All Technology articles – Page 616

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    Strike threat to BBC sports coverage

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    A walkout by BBC Technology staff could hit coverage of sports events such as Grand Prix Athletics from Crystal Palace after Bectu members opted to strike on a Friday and Saturday.

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    Iraq buys gee kit

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Gee Broadcast Systems is supplying its Geevs broadcast video server to Iraqi broadcaster KTV. The station is investing heavily to upgrade its facilities to modern global standards. The station is expanding its studios and broadcast facilities and is investing heavily in new equipment. The KTV system will have two channels ...

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    Canon's new camera

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Canon has unveiled its new broadcast quality, interchangeable lens digital video camcorder - the XL2. 'With more than double the resolution of the XL1s, the XL2 sets the new broadcast-quality mini-DV recording standard,' said Malcolm Hills, head of Canon consumer imaging, UK and Ireland. 'Canon expects this digital video camcorder ...

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    Jump rebrands news channel

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Jump has rebranded Indian news channel Aaj Tak, incorporating new technology to allow headlines to be embedded in the idents as news breaks. Jump was responsible for the idents, titles and interstitials and its design team was led by Russell Mann. The majority of footage was shot in Mumbai and ...

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    ITV hands UK's largest uplink contract to SISLink

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    SISLink, Europe's largest independent uplink services provider, has won the five-year contract to supply ITV with uplinks for its entire regional news network.

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    Function does Downloaded look

    2004-07-15T08:30:00Z

    Function Design has designed titles and in-show graphics for One More Production's Downloaded. The programme showcases footage of the weird and wonderful from the near limitless library of the internet. Function Design's Tobin Goffe was creative director on the project and Oasis head of ...

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    BBC Technology faces strike action

    2004-07-12T09:26:31Z

    Union members at BBC Technology are set to strike over plans by the corporation to sell the division to German electronics group Siemens.

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    422 South titles BBC fame show

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    422 South has created the title sequence for BBC1 reality series When Will I be Famous?The 6 x 30-minute documentary series follows students as they tread the boards at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. Designer Mike Alderson gave the titles a ...

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    AHC and X-Ray merge to meet HD demand

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Ahc Post and X-Ray FX have merged to create a£1m-a-year high-definition boutique in Soho.

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    Mill TV creates ancient Olympics

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Mill TV has provided CG images for

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    UK arm for LA firm

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Pacific Television Center, a Los Angeles-based independent transmission and production facility, is opening a digital insert studio and master control room in London. Pacific Television Center will use the facility to produce and transmit broadcast content for TV networks, cable channels, film studios and publicity companies. New connectivity at the ...

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    Siemens is chosen for bbc Technology

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Siemens has been selected as the preferred single bidder for BBC Technology. The bid, which has not been disclosed, must now be approved by the BBC governors, the secretary of state for media Tessa Jowell and the EU Competition Commission. If it is passed Siemens will take a 10-year contract ...

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    Riverside role for Editworks' boss Boyers

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Editworks managing director Jim Boyers has resigned and is taking control of Riverside TV Studios.

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    Jump creates Sport Relief look

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Jump has designed and produced graphics for the BBC's live charity event Sport Relief. Title sequences and graphics for the charity telethon were based upon the concept of a video wall. The 16 x 8 grid allowed Jump to avoid TV design conventions and borrow ...

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    Thomson fifa deal

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Thomson has been selected by Swiss-based HBS (Host Broadcast Services), host broadcaster of the 2006 Fifa World Cup, to provide HDTV OB vans for its coverage of

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    New Design Outfit

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Three former senior designers from Carlton this week set up a graphics design company, Bottletop. Dave Beeson, John Hunt and Anne Whitley decided to form the business to capitalise on the vacuum that would be left with the closure of the Nottingham studios. Bottletop is due to move into the ...

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    Uncle to set up Endemol facility

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    The Farm Group subsidiary Uncle has won the contract to build a dedicated post facility for Big Brotherproducer Endemol in Bristol.

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    Lambie-nairn rival

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Former Lambie-Nairn managing director Sharon Wheeler has set up a new company, Turquoise, in Covent Garden in direct competition with her former employer. Wheeler, who left Lambie-Nairn in June last year, said: 'I didn't intend to set up Turquoise when I left - it grew organically.' Twelve months after leaving ...

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    nvidia launch

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    New PC video technology to be released later this year from Nvidia is expected to provide a major boost to live-performance animation characters. As PC manufacturers switch from AGP-based video boards to the higher bandwidth PCI Express, real-time render rates will leap forward. The boost comes from specially built motherboards ...

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    Brits hog Wildscreen nominations

    2004-07-05T11:37:52Z

    British filmmakers that use techniques such as CGI and special effects to enhance their wildlife programmes are prominent in the shortlist for this year's Wildscreen Natural History awards.