Sunday, February 25, 2007

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2005 News and Press Releases

2006 News and Press Releases

The sixth annual Digital Media Summit will be the first summit ever to focus on the impact of social media and user-generated content on Hollywood, iHollywood Forum announced today.

The conference, March 13-14 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA, will examine digital video, digital rights management, online music, entertainment marketing, television, media and even search through the eyes of the empowered consumer, who is transforming how Hollywood delivers entertainment.
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Adobe's NEW web-based video remix and editing technology is an easy-to-use video editor that allows consumers the creative freedom to infuse personality and dramatic impact into their stories before releasing them to a broader online audience. Users can drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips. All online more

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Envivio Inc. and GlobeCast announced that they have reached a deal with Orange to deliver high-quality MPEG-4 television broadcasts to its mobile TV subscribers in France. The new solution, based at GlobeCast’s Paris technical operations center, features the Envivio® mobile TV headend - comprised of the 4Caster™ M2 encoders, winner of the Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award, and the 4Manager™ network management system. more

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StreamerNet Corporation announced the roll-out of its V*Ticket and MyTheater Content Distribution Technologies (CDT) that will enable owners and producers of digital media content (both audio and video) to generate incremental revenues through StreamerNet online eCommerce gateways. Designed to easily snap-on to existing web sites, the StreamerNet V*Ticket and MyTheater technologies let a wide variety of content owners generate new revenue very quickly and easily. more

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O3SIS Information Technology AG announced the launch of Mobile Media Publisher, an innovative new product for sharing and publishing multimedia content over the mobile network. Mobile Media Publisher enables mobile subscribers to easily backup, publish and share their pictures, music, videos, ringtones, and other content generated on their mobile phone with open and private communities. more

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Velocity Micro announced the availability of their groundbreaking Vista media center PCs, the CineMagix Grand Theater and the CineMagix Pro Cinema. The CineMagix Grand Theater, which was unveiled at Digital Experience earlier this month, is Intel-based with up to 2.25 terabytes of storage, while the CineMagix Pro Cinema features AMD products. Both PCs feature premium a/v components and the same sleek design. more

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Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., has expanded its Pinnacle PCTV™ product family to include the Pinnacle PCTV Tuner Kits for Windows Vista. The new line includes three products: two portable USB2 digital and analog TV tuner kits (HD ATSC/NTSC or DVB-T/PAL/SECAM) and one analog PAL/SECAM PCI Kit. All three products include an original full-size remote control that enables consumers to access the entire range of popular TV, PVR and multimedia features of Windows Media Center. more

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e frontier announced the release of MotionArtist 4 for Windows. MotionArtist 4 enables anyone to create banner ads, digital photo albums, website designs, presentations, greeting cards and web comics. Key features in this new version include: new wizards and templates, an improved timeline and text editing palette, a new browser preview, and additional clip art to choose from. more

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Coming in April 2007, Canon will roll out a new HD camcorder targeted to consumers. With a price tag of about $1099, the new HV20 HD Camcorder integrates Canon’s renowned optics and imaging technology, including a 10x HD video zoom lens with Super Range Optical Image Stabilization and a Canon True HD 1920 x 1080 CMOS Image Sensor, the HV20 HD Camcorder records true 1080 high definition video, making it an ideal companion to today’s HD televisions. more

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Adobe Photoshop(r) Lightroom(tm) 1.0 software is now available for pre-order and is expected to ship in mid-February 2007. Photoshop Lightroom enables professional photographers to import, manage and present large volumes of digital photographs, helping photographers spend more time behind the lens and less time at the computer. more

Thursday, February 08, 2007

2005 News and Press Releases

2006 News and Press Releases

StreamerNet Corporation announced the roll-out of its V*Ticket and MyTheater Content Distribution Technologies (CDT) that will enable owners and producers of digital media content (both audio and video) to generate incremental revenues through StreamerNet online eCommerce gateways. Designed to easily snap-on to existing web sites, the StreamerNet V*Ticket and MyTheater technologies let a wide variety of content owners generate new revenue very quickly and easily. more


O3SIS Information Technology AG announced the launch of Mobile Media Publisher, an innovative new product for sharing and publishing multimedia content over the mobile network. Mobile Media Publisher enables mobile subscribers to easily backup, publish and share their pictures, music, videos, ringtones, and other content generated on their mobile phone with open and private communities. more


