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Multimillion pound media studio opens in SE1

A new multimillion pound media studio complex has opened in the heart of London, designed to provide cutting-edge facilities to the city’s media professionals and to creative industries students at London South Bank University (LSBU). ‘Elephant Studios at LSBU’ is a £4 million (€5.17m) interlinked media space, offering high-specification production facilities at the forefront of […]

February 9, 2016By Colin Mann

Tata to deliver rugby union to 100 countries

Global comms provider Tata Communications will be the Official Broadcast Partner as the top rugby union teams of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres clash in three matches in France and Hong Kong. The video feeds of the three matches will be distributed live in high-definition to broadcasters, including Setanta Sports, Eurosport Australia and l’Equipe 21, […]

February 4, 2016

Nevion boosts ESPN’s sports coverage

Nevion, a provider of virtual media production infrastructure, has supplied its NX4600 H.264/AVC Media Gateway products to Coastal Media Group, for use in conjunction with ESPN’s REMI (Remote Integration) workflow. Using REMI, ESPN projects to dramatically increase its remote sports production in the near future. ESPN’s remote integration programme (REMI) began in January 2015 and […]

February 4, 2016

Viaccess-Orca launches cloud-based TV Everywhere

Content services protection and enhancement specialist Viaccess-Orca has launched Voyage – TV Everywhere as a Service (TVaaS), a new cloud-based over-the-top (OTT)/TV Everywhere (TVE) service designed to simplify multiscreen service delivery, increasing flexibility, reducing costs, and speeding up service launch times for operators. Running on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure, Voyage – TVaaS is integrated […]

January 28, 2016

Workflow boost for UHD

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) – a not for profit company founded by UK pubcasters ITV, BBC and Channel 4 – has unveiled a technical standard for the delivery of Ultra High Definition (UHD) programmes. The new standard is supported by the publication of two guides for DPP Members: a UHD Production Workflow Guide, and […]

January 27, 2016By Colin Mann

Imagine, Hewlett Packard strengthen collaboration

Expanding a relationship made public in April 2015, media and entertainment industry technology solutions provider Imagine Communications is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to enable communications service providers (CSPs) and other broadcast and media companies to construct video production, playout and distribution facilities that deliver unprecedented scale, flexibility, performance and reliability. The strengthened relationship […]

January 22, 2016

Media business intelligence toolkit from Ericsson

Ericsson has launched powerful business intelligence toolkit for TV and media players which it says enables media industry to aggregate, analyse and act upon large amounts of data. The toolkit – Integrated Video Insights – builds on Ericsson’s TV and media, big data and analytics, and consulting and systems integration portfolios and increases the company’s ability […]

January 21, 2016

Pixit Media to present data intelligent 4K workflow at BVE 2016

At BVE 2016 Pixit Media will demonstrate its software defined storage as a central repository to provide 4K uncompressed playback for a number of leading applications used in the broadcast and post production industries. Google, NetApp, Mellanox, Digital Vision, The Foundry and Adobe will be amongst the companies demonstrating their latest technologies through the efficient […]

January 21, 2016

Skills shortage not holding back broadcast IP adoption

Research by Futuresource Consulting, on behalf of Nevion, a specialist in transporting media from the camera to the home, shows that while barriers such as cost, perceived immature technology, security issues and interoperability concerns do exist when it comes to the full adoption of IP in broadcasting, lack of skills is not one of them. […]

January 19, 2016

Arsenal Broadband chooses Aframe

Premier League Football Club Arsenal, based in Holloway, London, has deployed the services of Aframe, the cloud video platform, to improve its video workflows and streamline processes. Arsenal creates and manages the vast majority of its video production in house, creating hours of video footage on a daily basis that consists of documentaries, interviews, match […]

January 12, 2016