Providing wireless connectivity to the pro AV channel, Hitachi America, Ltd., Ubiquitous Platform Systems Division has introduced the CP-X268A model projector. The new CP-X268A brings a new level of connectivity and versatility to corporate and educational settings. more

New York, NY. August 30, 2006 - Future Media Concepts, the nation‘s leading producer of education-rich conferences for the TV, video and film industries, announced today that it is now accepting applications for the Editors Retreat 2007, an exclusive four-day summit for selected video and film editors to immerse themselves in the craft and community of professional editing. The Retreat will be held January 24th - 28th in Miami Beach, Florida. more

Santa Monica, CA, August 29, 2006- Endless Noise, one of the leading original music and sound design production companies in America specializing in commercials, TV programs, films, and multi-media projects, has named Dayna Turcotte as its new Executive Producer. Turcotte, who will be based in the company‘s headquarters in Santa Monica, CA, is the former Head of Production with Elias Arts. The announcement was made today by Endless Noise founder/Creative Director Jeff Elmassian. more

San Mateo, Calif. — Aug. 29, 2006 — Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, today announced it is now offering its unique imageSynth plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® CS and CS2 software. imageSynth is advanced technology that allows Adobe Photoshop users to quickly and easily create seamless textures, synthetic images, backgrounds, and generate high-resolution images from low-resolution sources. Previously available exclusively to modo users, the imageSynth plug-in is now available to the entire Photoshop community and can be purchased directly from the Luxology website at modo3d.com. more

Myrtle Creek, Ore. — Aug. 24, 2006 — Artbeats, a renowned leader in high-quality royalty-free stock footage, today announced its participation in the Avid® 2006 Back to School Industry All-Access campaign. All qualified students who purchase Avid Xpress® Pro Academic, SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® Academic, or Pro Tools® Academic before Sept. 30, 2006, will receive a 30% discount on any Artbeats collection priced USD $399 or higher, and a free broadcast quality clip worth USD $199, both of which will be available for immediate download from Artbeats‘ website. Artbeats‘ extensive library of pristine imagery and high-quality footage is widely used for broadcast, feature films, commercial, multimedia, game development, independent production and more. more

Universal City, CA, August 23, 2006 - Newly formed MDots has named Anne Babin as its new Senior Designer. The announcement was made by Allan Wells, president/founder, and Marc Dahlstrom, Managing Director, of MDots. more

San Mateo, Calif. — Aug. 23, 2006 — Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, today announced that Massive Entertainment, a studio in Vivendi Games‘ Sierra Entertainment division, is using modo™ for “World in Conflict,” the upcoming Cold War strategy game for the PC due in spring 2007. modo‘s flexible user interface and powerful UV tools dramatically increased the Swedish developer‘s production of detailed realistic models and was used to produce more than 90 percent of the title‘s in-game models. more

Dallas, TX, August 23, 2006 - Stephen Arnold Music (SAM,) widely regarded as the leading provider of original and syndicated music to the broadcasting industry, with its musical compositions heard daily in over 100-million American homes on 300 television stations and numerous broadcast and cable TV networks, has created new music for CN8 “The Comcast Network”. Stephen Arnold founder/composer, SAM, made the announcement. more

August 23, 2006 - Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids - a leading developer of scalable solutions for content ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection and delivery - has been chosen to provide encoding and webstreaming services for the IBC TV News web presence for the third consecutive year. Along with partners Datmedia (Stand 1.154, www.datmedia.com), Digital Rapids will be responsible for the timely encoding and delivery of news stories to the site, both as daily packages and up-to-the-minute web exclusives.

In association with the IBC Mobile Zone, now in its second year, Digital Rapids will also be responsible for the encoding of selected stories to 3GPP and MPEG4 formats for download to mobile devices such as 3G cell phones. more

August 17, 2006 - Markham, Ontario: Stream Transcode Manager and Stream Broadcast Manager, two new enterprise-level tools from Digital Rapids - a leading developer of solutions for content ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection and delivery - will make their European debut next month at IBC2006 in Amsterdam. These applications provide scalable, centralized management and control for multiple Digital Rapids encoding and transcoding systems. more