Archive for May 18th, 2010

Sessions Focus on 3D Blu-ray with Cutting Edge Insight & Experience

(Burbank, CA) Adam Lesh, Chief Technical Officer of Testronic Laboratories North America and respected industry expert, has been tapped as a presenter for both the Media-Tech Global Expo and Summit and the conferences to be held in Frankfurt, Germany. Lesh will present “3D: How We Got Here and Where Are We Going” at the Blu-ray Disc Academy on May 19th, 2010 and will participate in the Media-Tech Technical Laboratory program ‘Industry Experts Road Mapping Future Trends’ on May 21st, 2010. His presentations will cover the history of 3D in the home, as well as emerging innovations including 3D Blu-ray. more

Excellence in Post Production Honored by the HPA for 5th Year

(Hollywood, CA) The Hollywood Post Alliance has announced the opening Call for Entries for the Fifth Annual HPA Awards. The prestigious awards will be presented at a gala event in November in Los Angeles, California. Launched in 2006, the HPA Awards have become a standard by which creative and technical excellence in the art, science and craft of post production is measured. more

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, May 18, 2010 — Waves Audio, a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, recently won one lawsuit and had a defendant admit liability in a second lawsuit regarding intellectual property infringements and the illegal use of its software. The two studios named were New York City-based Reckless Music, LLC, d.b.a. Skyline Recording Studios NYC, and Quad Recording Studios, Inc. The following statements were issued: more

Rhino CD Natasha Saenko, in collaboration with Believe Media via Element 79, led the studio’s design/animation team on a beautiful spot promoting Amway Global’s extensive line of products. Farm follows an iridescent butterfly as it flutters across a pastoral landscape of farms and fields and into tidy homes, alighting on an array of clean sprays, detergents, skin care products and supplements along the way. The CG butterfly interacts flawlessly with its environment, creating a world that beautifully showcases Amway Global’s wares. more

New York, NY – Mechanism Digital completed the show open and in-show graphics package, including a logo design, currently airing on History Channel’s. The show features host John McCalmont using powerful tools to slice open an array of everyday items to learn how they work. more

DENVER, May. 18, 2010—Thought Equity Motion, Inc.—the world leader in digitizing, delivering and monetizing video content—announced today the company’s CEO and Founder Kevin Schaff will be speaking at the College Sports Video Summit, a conference focusing on the latest advancements for collegiate sports video departments, taking place June 8 – 9, 2010 in Atlanta, GA (The Westin Peachtree Plaza). Schaff will be participating in the “Tale of the Tape: Building an Archival Strategy� panel at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday June 9, 2010. more

Digitizes Record 22 Theatres, Many Featuring the Christie Solaria Series of 4K-Ready Projectors

Christie announced that it is Cannes International Film Festival’s Technical Partner for the fourth year in a row, digitizing a record 22 theatres with the latest generation Christie DLP Cinema projectors. Installations include the next-generation Series 2 projector, the Christie Solaria Series, highlighted by the Christie CP2220 and Christie CP2230, which feature Academy Award-winning DLP Cinema technology from Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN). Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, presented out of competition, opened Cannes with its world premiere on a Christie CP2230. more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — May 18, 2010 — Omneon Inc. today announced that the Oireachtas Broadcasting Unit (OBU), part of the Irish National Archive, is using an Omneon media storage and processing platform to record and archive all proceedings within the Irish Parliament, known as the Oireachtas, and to make broadcast-quality content from these proceedings available to Irish broadcasters. more

SHARNFORD, Leicestershire, UK – 3th May 2010 – Combining the real with the virtual has become the hallmark of cartoon band Gorillaz. So, it’s no surprise that the band’s first live concert in London since 2001 should be a multimedia extravaganza with fans following the performance via a live MTV Webcast. more

LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. — May 18, 2010 — Digital Alert Systems (DAS), a division of Monroe Electronics and provider of enhanced emergency alert systems (EAS), has teamed up with the ninth annual Taste of NAB 2010 Road Show to showcase its DASDEC(TM) EAS technologies in more than 50 cities nationwide. Running now through Sept. 10, the Taste of NAB Road Show gives engineers an opportunity to have a hands-on, educational look at many of the key technologies introduced to the professional broadcast market at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas. more