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ACS have made a significant investment in the development and delivery of a range of 3D camera systems which mirror its service provision offered in HD. As part of its on-going commitment to the development of specialist cameras, ACS has launched two new 3D heads, the Hammerhead and Remora.

Hammerhead

Most recently deployed on the Manchester United v Liverpool Premiership game at Old Trafford for Sky Sports.
Conceptualised and developed in house, Hammerhead is a flexible and compact 3D remote pan & tilt minicam solution which provides a motorised IAD and convergence adjustment plate for a pair of HD minicams with ...

EMF is providing the technical services for the new entertainment show on TF1: The Voice, la plus belle voix.
From the OB truck XL1 to sets L1 and L2 at the Lendit studios, with the management of thirty or so personnel and 16 cameras (including 2 camera booms and 1 Steadicam - Mathieu Caudroy), Euro Media France is providing Shine France with the best of its know-how.

Directed by Tristan Carné (Danse avec les Stars, Téléthon etc.) and presented by Nikos Aliagas, this new format show relies on a totally different selection and judging process than the usual music ...

United, the new name for United Broadcast Facilities (UBF), has signed a ten-year lease for studio space in the brand new Gebouw Mediahaven in Amsterdam. The lease, to commence at the end of 2012, was signed today and will give United access to two TV recording studios in the brand new, sustainable building.

United is to rent a total of around 2,300 m2. In addition to the 1,700 m2 of studio space (one large studio of 1,300 m2 and a smaller, 400 m2 studio) United will also rent dressing rooms, production rooms, seven ENG storage spaces, and ...

Last Sunday's Paris Saint-Germain vs. Olympique de Marseille football match saw the world premiere of the online Stitch and DAV system (Data Augmented Video), inaugurated by Euro Media France and Sony Professional

Basingstoke,  5 December 2011: After a series of successful tests carried out on the PSG vs. Nancy match (produced by Jean Jacques Amsellem), this weekend's derby (produced by Laurent Lachand), repeated online on Canal+, was the first match in France to benefit from this system - a simultaneous combination of new images and a tool to enhance raw contents. The tools enable the TV viewer to watch ...

S-TV joins Euro Media France and to a larger extent the Euro Media Group at the end of 2011.  
STV will become a subsidiary (100%) of Euro Media France and will bring with it new skills in the guise of mastery of production in the realms of Satellite broadcasting (with Globecast as a partner) with multi-camera SD/HD.

Developments in technology and the miniaturisation of equipment has meant that this “production and satellite broadcast” turnkey concept is also evolving in the markets of filming with 4-5 cameras, primarily in the fields of sporting and other events. 
In view of reducing ...

The families of Dutch military serving abroad during the holiday season were recently treated to a varied entertainment programme from MAX Mission, a collaboration between home front organizations from the Ministry of Defence and the Dutch broadcaster MAX.

The show included performances by many Dutch artists, and was professionally recorded and directed by United.

Meanwhile, in portable cabins, ENGs were recording personal greetings from family members to send to 'their' servicemen abroad.
These greetings – along with those from Dutch celebrities, the Prime Minister and the commander of the armed forces, together with a number of songs from the show – were ...

United has added two more artists to its growing list of concert recordings: popular Dutch singers Frans Bauer and Lee Towers, who both managed to raise the roof of Rotterdam's newly refurbished Ahoy stadium on two consecutive nights.

The first to perform was Frans Bauer, on Saturday.
The stage at the Ahoy was in the centre of the stadium, which made it tricky for the cameras, since the singer was turning in different directions all the time.
The problem was solved by laying a 90-meter track right around the stage, with four cameras moving along it; an added advantage ...

After Holland and America we also start looking for the pure force of a voice in Flanders and Wallonia! He who survives the blind auditions and the battles will get a place in the live shows!

The candidates who survived a very strict preliminary, get to do a blind audition with a live band and live studio audience! During these blind auditions, the 4 coaches (Alex Callier, Jasper Steverlinck, Koen Wauters and Natalia) sit in a rotating chair with their backs facing the candidates in order to concentrate solely on the voice of singer standing behind them. The selected candidates ...

Tintin and the secret of the Unicorn’ has been presented by no one less than Steven Spielberg himself at the UGC de Brouckere cinema in Brussels.
This under great international media attention and in the presence of the Belgian Beau Monde.

The press conference, red carpet and the presentation have been captured and linked up for the live World Feed by Videohouse.

More than 30 international film journalists have been accompanied by Videohouse camera crews.

The day before the press conference Videohouse set up the junket with leading star Jamie Bell and the stand up positions for the international film ...

Two are already out:

• Bienvenue à bord, a comedy from Eric Lavaine, produced by Same Player, Pathé Films, Canal+ and M6 Films, with Franck Dubosc, Valérie Lemercier and Gérard Darmon
  - Director of photography: Stéphane Le Parc
  - Set designer: Sandrine Jarron
  
  > Out on 5th October

• Beur sur la ville, a comedy by Djamel Bensalah, produced by Miroir Magique Production, with Booder, Issa Doumbia and Steve Tran.
  - Director of photography: Pascal Gennesseaux
  - Set designer: Olivier Radot
  
  >  Out on : 12th October

Coming in november :

•  Mon pire cauchemar, a comedy  by Anne Fontaine, produced by Ciné@, Artémis Productions and Entre Chien ...