Broadcast News Archive for September, 2014
10/09/2014 ITN Selects AXON For Graphic Control Solution
ITN has selected AXON to provide a graphical control solution to offer its sound supervisors a touch screen interface to monitor and configure the large intercom system at its Gray’s Inn Road studios.

10/09/2014 New TVU Pack To Feature Vislink Hybrid Microwave IP Technology
TVU Networks and Vislink are to launch a new TVUPack with Vislink’s integrated hybrid microwave IP technology. The jointly developed TVUPack is described as the world’s first portable IP newsgathering

10/09/2014 Tedial To Showcase Adobe / Sony Integrations At IBC
At IBC2014, Tedial will showcase new Adobe Premiere Pro CC editing functionality within its Tarsys Media Asset Management (MAM) system, as well as full integration of its archive systems with Sony Opt

10/09/2014 TSL Demo New Features For Soundfield DSF Digital Broadcast At IBC2014
TSL Products is to showcase new models in the Soundfield DSF Digital Broadcast surround sound microphone range, incorporating new features including self-testing, alarming and correction capabilities,

09/09/2014 Arqiva Finds PROVYS Supreme...
Located amid the greenery just beyond North-West London, Arqiva supplies broadcast distribution and media services to hundreds of media companies globally. By Martin Junek, Commercial Director at PROV

09/09/2014 Culture Minister Visits Elstree
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has paid a visit to Elstree Studios to view the facilities on offer at 'Britain's Hollywood'. Mr Vaizey was welcomed by Roger Morris Elstree Studios Managing Director and

09/09/2014 IBC To Highlight New Technologies (Pt. 1)
Never previously has IBC gambled so heavily on using keynote presentations to attract bigger conference audiences, writes George Jarrett. It will be the IBC where public broadcasters wave goodbye t

09/09/2014 IBC To Highlight New Technologies (Pt. 2)
(continued from Pt. 1)... Quantum (7.B26) will introduce new software called StorNext Connect. The attraction is that it allows users to seamlessly discover, manage and monitor their

09/09/2014 PHABRIX And The Future Of Higher Frame Rates At IBC2014
IBC2014 is bound to be focussed on support for 4K UHDTV so it is no surprise that PHABRIX has set its considerable R&D resource on supporting the latest test and measurement requests of its many custo

09/09/2014 Playbox Announces Sales By Jakarta Distributor
PlayBox Technology has announced the latest in a series of recent sales by its Jakarta-based distributor, Horizon Global Media. Global TV has invested in an AirBox playout server for installation at i

09/09/2014 Polar Graphics Prepares For IBC2014
Polar Graphics will be representing the latest in storage products and signal processing at this year's IBC show. Bluefish444 (Stand 7.J07) having recently announced support for <A HREF= 'http://po

09/09/2014 RTW TM3-Primus Ships
RTW has announced that the TM3-Primus, its new smart series product, is now shipping worldwide. The latest model from the TouchMonitor line provides a full set of instruments for level and loudness me

09/09/2014 SSL Demos IP Audio At IBC2014
Solid State Logic will demonstrate how IP Audio Networking can deliver benefits and cost optimisation in audio routing systems for broadcast production at IBC2014 (Hall 8, D83). The demonstration s

09/09/2014 Systems Integration For The File-Based Future
The transition from standard-definition to high-definition broadcasting generated a surge of systems integration business from the turn of the century onward, writes Jonathan Hughes, Head of Systems I

08/09/2014 Atomos Take HDMI One Step Closer To SDI Professional Video Standard
Atomos have announced a move to standardise HDMI for the professional video industry by focusing on ease of use and customer experience. With in-depth experience along with their technical know-how, A

08/09/2014 Can The UK Hold Onto The Broadcast Crown?
Here in the UK we were first with broadcast technology. What do we need to stay at the forefront? Industry guru Anna Wood explores... When it comes to broadcast, television and technology, although

08/09/2014 Canford To Preview IP-Addressable MDUs At IBC2014
With the new Canford IP-addressable Mains Distribution Units (MDUs), managing power distribution in Broadcast, IT and server racks has never been easier, writes Paul Vickers, Marketing Manager at Canf

08/09/2014 Eyeheight Unveils Final Cut Plug-In
Eyeheight has announced its latest professional broadcast legalisation plug-in for Apple Final Cut Pro X, which allows faster than real time file conformance when used with latest-generation desktop c

08/09/2014 Forscene Continues to Evolve Through Forbidden's Partnerships
Forscene, which started out a decade ago as an experimental logging tool built on what we now know as 'the cloud', has become the world's most advanced cloud-based video post-production platform, resp

08/09/2014 SGO Launches French Office
SGO has launched a new office in France, due to open its doors next month. Sergio Ochoa, credited with over 25 years as colourist and post production veteran, has been appointed by SGO to head the new

08/09/2014 Vinten Radamec Launches New Elevation Units, IBC2014
Vinten Radamec will be launching two new elevation units at IBC2014, the FE-165 and FE-55. The elevation units leverage the column construction of the FP-188 Fusion robotic pedestal paired with a n

08/09/2014 Web Subtitling: How Hard Can It Be?
The apparent simplicity of creating subtitles and captioning for web-based video belies the real complexities of this relatively new endeavour, writes John Birch of Screen Systems. Ask most broadca

05/09/2014 0% Finance: A No-Catch, Free-Money Offer
At last, finance is once again on the broadcast agenda, with Sony announcing their first 0% interest offer in quite some time. JVC are also offering a 0% deal over two years on their fibre camera chan

05/09/2014 Forbidden To Moderate 'Content Everywhere' Sessions
Forbidden Technologies, developer of cloud video platform Forscene, is to moderate two sessions at IBC's inaugural Content Everywhere Europe conference at IBC2014. During each session, one in each

05/09/2014 Hitachi Produces 4K Camera For HD Lenses
Hitachi Kokusai Electric has developed a new broadcast 4K Ultra-HDTV camera system that can adapt 2/3-inch B4 mount lenses used in conventional HD broadcast cameras. The use of standard HD lenses w