IRVINE, Calif. — July 8, 2008 — Legendary rock band Iron Maiden is using multiple Sonnet Fusion™ F2 RAID storage systems to record, store, play back, and edit HD concert footage, 35,000 photos, and 34-track live recordings of its groundbreaking “Somewhere Back in Time” tour. The band is the first in history to transport musicians, crew, and equipment on its own Boeing 757, piloted by the band’s charismatic lead singer, Bruce Dickinson. With Dickinson at the controls, “Ed Force One” — named after the band’s iconic mascot — touched down in 21 cities over 45 days during the first leg of the tour. The highly portable Fusion F2 — providing 640GB of storage in a rugged aluminum enclosure about the size of two stacked CD cases — enabled the band and crew to record the shows, edit daily footage, and review images for world press publication during the tour’s torrid travel schedule, anywhere and anytime. more
IRVINE, Calif. — July 1, 2008 — Sonnet Technologies, a leader in providing local storage systems for professional users of Macintosh®, Windows®, and UNIX® systems in the film, video, and broadcast industries, today announced the 1TB version of its multiple-award-winning Fusion™ F2 portable two-drive RAID SATA storage system. The fastest storage solution of its kind, the enhanced Fusion F2 delivers remarkable performance with up to 134 MB/sec read and write sustained data transfer rates, and is bus-powered to enable its use when grid power is unavailable. The diminutive system consists of two 2.5-inch drives mounted side by side in a rugged aluminum enclosure just a bit larger than two stacked CD cases, features two eSATA data ports for maximum data throughput, and is designed for use with the Sonnet Tempo™ SATA ExpressCard/34 controller for the MacBook® Pro and Windows notebooks. more
IRVINE, Calif. — June 27, 2008 — Sonnet Technologies today announced price reductions ranging from 10 to 25 percent for the company’s award-winning Fusion™ line of high-performance SATA storage solutions for professional content creation and editing. With the greatest reductions applied to Sonnet’s higher-capacity models, price cuts of up to $1,500 give storage system buyers the opportunity to get the maximum storage capacity for their money without compromising quality or performance. more
Atlanta, GA (June 25, 2008) – Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana transitioned its Emmy-winning cable television channel to a file-based workflow on-air this week. The Southeastern Channel produces over 600 hours of original programming each year, and airs over 100 hours of original programming weekly as part of its 24/7 schedule. The state-of-the-art production facility provides training and hands-on experience for television students at the university, many of whom go on to commercial assignments after graduation, as well as providing local news, education, sports, and fine arts programming to the community at large.
HaiVision’s TelePresence Codec Technology helps Church For All Nations Unite Campuses
June 17, 2008 - HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world’s leading vendor of performance H.264 network video codecs, announces that Church For All Nations, Colorado Springs, has installed hai1000 telepresence codec technology to join their 3 remote congregations with the central facility during worship.
“The HaiVision systems deliver an amazing experience for our members. The hai1000 makes it possible for us to have a one-church feel with campuses over 400 miles away.” explains Pastor David Cowart, who is responsible for the church’s media services. “Our goal with this equipment is to eliminate the distance between where our pastor actually preaches from and our satellite campuses. We want to expand the walls of the church to envelop a community that, without this technology, we could not.”
The hai1000 enables clear and fluid audio video communication amongst the church’s facilities. Unlike broadcast systems that introduce significant latency or conferencing systems that struggle to provide acceptable video quality, HaiVision’s hai1000 delivers pristine quality video between locations with negligible delay so that remote interaction is natural and stunningly realistic. more
NEW YORK — June 11, 2008 — Genesis Networks, a provider of next-generation global video transmission services, today announced that it has been selected by EuroNews to provide fully managed distribution services for delivery of EuroNews to North and South American marketplaces. more
Since the company’s inception in 1987, Wohler Technologies’ video products division, PANORAMAdtv, continues to be a world leader in providing in-rack audio and video monitoring solutions for the broadcast, motion picture, and professional audio/visual markets. The San Francisco Bay Area-based company offers a comprehensive range of products that simplify analog and digital source monitoring in facilities of all sizes and complexity. More information is available at www.wohler.com. more
Honeyshed.com uses JMR’s BlueStor Storage Array to boost post production efficiency
Chatsworth, CALIF – May 13, 2008 – JMR Electronics, Inc. (www.jmr.com), a premier supplier of Storage and Server Platforms for OEMs, Systems Integrators and VARS, today announced that its BlueStor™ External PCIe RAID Storage System with PeSAN™ Technology has been in use at HoneyShed (www.honeyshed.com) as part of their post production process.
HoneyShed, which will launch in Q3 of this year, is the first interactive web site designed to connect a generation that lives online to the popular large brands they love via world-class video content. The website’s look and feel is similar to QVC meets MTV and targets a wide expanse of the younger demographic, selling everything from hip clothing and high-tech gadgets to a Volvo C30 car. “We have been very busy refining our website and doing a great deal of production and post production work in preparation for our official launch later this year,” said Jonathan Parkman, post production supervisor at Honeyshed. “We recently required an upgrade to our main storage repository and were referred to JMR’s BlueStor™ by Gavin Rosenberg of Sunstar Company, an Inglewood, CA based reseller. JMR’s BlueStor™ proved to be the ideal storage platform to help improve our post production editing workflow – the BlueStor product and the company are very impressive.” more
IRVINE, Calif. — May 8, 2008 – Sonnet Technologies, a leader in providing local storage systems for professional users of Macintosh®, Windows®, and UNIX® systems in the film, video, and broadcast industries, today announced the Fusion™ RAID Expander, which provides a simple and cost-effective solution for connecting up to seven Sonnet Fusion SATA RAID desktop or rackmount storage systems to a single computer for even faster performance and access to up to 56 terabytes (TB) of protected storage. The Fusion RAID Expander extends a computer’s PCI Express® (PCIe) bus outside of the box and provides seven slots for installing PCIe cards. The Sonnet expansion system delivers plug-and-play installation and is transparent to the computer’s operating system for zero-configuration use. more
NEW YORK — May 7, 2008 – Genesis Networks and SmartJog today announced a new cooperative solution for seamless delivery of live feeds, as well as prerecorded video content, over a global fiber optic infrastructure. The joint solution provides broadcasters with a single high-quality source from which to access all of the live and recorded content needed to produce and deliver a wide variety of television programming. more
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