Archive for June 20th, 2007

Tewksbury, Mass. – June 5, 2007 – Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that educational institutions are widely adopting Avid Unity™ Media Network systems to save time and money when building shared-media labs that enable students to work collaboratively on film, broadcast and media projects. Recent educational facilities to invest in Avid Unity systems – or upgrade their existing systems – include Beverly Hills High School, Brevard County Public Schools, Borough of Manhattan Community College, BYU, Chapman University, College of the North Atlantic, Columbia College, Full Sail, Nashoba Valley Technical High School, NYU and USC.
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Unique Collaboration Sparks Bold Creative Direction for Technology Network

LOS ANGELES, CA and DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS – Combining their distinct creative skills and resources, award-winning design studios Onesize (www.onesize.nl) and yU+Co (www.yuco.com) teamed together to deliver the comprehensive redesign of G4 (www.g4tv.com), the LA-based network seen in 61 million homes that boasts being the fastest growing network on television for 2006. more

IBC2007 Product Preview
da Vinci Systems
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New NVIDIA Tesla Solutions Bring Unprecedented, High-Density Parallel Processing to the HPC Market

“NVIDIA Tesla is going to make discovery of huge oil reserves possible through faster and more accurate interpretation of geophysical data.” –Steve Briggs, Headwave, Inc.

“NVIDIA Tesla will give us a 100-fold increase in some of our programs, and this is on desktop machines where previously we would have had to run these calculations on a cluster.” –John Stone, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign more

Director Thor Raxlen and Guerilla FX, an independent design, effects and post finishing company, recently shot, edited and created effects for the :30 spot, “Sanya,” in which Olympic Gold Medallist Sanya Richards demonstrates her exquisitely “beautiful” form as she bursts, in slow motion, off of the running blocks. The Nike spot, developed through Wieden & Kennedy (Portland, OR), began airing nationally on June 10. more

Annuncicom 1000 moves beyond basic Intercom to true Voice over IP; company to also display new firmware for several established Barix devices

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, June 19, 2007 – Barix AG, a pioneer in IP-based audio, Intercom and monitoring, today announced it is expanding their Annuncicom IP range of products. The company will show prototypes of the new Annuncicom 1000 model at Infocomm in June. (Anaheim Convention Center, June 19-21, Booth #9425). The Annuncicom 1000 is designed for integration into complex, professional intercom and paging environments. It retains Barix‘s philosophy of providing inexpensive, low-power devices that are scalable to the growth of the operation; reliability through a PC-FREE design with no moving parts; and a flexible platform for integration into virtually any operation requiring audio transport and delivery. more

TO VIEW THE WORK AND STILLS: http://flickerlab.com/bda

At the BDA North America Design Awards June 13, presented at the 2007 PROMAX & BDA International Conference in The Grand Ballroom of The New York Hilton Hotel, FlickerLab, the New York-based design and animation studio, won six Gold, Silver and Bronze statuettes. more

Creative Design Studio Uses Photo Real 3D Animation To Capture Essence of Extreme Patios

NEW YORK, NY ­ For HGTV’s new show Get Out, Way Out! – a new show that centers on extreme patios decked out with state-of-the-art surround sound stereo systems, big screen televisions and fully equipped kitchens – the award-winning creative design studio nailgun* created a truly tantalizing show open/package featuring a dozen seconds of vibrant, tightly-edited 3D animated backyard transformations. Get Out, Way Out! airs Wednesdays at 9:30pm on HGTV. more