Televisual articles from October 2002

Televisual archives from October 2002

Vanguard Films sets up shop for cg production at Ealing Studios. (Film).(Motion picture production facility information)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... LA's Vanguard Films is to build a major new digital animation studio at Ealing Studios and has at least four cg features in its sights. Already under way is Valiant, a cg comedy for Disney about a misfit pigeon that enters a WW2 boot camp. ...

Ram-raiders target London kit and post outfits. (Facilities).(Smash and grab crime details)
October 1, 2002... Kit companies in London and the SE are being targeted by gangs suspected of spiriting [pounds sterling]100,000s of kit out of the UK. Victims of smash-and-grab burglaries have been Aimimage, Cinevideo, Component, Prime TV, Lynx, VMI, VFG,...

New lads' channel from Turner. (Cabsat).(Turner Broadcasting Inc. service introduction)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Launching this month from Turner Broadcasting is CNX, an action, adventure and anime channel. Targetting 16-34 year-old men, it's "pure entertainment play for the adult male audience," says channel manager Richard Kilgariff. Original...

Kids indies hatch an Elephant Egg. (Animation).(Television production details)
October 1, 2002... Indie Elephant Productions and animation house Fictitious Egg are teaming up to launch new studio Elephant Egg. The companies have already worked together on projects including Animal School for CBBC and the upcoming BBC show...

Toon Disney. (In Brief).(Devilfish's Toon Disney contract details)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Design outfit Devilfish has won a five-way pitch to rebrand Toon Disney's Bigger Friday, a three-hour programming block on Friday afternoons. Devilfish is to create idents, along with opening and closing titles, interstitials, a bug and a...

Kickback Media. (In Brief).(company management details)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Ex-TV Loonland programme director John Bullivant has launched his own outfit Kickback Media. He goes to Mipcom this month with his first project, Wild Life, about a young girl and her animatronic animal friends. Bullivant says Kickback will be...

Sheffield Documentary Festival. (In Brief).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... In the run-up to this month's Sheffield Documentary Festival, you can preview clips from festival entries (like Georgie Girl, left) at www.sidf.co.uk. Groovy Gecko provides encoding and hosting services for the streamed material, in what...

Mapcorn. (In Brief).(television production and entertainment industry conference details)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... New Markets, New Challenges is the agenda for Mapcom, a daylong gathering of corporate commissioners and producers to be hosted by the IVCA this month at BT Tower. Branded TV, infotainment and iTV are among the markets up for discussion;...

MPC. (In Brief).(company management details)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... MPC has expanded its 3D studio on the back of a raft of jobs including graphics for the BBC's Wild Weather (right). Other ongoing projects are Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Jackie Chan feature, Highbinders. MPC has recently...

MediaArc sets style for Endemol's Fame Academy. (Broadcast).(Endemol UK marketing contract details )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The BBC's branding and design agency MediaArc has created the branding, logo and titles for Endemol UK's upcoming reality programme, Fame Academy. The new show will put a group of young wannabes through a tough Fame-like talent-school...

Comedy shorts with four new reasons to be cheerful. (Film).(Film 4 lab short film production details )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Shooting has started on four shorts funded through a new comedy short film slate, Reasons to be Cheerful. Lis Murdoch's indie Shine is developing and producing the slate, which is co-financed by The Film Council's new cinema fund and Film...

The Streets get Smith Treatment. (Promos).(Adam Smith of Treatment )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Streets brought in director Adam Smith at Treatment to provide the on-stage visuals for their upcoming tour. Smith, who created visuals for The Chemical Brothers and U2, was asked for five narrative pieces rather than "pattern-type"...

Corporate.(English and Pockett contract details )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... English & Pockett is behind the new identity for BA's in-flight entertainment service, High Life. The idea for the design is overhead photography -- not just images of earth, but also small objects like circuit-boards. E&P creative director...

