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See Dataton at LDI, Booth 774, October 28-30, OCCC, Orlando, FL

IMAGE CREDIT: Starbucks 505 Building, Seattle (c) CompView and Gary Wilson Photography

Stereoscopic playback, 3D effects, and iPad control shown for first time at LDI.

Dataton and their North American partner, Show Sage LLC, will be demonstrating version 5 of WATCHOUT™ multi-display production and playback system at LDI.

Jim Testa, Show Sage’s president, explains: ”As Dataton’s North American distributor we are pleased to be spearheading the introduction of WATCHOUT version 5 to LDI attendees. Already recognized as the number one multi-display software solution for the industry, WATCHOUT version 5 offers many new advantages to our customers including enhanced live interaction and a significantly reduced cost per display channel.

”We look forward to introducing the new features of WATCHOUT version 5 to those attending LDI as well as highlighting our WATCHOUT-tuned computer systems.”

Michael Engström, Sales Director at Dataton adds: “Presentations have never been more creative, accessible or as easy to utilize and, as our North American partner, more

Content producer creates stunning multimedia experience for new Passat launch throughout Poland

Underlining the ruggedness and consistency of its products as well as their high performance, Norway’s projectiondesign is proud to have supplied F82 1080p 3-chip DLP® projectors to multimedia production company MOOV for the Polish launch of the new VW Passat.

Working in conjunction with advertising agency JUST and event producer Mediaconcept for end customer Kulczyk Tradex (the official VW distributor for Poland), MOOV was tasked with creating a multimedia production that would showcase the new Passat’s capabilities in a way that would capture the imagination of the audience. The show made its debut at the Polish National Motor Show in Poznan before being taken on a tour of upmarket shopping centres and other venues in major cities around the country.

Piotr Majewski, the head of more

projectiondesign® scoops double AV Awards

Industry recognizes projectiondesign as the Manufacturer of the Year and F35 wqxga projector wins Projection or Display Product of the Year

Matthew Horwood, Regional Director, UK & Ireland takes home an AV Award for Manufacturer of the Year 2011

Against fierce competition and decided by a judging panel comprising the communications technology industry’s elite, Norway’s projectiondesign won Manufacturer of the Year and Projection or Display Product of the Year for their F35 wqxga projector.

The prestigious AV Awards ceremony was held in front of 800 of the industry’s guests at a ceremony on Friday, 30 September 2011 at the Hilton Park Lane, London.

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New high definition (HD, 2K, 4K) royalty-free stock footage timelapse shot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia have been added in different categories (City, Construction and Clouds) on HDtimelapse.net website.

Some of the locations from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are Kuala Lumpur Aerial Cityscape, Petronas Twin Towers View in Sunset, Twilight and Night, The Tallest Twin Buildings in the World, Bird Eye View, Menara Tower, KLLC, Menara Public Bank, Maxis Tower, Menara Carigali, Suria KLCC, Malaysia’s Premier Shopping Centre, Bukit Bintang (Starhill), Shopping Centre Area, Monorail Station, Led Displays, Traffic, Istana Budaya, View from Titiwangsa Lake, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Jalan, Raja Chulan, Pavilion Mall, AM Bank Group, Plaza See Hoy Chan, Lebuhraya Bertingkat Amapang, Skyscrapers Under Construction, Cranes, Workers, Cumulonimbus Clouds in Sunset Light, South East Asia.

HDtimelapse.net library contains +6200 time lapse video clips from 125 locations more

Toronto, Canada – September 28, 2011 – Southpaw Technology announced today that KB Media, a Toronto-based media company, has licensed Southpaw’s production asset management system TACTIC and leveraged its flexible architecture to simplify the management of digital signage campaigns. KB Media is now using the system to more efficiently manage multiple campaigns across hundreds of advertising venues throughout Canada.

KB Media specializes in the creation of backlit and digital mirrors and the placement of advertising on those mirrors in venues throughout Canada. The campaigns that KB Media manages for its large client base vary in length, size, audience, creativity, and value. In addition, KB Media’s mirrors include patented motion sensor technology that tracks consumer interaction with the mirrors so advertisers know exactly how many consumers engaged with their ad and for how long. To more efficiently manage all of this information in one place, KB Media more

The crème de la crème of the fashion world were in New York City for Fashion Week and Christie® MicroTiles® were front and center at iconic photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber’s launch party on September 8 for Fashion’s Night Out, celebrating his new website (launching October 10) and movie.
Weber, known for his imaginative advertising campaign work with Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Versace and Abercrombie & Fitch, among others, wanted his evocative film to reveal his message with clarity – and Weber chose Christie MicroTiles, with Christie Managed Services assisting with the installation. Surrounded by steel girders, rivets and lighting fixtures – generating an industrial backdrop – the five tall by five wide MicroTiles array (5 feet 4 inches high by 6 feet 4 inches wide) blended stylishly into the architecture, maximizing the impact of the content and providing the color more

Keith Driver has a word for anyone who thinks 3D filmmaking is a passing fad. “Joe Six-Pack, living in his double-wide, can go down to Wal-Mart, buy a 3D TV, put it up, and watch NASCAR. Game over, it’s done. Anybody who doesn’t realize that just has a bias against the technology.

It’s available to the masses – ‘Hey, why not in 3D?’ We have a Vizio TV here” – “here” being the Mission Valley offices of 3D Film Factory, where Driver serves as lead stereographer – “that we picked up at Wal-Mart for something like $650. There’s nothing tricky about it. You can select either 2D or 3D just by pushing a button on your remote. And while you used to have to have active 3D glasses that cost $80-$150, this TV works with the same glasses you get in the movie theater. There are buttons for more

Friedrichsdorf, Germany – September 6, 2011 – Today, MAXON announced the immediate availability of CINEMA 4D Release 13, the next generation of its industry-leading 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. With all new character tools, integrated stereographic capabilities, streamlined multi-artist collaboration and physical rendering, CINEMA 4D Release 13 builds on the company’s 25-year legacy of enabling digital content creators around the world to produce highly engaging content quickly and easily for a variety of industries.

Release 13 will make its first official European trade show appearance at IBC2011 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 9–13, 2011. [Editors’ Note: The MAXON stand at IBC will be located in the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, Hall 6, Stand 6. C10.]

Read the full press release here: http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110906005662/en

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French live-events specialist pushes back the barriers of uncompressed video playback

One of France’s most experienced and creative live-events companies, Video Lumière Son (VLS), has invested in its offering to end customers by adding five Delta™ media servers from 7thSense Design to its inventory.

VLS boasts over 25 years’ experience in providing video, lighting and sound systems, developing and implementing complex technological solutions for events all over the world. In the past decade, the company has developed a particular competency in the projection of very large, uncompressed HD images, and this is where Delta comes in, as Cyril Toussaint of VLS explains:

“There are plenty of video playback systems out there, but most of them compress the image in some way,” says Cyril Toussaint. “This compression inevitably leads to the creation more

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Dataton WATCHOUT™ multi-image production and presentation software manages the display of content in the stunning Ruskin Digital Gallery which opened in May 2011 at the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, UK.

Snelling Business Systems (www.snellingbiz.com), Ruskin Gallery and Anglia Ruskin University (www.anglia.ac.uk).

Toby Wise, Managing Director at Snelling Business Systems explains: “The gallery has been installed with Dataton WATCHOUT throughout, enabling content to seamlessly flow from screen to screen via a dedicated fibre and copper based AV LAN which was commissioned by Snelling Business Systems. Artist’s works are displayed on various projected and HD displays.”
The Ruskin Digital Gallery was created to be the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, with artwork in more