Production & Post

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.

Following last week's US golf story, CTV is to introduce nine LinkHD wireless camera systems for its live coverage of the Ryder Cup in...

The fully digital production and transmission centre built by ATG Broadcast for British Forces Broadcasting Service Television is now fully live to air. A...

In the run-up to IBC, Autodesk has introduced new point releases of its visual effects and editing systems Inferno, Flame, Flint, Fire and Smoke....

Harmonic has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the video networking software business of Entone Technologies based in San Mateo, CA, with research...

According to a new report from In-Stat, the market for longform mobile/portable video content (ie video content of greater than 30 minutes) is currently...

Broadcast Pix has announced the first international sale and installation of its Slate 1000 studio system to FMC (Forsvartes Mediecenter), the television broadcast network...

Quantum has announced the completion of its acquisition of Advanced Digital Information Corporation, creating what it says is now 'the leading global storage company...

Thanks to advances in wireless HD systems, from 2007 all CBS Sports golf coverage will be HD only, writes Ken Kerschbaumer, rather than the...

Baraka Post Production is launching CHOP, a dedicated offline editing facility, which will open its doors at the end of the month.

The BBC has set up several cellular receive sites based on Link Research technology with fixed receivers for its wireless cameras in the heart...

In a joint statement from Belgium and Tel Aviv, Barco and Orad announced earlier this week that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Thomson has been highlighting the widespread adoption of its NexGuard digital cinema watermarking system by top d-cinema server manufacturers Doremi, GDC, QuVis and Tamedia,...

Post production behemoth Ascent Media has announced that it will simplify its structure into two global operating divisions - Creative Services and Network Services...

TVE Spain has purchased sixteen Ross Video Synergy 100 SD digital production switchers, which will be installed in facilities throughout Spain as part of...

Highlighting that sectors of the industry are in rude health at the moment, latest figures show that Chyron's second quarter 2006 revenues increased 48%...

Volicon has announced that its Observer desktop video monitoring solution is going live at Eesti Televisioon facilities in Tallinn, Estonia. The newly installed 10-channel...

Harris Corporation has announced that Fashion TV Arabia, a subsidiary of Michel Adam's Fashion TV in Paris, has taken delivery of a turnkey Harris...

Channel 4 Television has chosen Pharos Communications to provide the infrastructure for its new Media Access Project. The new installation will centre on a...

Six months ago satellite operator SES Astra was happily predicting it would eventually be carrying 100 HD channels but not for a hundred years,...

According to a new report from IMS Research, by the end of 2011 nearly half a billion people will be watching TV on their...