Red Bee Media.
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Flying TV's BBC job
Aerial filming outfit Flying TV has provided all the aerial camera shots for the December launch of the BBC local TV trial in the Midlands using its G-Pixx television helicopter. The helicopter covered 15 locations and 5,000 square miles in a day of shooting using four digital cameras. The local ...
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Pepper completes Bleak House
Pepper has completed the post-production on Smallweed Productions' Bleak House, a 10-part adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel starring Gillian Anderson. Pepper's senior colourist, Chris Beeton, graded the series on the Da Vinci 2K+, while the online and conform was completed by senior editor Shane Warden on DS Nitris. Beeton graded ...
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Pro-Bel buys Vistek
Reading-based Pro-Bel, the manufacturer and supplier of workflow technologies, has acquired Vistek Electronics Limited for£8.45m. Vistek, which designs television signal equipment, is poised to celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. Vistek is expected to boost Pro-Bel's HD output with its HD modular range. It will remain as a product line ...
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Rushes creates Rome effects
Rushes has created the visual effects for BBC/HBO's Rome, an epic 11 x 50-minute drama tracking Caesar's return to his empire. The major VFX task was to reproduce a view from Alexandria across the ancient harbour entirely in 3D. This was supervised by Jim Madigan and Pixar's Renderman software was ...
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Eely to Molinare
Senior online editor Justin Eely is to join Molinare in December after a year-long stint at Pepper.
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Farm makes Perfect Scary Movie
The Farm Group has created the titles and completed the post-production for Visual Voodoo documentary The Perfect Scary Movie. The two-hour special exposes how psychological ploys were used by the world's scariest movies to frighten audiences and examines our deep-rooted fears. The Farm's Barney Jordan designed the titles with director ...
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Free HD training
Soho Editors Training has collaborated with Leitch to run a series of free HD workflow training events across the UK, starting in November. SET will provide technology on the non-linear HD editing system from Leitch Velocity HD. The events are aimed at those in the industry wanting to learn more ...
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Colour me digital: DI unravelled
Digital intermediate (DI) is the new buzzword floating around film-based post houses - but what does it mean for the TV industry? David Wood investigates while Kevin Hilton looks at the new skills the process will require of Soho's online editors and colourists.
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BT aims for VoD football
BT plans to bid for video-on-demand rights to Premiership football for the 2007-2010 seasons for its new TV-over-broadband service.
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NewsBT selects Phillips to make IPTV boxes
11.45am: BT has said it will use electronics company Philips to supply its TV over broadband set top box.
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NewsBBC join with DJs Coldcut to launch contest
8am: A website offering clips from the BBC archive has attracted a quarter of a million visitors since launching last month, and now hip-hop duo DJs Coldcut have created a music video from the footage.
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Endemol to launch mobile channels
Endemol chief creative officer Peter Bazalgette unveiled plans for two mobile phone 'channels' and a new UK production division dedicated to mobile content as he addressed delegates at Mipcom's Mobile Day last week.
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NewsDesperate Housewives picks up Mobile TV Award
10.30am:Desperate Housewives weekly mobile recaps made by Buena Vista International scooped the Orange grand prize for best innovation in mobile content at the inaugural Mobile TV Awards.
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NewsPost house of the year
Broadcast is searching to find the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
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Extreme alliance
Extreme Video has collaborated with unmanned blimp specialist 2PiR to develop 'tele-eye', the world's smallest and lightest remote-controlled HD aerial TV camera system. It was used for the first time this month for Sky TV's coverage of the Horse of the Year Show at Birmingham's NEC.
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BBC factual to phase out DigiBeta cameras
The BBC's plan to cut production costs has gone a step further, with its factual and learning department's proposal to phase out the use of DigiBeta cameras for the department's programmes.
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BBC World on net
BBC World is the latest channel to be made available on IPTV network GreenGrass as part of its beta trial. It will join ITN and motor-sport channel Revs TV in the trial ahead of GreenGrass' full consumer launch in January. The channel will go live and be announced to consumers ...