Archive for September 14th, 2009

Digital Production Studio Showcases Expertise in Complex Mechanical Imagery for Audi A4 2.0 TDI e

Digital Domain has teamed up with longtime collaborator Carl Erik Rinsch and his German production company Markenfilm on a :45 TV commercial for Audi, via Hamburg, Germany-based ad agency Kempertrautmann. The digital production studio designed a highly complex — yet ethereally beautiful — visual device that represents Audi’s new tagline, “Efficient-Technology, intelligently combined.â€? The spot titled “Intelligently Combinedâ€? showcases the Audi A4 2.0 TDI e and first aired Sept. 4th 2009 in Spain and will roll out across Europe. more

IRVINE, Calif. — Sept. 10, 2009 — Sonnet Technologies announces the release of the Fusion™ RX1600Fibre, a high-performance, expandable 16-drive RAID shared Fibre Channel storage system optimized for video editing. Featuring a 4-port 8Gb Fibre Channel interface, the Fusion RX1600Fibre supports multi-stream, multi-user collaborative workflows and provides direct connection for up to four users without the addition of a Fibre Channel switch or dedicated server. The Fusion RX1600Fibre delivers video performance up to 100 percent faster than general-purpose shared storage systems. more

IRVINE, Calif. — Sept. 10, 2009 — Sonnet Technologies, a leader in providing storage systems for professional users of Macintosh®, Windows®, and UNIX® systems in the film, video, and broadcast industries, today announced the Qio™ professional universal media reader/writer and eSATA controller. Qio (pronounced Cue-Eye-Oh) is a convenient and high-speed alternative to stand-alone card readers, SATA controllers, and various adapters, combining their functionality in a compact rugged case and fulfilling the data handling needs of videographers with multiple cameras using different memory card formats. more

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Sept. 11, 2009 — ScheduALL today announced the availability of its ERM appliance for purchase to European markets. This highly anticipated solution enables differing ScheduALL systems within the corporate network to cross communicate, view, and book resources from other ScheduALL systems, creating even greater resource utilization across all facilities within the enterprise. more

ATLANTA — Sept. 11, 2009 — At CEDIA EXPO 2009 today, PPC® launched its Perfect Path(TM) line of products, which for the first time brings to custom installers and retail A/V customers the company’s cutting-edge, easy-to-use, professional-quality connector technology. In addition to these technologies which are used by cable systems and satellite networks around the world, the Perfect Path lineup will include a new line of audio/video interconnect cables with true locking HDMI and RCA connectors, and bulk cable solutions for in-wall wiring. more

HAYWARD, Calif. — Sept. 11, 2009 — Wohler Technologies Inc. today announced the addition of vectorscope and subtitling features to select products within the company’s RMT range of LCD monitors. The RMT series offers industry-leading performance and an impressive feature set that includes dual inputs, an on-screen waveform display, eight channels of audio bar graph metering, a variety of crop and safety markers, and built-in speakers and headphone jack. In keeping with its philosophy of increasing value for customers, Wohler has incorporated its popular vectorscope feature into the 17-inch RMT-170-HD and 20.1-inch RMT-200-HD monitors and introduced subtitling monitoring in the 15-inch RMT-150-A and RMT-150-SD (V version) units and in the 17-inch RMT-170-SD and RMT-170-HD models. more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Sept. 2, 2009 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced Rhozet™ Carbon Server™ 4.0, a new workflow-based distributed transcoding system and Rhozet Carbon QC 1.0, an innovative quality control product. Carbon Server 4.0 is designed to manage a network of Carbon Coder transcoders as well as the new Carbon QC 1.0 quality control modules. It provides complete file-based workflow management, including transcoding, quality control and delivery. The new Carbon QC 1.0 brings automated compliance and quality testing into the transcoding workflow. Together these two new offerings provide media companies with improved efficiency, reliability, and scalability in a completely automated workflow.
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Beyond MP3; Blu-Ray; Pimp Your Mix & Haydn’s Bicentenary

NEW YORK: In an atmosphere charged with new ideas and bristling with the introduction of revolutionary and evolutionary technologies, AES Convention Workshops and Tutorials cover an extremely broad agenda. “Balancing an advanced Workshops’ program with more fundamental Tutorial presentations is a demanding challenge,” remarks 127th AES Convention Committee Chair Agnieszka Roginska. “As an educator (U Mass. Lowell), author, engineer, and producer, Workshop & Tutorials Chair Alex Case has drawn from his vast reservoir of industry knowledge and sources to develop a singularly broad and ambitious program.” more

The VT4886 passive line array element and VT4883 cardioid-arrayable subwoofer are specifically designed for standalone use or integration with other existing VERTEC models.

LONDON, England – Delivering a very high degree of output and predictable coverage capabilities in an extremely compact package, JBL Professional is introducing the smallest system enclosures in the VERTEC® product family, the VT4886 passive 3-way high-directivity line array element and its companion VT4883 cardioid-arrayable subwoofer. Incorporating innovative acoustical technologies and purpose-built transducers, they are specifically designed for standalone use or in conjunction with other existing VERTEC models. more

Providing remarkable versatility for a broad scope of applications, JBL Professional is showcasing the Control® CRV loudspeaker at PLASA 2009. The Control CRV offers numerous mounting options and a wide range of configurations, providing an endless variety of solutions in terms of coverage, appearance and mounting. more