Broadcast News Archive for December, 2017
14/12/2017 University of Westminster Transforms Students' Understanding Of Sound
Over the past two years, the University of Westminster have been revamping the production environment at their award-winning School of Media, Arts and Design. We had already worked with them to ins

13/12/2017 BBC World Service and Sundance Institute Join Forces On New Audio Storytelling Series
The BBC World Service and Sundance Institute, who are collaborating on a series of radio programmes and podcasts under the theme of 'Neighbour', have selected five projects from a pool of nearly 200 a

13/12/2017 LED Lighting Finally Kills Off Tungsten & HMI
Astounding colour reproduction: George Jarrett witnesses perhaps the best product launch of the year as Rotolight demonstrates the Anova PRO 2. The BAFTA-fronted albert consortium, all about greeni

13/12/2017 Presteigne Broadcast Expands Facilities
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has announced it has taken on an additional 21,000 square feet of warehouse, service, and operations space following a recent multimillion pound investment in new cameras, le

13/12/2017 Quantum Unveils Scale-Out NAS For Most-Demanding IP-Based Media Workflows
Quantum has announced a new Xcellis® Scale-out NAS solution that delivers the highest levels of storage performance and scalability in a cost-effective, Ethernet-based appliance. Powered by Quantu

13/12/2017 Six Christmas Activities For A Happy New Year
It's the countdown to Christmas and we're all slightly distracted by gaudy jumpers, office parties and jingling bells, but the lull that many businesses experience during December provides a rare oppo

13/12/2017 The Expanding Memory Of Solidmate Ltd
With the rise of data hungry cameras hitting the market munching on 128GB memory cards like a kid with a bag of Haribo, this has seen increased demands for more memory and the need for Solidmate Ltd t

13/12/2017 Timeline North Provides Post-Production On Sports Personality Of The Year 2017
Timeline North, based in MediaCityUK, is providing post-production on Sports Personality of the Year 2017 live show VTs as well as a 60-minute presenter lead preview show, Sports Personality of the Ye

12/12/2017 Broadcasters & Post Production Facilities Digitising Legacy Tape Formats: Pt 4
The fourth in a series of articles by Pat Horridge of VET Training covering the issues facing broadcasters & post houses needing to digitise legacy tape formats. Pat, a former broadcast service eng

12/12/2017 CABSAT 2018: Here Comes The Sun!
After a chilly Christmas break, Christy Media Solutions is looking forward to returning to the warmer climes of Dubai and its World Trade Centre, for the annual CABSAT exhibition in January. This y

12/12/2017 Evolving IP Standards
The earliest deployments of IP video transport began around 2001, when one large cable company sought ways of reducing the quantities of coax associated with the use of ASI for transporting video.

12/12/2017 Green Hippo Assist With Marina Bay Sands Show
'Spectra' is Marina Bay Sands Singapore's outdoor laser, light, projection and water show. Designed by Steve Nield, it has been two years in the making and is set to run for five years. Featuring

12/12/2017 IABM Launches 'Start-Up' Membership
IABM has introduced a new 'Start-Up' membership category, designed for new companies that have been incorporated for less than two years, enabling them to benefit from the full range of IABM membershi

12/12/2017 Lawo Adds To US Operations
Lawo has expanded its US operations with the addition of new personnel and the opening of a new support and logistics hub in Elmsford, New York. The new hub is three times the size and capacity of

12/12/2017 Product Breakthroughs Of 2017: Shotoku
By Graham Ramsey, Sales Director Manual and VR Products, Shotoku EMEA & Americas. The introduction of Augmented Reality (AR) has seen a renewed interest and growth in the use of the original

11/12/2017 3 Mills Studios Appoints General Manager
3 Mills Studios has announced the appointment of Paul de Carvalho as its new General Manager of 3 Mills Studios. De Carvalho takes over from Tom Avison as Head of Studios who has been with 3 Mills

11/12/2017 Dian Fossey: Secrets In The Mist
Altered Images has supplied a complete Avid Media Composer system for lead editor, Fergal McGrath, for his work on 'Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist', which airs this December on the National Geograph

11/12/2017 IDT Introduces The O-10 Portable High Speed Camera
The Most Portable 4K High Speed Camera Is Now Even More Portable High speed cameras have never been the most compact of cameras, but IDT are changing that. IDT's ultra compact O-10 captures over

11/12/2017 LIVESHOT Next-Generation Live Multi-Stream HD Video Multi-Codec
Comrex LiveShot is a compact camera-mountable Multi-Stream HD codec that sends video and audio from the field to the studio using the public internet whilst providing separate return video and audio p

11/12/2017 New Partnership For Screen Training Ireland
Details of a new partnership between Screen Training Ireland, Animation Skillnet and Dublin Institute of Technology has been unveiled by Ireland's Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton TD.

11/12/2017 Plans To Establish New Screen Unit
Plans to establish a new Screen Unit within Creative Scotland have been signed off by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop. The Screen Unit will work to enhance Scotland's screen industry by effectively

11/12/2017 RED Digital Cinema Accepting WEAPON Orders
RED Digital Cinema has announced that its WEAPON camera with MONSTRO 8K VV sensor is now available for purchase. The company's newest camera and sensor combination, WEAPON 8K VV, offers full frame

11/12/2017 SAM Take Part In SVG Summit & NewsTECH Forum
Snell Advanced Media (SAM) has announced that it will take part in SVG Summit and NewsTECH Forum events today and tomorrow (11 – 12 December) in New York, demonstrating sports and news video productio

11/12/2017 SMPTE Publishes ST 2110 Standards
The first documents of the SMPTE ST 2110 standards suite are now available, it has been announced. SMPTE has published the first standards within SMPTE ST 2110, Professional Media Over Managed IP

08/12/2017 Argosy To Exhibit At CABSAT 2018
Argosy has announced it will attend CABSAT 2018 next month, demonstrating its latest solutions including cabling technology and core infrastructure products. One highlight at the company's stand (