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Industry TrendsBroadcast access services take a step forward with live British Sign Language (BSL) translation
Recent advances in captioning and autocue technologies, spearheaded by companies including Red Bee Media, are allowing profoundly deaf translators to work on live news and sports content, reports David Davies.
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MPC restructures global leadership team
VFX house MPC is restructuring of its global leadership team, appointing several new key hires.
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Netflix doubles size of Spanish production hub Tres Cantos
Netflix has officially opened five more studios at its Tres Cantos production hub in Madrid.
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Historic Ealing Studios wins planning permission to expand
Ealing Studios, one of the UK’s oldest facilities, has won planning permission from Ealing Council to expand.
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Sky opens Innovation Centre for 600 engineers and developers
The UK’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Michelle Donelan has officially opened Sky’s new Innovation Centre located on its Osterley campus.
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Industry Trends
5G NR: The Other Side of 5G
To the general public, 5G mobile networks are mainly a better version of 4G and 3G that gives faster download speeds with lower latency. Although this is true, it’s only part of the story, as John Maxwell Hobbs reports.
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New opportunities and new audiences on DAB+
IBC2022: Radio broadcasters are taking advantage of the extra features offered by DAB+ digital radio to bring their audience a richer experience on national, regional and local radio. Metadata allows radio broadcasters to stay at the forefront of today’s booming audio market – especially in the highly competitive space of ...
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Amazon Freevee to revive iconic soap Neighbours
Australian soap opera Neighbours is to return to television after producer Fremantle struck a deal to revive the iconic series with Amazon Freevee.
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Hasbro sells parts of eOne film and TV business
Toy giant Hasbro has embarked on a sale process for key parts of its eOne TV and film business, three years after acquiring the company for $4 billion.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Shantaram
1980s’ Bombay is the setting for Apple TV+’s sweeping romantic adventure, recreated in Bangkok and shot by Stefan Duscio ACS
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Technical papers: Advances in video coding
IBC2022: In this three-paper session we cover both speciality as well as mainstream encoding applications. V-Nova shares its approach and impressive results to encoding 6 degree-of-freedom point clouds with an emphasis on achieving real-time decode on high-end consumer devices. Mediakind explores encoding optimisations for live streamed game content, such as ...
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BBC Studios acquires ‘Inside the Factory’ producer Voltage TV
BBC Studios has taken full ownership of unscripted indie production company Voltage TV, whose credits include Inside the Factory for BBC Two, DNA Journey for ITV and The British Tribe Next Door for Channel 4.
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Fremantle acquires documentary producer 72 Films
Fremantle has acquired a majority stake in David Glover and Mark Raphael’s 72 Films, the UK documentary TV production company behind All or Nothing: Arsenal and 9/11: One Day in America.
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Accelerator - 5G remote production (in the middle of nowhere)
IBC2022: This breakthrough 5G project demonstrates just how portable and flexible a private 5G ‘network in a box’ can be for a variety of live broadcast production use cases, taking it to some truly remote global locations, as well as to the IBC show itself.
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Technical papers: 5G - Tools, trials and media production
IBC2022: 5G media streaming is a sophisticated infrastructure designed to robustly support the increasing consumption of high-quality video from content providers. To aid understanding and adoption of its capabilities, a suite of open-source tools (5G-MAG) have been developed.
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Technical papers: The immersive Olympics
IBC2022: The breadth and diversity of sport and venue covered by the Olympics considerably magnifies the production challenge. So, to add the complexity of immersivity is impressive. In this two-paper session you learn how 5.1.4 immersive audio was added and used across all sports, as well as the opening ...
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Mohamed Jalal Al Rayssi, Director General, Emirates News Agency
IBC365 speaks with Emirates News Agency (WAM) Director General Mohamed Jalal Al Rayssi on the challenges and future of the media industry ahead of the upcoming Global Media Congress in Abu Dhabi.
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Bleat Post Production launches in Hackney
New high-end post production facility - Bleat - has opened in Hackney.
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Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios adds three more stages
The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol has opened a second facility, TBY2, offering an additional three sound proofed stages.
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Technical papers: New approaches to social media
IBC2022: Among today’s diverse media technologies, social applications play a large role, providing new means for people to communicate and to share opinions and experiences with others.
