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Spore experts at SIGGRAPH 2008
Technology Focus, 5 August 2008

Chicago - Technical content presented at SIGGRAPH 2008 will feature the techniques behind the animation development in Spore, the latest interactive video game due to launch worldwide in September 2008. Produced by the makers of the popular Sims games, Spore is an internet-based [...]

First cross-platform content initiative highlights Singapore’s youth sports
Technology Focus, 5 August 2008

Singapore - Adrenaline, a repository of professionally produced and user generated youth sports content, has been unveiled. Delivered through a combination of web 2.0 tools and broadcast technology, Adrenaline is the first content initiative conceptualised for multi-platform [...]

Avid support for NBC’s coverage of Beijing Olympic Games
Technology Focus, 5 August 2008

Massachusetts, USA - Avid Technology, Inc. has been selected to implement an end-to-end editing workflow for NBC during the network’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China 8 - 24 August 2008. This marks NBC and Avid’s fifth consecutive Olympic Games working together. NBC [...]

Videocraft installs 3-camera studio and OB van at University of Western Sydney convergent media facility
Technology Focus, 30 July 2008

Sydney – Videocraft recently completed installation and integration of a 3-camera training studio and 3-camera OB van system for the School of Communication Arts at University of Western Sydney (UWS). The convergent media facility project was particularly complex and challenging [...]

Japanese post house Imagica relies on da Vinci Resolve for HD grading, finishing on feature films
Technology Focus, 25 July 2008

Tokyo - Japanese production and post-production company, Imagica, has deployed a da Vinci Resolve image enhancement suite to perform HD colour grading for recent feature films including Crows Zero, Cyborg She and Koizora. "For us, the most attractive feature of the da Vinci [...]

BrightClip intelligent data recording technology to demo at IBC 2008
Technology Focus, 22 July 2008

USA - Bright Systems, Inc., developer of disk recording and data infrastructure technology, will demo its new BrightClip intelligent data recording technology at IBC 2008. Integrated with a range of digital film systems, BrightClip provides superior disk recording and media playback [...]

MTV Networks selects Front Porch Digital solutions for content storage management
Technology Focus, 22 July 2008

Colorado, USA - MTV Networks has selected Front Porch Digital DIVArchive and DIVAnet solutions for its broadcast content archive management system between its network operations centre in New York and its backup facility in Nashville, Tennessee. Based on a combination of integrated [...]

Newseum deploys Wohler Monitoring Systems to support state-of-the-art media exhibits
Technology Focus, 22 July 2008

California, USA - PANORAMAdtv, the video products division of Wohler Technologies Inc., announced that Wohler monitoring products are in use at the Newseum in Washington, DC. The 250,000-square-foot Newseum, located on historic Pennsylvania Avenue, is intended to serve as a forum [...]

Thomson displays integrated workflow at Australian Broadcast Exhibition 2008
Technology Focus, 22 July 2008

Sydney - Thomson showed a number of integrated file-based workflow solutions for news and content creators at the 2008 Australian Broadcast Exhibition, which runs till 24 July at the Manly Pacific Hotel in Sydney. Visitors to the Thomson booth at ABE 2008 received hands-on demonstrations [...]

GlobeCast Asia successfully completes IPL Cricket broadcast
Technology Focus, 17 July 2008

India - The recently concluded Indian Premier League Twenty20 (IPL Cricket) proved to be the largest ad-hoc project to date for GlobeCast Asia, a leading provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. The event entailed [...]