SVGE Sit-Down: MD Steve Knee outlines how Cloudbass arrived in UK OB premier league

Sports Video Group
With SIS Live’s exit the roll call of British outside broadcast suppliers would appear to have been reduced to four, each with a 20-25% share. But this is an inaccurate picture...

http://svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/svge-sit-down-md-steve-knee-outlines-how-cloudbass-arrived-in-the-premier-league-of-uk-ob/

Gearhouse verdict on Hitachi SK-UHD4000

Broadcastbridge

Hitachi is one of several camera manufacturers unleashing 4K cameras with 2/3-inch B4 mounts and Gearhouse Broadcast made waves on its release at IBC2014 by announcing it would take the first 50 off the production line. Since then Gearhouse tested the camera to see how well the cameras worked in existing workflows and shares its findings with thebroadcastbridge.

https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/1011/gearhouse-verdict-on-hitachi-sk-uhd4000

SVGE Sit-Down: MD David Meynell on why SIS Live is now betting on connectivity

Sports Video Group
SIS Live is reinventing itself as a connectivity provider to UK live events and plans to double the number of stadia connected with its fibre network to 100 by 2016. 
http://svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/svge-sit-down-david-meynell-on-why-sis-live-is-now-betting-on-connectivity/

OBS TV to take on UK outside broadcast market with new 30-camera truck

Sports Video Group
OBS TV, the UK division of Irish outside broadcast and facility group Observe, is building a new 30-camera channel truck after a year of establishing its place in the marketplace.
http://svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/obs-tv-to-take-on-uk-outside-broadcast-market-with-new-30-camera-truck/

DOTS lands Hollywood studio for long term archive

BroadcastBridge

A rival to the Piql Preservation System for long term archiving of motion pictures has reportedly succeeded in getting one major studio to allocate budget for its use in 2015. Developed by Group 47, DOTS (Digital Optical Technology System) stores digital data onto metal alloy tape and is claimed to be archival for 100 years. It is non-magnetic, chemically inert, immune from electromagnetic fields including electromagnetic pulse and can be stored at room temperature.

https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/978/dots-lands-hollywood-studio-for-long-term-archive

3xScreen Media: Live Streaming Is No Longer Optional for Major Events

StreamingMedia

From the Vans x Crossfire Halloween Massacre to Ted Baker's fashion shows, the London-based streaming services provider is coming up with innovative ways to deliver live events online and compete with broadcast.

http://www.StreamingMediaGlobal.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/3xScreen-Media-Live-Streaming-Is-No-Longer-Optional-for-Major-Events-100496.aspx

Pioneering a new visual grammar in virtual reality

TVB Europe  p24
http://issuu.com/newbayeurope/docs/tvbe_november_2014_digital_edition/0

Zero tolerance comms for Riedel and F1.

TVB Europe P17

http://issuu.com/newbayeurope/docs/tvbe_november_2014_digital_edition/1 http:/

Film preservation for 500 years on film

Broadcastbridge

A new solution could have solved the riddle by storing digital files on film for up to 500 years Piql is the result of five years and €20 million R&D, supported by the EU and the Norwegian government.

https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/940/film-preservation-for-500-years-on-film

Video Platform Nideo Targets B2B

Streaming Media 

UK-based start up claims its platform, based on Microsoft Azure, offers analytics and tracking capabilities that are better suited to B2B video than YouTube, Vimeo, or Brightcove.

http://www.StreamingMediaGlobal.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Video-Platform-Nideo-Targets-B2B-100422.aspx

Bridging the ratings gap

Broadcast 

The absence of a shared multi-platform TV ratings measure breeds agency concern and tech innovation p20
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk//launch.aspx?eid=776b74fa-cd02-44cf-a137-12f29affe183

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/techfacils/digital-edition-broadcast-tech/5079714.article#.VFzzTcZT94M.twitter

Can LTE Broadcast Solve the Spectrum Conundrum?

IBC Following a busy round of trials, LTE Broadcast networks are being rolled out on both sides of the Atlantic with potentially dramatic ramifications for the future of content distribution. http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/Action=library/libID=2/listID=4/t=m

My interview with Michael Seresin, DP, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

British Cinematographer

http://issuu.com/open-box/docs/british_cinematographer_64

Reporting under pressure

Digital Studio 

Broadcast journalists are placed under great pressure while working in the field, sometimes in some incredibly remote and inhospitable places, but innovation in satellite and cellular connectivity is making the job of reporting a story in multiple ways to multiple outlets a much easier task.

http://www.digitalproductionme.com/article-8139-reporting-under-pressure/

Broadcast Turns Up the Heat for Online Advertising Monies

IBC Broadcasters are fighting the threat of advertising money being syphoned to the web by converging online advertising technology and techniques with mainstream TV advertising. In doing so, doing they claim to have tapped new revenue streams bolstering TV's future. http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/action=library/libID=2/libEntryID=259/listID=4

Celebrating Panavision's 60 year history

British Cinematographer p26

http://issuu.com/open-box/docs/british_cinematographer_64

The Future of Cinema from performance capture to VR: special report

British Cinematographer- p38

http://issuu.com/open-box/docs/bc065_issuu

plus interviews with Dion Beebe, Haris Zambarloukos, Simon Duggan on the future of cinematography p38-40 

Interviews with Jess Hall, Christian Berger, Phedon Papamichail & Roger Deakins on cinematography's future p27-33