The Briefing Room

• Add up to 7.5 Terabytes to a Gigabit network

• Complete solution for comprehensive data backup

• Extra data protection with RAID 5 or RAID 6 modes

• Five hot-swappable disks for non-stop data access

• Designed to complement and enhance working environments more…

International design, animation and VFX studio rhinofx has enlisted the London-based repping firm The Roster to provide sales efforts in London and the UK. The Roster is led by former producer and current Executive Directors Agent, Georgina Poushkine. Managing Director Rick Waggonheim notes, “We were immediately drawn to Georgina and the entire company’s history and experience in the media production industry and are looking forward doing more work in the overseas markets.” The partnership further solidifies rhino’s position as a global creative force and a leader in superior quality visual effects, design, and animation across all mediums. more…

Newscaster DR 2 Introduces Split Box form factor for Wideband Digital Receiver

New York, New York, October 6, 2008 — Nucomm, Inc., a brand of The Vitec Group, and a leading provider of digital and analog microwave systems for the broadcast industry, common carrier, cable, government, military and international marketplace, is unveiling the Newscaster DR 2 diversity receiver at HD World 2008 (Booth 714). The updated model of its industry leading predecessor, the Newscaster DR, offers new features including a split box design philosophy and the ability to receive UHF digital signals in the 150 to 850MHz band. more…

Coemar will be unveiling five new lights at this year’s LDI Conference & Tradeshow at the Las Vegas Convention Center running October 24th-26th. At this must-attend live entertainment technology event, several thousands of designers, programmers and stage technicians will get an up-close view at booth # 2334 in the exhibit hall Friday, October 24th and Saturday, October 25th from 10:00am-6:00pm, and on Sunday, October 26th from 10:00am-4:00pm, when the exciting lineup will be on display: more…

Santa Monica, CA, October 7, 2008 – Immediate Music, Hollywood’s preeminent supplier of original music for high profile, major studio feature film trailers, is making its music available—for the first time ever—to the advertising and videogame industries. Concurrently, the company, which recently provided its signature music for NBC’s 2008 Beijing Olympics, has announced the launch of two new music libraries, “Immediate Music Premium” and “Immediate Music Library.” Also, Immediate Music will now be offering its award-winning, high quality level, original custom scoring services to those industries. Immediate Music co- founders/composers/producers Yoav Goren and Jeffrey Fayman made the announcements. more…

New York, NY, October 6, 2008 – RF Central, a brand of The Vitec Group, and a leading provider of digital microwave technology, is showcasing its RFX-PHT-II HD upgradeable portable 2 GHz digital transmitter at HD World 2008 (Booth 714). Utilizing RF Central’s signature RFX-CMT-II camera-mounted transmitter, the PHT-II is designed to turn any “news car” into a “live broadcast car” and transform any “run and shoot” vehicle into a “run and transmit” vehicle. more…

TORONTO — Oct. 6, 2008 — Southpaw Technology Inc., makers of TACTIC™, a leading digital asset management system, today announced the immediate availability of TACTIC 2.0, the next generation of its easy to use, fully customizable workflow infrastructure. Available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux, TACTIC 2.0 offers a single software solution to manage the complexflow of digital assets, ensuring workflow pipelines to be dependable, efficient and cost effective. For more information or to see a TACTIC 2.0 demo please visit www.southpawtech.com. more…

San Mateo, Calif. – Oct. 6, 2008 – Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing modern 3D content creation software, today announced the immediate availability of imageSynth™ 2, the newest version its popular image processing tool. Featuring up to ten times faster performance, imageSynth 2 allows artists to quickly process existing images into new seamless textures, synthetic images and backgrounds, and generate super high-resolution images from low resolution sources. imageSynth 2 is now available in both a standalone version and as a plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4. For more information or to purchase please visit www.luxology.com/store/imageSynth.aspx. more…

The Brief:

BioShock® for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system needed a promotional site that did justice to its intense graphics and compelling storyline. The team of designers, motion/3D artists, and developers at ROKKAN, a bicoastal, full-service interactive agency, created an online experience as gripping and immersive as the critically acclaimed game itself. more…

The Brief:

In this energetic performance vid, up-and-coming American indie rock band The Virgins perform one of their latest singles, One Week of Danger cut by William Zitser of New York-based jumP editorial. more…