Film and Broadcast News for Media Experts

Pixotope delivers Eurovision Song Contest AR Graphics

The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 utilised The Future Group’s virtual studio and augmented reality platform Pixotope for its live broadcast graphics during the competition. Pixotope offers broadcasters and graphics houses native Unreal rendering with WYSIWYG editing, providing the highest quality photo-realistic graphics available. [Read more]

News: Business

Blackmagic Design Announces Distributor for Russia and Belarus

Blackmagic Design has today announced the appointment of the Proland Group Ltd as its authorized distribution partner in the Russian Federation and Belarus markets.The appointment of the Proland Group Ltd comes as Blackmagic Design invests significantly to ensure the highest levels of service and support to its resellers and customers. [Read more]

News: Distribution

SPI/FILMBOX Continues To Expand Its Reach In Western Europe Via Salt Mobile

SPI/FilmBox furthers its reach in Switzerland with the launch of four channels on Salt TV. Increasing the distribution of FunBox UHD and Fast&FunBox HD, and launching Gametoon HD, the interactive, e-Sports channel created by millennials for millennials and FightBox HD. [Read more]

News: Technology

Telemetrics Automatic Shot Correction Now Compatible with TeleGlide

Telemetrics has announced that the innovative reFrame Automatic Shot Correction feature included with its RCCP platform of control panels with STS Studio software—is now compatible with its TeleGlide camera trolley systems, freeing up the operator to control the camera’s pan/tilt head without worrying about talent moving unexpectedly out of frame while the camera travels along its track. [Read more]

News: Job + Career

Gederman appointed Head of Marketing for VIZRT´s Global Sports business unit

Vizrt, provider of visual storytelling tools for media content creators, has announced that Mark Gederman has joined the recently formed Global Sports business unit as the Global Head of Sports Marketing. Before he was Director of Global Marketing for Sports at ChyronHego. [Read more]

News: Production

Sydney Learning Media Team Goes 4K with EditShare

EditShare today announced that the Learning Media Team at The University of Sydney (Sydney Uni), an Australian public research and teaching university, selected the EditShare XStream EFS 300 to help them meet the demand to produce high quality video content in 4K. Digistor, an EditShare official dealer in Australia, was on site to facilitate the installation. [Read more]

Optimo Prime series prototype of the F40 lens

News: Technology

Angénieux goes prime

After 50 years almost fully dedicated to high-end zoom lens design and production, Angénieux presents at Cinegear LA, the first prototypes of the complete set of high-end Full Frame prime lenses –the Optimo Prime Series, in partnership with Band Pro Film & Digital, Inc and Jebsen Industrial Technology Co LTD . [Read more]

News: Business

Amino solution to power Bolivia’s first nationwide IPTV rollout

Entel, the national telecommunications operator in Bolivia, has begun a major deployment of AminoVU set-top boxes running on AminoOS to deliver IPTV services across its newly deployed fiber network, which covers almost 100% of the country. [Read more]

News: Events

Harmonic Highlights at ANGA COM 2019

At ANGA COM 2019 Harmonic will demonstrate the power and benefits of its virtualized cable access solution CableOS and VOS 360 video SaaS solutions, which are deployed by operators and media companies around the globe. Moreover the company will highlight UHD HDR video streaming and AI-based encoding and statistical multiplexing using the AVC standard. [Read more]