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Stars of the show - A visitors view

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by Ben Sheriff Issue 96 - December 2014 Yesterday TV-BAY - Kit Plus came to East London\'s Brick Lane showcasing a roadshow packed with great seminars and kit to whet our appetites in advance of BVE in February. It was no great surprise that, for the DPs and camera operators at least the star of the event was the Sony PXW-FS7. Sony\'s latest large...

Submitted by Ben Sherriff

Published 01 January 2015

The Tour Revisited

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Issue 96 - December 2014The November tour attracted over 1500 registrations visiting London and Manchester for one day in Shoreditch and the next in MediaCityUK. We asked people what they thought and there was simply too much to print. However here are the selected, together with our gallery and answers where there were issues, comments from visito...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 January 2015

Tour competition winners announced

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Issue 96 - December 2014Miller Tripods have been celebrating their 60th anniversary in 2014 and donated one of their limited edition LP\'54 classic Tripods to our Tour raffle in aid of Dreamflight, raising £1040. You can watch the drawand presentation to winner,Peter Baughan, click hereHireacamera were offering a Sony FS7 hire for a week to a luck...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 January 2015

The impact of depreciation with Peter Savage

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by Peter SavageIssue 83 - November 2013 I spent last Thursday evening with a longstanding friend discussing depreciation. I can see you all sitting up and taking note, thinking, Wow! This man Savage has a really exciting life ¦. But, hard as it might be to believe, it was a very interesting conversation and one that demonstrates how the market has...

Submitted by Dick Hobbs.

Published 01 December 2013

A testing 4K future...

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by Steve NunneyIssue 83 - November 2013 We have only recently started to get HDTV transmitted to our homes with all the headaches of getting 1920 x 1080 50 or 60 fps down cables and compressed over the airways. Then there was the suggestion we could be sitting at home wearing glasses watching 3D however on 13th June 2013, ESPN announced an end to b...

Submitted by Steve Nunney

Published 01 December 2013

#TVFUTURES

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by Will IngramIssue 83 - November 2013 So, what am I working on at the moment? Well, we currently have two practical units running side-by-side: Video Production and Multimedia. For VP we are producing a 20-minute documentary that we have chosen to film in an Inside Out style featuring some traditional crafts and businesses within Weymouth and the...

Submitted by Will Ingram

Published 01 December 2013

Peter Savage asks: Is the 1980s vision still relevant tod...

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by Peter SavageIssue 82 - October 2013 The focus of this issue of tv-bay acquisition takes me back to the very beginning of my involvement in broadcast. In the late 1980s, the whole of the broadcast world changed for what, I believe, was the better. The BBC introduced Producer Choice, which meant that commissioners of programmes were for the first...

Submitted by Dick Hobbs.

Published 01 November 2013

TV-Bay takes BroadcastShow on tour!

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TV-Bay’s BroadcastShow goes on tour... Where & When?London (Pinewood Studios) 9th May 2013Glasgow 14th May 2013Manchester 16th May 2013Cardiff 21st May 2013Bristol 23rd May 2013Who’s exhibiting?A growing band of leading manufacuters and distributors are coming on the tour and (at time of going to print) we are pleased to say Panasonic, NewTek, Blac...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 May 2013