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NewTek, a worldwide leader in video and 3D animation products, today announced that TriCaster will be used to produce and live stream events, demos, announcements, artist interviews, and more – all live and in high definition (HD), from the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show, from January 13-16, 2011.

The NewTek TriCaster portable live production system will bring the NAMM experience to thousands of viewers over the Web. More than 200,000 viewers are expected to tune in over the course of the show – both on-site and from remote locations.

–Daily concerts and performances: beginning at 9 AM ET and continuing throughout each day. http://www.namm.org

–NAMM Jam, featuring Megadeth: January 14, 7:00 PM ET, The Grove. Presented by Dean Guitars. http://www.deanguitars.com/namm11.php

–Music Player Network Live Webcast, January 14, 6:00 PM ET http://www.musicplayer.com

–NAMM Live Webcast: January 14-16, 10:00 AM ET more

Underscoring the comprehensive integration value of its long-term commitment to a standards- based Ethernet backbone for its winning amplifier lineup, Crown Audio today announced the addition of the “Powered By Crown� iPad/iPhone App, designed to provide users with enhanced control and configuration of its amplifiers. The new application can be deployed to control and monitor amplifiers by setting the basic control panels on an amplifier or handle a complete setup through Harman HiQnet™ System Architect™.

The new application benefits both touring professionals and integrators as it can be used to control numerous lines of Crown amplifiers including I-Tech, I-Tech HD, CTs, and Macro Tech I Series amplifiers. Users can instantly connect by plugging their amplifiers into a wireless router. The app can be deployed on two, four and eight channel amplifiers. Users can now create a custom control panel in HiQnet System Architect, save it and directly import it more

Following the successful launch of its first iPhone application in 2010, AKG is introducing the AKG Wireless App 2.0 at Winter NAMM, now available via free download in the Apple iTunes store. With a host of new features and an updated interface, users will not only be able to monitor and configure their AKG wireless systems through an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, but will also have the opportunity to control multiple settings from system design, to soundcheck and during performances, all through Harman’s HiQnetTM protocol and a Wi-Fi connection.

Supporting the Apple iPhone 4 retina display, version 2.0 offers advanced control functionality, allowing users to manage and change their wireless system parameters, including the name of the setup and frequency signals. The newly adopted ALERT system automatically issues a warning if there is a low microphone battery or an antenna malfunction. The app also suggests possible solutions for more

Bexel Brings Hockey to Life for Canadian Viewers with First Ever NHL Game Broadcast in 3D

BURBANK, CA, December 16, 2010– When the puck dropped on Saturday night, December 11, Bexel and its BBSOne 3D Mobile Production Facility were there to broadcast Canada’s first ever “Hockey Night in Canada� in 3D for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The CBC, which serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster for Canada, wanted to make Canadian television history and so it turned to Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division, to help make its monumental live 3D production go off without a glitch. more

Dayton, OH — 12/7/2010 — video adventures, a developer of mobile applications, film & video location production and post production graphics, announced today the launch of TakeTimer for the Apple® iPhone®. TakeTimer offers a practical solution to on-location take logging. At its heart, TakeTimer is a flexible digital stopwatch for timing individual takes of radio & television commercials. The application is available now in the iTunes App Store. more

Streamin’ Garage CEO and Founder Mike Rotman operates NewTek TriCaster during the broadcast of one of his live Web shows.

Mike Rotman, CEO and founder of Streamin’ Garage, earlier this year, converted his home garage into a self-funded, fully independent television studio that broadcasts live on the Web. Using the NewTek TriCaster portable live production system, Streamin’ Garage now has over two million live views. Rotman recently upgraded the studio with an HD TriCaster and is now streaming in high definition (HD), making it one of the first 24/7, live Web networks to go full HD.

“NewTek TriCaster has allowed me to live stream top-notch, multi-camera shows out of my two-car garage,” said Rotman. “Now with the HD TriCaster, I have the capability to produce television quality live productions for the Web. Thanks to NewTek and my amazingly hard-working crew, my lifelong dream of producing first-class original content, out of my own studio, has become a reality.”

Streamin’ Garage produces four live, interactive one-hour shows: “Stupid more

Now everyone can enjoy the art of colour grading their images with Airgrade (www.airgrade.co.uk), the new, free-of-charge, colour-grading engine that’s remote-controlled from an iPhone, created by The Pixel Farm Ltd (www.thepixelfarm.co.uk), the developers of film industry-renowned VFX software.

Airgrade – the fun way to colour grade using an iPhone and a Mac

Starting from scratch, users can become a true film master or colossus of colour. Whether they aspire to be a Da Vinci or a Pablo, Airgrade opens a pandora’s box of colour, letting them bring real lustre to their images. From a base, ‘one light’ grade, to full-on ‘look creation’, Airgrade helps remove the mystique of colour grading to show that it’s not all black magic.

Airgrade emulates professional film and TV grading tools, and combines a powerful Mac-based grading engine, more

Former NVIDIA VP named EVP and GM, 3D Display, to drive adoption of auto-stereoscopic 3D displays

MasterImage 3D, LLC has named Roy Taylor Executive Vice President and General Manager, 3D Display. The former NVIDIA VP moves from Silicon Valley to Hollywood, joining MasterImage 3D to drive adoption of its auto-stereoscopic 3D displays and strengthen content partnerships across the mobile ecosystem.

MasterImage 3D provides digital 3D systems for theaters (2,500 are installed) and commercialized one of the world’s first glasses-free 3D displays for cell phones, in 2009, based on the company’s patented cell matrix parallax barrier technology. Taylor will lead MasterImage’s drive to put glasses-free smartphones and tablets in consumers’ hands worldwide, and help enable a mobile platform for 3D video, games, applications, interface and user-generated content.

Taylor joins MasterImage 3D from NVIDIA, where he was Vice President of Telco more

Montréal’s Underground Shopping Complex ‘Promenades Cathédrale’ Offers Customers Fun, Interactive Way to Win Holiday Shopping Prizes
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MONTREAL, Québec—November 25th 2010—2XM Interactive, a Montréal-based technology start-up that produces ‘through-glass’ interactive technology, augmented reality, and smart phone applications for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7—today unveiled a special store-front interactive ‘through-glass’ projection display that gives holiday retailers and shoppers a new spin on an old favorite arcade-style game.

During the holiday shopping season (November 25th – December 24th) retail stores in Promenades Cathédrale will issue customers a Quick Response “QR� coupon upon check out, allowing them to play a virtual version of the “Claw� game on a glass surface, turned interactive by 2XM technology (remember The Claw arcade game, that lifted the three-eyed alien toys to freedom in Pixar’s Toy Story?).

The 2XM Interactive “Claw� game display is located in the central more

Auryn’s highly anticipated digital storybook iPad App “What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day?� is now available via iTunes for $7.99: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teddys-day/id400989528?mt=8 The App unites innovative technology with the highest quality production in an interactive book experience to be enjoyed by kids, parents and teachers.

View the “What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day?� Promo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFXwEf03oL8

Written by noted author Bruno Hachler and illustrated by Birte Muller, “What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day?� is an enchanting, interactive story about a little girl’s curiosity regarding what her beloved teddy does when she’s away. The App is based on a best selling print edition published by Minedition, which co-released the App with Auryn.

With “Teddy,� kids will love immersing themselves in a world of wonder and imagination, where characters come to animated life and more