Archive for September 24th, 2010

Howard Nourmand Designs Opening and Closing Title Sequences for Oliver Stone-directed Movie Starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, Susan Sarandon, and Frank Langella

Creative studio Grand Jeté explores money iconography at the micro level in a painterly and hauntingly beautiful closing title sequence for director Oliver Stone’s ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,’ the sequel to the 1987 classic ‘Wall Street.’ The 20th Century Fox film, which opens in U.S. theaters Sept. 24th, stars Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, with Susan Sarandon and Frank Langella. more

Honors For Digital Asset Management Premier in Manhattan

(New York, NY) DAMMY Awards debuted today in New York, recognizing companies and individuals who have pushed the boundaries of the burgeoning digital asset management industry. Industry insiders and luminaries gathered at The New Yorker Hotel to celebrate the nominees and winners at a gala luncheon.

Categories and winners are:

* DAMMY of the Year – Jason Bright, MediaBeacon
* Best Storage, Archive and or Preservation Solution – UPS
* Best Example of Asset & Media Repurposing – interaktion gmbh for Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
* Best Strategy or Solution for Digital & Media Asset Management During the Acquisition of Content – Light Iron Digital, Michael Cioni

The DAMMY Awards are Createasphere’s awards for excellence in digital asset management and cap the Digital Asset Management Conference and more

COBALT DIGITAL’S FUSION3G CONVERTER FOR OPENGEAR RECEIVES BROADCAST ENGINEERING’S PICK HIT AWARD AT IBC 2010

9901-UDX UP/DOWN/CROSS CONVERSION CARD WITH LOUDNESS PROCESSING OPTION ACKNOWLEDGED FOR INNOVATION

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (21 September 2010) – Cobalt Digital’s (www.CobaltDigital.com) Fusion3Gâ„¢ 9901-UDX 3G/HD/SD-SDI up/down/cross converter with frame sync was recognized for innovation at IBC 2010 with Broadcast Engineering’s Pick Hit award. The multi-purpose 9901-UDX was honored for its ability to answer signal processing challenges, including loudness processing, audio loudness metering, Dolby® encode and decode, colour correction, fibre transmit and receive, and up/down/cross conversion – all on the same module.

The 9901-UDX, from Cobalt’s new Fusion3G series, also offers a wide range of options to add fiber I/O, analogue video I/O, AES and analogue audio I/O embed/de-embed. This level of integration reduces module count, simplifies the signal chain, and provides ultimate more

COBALT DIGITAL’S FUSION3G RANGE FOR OPENGEAR WINS “STAR� AWARD FROM EDITORS OF TV TECHNOLOGY EUROPE

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (21 September 2010) — Fusion3Gâ„¢, manufactured by Cobalt Digital, is the recipient of a 2010 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award given by the editorial staff of TV Technology Europe magazine at the 2010 IBC convention.
The STAR Award is designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. TV Technology Europe’s editor reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then chose 25 winners.
Cobalt Digital’s 3 Gigabit-capable Fusion3G™ series are multi-functional, multi-featured cards that offer solutions to today’s signal processing challenges, including loudness processing, audio loudness metering, Dolby® encode and decode, colour correction, fibre transmit and receive, and up/down/cross conversion.
The range was more

ATLANTA, September 23, 2010 – JVC U.S.A. today introduced a low-cost home theater projector that for the first time provides advanced D-ILA technology at an entry-level price. The new projector, to be marketed as the DLA-HD250 by JVC Consumer and the DLA-HD250Pro by JVC Professional, is priced below $3,000 and delivers 25,000:1 native contrast ratio and 1,000 ANSI lumens brightness. more

EditShare’s Flow, XStream and Ark integrate workflow from ingest to archive

Boston – EditShare®, the technology leader in cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, today announced the purchase of an end-to-end EditShare production solution by Nemeton TV, the largest television production company in Ireland at the IBC 2010 Exhibition. The combination of EditShare Flow for ingest and asset management, a 32TB EditShare XStream Storage Server for high-demand storage, and EditShare Ark for backup and archiving gives Nemeton a powerful, integrated package that connects all aspects of the production chain in a collaborative workflow with centralized storage and full metadata tracking. more

Visitors to the Crystal Vision booth (1156) at HD World, part of the Content and Communications World Show (13th-14th October, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York) will have the opportunity to see one of Crystal Vision’s very latest interface products, which has helped Crystal Vision to win many of the biggest projects currently happening in the broadcast industry, following in-depth product evaluation and acceptance by major broadcasters. more