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CIRCOM deeply concerned at bombing incident in Bilbao
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"My thoughts and I am sure the thoughts of all of our colleagues in CIRCOM are with you at this difficult time. An attack on the media like this is an attack on democracy itself. Let us hope and pray that the year ahead will bring peace and understanding to all troubled lands and that people like you and your good colleagues can work without fear or intimidation. Please extend my good wishes and deepest concern to all our dear friends who made us so welcome in your wonderful city. Thinking of you at this difficult time.
Beir Beannacht
Michael Lally
President CIRCOM Regional
CIRCOM Regional Conference awarded as best educational programme
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Diploma of Erasmus EuroMedia Seal of Approval has been awarded to Circom-Regional for the educational multimedia product of the Circom 2008 Annual Conference. It was handed over to Zoran Medved, TV Slovenia, as the host of the Annual Conference.
Zoran Medved himself presented this Certificate to Anita Bhalla, former President of Circom Regional. The certificate was awarded by ESEC, European Soiety for Education and Communication e.V.
The Judges pointed out: “we have chosen a rather general expression for your prize winning product, declaring it as a media product to be used for the general educational discourse towards Europe (“educational multimedia product”).
Diploma of Erasmus EuroMedia Seal of Approval
Anita Bhalla and Zoran Medved
PHAROS presented at the ICT Event 2008 in Lyon
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The ICT Event is Europe´s biggest research event for information and communication technologies and is organisied by the European Commission. The ICT takes place from 25th until 27th November and accomplishes researchers and innovators, policy and business decision-makers working in the field of digital technologies.
A main theme examined in ICT 2008 is “Future Internet”. In this connction “PHAROS Project” is presented at the ICT. PHAROS (Platform for SearcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces) is an integrated project co-financed by the European Union under the Information Society Technologies Programme (6th Framework Programme).
PHAROS aims to advance audiovisual search from a point-solution search engine paradigm to an integrated search platform paradigm. This platform will be built on an innovative, open and distributed architecture that enables consumers, businesses and organisations to unlock the value of audiovisual content.
CIRCOM Regional is part of the “PHAROS Consortium” as well and is responsible for the content acquisition and provision behalf the PHAROS showcase. Moreover CIRCOM Regional as an association of professional broadcasters all over Europe operates with user testing and validation issues in order to promote PHAROS within a practical approach.
Get more information on: http://www.pharos-audiovisual-search.eu/
Interest in Pharos
Discussion, Pharos consortium
Pharos stand
Pharos stand
Pharos platform
Live demonstration
CR at the 9th Digital Broadcasting Workshop
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The Workshop „Digital Broadcasting“ that took place on September 18th and 19th, 2008 in Erlangen, Germany dealt with the newest developments in the field of Digital Broadcasting. The Workshop provided a forum for experts from research institutes, universities, industry, network providers and radio stations to exchange the new ideas, developments and applications in the area of Digital Broadcasting.
In this connection Andres Eben and Tobias Hellmuth from CIRCOM Regional attended the Workshop to present their paper “Mobile TV – Development, adaptation and broadcast of regional mobile content” in line with a corresponding poster session.
The paper presents guidelines for Mobile TV content creators. A modified workflow which optimizes the production process and reflects the special character of Mobile TV content is outlined.
In addition the Workshop attendants could experience Mobile TV during the event. The content related to the Digital Broadcasting Workshop was specially generated and transmitted live via DVB-H. The reception was realized with Nokia N77 devices.
Get more information about the workshop on http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/veranst/wsdb/index.jsp
Workshop
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Discussion
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Production
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Michael Lally new CR President
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Michael Lally, RTE – Galway, is the new President of Circom Regional.