Production & Post

Custom Consoles has completed the design and construction of a large ,height-adjustable engineering control desk for Swedish independent broadcaster TV4.

P&TLuxembourg is deploying Ateme's IPTV headend, which includes HD MPEG-4 AVC encoding, as it prepares to launch HDTV services later this year.

Arqiva has announced the completion of its acquisition of the platform assets of Project Kangaroo, the VoD platform developed in a joint venture by...

The international broadcast group composed of Audemat, APT and Ecreso has unveiled a new group identity and updated image, WorldCast Systems, writes David Davies.

Leading Irish language broadcaster TG4 has selected Pharos Mediator to build better workflow across the business and prepare for new content delivery and archival.

BSkyB denies suggestions that its 3DTV service will ferment a standards war, instead encouraging broadcasters to launch 3D services using its platform, writes Adrian...

C4, RedBee and Grand Central Studios have chosen DK-Technologies' loudness software to evaluate BCAP recommendations on audio levels in ads and idents.

Calrec Audio has been awarded the contract to supply four digital audio mixing consoles and a distributed I/O network system to the MediaCityUK project.

The Royal Television Society (RTS), Britain's leading forum for television and related media, has launched the Craft and Design Awards 2008/2009.

Ensemble Design products have been chosen by Turkey's TRT for use at its new international television broadcast channel and HDTV studio, TRT-TURK.

EVS Broadcast Equipment has announced that its XT and XS production servers now natively support Panasonic's DVCPRO HD and DVCPRO50 codecs.

IPV has installed its SpectreView browse system at the European Commission (EC) to provide easy desktop access to incoming feeds and archive media at...

PubliTronic has had its Nexus playout servers and Cobalt automation software deployed at the Red Bee Media Broadcast Centre for the automated playout of...

SGL has unveiled the installation of a fully integrated digital archive encompassing over 4000 hours of programming at ATN, part of the Arab Media...

Tieline Technology delivered a world sports first recently by broadcasting live audio over WiMAX IP during a football match in South Africa.

According to estimates by Harris, there are at least 100 modern SD OB trucks ripe for upgrading to HD in Europe alone, writes Dick...

Harmonic's Rhozet Carbon Coder universal transcoding system has been selected by Solutions for Media GmbH for its video production management system, VPMS.

The Vitec Group's RF Extreme has announced the creation of a European regional office located in the United Kingdom.

A joint EBU and SMPTE Task Force is finalising a set of recommendations to help update synchronising and time labelling standards for moving-picture, broadcast,...

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and leading digital technology companies are developing the world's first 'talking' TV technology, destined to reach...

Following its introduction of the Apollo platform earlier this year, Calrec Audio has again drawn influence from Greek mythology for its latest console, Artemis,...

The Second Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet will take place Sunday 13 September during IBC2009, at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam.

Red Bull Media House of Wals bei Salzburg has ordered Sony HDC camera and studio equipment for the TV production of the Red Bull...

SBS Netherlands is upgrading its entire content playout platform to handle and distribute HD with a new investment in a SAN based on Grass...

Silex Media has been made the prime contractor for the automation project at France 3 Corse ViaStella, the regional Corsican TV station.

Ex-broadcast systems integrator Team 4 has changed its name, to Bright Space Technologies, and its focus, to become a trade-only distributor to the AV...

Dogan TV, the leading independent media group in Turkey, is migrating its television production capabilities to high definition with Grass Valley.

Stratos Global Corporation has deployed an Inmarsat FleetBroadband mobile satellite system to broadcast coverage of the final leg of the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge.

Panasonic PBITS has won a milestone contract to supply professional video equipment to Slovak television station TV Mark_za.

The Softel Group is selling its video graphics systems company Aston Broadcast for an undisclosed fee to realtime graphics specialist Brainstorm Multimedia.

Litepanels will be awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its proprietary lighting systems.

The SMPTE has announced the launch of a pre-event registration website for its Annual Tech Conference and Expo taking place in October.

Latens has indicated its support for MHEG-5 by becoming the latest company to join the International MHEG Promotion Alliance (IMPALA).

Snell has placed an order for several more Phabrix SxAs to compliment the units already in use for the company's internal test and measurement...

Solid State Logic (SSL) has announced that a third C100 HD-S digital audio console is now operational at state broadcaster Duna Telev_zi_ in Hungary.

Top London post house MPC (The Moving Picture Company) is migrating from AES audio to embedded audio with the aid of Ensemble Designs.

ZDF recently began broadcasting from two virtual studios within its new _30m broadcast complex in Mainz using an extensive, customised complement of Vizrt products.

Omneon has licensed the MOG Solutions MXF development toolkit in order to integrate MXF capabilities into the company's high-performance transcoding system, ProXchange.

Estonian Public Broadcast (Eesti Rahvusringh?_ling, ERR) has chosen Riedel Communications to provide comms for its new 16 camera HD OB van.

Apple has updated Final Cut Studio, adding more than 100 new features while at the same time dropping its RRP, writes David Fox.

Glensound has recently finished building 76 codec mixers for the South African Broadcasting Company (SABC) to be used during next year's FIFA World Cup...

SIS Live has won the contract to supply the outside broadcast facilities to ITV Sport for its host broadcaster coverage of UEFA Champions League...