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JVC: off to NAB with large bag of goodies
Friday 12 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

At NAB 2010 JVC Professional will be highlighting its complete line of HD cameras, monitors, switchers and equipment specific to the broadcast and professional industry, along with high resolution, super contrast D-ILA projectors.

Toon Boom: Animate 2 announced
Wednesday 10 March, 2010 (Canada)

Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the upcoming release of Toon Boom Animate 2, a new version that provides professional animators with more power and flexibility for creating traditional, digital, cut-out and Flash-style animation.

WIN: help, help cries the teeniest entrepeneurs
Media Spy
Wednesday 10 March, 2010 (Australia)

Needing 68 new transmitters in WA alone, WIN reckons it deserves more help to go digital than the $4m it gets from the license fee rebate.

Ninemsn Tech Exec: predicting a cloudy future
Mitchell Lake
Monday 8 March, 2010 (Australia)

Ninemsn Head of technical Operations and Infrastructure, James Taylor, predicts the future from inside the beast.

Alice FX: guru interviewed
HitFX
Monday 8 March, 2010 (U.S.A.)

Self-important interviewer collides with the fascinating Ken Ralston, who gives with the skinny about the weirdification of the Alice in Wonderland performers.

Media 100: Suite Version 1.5 Now Available
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

Media 100 has announced that Media 100 Suite Version 1.5 is now available. Version 1.5 includes the ability to create, save, and export presets, improved media management capabilities, AVCHD import, and support for Apple's ProRes 4444, LT, and Proxy codecs.

TVNZ: enjoys free flights to Pacific destinations, leaves nice tip
Screen Hub
Friday 5 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

Pacific nations are benefiting from broadcast technology and equipment donated by TVNZ and carried to the Islands by Air New Zealand. TV stations in Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands have been donated TVNZ’s live broadcasting kits, which the broadcaster has recently replaced as a result of the migration to digital television.

Guardians of Ga'hoole: whooee, its the trailer
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

Holy moley, birds with human eyes.. show this to the kids in 3D IMAX and they will go home and lay eggs.

Adam Elliott: ACMI of viddies
ACMI
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

As part of the ACMI Mary and Max exhibition, the writer/director exudes the confidence of a true public speaker on a video interview.

Playpen: jumping for joy
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Thursday 4 March, 2010 (U.S.A.)

It is the fate of all good screen ideas to be turned into a dog food commercial.

Rachael Turk: lost from freelance journalism
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 1 March, 2010 (Australia)

Rachael Turk, Sydney journalist, independent filmmaker, ex-editor of IF and correspondent for Screen Hub, has been snaffled by Southern Star to be their Development Executive. As the cliche goes: our loss is their gain.

The License Fee Rebate:
ABC
Monday 1 March, 2010 (Australia)

What was the bribe about? "Actually it was designed to buy the networks cooperation in the digital switchover, which up will free up spectrum that the Government will sell for at least $1 billion, possibly much more. In that it was both rational and fair." Alan Kohler uses the ABC to be controversial.

TVS: now on digital channel 44
The Australian
Monday 1 March, 2010 (Australia)

A historic moment for community TV, as Sydney's channel makes it into the land of noughts and ones.

BRIEF: Austar buys new interactive EPG, becomes IPG
Screen Hub
Friday 26 February, 2010 (Australia)

Austar United Communications Limited has licensed an interactive program guide from US company Rovi. The agreement provides AUSTAR with a license to Rovi’s IPG patents for AUSTAR’s pay television services. In the corporate world, AUSTAR is an affiliate of UPC Broadband in Europe, via parent company Liberty Global, and UPC recently negotiated a similar agreement with Rovi.

WIN TV: can't receive its own signal
The Cairns Post
Friday 26 February, 2010 (Australia)

Residents of Cairns have been complaining about WIN TV's signal, so they were delighted to see the antenna repair bloke on the roof of WIN's local HQ trying to improve reception.

Oktobor: spends money like water and gets great results
Screen Hub
Friday 26 February, 2010 (New Zealand)

Following on from a rash of recent appointments, VFX and animation studio Oktobor has written some serious cheques to create a new colour suite, complete with the latest Baselight 4 colour grading system linked to a smart storage area network (SAN).

Dunedin: southern exposure creates optimism
Southland Times
Wednesday 24 February, 2010 (New Zealand)

Dunedin-based companies reckon they're ready to be bigger than Weta and become the country's 3D hub.

Spielberg: first, big blue aliens, now small Belgian guy and dog
LA Times
Tuesday 23 February, 2010 (New Zealand)

Steven Spielberg talks us through why he likes Weta so much.

Interzone: employees go after absconding boss
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 22 February, 2010 (Australia)

WA employees of dying games company Interzone found a company leader about to facilitiate the transfer of assets to Ireland. Enter a camera, and the glory of YouTube.

Luke Cavallan: Urban Claymation
Friday 19 February, 2010 (Australia)

Mayhem in May Lane grows into Kaos in King St as times change at AFTRS.

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