Simone Grattarola discovered colour grading by accident. Now he’s the colourist of Peaky Blinders and the BBC’s adaptation of War and Peace. He talks with TVTE about the evolution of the craft and how doing the job takes more than technological skill How did you begin ... Read More

Adopting UHD means an opportunity to rethink storage. Andy Warman, Harmonic’s director of production and playout strategy, gives tips on building a storage solution for handling UHD UHD is effectively four times the size of HD (1080p), and that means that significantly greater capacity is ... Read More

Nevion is a partner in the Live IP project, which has pioneered an all-IP workflow for live production. Nevion marketing director Olivier Suard says the road to IP will require slow and steady steps In January the industry took a giant leap in the IP evolution ... Read More

The management team at SintecMedia, the broadcast management software developer, has bought the company, with backing from private equity firm Francisco Partners. Financial details were not revealed but it has been suggested that the deal could be worth as much as. SintecMedia was previously majority owned by Riverwood Capital. Its software is ... Read More

Sky News has kicked off a two-year project to replace its Panasonic newsgathering cameras with Sony XDCAM camcorders. The move means the broadcaster can also make use of internet streaming to send footage directly from the cameras to the newsroom. Sky’s current kit of P2 cameras will be replaced with XDCAM ... Read More

MatrixStore’s Object Matrix is to be bundled up with the Sony Optical Disc Archive technology to create a repository for protecting rushes, work-in-progress and masters. The combination, which will be available from Sony Resellers later this year, can be driven by third-party applications, Object Matrix applications or via the Sony ... Read More

BT has standardised on Elemental software as part of the unification of its traditional and multiscreen headend that serves its BT TV Everywhere, BT Sport App and BT Ultra HD services. In the BT TV Everywhere video infrastructure Elemental’s kit powers a unified headend for subscription linear channels delivered to ... Read More