3ality Digital Performs Live 3D Broadcast With Howie Mandel at the NAB Show
3ality Digital hosted today a live 3D demonstration with “Deal or No Deal,” host Howie Mandel and the hit show’s executive producer Scott St. John. Led by 3ality Digital’s Steve Schklair, John Modell and Howard Postley, the event was broadcast out of 3ality’s state-of-the-art facility in Burbank from 3:15-3:45pm PDT today, where Mandel, St. John and Imagination Games unveiled a sneak peek of a new game show that they are in negotiations to develop at NBC Television, “Would You Rather?,” where contestants are faced with a series of dilemmas in which they must choose what they believe to be the lesser of two evils. Read more
NAB Darling Red Camera Records First Festival Feather With Joshua Weigel’s 168 Film Project Winner ‘Stained’
Los Angeles-based writer-director Joshua Weigel joins believers Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh in the RED ONE Digital Camera merit book this week with his Best Film award over the weekend for the futuristic “Stained,” featuring distant-cousin-of-Walt Melissa Disney, at the 6th annual 168 Film Festival (Apr. 11-12) timed film producing event at the Alex Theater in Glendale, Calif. Read more
Action and Adventure Flicks in Hi Def This Month as American Gangster Joins The Godfather Trilogy on Comcast’s On Demand
PHILADELPHIA, April 14 /PRNewswire/ — This month, Comcast customers
can get their fill of drama, action and adventure as Comcast, the nation’s
leading provider of entertainment, information and communications,
announced its video on demand (VOD) highlights featuring gangster-themed
movies. American Gangster and The Godfather trilogy — all available in HD
– headline the month’s offers with several more mobster movies available
to view. This programming package joins the thousands of Hollywood hits,
television series and additional VOD selections available each month.
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FlyTunes(TM) Powers AccuRadio Move to the iPhone
LAS VEGAS, April 14 /PRNewswire/ — Today at the RAIN Las Vegas Summit
(produced by “RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter”), FlyTunes Inc.
announced a partnership with AccuRadio.com — the world’s leading
independent, personalizable, multichannel Internet radio broadcaster –
that will bring all 320+ channels of AccuRadio to iPhones and iPod Touch
models. Read more
President Bush’s State of the Union Address Utilizes Latest High Definition Video Technology
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., a leading provider of broadcast video technology and innovative computer products, today announced that the Fujitsu IP-9500 MPEG-4 AVC Encoder was used for CBS News’ live television broadcast of the 2008 Presidential State of the Union Address. The project enabled high quality MPEG-4 HD video transmission from Washington DC to the CBS Network Operations Center in New York. Read more
Sony Signs Sponsorship Contract with Lang Lang
NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Corporation today announced
that it has signed a three-year sponsorship agreement with world-renowned
classical pianist Lang Lang. Through this relationship, which officially
began on April 1, 2008, Lang Lang will appear in Sony events and campaigns
and use the company products to enhance and promote the Sony brand
throughout the world, with a particular focus on China, his home country.
Lang Lang personally enjoys using a wide range of Sony products, and will
draw on his keen interest in electronics and technology to actively
collaborate in their promotion. Read more
Autodesk Film and TV Solutions Help Grow Post-production and Broadcast Businesses
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — In an
increasingly competitive market, broadcasters and post-production
facilities are differentiating and growing their businesses by investing in
Autodesk, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ADSK) visual effects and finishing solutions.
These solutions provide digital artists and editors with the professional
tools necessary to quickly produce high-value content. Facilities that have
benefitted from recent purchases of Autodesk systems include BSkyB, Sight
Entertainment, Mere Mortals, E3 Post and Channel 4. Read more
Prodigy Song Featured on Grand Theft Auto IV Game and Soundtrack
NEW YORK, April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — “Dirty New Yorker” one of the
songs from the H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 sessions will be featured on the Grand Theft
Auto IV game and soundtrack. Prodigy removed the song, featuring Mobb Deep
member Havoc, from the H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 album so “Dirty New Yorker” could be
placed on the latest game in the Grand Theft Auto franchise. The video for
“Dirty New Yorker” has been added to H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 as a bonus feature on
the album. Read more
Palm Centro at AT&T Joins On to Sponsor mtvU Best Music on Campus ‘Battle of the Bands’
NEW YORK, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college
network, today announced that Palm(R) Centro(TM) at AT&T has joined on to
sponsor the network’s Best Music on Campus “battle of the bands”
competition, as well as mtvU “Campus Invasion Music Festival ‘08.” Read more
Cate Blanchett and Joseph Fiennes in Multi-media Theatrical Performance for IWC Schaffhausen Gala
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — By now, it is
something of a tradition for Swiss watch manufacturers IWC Schaffhausen to
stage a spectacular gala evening as part of Geneva’s watch fair, the Salon
International de la Haute Horlogerie. This year’s event will be known
simply as “The Crossing.” Just over 140 years ago, F.A. Jones from Boston,
Massachusetts, set out on a journey that took him to Schaffhausen, where he
set up the International Watch Company. Read more