Firehouse Productions. (In Brief).(television production details )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Firehouse Productions has produced two new spots for charity. Broken Hearts, an ad for the British Heart Foundation ordered by Target, is directed by Peter Granger and produced by Adam Mattison. Poverty Over (pictured) is a 30-second spot for...

Slinky Pictures. (In Brief).(BMI Baby contracts with Slinky Pictures )
October 1, 2002... Airline BMI Baby has hired Slinky Pictures director Chris Shepherd to produce its new sponsorship idents for Carlton weather this winter. The airline's character is Tiny, who is seen doing battle with the elements. Animation was by Michelle Yu...

Collingwood O'Hare. (In Brief).(animated television program contract details)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Collingwood O'Hare's new kids animation project Gordon Gnome has been commissioned by Theresa PlummerAndrews for CBBC. The 52x10-minute 2D series is voiced by Alan Titchmarsh. It was developed by writer/director Tony Collingwood and development...

Telemagination's heavy metal. (Animation).(animated television program production details)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The UK animation studio Telemagination has just gone into production on Metalheads, an animated comedyadventure targeted at 6-to 11year-olds. The show, set in the middle ages against the backdrop of a "murky" medieval castle, centres on a...

Hill's Feltham doc to get TX for good behaviour. (Broadcast).(Brian Hill)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Espensen, Sam Brian Hill's new documentary, planned to go out on Channel 4 this month, has yet to get a confirmed air-date because of its subject matter. In the tradition of Drinking for England, Century Films' Fe it ham Sings is a...

The green light. (In Production News).(Endor Productions and British Broadcasting Corporation production details )
October 1, 2002... Endor Productions and the BBC are soon to start filming on writer Paul Abbott's State of Play, a conspiracy thriller set against the backdrop of Whitehall and Fleet Street. The series, which stars John Simm and David Morrissey, was commissioned...

SVC. (In Brief).(computer animation production contract details )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... SVC has animated a series of new idents for Discovery Home and Leisure. Each ident features dancing penknives choreographed to a piece of classical music. Phil Hurrell and Howard Bell animated in Softimage; post was by Alison Wendt. The spots...

Aardman. (In Brief).(Nickelodeon UK commissions 'Presentators' interstitials )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... After the success of Aardman's short The Deadline, Nickelodeon's creative director Steve Shannon has commissioned 5x1 -minute cg interstitials featuring the three characters. The Presentators, to air this month, stars the hapless Brian, Stefan...

Twofour. (In Brief).(produces national curriculum "Our Parliamentary" video)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Twofour has produced a companion video for a new national curriculum course on citizenship. Our Parliamentary commissioned by the Parliamentary Education Unit, explains the workings of Westminster through four young investigative reporters sent...

Saturday night rethink for BBC1. (Broadcast).( Jana Bennett new head of British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The BBC's new director of television Jana Bennett has told an RTS audience that she is looking for "new and original thinking on Saturday nights for BBC1 viewers." There's no need for viewers to spend Saturday nights "locked up in purple...

ITV's [pounds sterling]825m fight-back. (Broadcast).(Independent Television's programme budget)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... In an attempt to retaliate against the BBC's creeping dominance in the ratings war, ITV has unveiled an [pounds sterling]825m warchest for next year. The budget for new programmes represents an increase of 7% on this year. The network...

Granada's film outfit wraps. (Film).(Granada Film Production closed down)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... "Granada Film, the outfit behind the critically acclaimed Bloody Sunday and Oscar-winner My Left Foot, has been wound up as part of a restructure at Granada. The unit bad been in operation for 13 years. Pippa Cross, who ran the division,...

Regional indies under threat. (Reports).(independent television production companies)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Regional independents are damaged by an erratic commissioning system according to a report. The Research Centre for TV and Interactivity interviewed 100 regional TV executives for Risky Business: Inside the Indies. It found that indies...

Producers have to think globally. (The Business News).(Infonation becomes independent)
October 1, 2002... Infonation recently left its civil service home to become a fully-fledged indie. MD Ron Blythe explains why he'll remain an ardent internationalist Go to any distributor of factual programmes and they'll all say the same thing: British TV...

