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S&T offers HbbTV
Thanks to a licensing agreement with Access Systems Europe, Strategy & Technology can now offer a complete HbbTV solution suitable for integration with any...
Survey reveals telco bandwidth demand
A recent survey by video transport solutions provider Nevion has found that content owners, and in particular, broadcasters, are keen to use communications...
Gekko in IABM frame
The first of the candidates for this year’s IABM Design Awards has broken cover, with Gekko Technology announcing that its ‘kleer colour’ colour-tunable LED...
Grass Valley ships ADVCmini
Grass Valley’s ADVCmini hardware and software conversion product for the Mac platform is now shipping. The unit allows consumers and prosumers to easily and...
dB Broadcast to build Sky’s Broadcast Centre
System integrator dB Broadcast has won a major contract from BSkyB to build the broadcast centre technical facilities within Sky’s new production and...
SIS first in at MediaCityUK
Satellite Information Services (SIS) has announced plans to relocate its London operation to MediaCityUK, making it the first commercial tenant to sign up for...
3D Masters wrap up – pioneering 3DTV production
Arguably the current wave of 3D TV production would not have got off the ground had Steve Schklair, along with Vince Pace, not pioneered...
Movietech buys five Alexas
Rental firm Movietech today announced plans to further upscale its high end camera portfolio with the addition of five Arri Alexa cameras, financed through...
3D Masters wrap up – market drivers for 3D
Charlotte Jones, Senior Analyst, Cinema at consultancy Screen Digest, began her presentation at 3D Masters 2010 by acknowledging 3D cinema as a major driver...
S3D and SGO form partnership
S3D Technologies, a US-based stereoscopic 3D R&D specialist, has struck up a strategic partnership with Mistika developer, SGO.
Huge expansion for Cinesite
On the back of snagging a “significant volume” of stereoscopic vfx work on the next in the Pirates of The Caribbean series, Cinesite is...
ENPS releases Tablet Story Viewer
"Throw away the paper, leave the laptop in the newsroom!" says a rather breathless ENPS, which has developed tech to allow presenters and field...
3D Masters wrap up – Sky 3D: Year One
There’s no-one more suitable or capable to keynote the inaugural 3D Masters event than Chris Johns, chief engineer at BSkyB and the architect of...
Harris taps Means for new unit
Harris has named Doug Means vice president and general manager of the new Workflow, Infrastructure and Networking (WIN) unit of its Broadcast Communications...
MHz to supply RaceTech’s HD generation
Racecourse Technical Services has ordered three new HD OB vehicles to provide the production facilities for Racing UK Ltd as C4 moves to HD...
Avid unveils ISIS 5000
Avid has unveiled the Avid ISIS 5000 – billed as a new, lower cost, easy-to-use, realtime, open shared storage solution aimed at local and...
Ross Video to acquire Codan Broadcast
In the run-up to IBC, it seems like its acquisition and merger time as ever. Ross Video and Codan have announced that Ross has...
Equity fund to harvest Grass Valley
Francisco Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, has made a binding offer to Technicolor to acquire Grass Valley, writes David Fox.
Pace proposes 2Wire acquisition
Pace plans to widen its reach into the US telco market through the proposed acquisition of 2Wire for £308m. Pace intends to finance...
Enigma to support 3D logging
Mediaproxy has unveiled full support for 3D broadcasts in its flagship Enigma LogServer system.
Polecam announces compact lens
From TVBE's Acquisition Newsletter: The jib maker Polecam has announced the first in a range of ultra-compact lenses designed for use with miniature 3CCD...
Latens expands in South America
Argentina’s Viditec S.A has signed a partnership agreement agreement with Latens that will see it represent Latens Systems software CAS for all networks and...
People on the move – July 2010
All this month's new hirings, from Camera Corps to Ross Video.
Foundry and Disney agree on 3D paint
With the SIGGRAPH 2010 releases starting to come think and fast, The Foundry has entered into a unique relationship with Walt Disney Animation Studios...
Anger over latest PMSE plans
From TVBE's Audio For Broadcast Newsletter: The already tortuous process of preparing for the reallocation of spectrum caused by the Digital Television Switchover in...
Sony offers HD DSLR Handycam
From TVBE's Acquisition Newsletter: Sony has announced the Handycam NEX-VG10E, the world’s first consumer HD camcorder with interchangeable lenses. It also ships with a...
The Pixel Farm adopts new approach to tracking
The Pixel Farm will unveil what it is touting as a groundbreaking advance in tracking software for digital visual effects at SIGGRAPH 2010 built...
Sports & IT Workflow 2010 events planned
Preparation is underway for TVBEurope’s conference ‘autumn schedule’; Sports Broadcast Europe on October 27 and The IT Broadcast Workflow on November 30, writes Fergal...
Autocue moves into monitors and servers
The prompter and newsroom specialist, Autocue is launching its first broadcast monitors and video servers at IBC2010, writes David Fox.
Phoenix resurrects ageing robotics
Shotoku Broadcast Systems has announced a new Ethernet control system that can be added to ageing third-party remote camera systems, as well as controller...
Bridge partners with Sencore
Bridge Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with Sencore that will see the former’s VideoBRIDGE line of video analysis, measurement, and monitoring tools made...
Correction brings new Resolve
Considering that a system with the same power would have cost at least $200,000 until recently, Blackmagic Design's unveiling of a Mac OSX version...
3D Masters in video – part II
Here, David & Christina Fox at UrbanFox.tv talk to a wide range of exhibitors at the conference about some of the problems with stereo...
3D Masters in video – part I
David & Christina Fox at UrbanFox.tv were at the recent 3D Masters 2010 conference and shot some fascinating video interviews with the great and...
IPV expands with Soft4TV
IPV is to team up with the newly-formed Soft4TV, an international IT technology company, which will now represent its business in France.
Acquisition and Audio for Broadcast in focus
The TVBEurope team has recently launched two specialist fortnightly enewsletters, for the camera/acquisition and pro-audio communities, writes Fergal Ringrose.
NOA launches new version of Record
Until now, the NOA Record system has performed digitisation of any combination of analogue sources in multiples of three parallel ingest streams, but now...
Dalet acquires Gruppo TNT
Dalet Digital Media Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gruppo TNT S.R.L., a privately held Italian company that specialises in advanced broadcast...
Vizrt branches out into web and mobile
Vizrt has released a new software package, Viz Sports Online, that incorporates all the creative tools necessary to get a sports website up and...
Weisscam gets significant revamps
From TVBE's Acquisition Newsletter: The new Weisscam HS-2 MK II high-speed camera now offers improved image quality and is ready for 3D shoots.
Emap takes control of BVE
Emap has acquired Broadcast Video Expo and The Production Show from its joint venture partner, VCM events. Emap had previously owned a 55% share...