All Technology articles – Page 617
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Uncle to set up Endemol facility
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
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
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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NewsBrits hog Wildscreen nominations
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.
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BBC Broadcast on top at Promax Awards
BBC Broadcast dominated the international categories at last week's Promax Awards in New York and Broadcast Young Talent Award winner Richard Acton was recognised as an exciting new talent for the second time in as many months, writes Rick Dacey.
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Lola buys in HD kit for BBC doc
Special effects company Lola has spent over£200,000 on new kit to cater for the HD needs of BBC documentary Supervolcano, following in the footsteps of its previous success with Pompeii.
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Bow Tie recruits
Outside broadcasting company Bow Tie Television has appointed Duncan Smith - formerly facility director for Nats - as sales and marketing director. Tom Nash joins as head of sound from Visions.
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PSB channel launch
Ascent Media Network Services Europe has helped launch Information TV, a free-to-air TV channel that is touting itself as 'a new approach to public service broadcasting'. The channel carries programmes from government departments, public bodies and other public service institutions. It aims to provide UK citizens with access to valuable ...
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Moving Picture company likely to be sold
ITV is to dispose of a large number of its non-core assets in a bid to make further savings from its merger process. Post-production house The Moving Picture Company, which provided effects for the recent Troy blockbuster, is close to being sold off. The company ...
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Red Vision puts the epic into TV
Red vision has brought Lord of the Rings-style battles to the small screen with the BBC's upcoming Battlefield Britain and intends to license the groundbreaking software that made it possible across the industry.
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Machine room hires
The Machine Room has expanded its DVD operations, which now account for over 25% of its annual turnover, with the addition of five staff. Vicki Angus, former new media producer at Stream, joins alongside Kat Evans, who brings music and feature experience from Abbey Road and Technicolor. Paul Mills has ...
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Morris lobbied
Minister for the arts Estelle Morris was last week urged to address training issues in the£1.4bn post-production industry to ensure that the UK maintains its position as a world leader. Colin Brown, head of Cinesite, said that Morris was fascinated by the way that training works in the industry during ...
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new tv sms system
The new sendto:Air picture messaging system from broadcast computer system specialist Cat and Mouse will be unveiled this Saturday on BBC1's new primetime show Johnny & Denise - Passport to Paradise. The system downloads picture and text messages from mobile phone networks and allows producers to quickly view and approve ...
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Skillset av survey
Skillset will next week undertake its annual census of the audio-visual industries. Company chief executives and human resources manager will have the forms on Wednesday 30 June. Forms can also be downloaded from www.skillset.org/census.
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More help for blind
The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are to join Five in providing audio description on services broadcast by satellite. This will make audio description available to several million additional households, in addition to those households with suitable digital terrestrial receivers. Ofcom had proposed in a draft code - to be ...
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Kit upgrade boosts Oasis expansion plan
Oasis is continuing its strategy of diversifying into arts, drama and long-form with a kit investment of£250,000, supported by recent commissions for the BBC and ITV, writes Rick Dacey.
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Red trio win claim
An industrial tribunal has found Red Post Production guilty of unfair dismissal in the case of three senior creatives with a combined total of 17 years' service. DS operator Alex Pickering, Flame operator Paul Dixon and Fire operator Dave Kiddie were among 12 redundancies that were made last October. ...
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Rowland takes helm at Red Fig
Mark Rowland, the former managing director of Television Corporation International, has joined I'm a Celebrity's interactive service provider Red Fig to spearhead a strategy of global expansion.
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VTR role for fish
Richard Fish has joined VTR plc's The Machine Room from Ascent Media to head business development for its restoration, film mastering, high-definition and duplication businesses. Fish spent two years at Ascent Media securing archive, telecine, HD and feature film work across the group and was previously at BBC Worldwide. The ...
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G-Pixx flies high
In its first month of operation TV helicopter G-Pixx has answered BBC news calls for the Heathrow heist, the Momart warehouse fire and Abu Hamza's transfer to Belmarsh, as well as a number of sports-related commissions. Owned by former TV and radio presenter Mike Smith, G-Pixx aims to become ...