Storyboard news.(news from the television advertising sector )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... There's a slightly off-beat collection for Storyboard this month: a cheetah who doesn't like taking his dentures out for too long; a new Playstation spot from the Gorgeous Todd Carty; C4's Momi scheme revealing its new identity; as are the Leaf...

Bright start for BBC's new baby. (Broadcast).(BBC3 will receive increased funding from government )
October 1, 2002... Stuart Murphy has at last been able to uncork the champagne he's been saving up since last year. And members of the UK's independent sector might want to dust off a few bottles of bubbly themselves. Because, after a series of rethinks,...

ITV. (Month in Review).(Dawn Airey leaves ITV to take position at Sky )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The contract for ITV's new programme director was already written on the wall pre-Edinburgh. ITV heads (those that hadn't rolled) had finally agreed that the champion of the 3Fs channel was the right woman to lead ITV back into the black Then,...

BBC. (Month in Review).(Michael Grade)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Michael Grade is definitely not interested in taking the job Dawn Airey turned down. That's definite. He's far too grown-up (59) to go playing that puerile TV super-scheduler game he was once so fond of, and anyway he's definitely far too busy...

Channel 4. (Month in Review).(Dawn Airey leaves Channel 5)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Back at C5, the prospect of a new incumbent in the chief executive's office means that a few of the new faces recently joined from Channel 4 must be wondering if they made the right choice. The race to succeed Dawn Airey started the very Friday...

Directors against US ownership. (Broadcast).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Directors Guild does not agree with the joint statement made by the DTI/DCMS that the proposals on foreign ownership "will give the best of both worlds." We believe the draft communications bill does not ensure plurality in the British...

But what price UK ownership? (Broadcast).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... With regard to Lord Puttnam's proposed plurality test, to be imposed on potential non-European companies buying access to UK broadcasting, the question should not be "should we open the door for the US to buy a stake in UK media in this way?"...

Programme sales hit a bear market. (Opinions).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Marvellous, isn't it? The independent production sector has just got the bang of joining the distribution chain for programmes rather than just making them when the market dries up. Well, that's what UK distributors on the brink of Mipcom...

Cyborg goes ballistic at Mill Film. (Watch Your Business Grow).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... 5D Cyborg went straight into postproduction on 'K-19: The Widowmaker' at Mill Film at the end of 2001. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, it's the true story of Russia's first nuclear ballistic submarine,...

root6 support to die for. (Watch Your Business Grow).(James Bond film Die Another Day postproduction)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Due for an eagerly-awaited release in November, the latest Bond feature from Eon Productions, 'Die Another Day.' was known simply as 'BOND 20' when shooting started back in January this year. As location filming got underway, the postproduction...

DS/HD Saab commercial from Red Square. (Watch Your Business Grow).(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... London editing house Red Square recently completed a commercial for the Saab 93X concept car. Launched at the Detroit Motor Show earlier this year. The commercial was shot on HDCAM and finished in 16:6 widescreen format on Avid's DS\HD at Red...

Pepper hot with second DS/HD. (Watch Your Business Grow).(orders video processing equipment by Compaq Computer Corp.)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... Pepper has ordered a second DS\HD, making the facility the first in London to won two such systems. The first, installed in 2000, was the first, installed in 2000, was the first DS\HD in Europe and the company is understandably a huge fan. The...

root6 Technology provides global solution for BEAM.TV and Saatchi & Saatchi. (Technology for the Creative).(Company Brief)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Beambox -- a unique set-top multi-format player developed by root6 Technology and implemented by BEAM.TV -- is to be widely installed around the world following an agreement between BEAM.TV and Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide. Beambox enables...

MotionFX impress with Cyborg. (Technology for the Creative).(Company Brief)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... MotionFX chose to start-up with dual Cyborg systems on the specials menu, which according to senior effects artist Jonathan Cheetham didn't take long to impress the clients, let alone the operators. "Customers love to work with Cyborg," he...

