The festival features more than 60 artists performing over 31 consecutive nights in the UK’s best intimate venue. Each show is recorded for release on iTunes.

Officially the world’s largest indoor Festival, the line up includes 2010’s most exciting pop, metal, dance, jazz and opera stars including Scissor Sisters, Faithless, Ozzy Osbourne, Biffy Clyro, Paloma Faith and Rolando Villazon.

The iTunes Festival App allows fans to win tickets, watch the concerts streamed live and view photos and backstage info. Live EPs featuring highlights of each gig.

Programmes featuring festival highlights are being broadcast worldwide in locations as diverse as Thailand and Brazil.  re:fine are managing all of the deliverables for these broadcasts, including HD masters and the digital delivery of MPEG2 files.

These films, made by enterprising men and women at the forefront of science and nature filmmaking, developed groundbreaking techniques of time-lapse, microscopic and underwater cinematography. Paving the way for the natural history programmes that we know and love today, these Secrets grant us an entertaining, absorbing, and very special glimpse into the mysteries of the natural world.

The DVD9 features 19 individual programmes as well as a fully illustrated booklet featuring newly commissioned essays by leading researchers and scholars with film notes, photographs and illustrations.

It was a beautiful project to work on and our Sarah and Anita were proud to be credited in the booklet for their hard work!  The DVDs are available for sale on the BFI website.

The series, produced by Videotext Productions, is now in its eighteenth year and enjoys an extremely loyal following.   The show has had many companion shows also being stored at re:fine,  including Time Team Extra, History Hunters and Time Team Digs.  The series also features special episodes, documentaries on history and archaeology and live episodes.

As well as storing the masters we service dubbing requirements.

The DVD charts an incredible season that saw the team winning the FA cup as well as the Premiership.  Highlights include the 8-0 success against Wigan that sealed their victory, the Victory parade through West London and the contenders for goal of the season and player of the year.

Off the pitch footage includes interviews with the players and some really funny outtakes and bloopers.

The DVD is presented in a glossy lancing pack featuring team captain John Terry.

We’re the first UK authoring facility to do so this, quickly enabling our clients to release their 3D content on Blu-ray.

If you have a film or project that you would like to get ready for Q4 then talk to us about how to deliver your materials.

With longer lead times than 2D, now’s the time to start thinking about getting your Blu-ray 3D ready.

Sales of 3D TVs and Blu-ray3D players have really taken the retailers by surprise with electronic manufacturers such as Sony, Samsung , LG and Panasonic set to shift 4.2 million 3D TVs globally in 2010 alone. The 3D television market is projected to triple to 12.9 million units next year, according to new research from Isuppli.

Further reading

• click here for our   Blu-ray Quick start guide

• for a more in-depth look at 3D and how it works click here for an incredible article from Tom Vaughn at Cyberlink who make our  Blu-ray 3D playback software

The date is 1954, and war-veteran turned U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo Di Caprio) is called to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of one of the residents, a murderess.  What he finds is incredibly suspicious – the guards are on edge, the patients tell him to run and his newly-assigned partner (Mark Ruffalo) might be more than he appears. As a tremendous storm hits the island, Teddy finds himself stuck in the asylum grounds and embroiled in a conspiracy that might cost him more than just his life.

This movie was ingested and stored on our digital vault ready for transcoding, multiplexing and secure digi-delivery to the Hospitality Sector.  If you see Shutter Island amongst the Blockbusters on your business trip or holiday the chances are we delivered that film!

The Blu-ray team at re:fine are hosting a series of workshops to help you navigate a safe path to Blu-ray.

The next two workshops are on Thursday 10th June and Thursday 8th July  at 4pm at re:fine’s Latimer Road facility.

The workshops are a friendly and informative chance to learn more about Blu-ray and the production process including:

• Introduction to Blu-ray
• Why make the jump to  Blu-ray?
• Features and benefits (major benefits of Blu-ray– with industry examples)
• Getting your assets right
• Paperwork – AACS and VISAN
• Timescales

The format will include presentations from our authoring team, questions & answer sessions and a chance for a one-on-one chat with our team over drinks.

Please email   catherine.watling @ refine-group.com  to register your interest and receive more information

What would you do? If you are Staff Sergeant William James you walk towards it, wire-cutters in hand, knowing you could die any second.

Welcome to the Hurt Locker.

The Hurt Locker is the 6 time Oscar winning drama about a military bomb disposal squad working in Iraq. It is one of the most gripping, daring and compelling movies ever created, and well deserves the Oscar for Best Motion Picture.

re:fine have ensured it is now available in stunning HD on BT vision – the perfect movie to view in High Definition.

The series was first broadcast in 2003 and is in it’s eighth season.  It has been successfully aired in 17 countries and is number one in it’s time slot in Denmark, New Zealand, Finland and the Netherlands.   The girls have also crossed the Atlantic and have made two series in the USA.

Once encoded the required to MPEG2  format, the files pass though quality control and are delivered to a secure site. Once there, the files can be accessed globally for future use.

Summerton Mill stars Dan, his sidekick Fluffa the dog and the Naybur family who live up the Hill.   It is a delightful world inspired by creator Pete Bryden’s own secluded 17^th century mill, (Somerton Mill) in rural Oxfordshire.

re:fine created the DVDs of the first series which are available on Amazon, the DVDs were a tremendous success and led  the iTunes release is ideal for babies on the move!