All Technology articles – Page 584
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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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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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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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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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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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UK firm develops artificial presenter
Advanced media development company Televirtual has claimed it has built TV's first synthetic broadcaster, METman, an authentically voiced artificial speech engine.
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Angel buys Neve
Angel Studios - built and owned by music library specialist De Wolfe Music - has undergone recent refurbishments installing AMS Neve consoles in two studios and a Euphonix digital console. Recent work at Angel includes recording the score for the BBC's new adaptation of Bleak House.
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C4 showcases winning short films online
The Channel 4 Ideas Factory film and video initiative New Shoots is to showcase its winners' work online on 1 November.
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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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Promax shortlist
Promax has announced the nominations for this year's Promax UK Awards. Channel 4's Jamie's School Dinners promo has been nominated in five categories, including best launch and best television campaign. BBC Broadcast, Five, ITV and BSkyB are also among the nominations alongside independent design agencies Angelfish, Devilfish and Skin. The ...
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VooDooDog talks popcorn for Sky
Sky Creative Agency and animators VooDooDog have created a series of trailers for the Sky Movies channels, featuring talking popcorn. Viewers were recorded talking about their favourite films and the voices were then edited to three 30-second spots and adapted to the popcorn, which VooDooDog's Charlie Lovett animated on Maya ...
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Technicolor move
Technicolor Creative Services is injecting£500,000 into the expansion of its DVD facility in west London. The facility has opened up 32 new positions within its DVD and UMD compression and authoring arm, boosting the number of staff to more than 70. The expansion includes three Sony UMD authoring stations and ...
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Whitfield St kit sale
Whitfield Street Studios' recording and post-production equipment will go under the hammer in a webcast auction on 15 November, following its closure last month (Broadcast, 26.9.05). Auctioneers firm Edward Symmons is hoping to shift equipment including an SSL 9000J series 72-channel mixing console and a comprehensive range of outboard equipment. ...