Broadcast News Archive for January, 2015
21/01/2015 My Eye Media Installs Archimedia Atlas 4K/UHD Player
Archimedia Technology has announced that Hollywood quality control (QC) powerhouse My Eye Media has installed the Archimedia Atlas 4K/UHD professional media player for QC of theatrical releases and TV

21/01/2015 PMC Speakers Selected For Film Director's Screening Room
Film director and producer Andrew Lau Wai-Keung has installed a pair of PMC's BB5 XBD Active loudspeakers in his private screening room in Hong Kong. Wai-Keung began his career as a cinematographe

21/01/2015 Pro Motion Hire Selects Bubble & Squeak
Pro Motion Hire has selected Bubble & Squeak to provide PR and marketing services for the firm. Pro Motion Hire, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, is a specialist provider of broadca

21/01/2015 RED Digital Cinema Adds New Dealer Programs
RED Digital Cinema has added a new Authorized Rental House and Dealer programs. With demand continuing to grow internationally, the choice to provide those markets with evolved methods of support

21/01/2015 SMPTE Appoints New Officers And Governors
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has announced that the SMPTE Board of Governors has named the Society's 2015 directors and has appointed new officers and governors to fi

20/01/2015 Factory Media Appoints New Creative Director, Partnerships
Factory Media has appointed Jonathan Bates to the newly created role of creative director, partnerships. Bates joins Factory Media from video-distribution specialist Rightster where, as director o

20/01/2015 Location One Opens For Business At The Bottle Yard Studios
Location One is the latest new business to join the tenant community at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol. The new Bristol office marks Location One's second regional branch, since the company sta

20/01/2015 Pixel Power Partners With UTV Ireland
Pixel Power is partnering with UTV Ireland to supply technology to its newsroom. Journalists can create static and dynamic graphics sequences using Pixel Power LogoVision Clips, linked to the Avid

20/01/2015 STREAMSTAR And JVC Announce Deal
STREAMSTAR and JVC Professional have announced they have extended their partnership. The new deal sees STREAMSTAR's full range of professional video streaming production products, including the WE

20/01/2015 Vidcheck Appoints EMEA Gateway For Middle East Sales Expansion
Vidcheck has selected EMEA Gateway as their sales representation company for the Middle East to expand their sales reach in the region. The appointment is effective immediately as a prelude to Vid

20/01/2015 XL Video Goes On Tour With Bombay Bicycle Club
The very last music show to be staged at London's famous Earls Court concert and exhibition venue, which is being demolished, saw indie rockers Bombay Bicycle Club deliver an enthusiastic and enigmati

19/01/2015 BINGO! STAC-VIP Talk Show System And CallMe Codecs Link Entertainments Venues
The STAC-VIP is many things, its main role being the heart of a Talk Show / Phone-In system. But because of its ability to conference up to 12 callers and to receive calls from Broadcast IP Codecs, it

19/01/2015 Check, Mate: Automated QC In The Post-DPP Market
Vidcheck provides a range of software tools that conduct Automated Quality Control (Auto QC) and Intelligent Automated Correction of errors on file based video and audio media. BFV caught up with Grah

19/01/2015 DPA – Making Noise At ISE 2015
DPA Microphones will be exhibiting at this year's ISE exhibition in Amsterdam (stand 7-V240). Podium and Floor Stand Microphones – DPA's Podium Microphone range consist of the d:screet™ Mini

19/01/2015 Imagine Joins First IBC Content Everywhere MENA Sessions
Imagine Communications has announced it will be partaking in the new initiative from IBC, the first IBC Content Everywhere MENA taking place in Dubai, 20 – 22 January 2015. Imagine Communications w

19/01/2015 Lawo Supplies QVC Inc.
QVC Inc. has taken delivery of four Lawo mc² series audio consoles and a Nova73 HD central router for broadcast facilities at corporate headquarters in West Chester, PA. The mc²56 MKII consoles are

19/01/2015 Riedel Readies For 2015...
Just before Christmas, Riedel invited editor Iain Todd to the company's headquarters in Wuppertal. He spoke to founder and CEO Thomas Riedel on the year that's passed and the year to come. BFV:

19/01/2015 Roundabout Gears For 4K With LEADER LV5490
Roundabout Entertainment, one of Hollywood's most highly respected film and television production support companies, has invested in a LEADER LV5490 SD/HD/4K waveform monitor in response to accelerati

19/01/2015 Steinberg Nuendo Facilitates EBU R128 Standard
With television sound being relayed into homes via ever-better quality equipment, one of the things audiences complain about most is sudden changes in loudness between programmes, adverts and trailers

19/01/2015 VMI Announces Bristol Office Launch Event
UK HD camera supplier VMI has announced it will be celebrating the opening of its new Bristol Office in Lower Park Row and holding an Open Day Event on 12 February at the city's Colston Hall. The

16/01/2015 BVE Free Seminar Programme 'Packed' With Industry Leaders
The free seminar programme at BVE 2015 is packed with industry leaders who will inspire and inform about all aspects of content creation and delivery. The wide-ranging programme, totalling over 12

16/01/2015 Custom Consoles Enhances Broadcast Furniture Range
Custom Consoles is launching a major aesthetic enhancements to its broadcast furniture range at CABSAT 2015 in Dubai, 10 - 12 March. The Module-R, SystemTwo and SystemTwo Lite ranges of technical f

16/01/2015 DPA Microphones Helps Jazz Pianist Bring Superlative Sound
Jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky used DPA Microphones at a series of concerts and said that he would not even consider playing a concert without them. Tokyo's famous Blue Note club recently played host

16/01/2015 Esplanade Enhances Communications System With Clear-Com
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore's national performing arts center has enhanced their production intercom system with Clear-Com digital solutions. The center upgrades its existing partyl

16/01/2015 HARMAN Professional Appoints Vice President
HARMAN Professional has appointed David McKinney as Vice President and GM of HARMAN's Mixer Business Unit. McKinney will lead the global operations of the Soundcraft and Studer brands. Filling McKi