Production & Post

Thomson is expanding its Technicolor Network Services business in Europe by taking over NOB Cross Media Facilities, a subsidiary of Nederlands Omroepproduktie Bedrijf (NOB).

Gefen has unveiled three new high definition video switchers that offer plug and play capabilities and valuation features in addition to a simple method...

Outside Broadcast, one of Belgium's most active mobile production companies, has purchased nine Leader LV7700 multi-standard SDI rasterisers for use in its fleet of...

QuStream-owned PESA has won two significant orders in the US from Daystar Television Network and National Mobile Television respectively. NMT has selected QuStream to...

Leading European broadcasters RTL Croatia and RTL-TVI (Belgium) have purchased Orad's ProSet virtual studio system and Xync infrared tracking technology in a US $600,000...

The Vitec Group has announced it has signed an agreement to purchase ALC Broadcast Limited, parent company of Broadcast Developments Limited (BDL) and the...

Teletrax has signed a contract with A1GP, organisers of the A1GP motorsport series. From the first race of the next season the company will...

RTL's n-tv news television centre in Cologne has become one of the first customers for a new robotic camera system, RoboKam, developed by Robotics...

Stratos UK has supplied and installed fibre-optic cables and connectors as part of the new infrastructure for the BBC Resources HD upgrade project of...

Grass Valley has unveiled a range of HD system cameras that it hopes will be futureproof, including as they do support for progressive production...

A new global survey by Accenture unveiled at IBC found that nearly 60% of people want more control over how they consume media, writes...

Blackmagic Design has launched Intensity, an HDMI capture playback card designed to enable low-cost consumer cameras with HDMI video connections to move beyond HDV...

Tandberg Television's MPEG-4 AVC video compression and IP systems are set to play a critical role in the digitisation of Norway's terrestrial TV network...

Quantel has introduced Marco, a software-only product that takes enables users to run its sQ editing software on any desktop or laptop PC, writes...

Digital Cinema Initiatives has introduced its compliance testing process for digital cinema, writes Carolyn Giardina, while a group of international exhibitors has also penned...

Following the IBC launch of WAPSTR (enabling easy and speedy ingest of stills and video footage from mobile phones into the TV newsroom workflow),...

The DI Subcommittee from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Technology Committee is closing in on the development and implementation what it calls an...

Following the IBC launch of WAPSTR (enabling easy and speedy ingest of stills and video footage from mobile phones into the TV newsroom workflow),...

The ink is seemingly hardly dry on the H.264/AVC MPEG4 standard yet the engineers are looking down the road at H.265, and a "further...

The success of the FLO Forum has helped Qualcomm beat off the 'proprietary' charges it faced earlier (writes George Jarrett), and Jeffery Brown, director...

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM)/Verbatim, Memory Tech Corporation (MTC), and Plasmon have announced a technology and business alliance to manufacture and promote a new optical...

The BBC and Arqiva have concluded contract negotiations for the design, deployment, and operation of the BBC's new high-power digital terrestrial television (DTT) network...

Stockholm-based broadcaster SVT has purchased a Nucoda Film Master datacentric grading, conforming, compositing, and effects system from Digital Vision to support its longform television...

BBC Resources has selected Crystal Vision to supply 72 units of its newly-launched combined up, down and cross converter, Up-and-down, for installation into TC1,...

One of the many sales stories to emerge from IBC was that Hungary's national commercial broadcaster, TV2, has ordered a raft of Autodesk visual...

Czech TV has purchased a significant amount of high-powered graphics and editing equipment from Quantel with the aim of boosting its output in the...

Charter Broadcast has chosen two Eyeheight canalettoHDi colour correctors to provide HD television coverage of the 36th Ryder Cup golf tournament this weekend.

Apple's latest news on its Shake system could have significant ramifications for the entire compositing part of the vfx industry, writes Carolyn Giardina.

After several months of hype and hyperbole, the Red Digital Camera Company demoed its long-awaited 4k images at IBC, writes Carolyn Giardina.

Quantel has introduced its first ever pure software product, taking its sQ editing interface and enabling it to be run upon any desktop or...

Ascent Media Creative Services' North American operations - which encompasses such leading US post houses as Company 3, Riot, and Encore - announced that...

The adoption of 1080p 50 as the preferred broadcast production format has been brought much closer by the BBC's development of the Dirac PRO...

Those looking for clues as to how the mobile TV market will shake out in Europe could do worse than look towards Korea for...

According to Hitachi the EU's anti-dumping levy on Japanese cameras, which is currently being considered for renewal and possible extension, is actively restricting broadcasters'...

At IBC, a powerful group of exhibitors call for international co-operation on d-cinema standards, writes Carolyn Giardina.

The Chinese decision to adopt its own DTV and mobile TV technologies has caused a certain amount of consternation in the industry. What does...

The Genesis lookalike electronic movie camera that Sony unveiled off the showfloor at NAB has not yet become a finished product, but a price...

London's VTR Group has released details of the progress it is making to re-position as a global post market leader following the recent purchase...

Zandar Technologies' DX MultiViewers have been installed in the television news control rooms of Media General-owned WNCT-CBS, Greenville, North Carolina and News Channel 12...

Root6 Technology's encoding and delivery platform has rapidly become first choice at BBH's Soho UK headquarters, where the company reports the system has paid...

Netia has announced that its U-Share network management system will be employed by T_l_vision Suisse Romande (TSR) for its EQUIPRO project to control the...

BBC Resources has completed the high definition upgrade of Studio One, the BBC's flagship, 10,000 square foot studio at TV Centre, writes Adrian Pennington.