Symphonys on song at evolutions. (Technology for the Creative).(Evolutions television posproduction facility)(uses Symphony suite for post production)(Company Brief)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Evolutions, London's largest Symphony facility for postproduction, has a client list that reads like the 'Who's Who?' of leading broadcasters and production companies. The Berners Street facility added its fifth Symphony suite last year --...

First Unity v3 for rainbow. (Technology for the Creative).(Rainbow Post Production installs Avid Unity MediaNetwork v3)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... Specialising in factual, music and drama programming for broadcast since 1994, Rainbow Post Production has become the first UK facility to install Avid Unity MediaNetwork v3 -- showcased at NAB earlier in the year. As part of a planned...

Second Cyborg for Smoke & Mirrors. (Technology for the Creative).(beta testers)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... One of 50's original beta testers for 50 Cyborg, S&M has just taken delivery of another Cyborg v2 and is feeding it on a diet of 2K materials for feature films and a range of high-end TV commercials. Speaking about the implementation of 50...

M2 unlocks Cyborg performance. (Technology for the Creative).(M2 Television)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... 50 Cyborg has been integrated into an SD, HD and new data pipeline at M2 Television where it has already been used for a range of projects for Channel 4, including an on-air promotion for FilmFour featuring actor Joe Pesci, the opening titles...

Laughing matters. (Interview).(Jon Plowman of the BBC)(Interview)
October 1, 2002... The BBC's head of comedy entertainment reckons the commercial channels have lost their comedy bottle. Jon Creamer asks him why he thinks the corporation is the best in the funny business "I wanted a gentlemen's club, but I got a...

Women on top. (Tipping the Velvet in Production).
October 1, 2002... Sally Head's new drama series for BBC2 this month includes music hall songs, lesbians and the right way to get into to an oyster. Sam Espensen talks to the producer and the post-house about making 21st-century London look Victorian for Sarah...

TV sans frontieres. (Distribution Mipcom).(television distribution market)
October 1, 2002... TV distributors have had a tough time of it of late. Jon Creamer finds out how the market has now changed for good, but not necessarily for the better It's not been a great year in the distribution business. The downturn in ad revenue...

Good clean fun. (Rubbadubbers in Production).
October 1, 2002... The team that brought you Bob the Builder is busy on a follow-up for CBeebies next spring. Rachel Murrell travels north to Altrincham to join Hot Animation in the bath Anyone who ever lay in the bath trying to come up with the Next Big...

Less is more for independents: a year of lean ad revenues has taught independent television producers how to cut their coats according to their clients' scanter cloth. This is what they tell us about the business. (100 Production).(Directory)
October 1, 2002... The average indie is bigger this year, co-opting a couple of freelancers on to its permanent payroll (see table, top right) to work on over a fifth more programming than last year, including one more commission. That's the good news. The...

Pilot licence: Veteran of The X-Files and ER, one of America's most sought-after pilot directors has been whistle-stopping over here to shoot a new BMP ad for British Gas. Jane Austin caught up with him. (David Nutter The Director).
October 1, 2002... Heading for check-out at London's uber-trendy Metropolitan hotel, the god of the small-screen and sci-fi fanatics the world over comes across more like a nice dad from Florida than the winner of numerous Emmys. "Going on shoots is great for me;...

Low-rise branding: BBH's first US ad for Levi's is from a Czech director and a UK production company. Sam Espensen gets the low-down on the low-risers. (In Production Levi's).
October 1, 2002... Ivan Zacharias has shot for some big brands -- coke, VW and Stella among them. He was first signed to Blink and now is on Stink's roster in London with his long-term producing partner Nick London. But when he entered a pitch for Levi's new...

Camera Crews ...and action. (Production File).
October 1, 2002... Its been an understandably tough 12 months for camera crewing outfits surviving on a much reduced commissioning slate. Big changes occurring at high levels in broadcasting companies (BBC, Channel 4, Carlton and Granada) had already slowed the...

