Broadcast News Archive for May, 2012
23/05/2012 Greek Tragedy On The Small Screen At BFI Southbank
The BFI is launching a season of rarely seen before TV productions of Greek tragedy, offering a fascinating range of approaches to screen presentations of ancient Greece. These plays laid the very fou

23/05/2012 Loudness, Lip-Sync And Surround-Sound Monitoring
Leader Instruments announces a new optional audio card for its award-winning LV5770 Multi-Monitor. Introduced at NAB 2012, the OP43 audio card incorporates loudness measurement, lip-sync timing analy

23/05/2012 Plasa Focus: Nashville - New Exhibitors & New Seminars
Three new sessions have been added to an already stellar line up of speakers due to take the stage at PLASA Focus: Nashville, a new style of regional event taking place, for the first time, at The Nas

23/05/2012 Sgo And Hp Power The Entertainment Industry At Cannes 2012
HP, Official Partner of the Cannes Film Festival 2012, and also one of SGO's chief Technology Partners, is holding a series of Mistika workshops, along with other HP technology partners, in the HP Lou

23/05/2012 Teracue IPTV Highlights At ANGA Cable Show 2012
Teracue IPTV Systems will be showcasing its new products for professional IPTV/DVB headend design, broadcast IP video-networking and for system integration at the ANGA Cable Show in Cologne June 12 -

22/05/2012 DCD Rights Announces Raft of Factual and Music Sales
Following their attendance at MIP TV 2012, international distributor DCD Rights announces a raft of music and factual sales to major broadcasters in America, Europe and Australia: AXS TV (US a

22/05/2012 Debriefing Software Announces Cloud Storage Upgrades
Debriefing Software, the experts in cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Storwize and SVC solutions, today announced: a major upgrade to its Wizards

22/05/2012 J. Peter Robinson: Best Of 'Charmed' OST Gets Release
The best scores from the “Charmed” TV series (1998 – 2006) are now available at Perseverance Records. The label is going to release a two-disc-collection with a running time of 134 minutes, featuring

22/05/2012 LCC Showcases The Creatives Of The Future
The next generation of photographers, filmmakers and sound artists will be exhibiting at the London College of Communication (LCC) from 28th May – 7th June. Original and thought-provoking work produce

22/05/2012 Telestream Contributes Performance Improvements to x264
Telestream, the leading provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, today announced the contribution of OpenCL™ performance improvements for pre-integration review to the x264 project. This

22/05/2012 Visual Impact Roadshow Proves To Be A Massive Hit
During March, Visual Impact took to the road with major manufacturers, local experts and leading media company TV Bay to bring the latest technology and information to the regions. Held in Glasgow, Ma

21/05/2012 Creative England Launches Elevator Skills Programme
Creative England today announces the launch of its Elevator skills programme for film producers, directors and writer/directors from across the UK. Elevator will give up to 15 award-winning makers of

21/05/2012 DDMG And twofour54 Develop Abu Dhabi Film Industry
At the Cannes Film Festival today, digital production company Digital Domain Media Group and twofour54, the Abu Dhabi government-backed media and entertainment hub, announced that they are collaborati

21/05/2012 English Heritage Blue Plaque For J. Arthur Rank
The film producer J. Arthur Rank (1888-1972) has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque at 38 South Street, Mayfair, where he established the headquarters of the Rank Organisation, whi

21/05/2012 Miranda's Kaleido Multiviewers Stage At Manhattan Center
Miranda Technologies Inc, a global provider of integrated solutions for production, playout and delivery systems for television broadcasters and multi-system operators, has supplied its Kaleido-X and

21/05/2012 New Direction For 56th Bfi London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express today announced two significant changes to its programme sections in advance of the 56th edition in the world’s most creative city in

21/05/2012 RGB Networks and BlackArrow Enable Targeted Advertising Delivery
RGB Networks, the leading provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, today announced a new partnership for targeted ad delivery with BlackArrow, a worldwide provider of advanced adv

21/05/2012 The Farm Group Gets UK’s Biggest Pro Tools HDX And v10 Installation
Scrub, HHB Communications’ Soho based post-production office, has equipped The Farm Group, one of London's leading television post production facilities, with the UK’s largest installation of AVID Pro

21/05/2012 The Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate 3D Sweeps AFAs
Best visual effects winner The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D, China's innovative martial arts 3D IMAX feature film, 

was post produced using Mistika. “Mistika's Optical Flow tool helpe

18/05/2012 18th Annual 'Encounters' Film And Animation Festival
Confirming such strategic support is an affirmation of Encounters’ position as one of the most outstanding short film and animation events on the international film industry scene, and puts a spotligh

18/05/2012 Can Communicate Goes Wild With Quantel Pablo
It has been an incredibly busy couple of months for Can Communicate, one of Europe's leading 3D production companies. From working on Alice Cooper's infamous fright show, 'The Night of Fear', to Sky3D

18/05/2012 Doremi To Equip All Rooms At The 65th Cannes Film Festival
In 2003, when Doremi first installed its servers at Cannes for the screening of James Cameron's "Ghosts of the Abyss", it initiated a relationship of trust between Cannes and digital technology. Since

18/05/2012 Film London Receives HLF Funding
Film London and London’s Screen Archives have received initial support* from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant to develop a major three-year project focused on the moving image histo

18/05/2012 Film London Secures €1.9m For EuroScreen
Film London has been awarded an Interreg IVC grant to launch EuroScreen, a project which aims to capitalise on the major economic and cultural opportunities presented through screen tourism, working i

18/05/2012 Miranda To Debut iControl Headend Facility Monitoring
Miranda Technologies Inc, a global provider of integrated solutions for production, playout and delivery systems for television broadcasters and multi-system operators, will introduce its iControl Hea