Velocity Micro announced the availability of their groundbreaking Vista media center PCs, the CineMagix Grand Theater and the CineMagix Pro Cinema. The CineMagix Grand Theater, which was unveiled at Digital Experience earlier this month, is Intel-based with up to 2.25 terabytes of storage, while the CineMagix Pro Cinema features AMD products. Both PCs feature premium a/v components and the same sleek design. more


Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., has expanded its Pinnacle PCTV™ product family to include the Pinnacle PCTV Tuner Kits for Windows Vista. The new line includes three products: two portable USB2 digital and analog TV tuner kits (HD ATSC/NTSC or DVB-T/PAL/SECAM) and one analog PAL/SECAM PCI Kit. All three products include an original full-size remote control that enables consumers to access the entire range of popular TV, PVR and multimedia features of Windows Media Center. more


e frontier announced the release of MotionArtist 4 for Windows. MotionArtist 4 enables anyone to create banner ads, digital photo albums, website designs, presentations, greeting cards and web comics. Key features in this new version include: new wizards and templates, an improved timeline and text editing palette, a new browser preview, and additional clip art to choose from. more


Coming in April 2007, Canon will roll out a new HD camcorder targeted to consumers. With a price tag of about $1099, the new HV20 HD Camcorder integrates Canon’s renowned optics and imaging technology, including a 10x HD video zoom lens with Super Range Optical Image Stabilization and a Canon True HD 1920 x 1080 CMOS Image Sensor, the HV20 HD Camcorder records true 1080 high definition video, making it an ideal companion to today’s HD televisions. more


Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Adobe Photoshop(r) Lightroom(tm) 1.0 software is now available for pre-order and is expected to ship in mid-February 2007. Photoshop Lightroom enables professional photographers to import, manage and present large volumes of digital photographs, helping photographers spend more time behind the lens and less time at the computer. more


The Mouth Revolution is a humorous 4.5-minute live-action film that parodies history and contemporary culture while informing viewers about the vital importance of eating real, organic foods. Narrated by revolutionary mouths who take it upon themselves to decide what they will and will not eat, personalities like “Sojourner Tooth” and “Captain Mouth” unveil their "Mouthifesto" -- a Declaration of Indigestion that details their objectives and demands: No Trans Fats, No GMOs, No Pesticides, and No Artificial Ingredients. more


REALNETWORKS ANNOUNCES FILM.COM WILL OFFER FREE STREAMING OF INDEPENDENT FULL-LENGTH MOVIES - "24 Hours on Craigslist" is Film.com's debut movie with a new film featured each week more


SoundTech Professional Audio announced the availability of the LightSnake, an intelligent microphone-to-PC cable with embedded analog to digital converter and signal booster. The LightSnake features SoundTech's patented "Live when Lit" technology cable ends that glow and flash indicating when sound is being transmitted. The LightSnake USB intelligent microphone cable connects with any standard microphone and plugs directly into the PC USB port, dramatically reducing the cost and clutter traditionally associated with digital recording. Now musicians can easily enjoy the same digital recording abilities once reserved for high-end studio sessions. more


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2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Films to Premiere on iTunes - Sundance Institute and Sundance Channel Announce Availability of Festival Narrative, Documentary and Animation Shorts on iTunes. Sundance Institute and Sundance Channel today announced they will offer narrative, documentary and animation shorts from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for download via iTunes (www.itunes.com). more


If you want to watch the Academy Award winning animated films online, you should check out Animation World Network

On January 23, 2007, the morning of the nominations, AWN.com is the only website that can guarantee clips from all the animated shorts. Animation World Network (http://www.AWN.com), the premiere animation-related publishing network on the Internet, celebrates its 10th annual Oscar Showcase, highlighting the Academy Award(R) nominees in the categories of Outstanding Animated Feature and Outstanding Animated Short Subject more


Sorenson Media, the worldwide leader of video encoding and compression applications for digital video professionals and enthusiasts, today announced the availability of new license models that deliver Sorenson compression and encoding solutions in an unlimited monthly encoding volume. The new Sorenson Squeeze licensing models are available for Sorenson Squeeze for Flash and the Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite license. more


