Here at Cypher HQ we’re preparing for this year’s PAT test. A PAT test is short for Portable Appliance Test, which means all of our equipment will be reviewed to ensure it is safe enough to work with. It gives us a good opportunity to check all of our gear and go over what we have.
Obviously, lighting is such an integral part of filming interviews and it is one of the unsung aspects of video production, but why is it so important?
We've got a lot going on at Cypher HQ currently!
As of now, we're editing the videos from the HR Leaders Conference in Paris, the Essentra Conference in London, and the FS Tax Leaders Conference in Rome. On top of that, we're also working on a project with one of our clients that cannot be named as of yet. The final project will be a specialist Health Policy Forum used to dedicate the development and continuing support of policy initiatives to improve global public health, whenever an unmet medical need exists.
PIN numbers could be a thing of the past according to Visa; “In 2020, the average consumer will have more than 200 passwords they have to remember.” The credit card giant is currently working alongside the finance and payment industry on new ways of accepting card payments using other forms of verification.
You may have seen the uproar in the news regarding Net Neutrality in the USA. Ajit Pai, an American attorney and chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), proposed that Net Neutrality should be scrapped due to bigger websites taking up more bandwidth than they should have. Netflix uses 1/3 of America's bandwidth, this is why Ajit Pai is pushing to get rid of Net Neutrality.
We have recently returned from a 6-day-long Financial Services Tax Leaders conference in Rome. The event was held at the Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria which has the largest and most modern meeting facilities of any luxury 5* hotel in Europe.
We’re proud to announce that Jake, Cypher Media’s apprentice, has been awarded with ‘Apprentice of the Month’ for June by 3aaa Worcester, with whom he has been undertaking his training courses.
It’s been a busy month so far with lots more to come!
We kicked the month off with a conference at Le Meridien, Paris. The conference spanned over 6 days, we provided AV equipment and support, onsite editing and laptops along with other peripherals for delegates.
Earlier today our kit was collected in preparation for this year’s people & organisation conference at Le Meridian, Paris.
We’ve been busy creating some new website for our clients.
In March of 2017 the United Kingdom followed in the footsteps of the United States with an aeroplane technology ban. The ban was implemented for long haul flights from 6 different Middle Eastern countries to the U.K. and U.S. The 6 countries impacted are Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.