Equipment prices from one of the leading Broadcast manufacturers have gone up by around 20% in the UK since the Spring. The falling value of sterling is having a significant impact on our industry, as anyone who regularly buys kit recently will know only too well. At the time of writing, the value of [...]
TV has got good. Really good. Not all of it of course, but two pieces of TV I’ve seen recently have been truly stunning. My daughter is 10. There isn’t much that we can both watch and enjoy. Thankfully she thinks as much of Honey G as I do, and there is only so much [...]
Ikegami has a new spring in its step, and were showing off their 8K studio camera which has been involved with many of the tests NHK were showing in the Future Zone at IBC, but more likely to find some immediate traction is the 4K UHK-430 studio camera. Ikegami has taken the unusual step [...]
IBC 2016 for me was a pretty extraordinary show. The rate of change in so many aspects of our industry is mind-boggling. Technology changes are inevitable and relentless, driven by manufacturers desire to find the next big thing. It was definitely an IBC to be in “receive” mode with so much going on. Starting with [...]
With IBC 2016 less than a week away, I’m interested to learn what technical progressions are being made, particularly in OB IP infrastructure. There is still an understandable nervousness among tier 1 OB providers to venture too far in to remote production. The wrath of a rights-holder whose live showpiece event gets taken off [...]
Facebook told me that summer had started recently, which was helpful as I wrestled with my umbrella. The usual summer slowdown has not taken affect yet though, and people seem, on the whole, pretty busy. Our key markets, Soho Post Production, AV lighting, big sound systems for large events and sports production kit suppliers [...]
As I emerge from the customary post-NAB haze and try to formulate a coherent analysis of the 2016 show, perhaps the most striking realisation is that despite pacing the halls for four long days, I barely scratched the surface. The scale of the event, much like Las Vegas itself, is simply extraordinary, with over 100,000 [...]
The annual Guild Of Television Cameramen ( GTC ) Open Day and AGM was held recently in the Oxfordshire countryside on a sunny Sunday. It’s a while since I’ve attended one, and the welcome was as warm and friendly as it always has been. Organisations like these must be incredibly useful for freelance camera operators, [...]
As I emerge from the customary post-NAB haze and try to formulate a coherent analysis of the 2016 show, perhaps the most striking realisation is that despite pacing the halls for four long days, I barely scratched the surface. The scale of the event, much like Las Vegas itself, is simply extraordinary, with over 100,000 [...]
According to an industry think-tank, the end of 2017 will see the tipping point for UHD in the UK. But, ask the people working on the frontline, and that picture is not so cialis generic clear, reveals Peter Savage. As we approach NAB, talk will once online eczane cialis again return to the thorny subject [...]