Leitch plays for Avid business. (Technology).(new editor)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Leitch has unveiled a [pounds sterling]10k editor for the broadcast market, taking advantage of Avid's absence from IBC. The DpsVelocityQ is a PC-based solution which can simultaneously play back four video streams (in compressed or...

The Foundry features Furnace. (Technology).(new plug-ins)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Plug-in developer The Foundry has created a set of tools to help compositors speed up the correction of problems such as wire removal on film fx shots. The plug-ins, branded Furnace, are designed for Apple's Shake visual effects system and...

Incite. (In Brief).(new software development)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Swiss manufacturer Incite, previously responsible for only the Incite non-linear editing package, has developed a range of nine separate software products running the gamut from logging software to news-cutters to a sub-[pounds sterling]2k HD...

Digital Cinema at VTR launches. (Facilities).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... VTR has thrown open the doors of its new Digital Cinema division two years after its special fx operation The Film Factory shuttered. The [pounds sterling]3m investment, situated on Soho's Dean Street, centres on the latest version of the...

Sony takes metadata forward into acquisition. (Technology).(development of camcorder)
October 1, 2002... Sony has previewed the first camcorder to feature built-in metadata capture. This allows information about any frame of any shot to be automatically collected at the point of acquisition. It is currently only in prototype and built into its...

Hybrid film and HD camera. (Acquisition).(from Mitchell Camera)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... While Sony, Panasonic and Thomson Grass Valley continue to advance digital film formats, the camera specialist Joe Dunton has devised a camera which may help to keep film alive a little longer. Shown in prototype at IBC, the unit is the...

Richmond acts up with Cirque. (Facilities).(Richmond Studios produces Cirque du Soleil DVD)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Richmond Studios is producing the latest DVD for eye-popping high-wire troupe, Cirque du Soleil. Richmond contributed the audio post for the previous three discs (including Alegria, below) and is now also responsible for authoring and graphics....

Bravo Post. (In Brief).
October 1, 2002... Bravo Post has spent [pounds sterling]200k on expanding across two extra floors in Great Marlborough Street. Purchases include Avid off line and Unity Lanshare. With recent TV work including BBC kids' series Call the Shots, MD Tracy Bravo says...

Pyramedia. (In Brief).(Nickelodeon purchases interactive viewer-response system )
October 1, 2002... Nickelodeon has purchased an interactive viewer-response system for use on a new kids' gameshow expected to TX in January. Pyramedia's Media Interactive Technology (MIT) software links the broadcast feed to telephone exchanges to allow for mass...

Quantel. (In Brief).(Peach utilizes editing system, QEditpro introduced)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Peach, part of The Big Finish facility group, has made one of the first UK purchases of Quantel's resolution co-existent [pounds sterling]140k HD/SD editing system, eQ. Quantel has also launched the [pounds sterling]45k QEditpro, and signalled...

The Hospital gets into shape. (Facilities).(Hospital Group)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Hospital Group, the new creative arts venture run by Dave Stewart with the backing of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has begun kitting out its Covent Garden hub ready for a March launch. The new facility, led by the former ceo BBC...

Mill refocuses on Soho. (Facilities).(layoffs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Mill has shed a number of permanent and freelance staff following relocation of its Mill Film operation from Shepperton to Soho. MD Robin Shenfield rebuts suggestions that the facility is in financial trouble, however. "Its been part of...

5D creates market buzz. (Technology).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... 5D made perhaps the most noise at last month's trade show IBC, and not just because of its spectacular collaboration with De La Guarda. The manufacturer showcased technology linkups which further its position in the digital intermediate...

The cost of iTV just came down. (The Business The Works).(interactive television)
October 1, 2002... iTV is fast becoming a realistic proposition for producers, believes Purple Lizard director Doug Stoddart The interactive TV revolution that has been talked about for years remains grounded. While producers have seen the benefits of...

Play-at-home fun. (Banzai DVD).
October 1, 2002... The DVD for Radar's cult entertainment hit Banzai required more than just stitching together a series best-of video highlights. Post-house DGP had the task of generating a range of new features to fit in with with the show's manic atmosphere...

