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UK Post to go on tour of regions
Post-production trade body UK Post is to embark on a nationwide roadshow in order to boost regional membership and address the concerns of regional members.
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MD post for Graves
General manager Rupert Graves has been promoted to managing director of TSI TX. The position has been created for Graves and will see his responsibilities expand as he takes a seat on the TSI TX board of directors, a place that he deserves, according to TSI managing director Simon Peach, ...
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Investment plans
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has bought high-definition equipment to satisfy an upsurge in demand for the format. The recent purchase of four Sony HDC-950C2 high-def cameras and two HDCam recorders brings Presteigne's HD investment to more than£2.2m this year. One of the HD cameras was dry hired by the BBC for ...
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VMI purchase
Soho-based VMI has bought a high-definition DLA-HD2K projector from JVC. The addition of the projector will provide a state-of-the-art HD cinema for clients to view rushes and HD final edits. The HD-2K projector has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 with a total of 6.3 million pixels, and a contrast ...
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NTL and O2 in multichannel phone trial
NTL's broadcast division and O2 have teamed up to produce the UK's first multichannel television to mobile phones trial.
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EBU HD amendment
The director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Phil Laven, has said that EBU's apparent statement of support at IBC for the 720 resolution of HD were not the last words on the subject. The debate was between 720 and 1080 HD resolution.
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Online appointment
Online music research tool Play has hired Simon James as its new director of operations and development. James leaves BMGZomba Production Music where he was director of marketing. Play launched in April 2002 and has 20,000 subscribers worldwide.
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Lip Sync maps out Kids Awards
Lip Sync post has provided the branding and animated graphics for Walt Disney Productions Disney Channel Kids Awards 2004. An animated pirate's treasure map was created, with the camera zooming in on a different area for each award. The design, map, visual effects and final compositing was done by senior ...
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BBC Broadcast lands Five subtitling and signing deal
BBC Broadcast has won a four-and-a-half year contract with Five to provide audio description and sign language services as it looks to capitalise on an Ofcom ruling in July.
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Todd-AO posts Winstone drama
Todd-AO Creative Services has completed post-production on She's Gone for ITV1. The 120-minute drama, which was shot on 16mm, follows Ray Winstone's character as he searches for his missing daughter in Istanbul. Film editor John Stottart oversaw the editing process. The online and confirm were ...
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Sky fits out news ops with Sony kit
Sky News is kitting out five more of its major news bureaux with Sony tapeless camera technology, it was announced at IBC this week.
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Thomson man goes
Manufacturer Thomson Grass Valley's UK managing director and sales director, David Philips, has left the company suddenly and is now on gardening leave. Jan Looijmans, sales director for the Benelux region, has stepped in to assume the role of sales director, northern Europe and Benelux. Thomson Grass Valley global communications ...
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LPC loses its MD
Managing director Maurizio Cimelli has left London Playout Centre (LPC) after 11 years at the facility - three of which as managing director. Bob Gentry, the director of network services, will fill the slot for the immediate future. Cimelli started at LPC as finance controller when it was owned by ...
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Jump in Millionaire makeover
Jump has completed a redesign of the titles and graphics for Celador's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Franchise holders in more than 90 countries will pick up the new design. Jump's senior designers, Russell Hilliard and Russell Mann, designed the sequence, while the 3D ...
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UP Satellite in UK
Ascent Media Group chief executive Ken Williams has predicted that there will be an upsurge in commercials finished in digital intermediate and even more growth in feature films. As a result, Ascent plans to put forward UP Satellite in the UK, a service currently available at Ascent companies in the ...
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ITV1 drama belongs to Pepper
Pepper has completed all picture post-production work on ITV's forthcoming drama Belonging. The drama features Brenda Blethyn as a woman whose husband leaves her for another woman and is left in charge of his elderly relatives. The drama was shot on 16mm film and ...
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Golden sq 3D move
Soho-based Golden Square Post Production has appointed senior 3D animator Sean Elliott to head its expanding 3D department. Elliott moves to Golden Square after nearly five years at Glassworks. Elliott has worked on a number of high-profile commercial projects, including jobs for Aero, Churchill, Ford and the latest Keane promo ...
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Liquid marks 40 years of Horizon
Liquid TV has created the titles for the new series of Horizon. Celebrating its 40-year history, the sequence attempts to create a sense of journey and discovery by showing images of the natural world; dramatic balls of fire, fisheye landscapes and billowing clouds. The ...
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ABS ups capacity
Advanced Broadcast Services (ABS) has increased its broadcast capacity by 15 channels with the opening of Unit 15, its state-of-the-art playout pod. ABS has set up terminals via internet links to
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Editor joins Pepper
Covent Garden facility Pepper has appointed Justin Eely from Oasis Television as a senior editor and Marco Fabbri from Avid Technology as a junior editor and DS specialist. Eely has worked on projects such as Sex Traffic, Foyle's War I, II and III and State of Play during his 15-year ...