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News Release from: De Montfort University Leicester
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 December 2005
New lab leads in 3DTV research
Students are learning the next generation of TV technology in a unique high definition TV lab where academics are also conducting multi-million-pound research to develop 3DTV
Students are learning the next generation of TV technology in a unique new GBP 300,000 high definition TV lab at De Montfort University where academics are also conducting multi-million-pound research to develop 3DTV. State of the art equipment in the new high definition TV lab includes a GBP 23,000 DVB/ATSC combined encoder and multiplexer for processing multiple data streams which is so new it's the only one in the UK.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 December 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The students at De Montfort University's Leicester Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering are also using real time high definition editing facilities in the new lab as well as high definition cameras which will soon be used by TV crews around the UK.
The new lab is in the Queens Building, on Mill Lane, and adjacent to the video laboratory opened by the Duke of Gloucester a year ago where students get hands on studio experience with blue and green-screen camera bays, professional standard digital video cameras, lighting rigs and mixing desks.
Researchers at the university are also continuing to develop three-dimensional TV and recently won a further GBP 6 million funding to continue their work.
The funding is a 'Network of Excellence' grant from the European Union.
Networks of excellence are designed to bring the very best researchers from across Europe together to conduct cutting-edge research into difficult or challenging fields at an internationally recognised level.
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The award is funding the university's Imaging and Displays Research Group which has established an international reputation for excellence in developing three-dimensional displays.
Under the network award, De Montfort University joins 20 other leading universities and business across Europe employing a wide variety of research fields including computer graphics, virtual reality and telepresence to develop the 3-dimensional television systems of the future.
This funding followed on from a previous GBP 6 million two year award for developing 3DTV systems with Philips and partner universities.
De Montfort is also launching a unique Masters degree in digital television and video technology next September.
The MSc, like existing undergraduate degrees in media production and broadcast technology, is run in conjunction with the BBC and students spend part of their course training at the BBC Wood Norton Training and Development Centre near Evesham.
The MSc covers the technology of the complete end-to-end digital television broadcast chain starting at production of video content, through conversion in to TV broadcast, transmission and reception, and finally display on the TV.
Prof Musa Mihsein, Dean of the Computing Sciences and Engineering Faculty, said: 'De Montfort University is now one of the leading institutions for its 3DTV research and is setting the standard for vocational teaching hand in hand with industry to produce high calibre graduates ready for work in the next generation of TV, video and other creative industries'.
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