Discovery Communications has taken a strong stance against 2D to 3D conversion for programming intended for its 3D channel launching in the US next January, writes Adrian Pennington.
Apple has launched a tiny new Apple TV set-top box targeting TV show rentals, costing just 99c. It will launch with support from ABC, ABC Family, Fox, Disney Channel and BBC America, writes David Fox.
The European Parliament Audiovisual Unit’s Migration move to a unique central digital archive has been shortlisted for the 2010 IBC Innovation Awards – with the winner to be announced in Amsterdam. Here, TVBEurope presents the background to this milestone European content management project.
From The IBC Daily News: Canon has extended its XF range of professional camcorders with two new palm-sized cameras, the XF105 and XF100 – the smallest cameras ever to include broadcast quality MPEG-2 full HD 50Mbps, 4:2:2 recording.
Although just a year into an HD production of the Champions League UEFA is already considering production of some matches in stereoscopic 3D, writes Adrian Pennington.
Civolution has upgraded its Teletrax global broadcast monitoring service to v4.0, and now includes tracking of SD and HD video material as well as capabilities for combined watermarking and fingerprinting broadcast monitoring applications.
The Guild of Television Cameramen will shortly be celebrating this year's best TV camera-work as nominated by those who really know good camera-work when they see it - television cameramen - at an awards ceremony to be held on Tuesday September 28 at London's BFI.
3DTV Opportunity - Will consumers buy into the saturated promotion by broadcasters and consumer electronics manufacturers and switch on to 3DTV? And are all the pieces in place for them to enjoy a superior experience? Adrian Pennington’s BSkyB interview leads off our 3D Production Special.
3D Post Case Study - Digital Vision Chief Operating Officer, Simon Cuff, explains the post
production process behind Europe’s first 3D feature film StreetDance 3D.
