Archive for April, 2008

Stand-Alone Automated Monitoring and Quality Assurance System Integrates Easily Into Any Infrastructure to Ensure Accurate Content Ingest and Playout

HAMPSHIRE, U.K. — April 14, 2008 – Snell & Wilcox today announced the release of QC Station, an automated quality assurance system that leverages the intuitive algorithms of the company‘s advanced Hyperion content monitoring technology to provide alarms and on-screen display of faults or anomalies in audio, video, and metadata. A stand-alone system that can be incorporated easily into any type of system infrastructure, QC Station significantly reduces the burden of quality assurance in ingest and playout applications and streamlines distributed operations by enabling remote monitoring from a centralized location. more

Stand-Alone Automated Monitoring and Quality Assurance System Integrates Easily Into Any Infrastructure to Ensure Accurate Content Ingest and Playout

HAMPSHIRE, U.K. — April 14, 2008 – Snell & Wilcox today announced the release of QC Station, an automated quality assurance system that leverages the intuitive algorithms of the company‘s advanced Hyperion content monitoring technology to provide alarms and on-screen display of faults or anomalies in audio, video, and metadata. A stand-alone system that can be incorporated easily into any type of system infrastructure, QC Station significantly reduces the burden of quality assurance in ingest and playout applications and streamlines distributed operations by enabling remote monitoring from a centralized location. more

LANCASTER, Pa. — April 7, 2008 – Linear Acoustic, a manufacturer of customer-centric multichannel sound solutions for digital broadcast, today announced that it will be showing the new AEROMAX:one digital television audio processing system, which supports built-in Dolby(R) Digital (AC-3) encoding. more

LANCASTER, Pa. — April 7, 2008 – Linear Acoustic, a manufacturer of customer-centric multichannel sound solutions for digital broadcast, today announced that it will be showing the new AEROMAX:one digital television audio processing system, which supports built-in Dolby(R) Digital (AC-3) encoding. more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — April 14, 2008 – da Vinci Systems today announced the release of the latest version of Splice, the company‘s versatile post-production appliance. Originally developed to enable nonlinear, in-context color grading on the da Vinci 2K® or 2K Plus™, Splice 2.4 is now able to address additional functions to improve the post-production workflow. These include operating in support of the Resolve® digital mastering suite by functioning as a standalone station to automate layoff of variously versioned deliverables or to ingest data from telecine or VTR. Splice 2.4 will also provide conform functions. more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — April 14, 2008 – da Vinci Systems today announced the release of the latest version of Splice, the company‘s versatile post-production appliance. Originally developed to enable nonlinear, in-context color grading on the da Vinci 2K® or 2K Plus™, Splice 2.4 is now able to address additional functions to improve the post-production workflow. These include operating in support of the Resolve® digital mastering suite by functioning as a standalone station to automate layoff of variously versioned deliverables or to ingest data from telecine or VTR. Splice 2.4 will also provide conform functions. more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — April 14, 2008 – da Vinci Systems today announced at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show a dramatic contribution to post-production efficiency: database sharing between the company‘s signature Revival™ image restoration system and Resolve® digital mastering suite. This breakthrough “connectivity” between the two best-of-breed systems exemplifies da Vinci‘s continuing initiative to break down the barriers that impede post-production workflow, thus maximizing technical and staff resources to enhance overall quality and productivity. more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — April 14, 2008 – da Vinci Systems today announced at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show a dramatic contribution to post-production efficiency: database sharing between the company‘s signature Revival™ image restoration system and Resolve® digital mastering suite. This breakthrough “connectivity” between the two best-of-breed systems exemplifies da Vinci‘s continuing initiative to break down the barriers that impede post-production workflow, thus maximizing technical and staff resources to enhance overall quality and productivity. more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — April 14, 2008 – Impresario™, a bold new control interface from da Vinci, made its debut at the 2008 NAB Show today in the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth SL2620. Improving on the very familiar and widely used control panels for Resolve® and da Vinci 2K Plus™ that have been industry benchmarks for many years, this singularly stunning new design offers top-notch functionality and more flexibility, is easy and comfortable to use, and provides the latest, most customizable control technology. In a further departure from convention, da Vinci will be making an open API available, which means Impresario can be deployed for use with third-party devices. more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — April 14, 2008 – Impresario™, a bold new control interface from da Vinci, made its debut at the 2008 NAB Show today in the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth SL2620. Improving on the very familiar and widely used control panels for Resolve® and da Vinci 2K Plus™ that have been industry benchmarks for many years, this singularly stunning new design offers top-notch functionality and more flexibility, is easy and comfortable to use, and provides the latest, most customizable control technology. In a further departure from convention, da Vinci will be making an open API available, which means Impresario can be deployed for use with third-party devices. more