Production & Post

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...

Siemens Business Services has been awarded the contract for the design, build and implementation of the broadcast technology and infrastructure necessitated as part of...

The first of the NAB takeovers and acquisitions has surfaced, with the news that Avid has swooped in to snap up Dallas-based automation and...

Oxford-based Solid State Logic, justly known for both its analogue and digital consoles, has announced a major expansion into the realm of broadcast video...

With an expanding worldwide installed base for its C-Series digital consoles, Solid State Logic has announced that ITN has become the first media organisation...

The Swiss-based Kudelski Group has announced an agreement to purchase all the assets of the SCM Microsystems-owned DTVS ( Digital Television Solutions) for US$11m,...

At last week's MIPTV, a new service was announced by Red Bee Media and Netgem that aims to integrate the latest TV technologies and...

Another day, another survey, only this one from Boston-based Strategy Analytics sounds a rare note of caution amid the current goldrush towards exploiting broadcast...

Last week saw the launch of Unit Post in Soho, an all-Apple HD dry-hire facility with what it boasts are 'unique' bolt-on services.

New internet and mobile video services will pose an increasing challenge to the traditional film and TV industry as 'download-to-own' (DTO) increases in popularity,...

ITV announced last week it is to team up with the BBC, Channel 4 and five for the proposed technical trial of HD in...

As the next gen camera wars heat up, Grass Valley has been highlighting the projects, from Michael Mann's remake of 'Miami Vice' onwards, currently...

Broadcasters face a "big challenge" to remain relevant in the internet age, according to Ashley Highfield, BBC director of new media and technology, writes...

The largest acquisition in Soho for some time was announced last week, with Evolutions purchasing Nats Post Production for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.

With HD making inroads into production environments worldwide, Ross Video's disclosure that Citytv Toronto will broadcast its news programming in HD from September 2006...

Following unprecented demand on frequencies across Europe due to the rapid uptake of wireless cameras, growing HD acquisition, and the re-allocation of frequencies to...

A new study conducted jointly by Red Bee Media (formerly BBC Broadcast) and audience research agency iBurbia has highlighted the need for more innovative...

Harris Corporation has received a significant order for its Videotek test and measurement equipment from leading Italian media group, Mediaset in the run-up to...

As well as the action on the track and in the various stadia in Melbourne, the recent Commonwealth Games was also notable for a...

After a five year process, Chyron Corporation has announced the approval of one US patent, with two others pending, for technology enabling the integration...

It looks increasingly likely that Grass Valley will miss the opportunity to showcase production models of its eagerly anticipated IT-based camera Infinity at NAB...

Blackmagic Design claims its new Multibridge Extreme is the world's first uncompressed video product to feature 2K, realtime 10 bit RGB playout for the...

The full impact of encryption specialist Kudelski's recent problems with its 'Aladin' smart card system – which TVBEurope first reported back in October –...

Euro1080, the original HDTV media company in Europe, has reached an agreement with Infront Sports & Media with regard to the commercial exploitation of...

BBC Outside Broadcasts is extending its HD offering to support HD demand this summer; it has purchased 14 new Sony 1500 HD cameras and...

As mobile networks contemplate what to charge video service providers, premium rate telecoms platform provider C3 has called for a fairer charging regime than...

BBC Post Production London has won the post production work on the second series of Strictly Dance Fever, which airs on BBC One in...

Dutch broadcasters Omroep Brabant, UBF and DMC Chellomedia have all chosen Quantel sQ integrated production systems to power their server-based production needs.

Spanish post house Apuntolapospo is the first facility in Europe to install Autodeskk's Stone Shared SAN; the centralised storage system provides the entire facility...

The broadcast news landscape in the Arab world has been undergoing unprecedented change over the last ten years; now, for the first time, broadcast...

With only 12 weeks to go before the World Cup kicks off in Germany, European pay TV operators have only just started to ship...

Orad has announced an agreement with China's national broadcaster, China Central Television (CCTV), worth several hundred thousand US dollars - an agreement that will...

The MHP licence fees row rumbles on: the delegates at DVB World in Dublin early this month witnessed an astonishing own goal as the...

Microsoft TV's UK Business Manager Gavin McLaughlin has challenged a basic tenet of the emerging IPTV (internet protocol TV) market in saying "triple play...

The IABM has announced the launch of a new interactive training DVD aimed at non-technical personnel already working in - or entering - the...

A unique HD technology event will take place May 17 and 18 at the BFI Imax theatre in London. TVBEurope has joined forces with...

Sky One and RHI Entertainment's commission of Terry Pratchett's best-selling fantasy fiction novel, Hogfather, is to be shot at 3 Mills Studios and nearby...

New Zealand television production house NHNZ is in the process of becoming HD independent with a latest acquisition of Quantel eQ multi-resolution editing, effects...