Production & Post

From computer-generated sea creatures to entire virtual cities, cinemaland's digital artists have utilised Autodesk kit to realise stunning visual effects for this summer's biggest...

Tandberg Television has announced that its HD MPEG-4 AVC video encoding and distribution system has been chosen by leading French satellite pay-TV operator CANALSAT...

Corporate communications production company, Impact Image, has just undertaken a specialist commission to provide aerial photography with the UK's famed Red Arrows aerobatic team...

One year after the first brick was laid, Cambridgeshire-based independent system integrator dB Broadcast has commissioned Jordan's first independent television station, ATV.

ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, the German commercial television conglomerate, is the first broadcaster in Europe to take delivery of the new Harris PlatinumT router.

Telecast Fiber Systems has revealed that tv production center Z_rich (tpc), Switzerland's largest media production facility, has equipped its HD-1 outside broadcast truck with...

ITN has reached an outline agreement with Avid to provide a new media management system for ITN's news and programme production departments: this will...

Arqiva has begun work on the UK's biggest broadcast engineering project, Digital Switch Over, with a 337 metre high mast at Caldbeck – the...

Thomson has reached a strategic agreement with FRANCE 24, the global 24-hour satellite TV news channel, in a transaction valued at over Euro 30...

A new European Union anti-dumping levy on Japanese cameras could see what are being referred to as 'dramatically' increased prices for almost all types...

In order to meet the demand for its Accelera HD Encoder platform, Aspex Semiconductor has signed a distribution agreement with Polar Graphics Ltd.

Solid State Logic has deepened its support for workstation users with the purchase of Sydec Audio Engineering NV, developers of the Soundscape range of...

In what is positively our last World Cup story, Sennheiser has been highlighting its role in ensuring that half a billion or so TV...

Danmarks Radio (DR) has deployed the largest Miranda Technologies iControl monitoring and control system in Europe at its new facility at DR-Byen. DR-Byen consolidates...

At the Dodge / Save Mart 350 NASCAR race held on June 25th at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, Fox Sport's HDTV coverage included...

Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour news and current affairs channel headquartered in Doha, is equipping its journalists with Quicklink's laptop video transmission system.

SES ASTRA has announced that the German Federal Cartel Office has approved its full acquisition of the satellite communications supplier ND SatCom.

A trial of Sony's new SXRD 4k ultra high resolution projectors has recently got underway as part of Norway's Digital Interoperability in Cinemas (NORDIC)...

The UK's Broadcast Networks has been awarded the contract by SBP to refurbish an existing 20-camera OB truck (OB6) and upgrade it to full...

Just hours before the controversial RoHS (Restrictions on Certain Hazardous Substances) Directive passed into UK law on 1 July, the Professional Lighting and Sound...

Toronto-based CHUM Television, one of Canada's leading broadcasters, has placed a significant order for Harris SD/HD conversion, processing, control and monitoring equipment to support...

Harmonic Inc. has announced that Nozema Services N.V., the largest nationwide terrestrial broadcaster in The Netherlands, is deploying a complete Harmonic system for its...

In what might be our final World Cup story, Associated Press Television News is using ScheduALL's end-to-end operations management software during the tournament to...

Apple Computer has announced a drastic price cut in its Shake compositing application, turning the 2D effects market on its head in one fell...

Known throughout the industry for some time, but only officially confirmed last week, is the news that Grass Valley's Infinity camcorder is to join...

LipSync Post has become the first company in London to install the new iQ Pablo - Quantel's next generation colour correction system. Not only...

A year-long trial with a Harris Atlas Digital DTV660L DVB-T transmitter proves the technical and commercial viability for DVB-H in Australia.

With the World Cup now firmly in the knockout stages, the number of football related stories has understandably started to dry up. Just creeping...

To ensure the best possible high definition viewing experience for its subscribers, BSkyB - operator of the UK's largest digital television platform - has...

France's EXPWAY has scored a world's first by providing an Electronic Services Guide (ESG) for La3 - 3 Italia's mobile TV service.

Starwinder, BBC Technology Group's project to move to tapeless HD production by 2010, is to trial the Grass Valley Infinity camcorder and related products...

Irish public broadcaster RTE is up and running with a SysMedia IP-based teletext page editing system that allows bookmakers across the country to provide...

London post house Caseys has become the first company in the UK to invest in FOR-A's Hanabi HVS-1000HS digital video switcher. The purchase will...

Reseau France Outre-mer (RFO), owned by the France Televisions group, has purchased a range of Avid systems to create a digital production workflow for...

Autodesk's Discreet Flame VFX system was used by The Mill to create Football Dream, a commercial for the UK-based bank Nationwide Building Society, promoting...

Sonic Solutions' Roxio Blu-ray Disc (BD) software has been selected by Fujitsu to power its Deskpower TX95S/D; expected to be the first desktop computer...

Football fans feeling nervous at the thought of penalties deciding a match in the World Cup, especially those of an English persuasion, can confront...

World Cup football host broadcaster HBS has called up two late additions to its squad of HD acquisition kit, writes Adrian Pennington. Super high...

The final two episodes of this first season of FOX's crime drama Bones were the first primetime television shows to be delivered to FOX...

UK broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five have joined forces to launch the UK's first HD trial broadcasts to terrestrial aerials. A 450-strong...

TSL has announced that it has been selected by Romanian TV channel ProTV to provide systems integration for its new HD service, ProTV HD,...

SeaChange International has announced that OnDemand TV, Inc. is launching the world's first IPTV on-demand service to offer HD programming encoded in the H.264...