New York, NY, August 28, 2007 — HTN Communications announces that it will launch an all-digital national fiber optic network designed to transport enhanced sports programming throughout the United States. The network is slated to be ready in time for the start of the 2007-2008 National Hockey League (NHL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons.
HTN will deploy, control and manage a DTM (Dynamic Synchronous Transfer Mode) based national private line digital fiber optic network. The network will connect each of the NHL, NBA and Major League Baseball (MLB) venues in the United States to HTN customers. more
When you‘ve been assigned to do an underwater shoot halfway around the world in a remote location, you want to make sure that the equipment you‘re bringing will work flawlessly. For Los Angeles-based director of photography James Mathers this meant making practice dives close to home, amid the underwater kelp forests of Catalina Island. A veteran underwater cinematographer, Mathers is experienced in using both film and digital video cameras beneath the waves. His choice for his most recent assignment, however, which eventually took him to Manokwari Bay, in Indonesia, was the Canon XL H1 HD camcorder. This HD camcorder gained his attention not only because of image performance and compact size but also because of what he calls its “fantastic versatility.” more
From the depths of Indonesia‘s Manokwari Bay to a blast furnace in a Pennsylvania steel mill, from the strife-torn Middle East to the soundstages of Hollywood, Canon‘s affordable digital high definition camcorders are earning high praise from a wide variety of professional users for their superb picture quality, ease of use, and versatile feature set. more
Accurately describing Scott Billups‘ role in the motion picture industry is a difficult task. He has most recently been extremely busy as a DP (director of photography) on several theatrical motion pictures shot using digital high definition video as an alternative to 35mm film. These assignments were a logical spin-off of his work as a producer of high-end shows for leading cable networks, where he combined his long experience in computer-based digital visual effects with years of behind-the-camera expertise first learned during the 1970‘s as an assistant to the great American cinematographer James Wong Howe. Billups is, however, probably best known for living on what he calls the “bleeding edge” of digital imaging technology for the past two decades.
As an experienced DP (director of photography), John Dunn has used practically every film and video format available to shoot everything from TV commercials to high-end corporate productions during the past 20 years. Recently, however, Dunn had the opportunity to use Canon‘s new XL H1 HDV camcorder, which he describes as “phenomenal.” For Dunn, who works for ADM Productions, a full-service corporate communications facility in Port Washington NY, the XL H1 is nothing less than the camera of the future.
For film and video producer Richard Shaw, a crucial first step in starting a new project is choosing the right equipment. An expert in moving-image technology for two decades, Shaw was an early pioneer of nonlinear editing techniques and the founder of production and post facilities in both Atlanta and Hollywood. His recent work includes editing and co-producing (with writer David McBrayer and Karen Shapiro) Beat the Drum, a film that tells the story of a young South African AIDS victim. Shot on location in Super 35mm film, Beat the Drum has won 27 international awards.
Thomson products and technologies have been shortlisted for a number of awards to be presented at IBC2007, including IABM Design Awards, Cable & Satellite International Product of the Year Awards, and the IBC Innovation Awards.
Placed on the shortlist for the IABM Design Awards is the Grass Valley LCP 400 wireless local control panel software from Thomson. The LCP 400 software is a radical new approach to camcorder control. A software application running on a Windows Mobile device, it links to the Infinity Digital Media Camcorder via Bluetooth and, as well as offering realtime control of the camera functionality, it gives access to the metadata to allow information about the shoot to be read, written, and edited.
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