Streamload and CyberLink Deliver One-stop Solutions for Creating and Sharing Videos on the Web. 25 GBs of Free Online Storage is Provided to Enhance the Online Video Sharing Experience for CyberLink MagicDirector Users. Streamload announced that their MediaMax solution has been integrated into the latest versions of the automated video editing software, CyberLink MagicDirector 2, enabling users a private and secure place to store, manage, access and share videos online. more


So you want to be a podcaster, heh? Check out this new all in one kit from SoundTech. SoundTech Professional Audio, a division of US Music Corporation, today announced the SoundTech Podcasting Kit, an easy-to-use solution allowing anyone to create and place Podcasts on the web. The SoundTech Podcasting Kit includes the LightSnake XLR Intelligent Microphone Cable, Sony(R) Acid(R) XMC software with 1-year Acidplanet Prozone membership, tripod microphone desk stand and a high-quality professional microphone. more


The Venice Project gets Joost. One of the more high profile, web video darlings of the blogosphere, has announced that it is no longer the Venice Project. It is now Joost. OK, - but the Venice Project was a lot cooler moniker. Check them out - a new entrant into the online streaming video space. more


Online Pop-up Theater Enables Monetization of Webcasting Events - Live or OnDemand
StreamerNet launches new Content Distribution Portal to provide ready-to-go eCommerce Virtual Ticket sales for anytime, anywhere Streaming Media events. more

BitJazz Inc. announced the imminent availability of the Mac+Intel and Mac Universal Binary editions of SheerVideo™, their acclaimed cross-platform powerful real-time lossless software video codec. Introduced in 2003 as the fastest video codec in the world, SheerVideo lets users work twice as fast at half the uncompressed file size, with perfect fidelity to the original video and digitized film. more


Need to carry around a lot of video? At CES, Verbatim® Corporation unveiled its newest Store ‘n’ Go™ USB Drive based on 1" hard drive technology with up to 12GB of storage in a unit slightly larger than a standard USB flash drive. Designed to enable users to carry volumes of data, video and audio in a single portable unit; the new 12GB Store ‘n’ Go USB will have a projected street price of $179. more


Canon is announcing a whole bunch of new camcorders at the 2007 CES - this includes:

- The Canon DC50 DVD Camcorder records directly to DVD and snaps five megapixel still images to a miniSD card
- The New DC series of DVD camcorders include the DC210, DC220 and DC230 DVD Camcorders. They have a 35x optical zoom, and a wealth of consumer friendly features.
- The new ZR series of Mini-DV camcorders offer consumers an affordable, easy to use solution to preserving memories. The ZR800, ZR830 and ZR850 camcorder all feature a long 35x optical zoom.


Adobe Production Studio for the Mac! Its about time. But you can't get it until mid 2007. Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the next version of Adobe® Production Studio, the integrated video and audio post-production tool set that is part of the Creative Suite family, will be available for both the Macintosh and Windows® platforms. Film, video and web professionals currently using Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® on the Mac will soon be able to harness the power of completely new Macintosh releases of Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Encore® DVD and Adobe Soundbooth™ -- all key components of an upcoming milestone revision to Adobe Production Studio. more


Planning on upgrading to Microsoft Vista for Video Editing? If you are using VideoStudio 10, you are going to need this free update patch. Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading provider of digital media software, today announced that users of its Ulead® VideoStudio® 10 can now install a free update pack to make the software compatible with Windows Vista™. Available immediately, the update pack installs in current versions of VideoStudio 10 and VideoStudio 10 Plus and confers "Works with Windows Vista" compatibility to the award-winning video editing software. more


muvee, the pioneer and leader in Instant Personal Video, announced the release of the latest version of its flagship automatic video editing software, muvee autoProducer 6. Designed to give users more control over their muvees, this edition introduces new personalization features including customizable styles, more production settings and support for captions and voiceovers. more


Want to watch TV on your laptop? Check out the new Diamond HDTV100, an over-the-air HDTV, UHF/VHF (75ohm) and analog cable receiver with portable antenna. The HDTV100 is a PenDrive size, USB 2.0 dual tuner system TV receiver allowing users to receive Free-to-Air ATSC and high quality analog TV signals to watch in windows on the PC. It has an advanced, silicon analog TV tuner for hyper band cable and worldwide terrestrial antenna reception. The portable device is entirely powered off of the USB bus so no extra power adapter is required. more