Broadcast News Archive for December, 2013
12/12/2013 Full Sail Ahead For Avid
Avid has been selected by Florida-based Full Sail University to furnish its on-campus post-production facility with an end-to-end workflow. "As a leader in media and entertainment education, Full Sai

12/12/2013 LiveU Unveils Plans For 2014...
LiveU has unveiled the projects for 2014 that will see the company provide live video support for high-profile sporting events around the world. The company will support the Winter Olympics early in

12/12/2013 Panasonic Unveils Thermal Surveillance Cameras
Panasonic has revealed its new integrated thermal surveillance camera solutions for day and night surveillance. The announcement comes from the European R&D and Engineering Centre as the first therma

12/12/2013 RTW Gears Up For 2014
2014 will see a raft of new developments from German manufacturer RTW for its TouchMonitor range of audio metering and monitoring products designed for broadcast, production, post production and quali

12/12/2013 TTNET Selects PlayBox Solution
Turkish internet service provider TTNET has selected PlayBox Technology to provide a broadcast playout system for four high-definition live sports channels at its Esentepe transmission centre in Istan

11/12/2013 BFI Player In 'World's 100 Best Things'
GQ magazine has named the BFI’s new video-on-demand service one of the 100 Best Things in the World Right Now. Launched in October, the BFI’s new video-on-demand service - which GQ has dubbed the 'st

11/12/2013 BVE 2014 Registration Opens
BVE 2014 is now open for visitor registration. The event, which covers all aspects of the broadcast industry, offers a programme of free seminars as well as product showcases and networking opportuni

11/12/2013 delatre And Vizrt Join Forces For World Cup
Italy-based sports media and technology company deltatre and Vizrt have broadened their partnership with Magma Pro powered by Viz Libero for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Viz Libero, Vizrt’s 3D sports

11/12/2013 DPA Chosen For MKS Tour
DPA's d:facto™ II Vocal Microphones have been selected to go on tour with MKS, the original line-up of pop group the Sugababes. The mics have also been at work in the world-famous Ronnie Scott's Jazz

11/12/2013 Matrox Prepares For BVE 2014
With registration opened for BVE 2014 at the Excel London, February 25-27, Matrox Video has announced its lineup of video streaming and recording appliances and live production streaming systems. Mon

11/12/2013 Riedel Reveals ISE Lineup
Riedel has announced its product lineup for ISE 2014: MediorNet MN-C-OPT-HDMI and MN-HDO-4IO Universal Video Cards Riedel Communications has released a new universal video I/O card for the

11/12/2013 Sachtler's Ace Helps Capture BMX Competition
Ryszard Syryczyński and production company RyyS was contracted to shoot this year's Simple Session, one of the world's biggest BMX competitions, in Tallinn, Estonia. Throughout, Syryczyńs

11/12/2013 SMPTE Announces Leadership For 2014 Events
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has revealed the leaders and organisers for 2014 NAB Show's Technology Summit on Cinema (TSC), SMPTE 2014 Annual Technical Conference &

10/12/2013 Fat Dog Hails AJA Ki Pro
Phil Wade and Leslie Zunz's company Fat Dog Solutions specialises in studio design and engineering services, as well as equipment rentals. The UK firm has established a client base ranging from corpo

10/12/2013 IFB-Supported Films Selected For Sundance
Two Irish feature films supported by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) are to receive their World Premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. Calvary, directed by John

10/12/2013 Input Media Archives With Project Parking
Last year, Marquis Broadcast supplied Input Media, one of Europe's leading sports production companies, with its archive and restore solution, Project Parking, for a data migration project at the west

10/12/2013 LipSync Appoints Head Of TV Post
LipSync Post has appointed Beverley Horne as Head of TV Post, effective immediately. "The new role reflects LipSync's ongoing commitment to TV drama, as the facility continues to win more broadcast c

10/12/2013 Matrox Announces Grass Valley's EDIUS® 7.21
Matrox Video has announced the release of Grass Valley EDIUS 7.21 nonlinear video editing application support for Matrox MXO2™ LE and Matrox MXO2 Mini I/O devices. EDIUS is suitable for editors worki

10/12/2013 Qube Cinema Licensed For Dolby Atmos
Qube Cinema has been licensed to support Dolby Atmos playback in its servers. The XP-D and XP-I digital cinema servers are the first in the Qube server line to be evaluated to support Dolby Atmos pla

10/12/2013 Sennheiser Enlists Help For Office Design
Sennheiser UK has unveiled a newly-designed office in Marlow completed with the help of five students at Buckinghamshire New University. Century Point's 6,000 sqft of office had more than reached cap

10/12/2013 Sony's PMW-F5 Escapes To The Country
The BBC's Escape to the Country programme has recently selected to the Sony PMW-F5 CineAlta to film its fourteenth series. Boundless Productions’ Mark Bos said: "Mid-way through this series we took t

09/12/2013 ARRI ALEXA SUP 9.0 Released
ARRI has announced the release of Software Update Packet (SUP) 9.0 for all ARRI ALEXA cameras. Improved ProRes Recording – Higher Speeds ARRI has increased the maximum frame rate of the hig

09/12/2013 IFI Launches Pete Walsh Critical Writing Award
The Irish Film Institute (IFI) has launched the Pete Walsh Critical Writing Award, a new annual award that is inspired by the late IFI programmer. "Pete Walsh, who passed away in December 2012, was a

09/12/2013 LiveU Supplies Stylist Ford Fiesta Challenge
LiveU has revealed that London-based 3xScreen Media has deployed the company's technology to create live, multi-stream coverage of the Stylist Ford Fiesta 24-Hour Challenge. The Challenge was to capt

09/12/2013 Pedestal TV Announces Bosher Levelling Head
Welsh company Pedestal Television's engineering brand Bosher has announced the new Bosher levelling system for Polecam. The Bosher Levelling Head BH-02 is a tripod system built for Polecam owner oper