Archive for August 20th, 2008

Ammar Fawzy has been appointed Regional Sales Manager CCS for MEA. From August 20 onwards, Fawzy will be responsible for CCS issues in the Middle East and Africa (MEA)
Straubing, Germany Ammar Fawzy, 29, will join Telex as Regional Sales Manager, working on CCS (Critical Communication Systems) in the MEA regions. Following Telex’s growth strategy, Fawzy completes the sales team for this year and will report directly to Kamil Swobodzinski, Sales Director CCS & ACT for EMEA. more

TORONTO, ON — Toronto-based Holophone® (Booth 4317), the leading manufacturer of surround microphones, will continue to make its country proud by featuring its complete line of best-selling Canadian-manufactured surround products at PAL 2008 – Canada’s largest production technologies show, August 24-25, 2008. more

Hollywood Post Alliance Honors Educator and Leader

August 20, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA) The Hollywood Post Alliance announced today that the Dean of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Elizabeth M. Daley, will receive the organization’s first Charles S. Swartz Award. The award will be bestowed during the HPA Awards gala on November 6, 2008, and honors a person, group, company or technology that has made a significant artistic, technological, business or educational impact on post production. The mission of this award is to recognize broad and lasting contributions that have advanced and/or provided some unique purpose to the field of Post Production. Charles S. Swartz, in whose honor the award was named, passed away in 2007. Swartz was the Executive Director and CEO of the Entertainment Technology Center at USC as well as a respected technologist, educator and producer. more

DENVER, CO – Auralex Acoustics, Inc., the industry leader in innovative sound control solutions, continues its leadership in creating environmentally friendly products with the introduction of Eco-Tech, the company’s first green acoustical panel, at this year’s CEDIA show (Booth 630). Earlier this year, the company announced the first green acoustical foam product on the market, Eco-Friendly StudioFoam.

Eco-Tech brand acoustic panels are manufactured with a proprietary formulation of 100% recycled polyester fibers. Eco-Tech panels are truly “green�; reducing the ecological footprint of acoustic treatment and our dependence on fossil fuels, including foreign crude oil. The Eco-Tech family of products are designed with the environment in mind, yet retain the longevity and acoustical properties for which Auralex is known. Auralex Eco-Tech is manufactured without harmful Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s), which have been implicated in the depletion of the ozone layer. more

Vaughan Sound Installations (VSI), part of the PAI Group, specified and installed AV systems throughout Penallta House, the new £20 million HQ for Caerphilly County Borough Council in Wales, UK.

VSI was brought onboard to offer specialist sound, AV and integration skills by the project’s electrical contractors Highadmit Projects, who in turn were working for principal building contractors, HBG. more

The Brief:

Vico Sharabani of rhinofx, co-directed a recent :30 live action/effects spot, teaming up with co-director Alex Lamarque of Bully Pictures for Subway’s new Scrabble promotion. In the promotion, Subway customers collect lettered game pieces to spell out sandwich-related words to win an array of prizes, including the Grand Prize giveaway of multiple Toyota Highlanders. more

Few sports test an Olympic athlete the same way that cycling does. It requires maximum strength and endurance for the cyclist to perform at the highest level. At the Beijing 2008 Summer Games, cyclists are competing in the brand-new Laoshan Velodrome, whose sound system is only matched in excellence by the Olympians themselves. more

Demonstrating the ease of installation and even dispersion of JBL VLA line arrays, leading audio video products and services provider AVI-SPL oversaw the redesign of the audio system at the Rose Garden, home of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. The new system features six line array clusters of VLA loudspeakers. more

Click here to watch the spot on DCPTV. For Fox Sports, bringing televisions’ biggest sporting events to life in HD is always special, so when the On-Air team at Fox Sports in-house Marketing Group decided to unveil a new HD Identity piece they knew they wanted something that would feel entirely new, unique, and special. Their new ID needed to showcase the featured sports Fox broadcasts (the NFL, MLB, and NASCAR) and do so in a way that would illustrate the beauty and power of watching sports in HD. Vibrancy, color, clarity, and richness were the key design elements Fox Sports was looking for when they tapped on Amsterdam-based Renascent to create this piece for them. more

AT&T Announces New Digital Media SolutionsSM to Include Digital Signage

DAYTON, OH, August 20, 2008—STRATACACHE recently announced a strategic agreement with AT&T as part of AT&T’s new Digital Media SolutionsSM portfolio rollout. The suite of content delivery and digital media solutions includes content distribution and management, broadcast video, and digital signage services—solutions targeted at companies ranging from businesses with multiple small office locations to the most sophisticated multinational enterprises. more