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Conversion Opinion - Kai Van Beers, senior colourist and part of the London stereo 3D implementation team at Prime Focus, comments on the benefits...

3D R&D Opinion - The BBC is addressing the challenge of developing production tools that allow 3D productions on television budgets, explains Dr Oliver...

Mobile 3D OB - Routing specialist Axon helps Belgium’s Outside Broadcast adapt to live 3D broadcast productions, reports Neal Romanek.

3D Editing Opinion - By Michael Phillips, post solutions manager, Avid Technology.

New hires this month from Arqiva to ViewCast, by Melanie Dayasena-Lowe.

By Don Ash, sales director, PlayBox Technology.

Channel-in-a-box has become a popular Holy Grail solution, but real-world implementation is more difficult than what the channel-in-a-box marketing mythologies frequently claim. By Brian...

Should you entrust your income to a PC with a video card, asks Ed Casaccia, Grass Valley.

Simon Orme, BT Wholesale’s general manager of content services, explores the ‘Channel-in-a-Box’ and ‘Channel-in-a-Cloud’ concepts and their role in satisfying TV stations, content providers,...

Daniel Keller talks to ToolsOnAir VP Sales & Marketing, Gilbert Leb.

Whether live news or infomercial, the content has to come from somewhere. By Howard Twine, product manager, SGL.

By Harold Vermeulen, founder and MD, PubliTronic.

The advent of channel-in-a-box technologies – though it’s still early days – is part of the wider move to IT-centric infrastructure across the broadcast...

Fergal Ringrose talks to Pebble Beach MD, Peter Hajittofi.

By Ian Fletcher, CTO, OmniBus Systems.

By Mark Cousins, product line manager media servers, Omneon.

By Mark Errington, chief executive officer, OASYS.

Recent advances include more mature server functionality and more tightly integrated ingest, writes Boromy Ung, product manager workflow & playout, Miranda Technologies.

At the first conference to knock IT and broadcasting heads together, mutual suspicion seemed to be giving way to sensible dialogue. Richard Dean and...

Affordability is key to the new wave of HD broadcast cameras on the market – our starting point for this year's Acquisition Special. As...

Opening a packed inaugural conference, chairman Jeremy Bancroft of Media Asset Capital may have surprised some delegates by suggesting that tape isn’t quite the...

Reducing the costs of delivering to more than 10 VoD platforms with 14 different languages and eight subtitle languages. Presentation by Darren Breeze, Discovery...

Digitising and transforming new and archived content – and dramatically reducing ingest time. Presentation by Jake Robbins, TVT, supported by Bruce Devlin, CTO, AmberFin.

The L’Equipe Group is a French sports-based media empire encompassing the L’Équipe TV sports news channel, the www.lequipe.fr website and the RTL-L’Équipe digital radio...

The Press Association news agency has about 1,600 staff worldwide, of whom some 160 to 200 work in IT. Workflow presentation by James Elliot,...

Providing catch-up TV content on the web, and other platforms, within minutes of its live transmission has been the key driver for Nederlandse Publieke...

Setting up and launching a 24/7 HD sports service: GOL TV is a 24/7 football channel in Spain that launched in August 2008, and...

There are two main trends in prompter design: a move to lower-power LED back lighting; and, in tune with the broadcast industry generally, models...

Challenges of current broadcast workflows: convergence can be a good thing – but how can IT help? Session presented by Declan Wood and Alistair...

From planning to playout – the automatic workflow. Integrating business-critical modules that are fully embedded in the systems environment. Ricki Berg, technical manager, SBS...

Hi-motion innovation from I-Movix, P+S, Vision Research and Weisscam, by David Fox.

In July 2008 Channel 4 announced the outsourcing of its broadcast and production services. Analysis of the migration from Shane Tucker, technical architect Channel...

As David Fox reports, there are a growing number of choices if you don’t want, or can’t have, wires.

David Fox looks at developments in camera monitors and finds that 3D and OLED technologies are at the forefront of recent R&D.

Although camera design is becoming more power efficient, high-end HD and digital cinematography cameras still require a lot of energy, especially when you add...

A new soap opera designed to showcase the capabilities of 3G mobile technology will debut in the UK next month. The five-minute episodic series,...