Archive for March 8th, 2010

CHATSWORTH, CA – It’s never been easier to schedule playlists and select from pre-recorded content for digital signage installations. The new HD Digital Signage Player from Gefen offers a variety of flexible functions that serve both large and small digital signage installations while controlling the content over IP. more

March 8, 2010—Veteran mobile production company NEP Supershooters, based in Pittsburgh, Penn., had three of its most advanced high-definition production trucks parked outside the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, Calif., complete with Grass Valley™ HD production equipment and systems, to televise the 82nd Academy Awards® ceremony on Sunday, March 7, live on the ABC television network. more

Joachim Back’s The New Tenants took home an Oscar last night in the best Live-Action Short category. With VFX and Finishing courtesy of Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY), The New Tenants tells the terrifying story of two men who move into an apartment and discover its cursed history through a disturbed cast of neighbors. more

New Music Production Technology Program Enrollment Greatly Exceeds Expectations

DAYTONA BEACH, FL – With Music Production Technology classes in full swing for the Spring semester, the 48-channel Solid State Logic Duality SE console at the Daytona State College Mike Curb College of Art, Music and Science is working overtime to accommodate the new program. Duality offers a wide range of features that make it highly desirable as a teaching platform including in-console control of Pro Tools® and other DAW software platforms. more

Spectral 240 Brings 3D Fantasy Adventure To Life

LONDON, ENGLAND – Harkness Screens, the world’s leading manufacturer of projection screens for cinema applications, was the screen of choice at the Royal World Premiere of Tim Burton’s 3D fantasy adventure movie, Alice in Wonderland, at London’s Odeon Leicester Square cinema. more

Booth Designed to Effectively Showcase the Gravity Media Asset Management Family of Products

NEW YORK – The newly formed SSL DV, Inc., a Solid State Logic Company, will showcase the Gravity Media Asset Management system family of products at the 2010 NAB Convention, Booth N808, from April 12 to 15, 2010, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. SSL DV has created a spectacular interactive booth that will focus attention on the varied and powerful features of Gravity through ongoing presentations. more

New open framework addresses the most significant transition facing media production business models since broadcast television displaced radio

Tewksbury, MA, March 8, 2010 – Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today unveiled the Avid Integrated Media Enterprise – an open framework for businesses to address the rapid changes in the media industry. Avid’s newly-expanded Interplay® product family, introduced today, is the foundation of the new framework. The Integrated Media Enterprise framework is built around three fundamental components: more

– LYNX Technik Inc, provider of signal processing solutions for the broadcast and professional AV industries, welcomes K. (Jay) Jayaraman as the Vice President of Business Development for the United States. In this newly created position Jay will manage sales, market development, and channel management for the region. more

New Interplay product family empowers media enterprises to unlock the value of their assets, enable rich collaboration, and increase business agility to adapt in a “Content Anywhere� world

Tewksbury, MA, March 8, 2010 – Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced a major expansion of its market leading Interplay® product family, based on the acquisition of Blue Order, which transforms the current production asset management (PAM) solution into a full media asset management (MAM) solution. As large media organizations seek ways to adapt in a rapidly changing business environment, Interplay now enables them to unlock new streams of revenue and reduce operating costs through some of the most comprehensive and open business process management, media cataloging and collaboration capabilities on the market. The Interplay product family is the foundation of the Avid Integrated Media Enterprise framework, introduced today. more

Creative teams behind projects such as Avatar, The Hurt Locker and the albums of Beyonce, Green Day and Taylor Swift among this season’s honorees and winners

TEWKSBURY, Mass., March 8, 2010 – The 2010 awards season once again marked tremendous accomplishment for Avid® customers across the music, film and television industries, with the success of films like The Hurt Locker, which took home six Oscar® statuettes, Avatar and Up; and musical projects like Grammy® winning Taylor Swift’s Album of the Year, ‘Fearless’; Kings of Leon’s Record of the Year, ‘Use Somebody’; and Green Day’s Best Rock Album, ‘21st Century Breakdown.’ more