Archive for June, 2011

TelePresence

The Vista Spyder X20 0808 video processor is helping save lives and train surgeons in the TelePresence Conference Room at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Managing up to 18 sources, including feeds from cameras and monitoring equipment in the operating theaters, the Spyder is delivering images, interactivity and PowerPoint presentations onto screens and laptops for the benefit of tomorrow’s surgeons. Moreover, with Cisco (Tandberg) codecs, participants from around the world can view the proceedings.

“About six years ago, the doctors saw a teleconference room and wanted something similar for a surgical teaching theater at the Barrow,” said Gabriel Arnn, TelePresence Producer of Barrow’s Eller TelePresence Conference Room. “The original design was very limited with low-resolution, low-brightness images and no picture-in-picture capabilities. We saw a need for more

Rebranded to Method Studios

HOLLYWOOD, CA – June 1, 2011 – Deluxe Entertainment Services Group today announced the rebranding of its award-winning visual effects companies, Method, which Deluxe acquired from Ascent Media in December 2010, and CIS Visual Effects. The expanded company has been renamed to Method Studios, a world class entity specializing in the creation of visual effects for the feature film and commercial markets.

“By combining CIS with Method, we are able to provide our clients a broader range of visual effects services with an integrated workflow across Deluxe’s multiple locations,” said Stefan Sonnenfeld, President of Creative Services for Deluxe.

The appointment of Dan Glass as Executive Vice President emphasizes the continuing commitment to nurture an artist-driven company. Glass, who served as an independent senior visual effects supervisor on the recently released Terrence Malick Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life, comments, “All of more

Canadian moviegoers have always expected the best in cinema quality and a full range of content on their screens, and the theatre owners who make up the Motion Picture Theatre Associations of Canada (MPTAC) have been meeting this expectation for many years. Helping them to achieve best-of-breed quality in projection and state-of-the-art digital signage and lobby displays is the goal of Christie®, the exhibitors’ valued partner, which now supplies 90 percent of the nation’s digital cinema projector installations.

With the industry’s 25th anniversary conference, ShowCanada 2011, scheduled for May 31–June 2, in Ottawa, it is notable that Christie contributes greatly to Canada’s knowledgebase in cinema and visual display technology. The company is the only provider of high performance digital cinema projectors headquartered in North America, with its manufacturing located in Kitchener, Ontario.

“Christie’s digital cinema solutions provide eye-popping image quality the first time and every time more

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 1, 2011 – Mobile Television Group, operator of one of the nation’s largest fleets of HDTV production vehicles, has purchased ten more XJ72x9.3B long-zoom HD field lenses from Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging. These newest Canon “DIGISUPER 72xs” lenses join the 150 already owned by Mobile Television Group, and will be used for the company’s exclusive Ultra-Mo system, which also employs special high-speed HD cameras and other equipment for super-slow-motion instant video replays of sports action.

“Canon’s DIGISUPER 72xs long-zoom HD lenses are very powerful and they do a fine job,” noted Philip Garvin, President, COO and GM of Mobile Television Group. “We own more than 150 of these HD telephoto lenses, so it made sense that when we added new high-speed HD cameras we also put the same kind of lenses more

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 1, 2011 – Mobile Television Group, operator of one of the nation’s largest fleets of HDTV production vehicles, has purchased ten more XJ72x9.3B long-zoom HD field lenses from Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging. These newest Canon “DIGISUPER 72xs” lenses join the 150 already owned by Mobile Television Group, and will be used for the company’s exclusive Ultra-Mo system, which also employs special high-speed HD cameras and other equipment for super-slow-motion instant video replays of sports action.

“Canon’s DIGISUPER 72xs long-zoom HD lenses are very powerful and they do a fine job,” noted Philip Garvin, President, COO and GM of Mobile Television Group. “We own more than 150 of these HD telephoto lenses, so it made sense that when we added new high-speed HD cameras we also put the same kind of lenses more

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 1, 2011 – Mobile Television Group, operator of one of the nation’s largest fleets of HDTV production vehicles, has purchased ten more XJ72x9.3B long-zoom HD field lenses from Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging. These newest Canon “DIGISUPER 72xs” lenses join the 150 already owned by Mobile Television Group, and will be used for the company’s exclusive Ultra-Mo system, which also employs special high-speed HD cameras and other equipment for super-slow-motion instant video replays of sports action.

“Canon’s DIGISUPER 72xs long-zoom HD lenses are very powerful and they do a fine job,” noted Philip Garvin, President, COO and GM of Mobile Television Group. “We own more than 150 of these HD telephoto lenses, so it made sense that when we added new high-speed HD cameras we also put the same kind of lenses more

NEW YORK, New York – In an illustration of how HARMAN’s remarkable Studer Vista 8 Digital Live Production Console can add tremendous value for broadcasters, the Titan truck from All Mobile Video (AMV) is fitted with a Vista 8 that has dramatically accelerated the workflow for projects ranging from professional sporting events and internationally viewed awards shows to all Metropolitan Opera live broadcasts throughout the year, to live documentaries, corporate communication events and daily television broadcasts. With a triple Expando layout that configures it at 66 feet long by 21 feet wide when fully expanded, Titan is aptly described as the largest and most powerful production truck on the road and it won Television Broadcast’s coveted “Top Innovation at the 2006 National Association of Broadcasters convention. Only the Studio Vista 8 Digital Live Production Console could keep up with a truck like more

Intellitar breaks new ground in functionality, performance, price, and usability for virtual presence & interactive media creation

HUNTSVILLE, AL – June 1, 2011 – Intellitar, the developer of the Intelligent Avatar Platform and Virtual Eternity, today announced its inclusion in the 2011 report by Gartner, Inc1 of “Cool Vendors” in Emerging Technologies. The report highlights four vendors deemed to be breaking new ground in virtual presence and media creation based on core functionality, performance, price, and usability.

Intellitar’s commercial offerings, Virtual Eternity and Intelligram are both built on the backbone of their Intelligent Avatar Platform which allows users to create interactive digital clones, also known as intellitars. Users create intellitars by uploading a photo of themselves and populating the digital brain through a simple question and answer form. The result is a moving, talking digital likeness that will interact with more