Production Directory. (A - V).
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Keep it in the family. (In My View).(Pat Jones of Soho 601)(Interview)
October 1, 2002... Soho 601's new md Pat Jones may be cutting a swathe through Dean Street, but that means nothing once he steps into his own home. Sam Espensen talks to him about household management; the male need for the remote; keeping the missus happy; the...

October TX guide.(television listings)
October 1, 2002... A PRODUCER'S GUIDE TO THE MONTH ON THE BOX What Jade did Next Thursday 3 October 21.00: Channel 4 Endemol UK has voted us another hour of Jade Goody, just in case we'd managed to forget one of the most strangely compelling members of...

Americans [love] Eastenders, true. (Hair-In-The-Gate).
October 1, 2002... "Eastenders was the best part of my Sunday and you took it away!" rants Mad Fan from California, one of 1200 of the BBC's US cable subscribers who protested to www.bbcamerica.us about the soap's switch to Friday. Well, the BBC has listened,...

Business Communication Awards 2003.
October 1, 2002... IVCA Awards : setting the standard! IVCA Awards are recognised internationally as marks of excellence for effective business communication in corporate video, live events, multimedia projects, business television and websites. Winning...

Apple Pro Store.(at GearBox)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... From day one, GearBox has always been 100% Apple-based. Every desktop and laptop system it supplies has an Apple Mac at its heart. That includes all 40 Avid and Pro Tools editing systems in GearBox's hire stock. In fact the whole GearBox...

Weapons of choice.(Apple PowerPC G4)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Already the worlds first desktop 'super computers' and classed by the US military as weapons due to their awesome power. The new dual 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processors have caused a longer 'Hey wow," period than normal. Those two processors perform...

Power on the move.(Apple offers new portable computer, Titanium)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Any time you meet PC-users who think they've got the edge, there's one word that shuts them up: PowerBook. In many people's opinion, there isn't a Wintel laptop out there that can match the power, ease of use and sheer quality of Apple's...

Top Cat.(Mac OS X v10.2 by Apple Computer Corp.)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... With its stunning user interface and industrial-strength UNIX core, OS X has promised from day one to offer the best of all possible worlds. The newly released Mac OS X v10.2 delivers on those promises, with integral video, audio and MIDI...

Immaculate conceptions.(iPods portable recorder by Apple Computer Corp.)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... If a portable recorder that will store as many as 4,000 songs sounds like science fiction, you should check out Apple's iPods. Storing MP3-format files on 5GB, 10GB or now 20GB disk, the iPods offer a jog-proof format and a 10-hour battery...

iMac.(and iBook laptop computers by Apple Computer Corp.)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... Don't be fooled by the visual elegance of these machines, the new iMac and iBook computers are a great choice when you don't need the absolute pinnacle in processing speed, or budget is a particular consideration. Designed to occupy a...

iBook.(laptop by Apple Computer Corp.)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... The iBook range offers exceptional value for anyone wanting an Apple laptop at sub-Titanium prices. Now sporting a 14.1" TFT screen, the maximum spec iBook ships a 30GB hard drive, DVD/CD-RW, ATI Rage card and 10/100Base-T Ethernet....

Is Xserve the future for larger facilities?(by Apple Computer Corp.)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... Suggesting an audio or video facility buy a server that would be at home with an Internet Service Provider may seem a strange idea. Then again, so did recording onto computer disks not so long ago. And look what Apple's Xserve actually offers....

Flat 'n' funky.(Apple cinema HD Display)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... If you're spending long periods staring at computer screens (and let's face it who isn't these days?) you owe it to yourself to get the best computer monitors technology can deliver. The new 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display is large enough...

Professional video solutions.
October 1, 2002... These may be the only tools you need to edit a television programme or a cinema release, or author a DVD on an Apple Mac. Whether you want to work offline, or at online resolutions up to HD, Final Cut Pro offers a solution. You can even use...