| H2 tags : Tokyo/Singapore/London/New York - Past MTV Video Music Award Japan winners Exile and 2011 nominee Kana Nishino are the first Japanese artists confirmed to perform at MTV Video Music Aid Japan. In response to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the tenth annual MTV Video Music Awards Japan (VMAJ) is being staged as MTV Video Music Aid Japan, an international music television event to benefit the Japanese Red Cross. Nominations were [...]; London - KidsCo has teamed up with, and animated, pop group Blue. KidsCo will feature the characters of Blue in a special episode of its original production, Boo & Me 2. The Boo & Me 2 Blue episode will air in all of KidsCo’s 95 territories from May 9, and will also be available on KidsCo’s UK website http://www.kidscotv.tv/uk/. The partnership is part of KidsCo’s drive to promote a venture that is central to its philosophy of educating child [...]; Los Angeles/Toronto - Leading independent studio Entertainment One Television (eOne) and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) announced they are moving forward on 22-episodes of John Grisham’s The Firm. Produced by eOne Television in association with SPT networks and Paramount Pictures, the series will be broadcast on Sony’s AXN networks in more than 125 territories or countries around the globe. eOne Television will retain basic and pay television [...]; Singapore/Los Angeles – Playcast Media has launched its first Games On Demand service in Singapore, with Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel). ‘ESC’, is available in Singapore to anyone with fibre or broadband connectivity of 10Mbps and above. The games are executed, rendered and streamed from SingTel’s data centres as an MPEG stream to consumers, using DSL or high quality, low latency FTTH access network, and can be played using a [...]; Singapore /Malaysia – Nickelodeon was rated the number one kids channel for the first quarter of 2011 in Singapore with record ratings, the highest average time spent and reach for kids aged 4 to 14 years old. In Singapore, the channel closed the first quarter in top position this year and dominated the top three kids programmes amongst the 4 to 14 year old core audience with Big Time Rush, True Jackson and iCarly. Nickelodeon beat the trend i [...]; London - Zone Reality is celebrating Real-Life Heroes for the month of May with special programming dedicated to ordinary people catapulted into extraordinary, heroic situations. Chello Zone announced the acquisition of a number of premieres to support this special season which will transmit on Zone Reality across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The premieres include the rescue series Real Heroes from Associated Television Internat [...]; Los Angeles/London, UK - Image Systems (formerly Digital Vision), leading developers of high-resolution image processing, film scanning and motion analysis solutions for the entertainment, defence and automotive industries, has announced that The Criterion Collection has purchased a Phoenix Finish system, which will become central to its restoration activities of classic and iconic films. The Criterion Collection, headquartered in New York, i [...]; Pictorvision announced that their state-of-the-art Eclipse 3D aerial system was recently flown carrying a pair of RED ONE M-X cameras for a Deutsche Telecom (the parent company of T-Mobile) package of spots called A Thousand Little Things. Directed by Paul WS Anderson (Event Horizon, Resident Evil series and the upcoming re-make of The Three Musketeers), the spots were shot in Berlin and Los Angeles by director of photography Vern Nobles. “I’v [...]; Singapore - The National Museum Cinémathèque and The Substation Museum Moving Images invite budding filmmakers to participate in the 8th Singapore Short Cuts. An annual event that showcases short films produced by local talent and celebrating its eighth season, the Singapore Short Cuts continues to maintain its position as one of the most popular and highly anticipated presentation of local short films made by local talent. Entry forms are av [...]; Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Masstech has won a US patent for its dynamic Distributed Redundant Adaptive Cluster (DRAC) in-house developed technology. The company’s innovation enables multiple broadcast applications to operate on two or more servers to achieve robust redundancy for mission critical systems in broadcast environments. The invention takes a unique approach to distributing heavy data loads as well as balancing out the risks of pote [...]; Singapore - Sony has launched the HXR-NX3D1P NXCAM Professional 3D Compact Camcorder in Asia Pacific, the latest addition to its NXCAM series. The HXR-NX3D1P will open up the world of 3D to a wider group of professional users, allowing them to create 3D footage of new types of content– such as independent budget productions, digital signages, weddings, events and corporate videos in 3D. The ‘ready-to-go’ camcorder supports the user-friend [...]; Billerica, Massachusetts - Officials at Westpac Stadium, a 34,500-seat multi-purpose facility in Wellington, New Zealand, decided to upgrade its video production capabilities with a complete retrofit of its control room. At the heart of the overhaul is a Broadcast Pix Granite 5000 video production system, which feeds video and graphics to two large replay screens installed at the north and south ends of the stadium. Westpac maintains a busy sc [...]; Gloucestershire, UK - At the 2011 NAB Show, The IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers) announced that it is now accepting nominations for the 2011 Design and Innovation Awards. Open to all global manufacturers and suppliers, the awards program recognizes products and solutions that tangibly aid the progression of the broadcast and media technology industry. From the pool of nominees, five will be chosen at the IBC2011 show [...]; Singapore - During the busy cricket season of March and April GlobeCast successfully deployed to two major cricket events – the IPL Twenty20 Cricket currently in play right after the success of the ICC Cricket World Cup. For the IPL Twenty20 Cricket which began on April 8 and continues until May 28, GlobeCast is onsite delivering 450 hours and 74 matches from over 12 venues in 51 days. GlobeCast is bringing the world feed in HD to Nimbus/Tim [...]; Seattle - Streambox unveiled Streambox Live Pro, the new enhanced version of the innovative IP-based video contribution Streambox Live Service. Streambox Live Pro enables remote reporters and citizen journalists to upload compressed live video streams to broadcast studios through Internet-based Streambox Live Data Centers located at multiple points around the world. Streambox Live Pro’s uncapped bandwidth, Advanced Audio Encoding (AAC), and Full [...]; Udine, Italy/Bangkok, Thailand - The Udine Far East Film Festival and Technicolor Asia (Technicolor Thailand Co. Ltd) announced a new partnership in which Technicolor Asia will present a US$25,000 Post Production Award to an Asian director of one of over 60 films screened at the 2011 Festival. The 13th edition of the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) will run from April 29 through to May 7. FEFF is supported by an audience from all over Europe wh [...] |
