Production & Post

To the surprise of many, audio leapt dramatically from the wings at London's HD Masters conference with a consensus that 5.1 surround sound should...

Multichoice Group, the largest satellite broadcaster in Africa, has selected Grass Valley DVB-H to provide the headend and service platform for the delivery of...

While to many the issue of an interlace versus a progressive-scan HDTV standard had taken on the entrenched fervour of a religious debate, EBU...

A highlight of the forthcoming Broadcast LIVE event at Earls Court in June is the Create Day keynote speech, which will be given by...

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has announced a deal with cable operator ntl Telewest to provide its soccer World Cup matches in HD, making it...

According to a new Screen Digest report, Digital Cinema: Rollout, Business Models and Forecasts, after seven years of slow progress the area is now...

Storage specialist, Quantum Corp, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Digital Information Corp for approximately $770 million.

Following a huge reorganisation designed 'to strengthen the company and resolve financial challenges', Silicon Graphics Inc's US operation has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Continental Research's Convergence Report Spring 2006 states that 2.6 million people in the UK have either downloaded a TV programme or watched it live...

Chroma key specialist Reflecmedia has announced the installation of its ground-breaking chroma key product, Chromatte, into a number of national and international sites for...

With Red Bee Media set to launch a new HD channel in May in preparation for the World Cup, Pixel Power has announced that...

The brand new China Hometheatre channel might be only the third HD channel in China, but it's the first in Chinese broadcasting history to...

OmniBus Systems has announced that NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) has purchased a full-featured iTX transmission system for support of a new 24-hour local...

Overlooked by many at Vegas was the news that ComVu had demonstrated the first live video broadcasting from a 3G camera phone direct to...

Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media conglomerate, has installed six Tektronix WVR7100 HD/SD rasterizers to monitor the content quality in...

BBC Post Production in partnership with Siemens Business Services has transferred HD media between BBC sites for the first time without the need for...

Academy Award winning director James Cameron (Titanic, T2: Judgment Day,) believes that digital cinema projection is on its way to becoming a reality -...

It has emerged that Pro-Bel advised staff and dealers just prior to NAB that advisors had been appointed to plan an IPO for the...

Introduced at NAB, Autoscript makes the bold claim that +Voice-Plus+ is the market's first voice-activated teleprompting system and will completely eliminate the need for...

Imagica chose NAB to roll out new systems that bookend the DI pipeline neatly, including the Imager HSR film recorder and the Imager HSX...

Recognising that most post houses will be running mixed SD/HD video environments in the coming years, Sony is launching HDXchange, a cross-platform hardware/software suite...

Sonic Solutions has released the world's first professional HD authoring and encoding systems, Scenarist4 and CineVision, a sure sign that the rollout of Blu-ray...

With TV to mobile being one of the touchstones of NAB2006, Harris Corp sensibly covered all the bases by introducing transmitters for both FLO...

Several companies offering key utility tools and applications software for newsgathering and production workflows announced their support of the Grass Valley Infinity Series at...

After a pre-show build up on message boards and blogs that firmly put the hype back into hyperbole, the RED Digital Cinema Camera Company...

Already used by over 10,000 journalists and newsroom staff for newsroom computing worldwide, Dalet has added to the functionality of its Dalet OpenMedia with...

At NAB, Panasonic announced what it called 'significant' sales growth for its DVCPRO P2 solid-state memory recording system over the past year, with worldwide...

JVC has expanded its ProHD family line of products with the introduction of the 60p capable GY-HD200U.

The drive towards HD news programming gained fresh impetuous in Vegas with the release of Quantel's Newsbox HD system.

Software Generation, Ltd. (SGL) and Masstech Group, Inc. have unveiled joint plans to pursue a SMPTE standard for the interchange of material between archive...

Once a firm SGI stalwart, news that Autodesk has ported its Discreet Inferno vfx system over to Linux confirms the PC's hegemony in the...

Pro-Bel arrived at Vegas with a re-engineered version of its Masterpiece HD master control unit that it says "provides a feature-rich, one-box solution perfectly...

Miranda Technologies Inc has gone shopping for the first time since its IPO last December and come back with high-end graphics automation software and...

Trailed as the world's first automated verification system for file-based digital video content, Tektronix says its new Cerify unit ensures broadcasters know content is...

With a portentous ceremony involving Also sprach Zarathustra and an obelisk, Omneon launched its MediaGrid active storage system in Vegas, billing it as the...

The newly launched Avid Interplay fuses integrated asset management, workflow automation and security control into a single, open system, and Avid is already claiming...

Satellite and facilities group Arqiva has invested over £5 million in its OB unit Scanners, writes Adrian Pennington, with the bulk of the investment...

Portable recording specialist HHB is launching the FlashMic DRM85 at NAB, billing it as the world's first professional digital recording microphone.

Vizrt has signed a four-year framework agreement with the BBC for live rendered complex 3D graphics systems. The deal provides an easy purchasing facility...

Arsenal Football Club has appointed Sony as its technology supplier to equip its new Emirates Stadium in Islington, London and help make it the...

Harris, also celebrating the first sales and shipments of its new Platinum router, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Optimal Solutions Inc (OSi),...

Ireland's public service broadcaster, Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), has invested in six Discreet Flint visual effects systems running on Linux-based workstations for its graphics...