Archive for March 26th, 2007

Hollywood, CA, March 26, 2007 — Point.360 (Nasdaq: PTSX), a leading provider of integrated media management services, has announced the acquisition of Eden FX, a Hollywood-based independent creator of visual effects for feature films, television programs and commercial advertising content. (NOTE: For more info, please see http://www.point360.com/ )

For the last several years, Eden FX has been providing visual effects for television, feature films and TV commercials. Among Eden‘s TV credits are “Ghost more

A wide variety of Grass Valley™ high-definition (HD) production equipment from Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS), spread across several veteran mobile production companies, is being used during this year‘s NCAA® Division I men‘s and women‘s college basketball tournaments to help ESPN and CBS Sports capture the excitement.

The companies, Corplex, (based in Northfield, Ill.), Lyon Video (in Columbus, Ohio) and NEP Supershooters (NEP, in Pittsburgh, Penn.) will cover a number of the games live for both the men‘s and women‘s teams across the country. more

Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois is presenting the play “The Women of Lockerbie,” Deborah Brevoort’s modern tragedy, set seven years after the crash of Pan Am flight 103 in Scotland, featuring atmospheric effects created by its new DMX Viper NT fog generator from Look Solutions.

The compact yet powerful Viper NT is used in a very unique way in the Philip Lynch Theatre, an intimate thrust stage space where the audience is in close proximity to the action. more

Single, Integrated, End-To-End System Manages Business For Growing Cable Network

Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 26, 2007 – Broadway Systems, a leading provider of media management solutions for cable networks, has announced that CSTV Networks has implemented Broadway‘s integrated sales planning and proposal software. more

Leicester, UK. – 26 March, 2007. Cooke Optics Ltd., a premier manufacturer of precision lenses for the motion picture industry, announces that Avid Technology, Inc. has incorporated support for the Cooke-developed /i Technology into its editing systems. /i Technology (the ‘i‘ stands for ‘intelligence‘) enables film and digital cameras to automatically record key lens and camera data for every film frame shot and provide it to post-production teams digitally, ready for incorporation into downstream processes without any manual manipulation. The technology streamlines both production and post, saving significant time and costs and eliminating guesswork, while enabling greater creative freedom. more