Archive for April, 2008

To view “Imagine� and images go to: http://flickerlab.com/pr/stmary/

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – April 1, 2008 – FlickerLab, the New York-based development, design and animation studio has created “Imagine (Heart),� a :30 animated spot developed through BeaconFey, LLC (Baltimore, MD) that promotes a variety of heart procedures available at St. Mary Medical Center (Langhorne, PA). The commercial began airing February 17th in lower and central Bucks County, PA. Two additional :30 spots, “Imagine (Neurosciences)� and “Imagine (Cancer),� will begin airing May 12th and August 25th respectively. All three are tagged “St. Mary Medical Center. It’s your Health. Expect More.� more

Stockholm, Sweden and Tokyo, Japan – 1 April, 2008 – Image processing pioneer Digital Vision and entertainment technology company IMAGICA Technologies Corp. announce that IMAGICA has licensed Digital Vision’s motion-compensated DVO Grain management software and integrated it with its IMAGER XE digital film scanner. The new standalone system, GR-DV, works in conjunction with the IMAGER XE to enable the DVO Grain tool to process film frames as they are scanned, reducing the visual impact of film grain without losing image content. Facilities, studios and broadcasters working on film, television, DVD and new media projects can now save valuable time with a single-pass scan/grain reduction process. IMAGICA will distribute information about GR-DV option at NAB (April 14-17) with general release planned for June. more

Visual designer Nick Jevons of Electric Fly Productions used an Avolites Diamond 4 for controlling lighting for the first ever Radio 1XTRA Live event staged at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

Show visuals were played back from a Maxedia media server triggered by a Pearl Expert console run by Jake Jevons. more

Attendees of NAB Show 2008, the “…ONE GLOBAL EVENT for content creators, managers and distributors�, will have the opportunity to scope two brand-new Electrosonic product intros: The ES7000 IPTV Transport Products series and the MS9600 JPEG 2000 2K server. Electrosonic will be exhibiting in booth # SL14708.

Electrosonic, a top name in the audio/video manufacturing, design, installation and servicing industries, will be one of 1,600 exhibitors from across the globe presenting at this exciting annual showplace and source for the “creativity, inspiration, solutions and next-generation technologies that help breathe life into your content.� The NAB Show conference and expo is expected to play host to more than 110,000 attendees at the Las Vegas Convention Center this coming April 11-17. more

Proavio to Announce High-performance SAS Storage Solutions for HD and DI at NAB
Next Generation SAS Storage Solutions Increase Performance for HD, 2K and Visual Effects Creation

Santa Fe Springs, CA – April 8th, 2008 – Proavio, U.S.A., a leading developer of storage systems and tools for digital media production, has announced today the release of the company’s next-generation Serial Attached SCSI storage line for uncompressed media and high-resolution post production requirements. With the growing support for PCI-Express SAS host controllers, users can now maximize the bandwidth potential of a standard desktop computer far beyond the capabilities of typical Fibre Channel-based solutions. Based on Proavio’s award-winning RAID technology, the new RS16SS SAS solution can deliver over 800MB/s in RAID-0 mode, and over 650MB/s when configured in RAID-5 protection mode. Apart from performance benefits, a dedicated SAS expansion port allows the array to grow from a sixteen disk base system up to a 64 terabyte storage solution without any degradation in performance. more