Award Winning Composer/Sound Designer Joins Award-Winning Original Music/Sound Design Company

NEW YORK, NY – Jon Tropea Jr., the award-winning composer/sound designer known for his extensive advertising, television and independent film work, has joined original music/sound design company Ear Goo, Inc. as Creative Director. In that role Tropea will both compose, sound design and mix, as well as work with Paul Goldman, Ear Goo President/Senior Creative Director, overseeing the Ear Goo creative and production staff. more

To promote a revolutionary new series, Ancient Discoveries, which takes us back in time to explore the ancient roots of technologies, The History Channel® has returned to the image makers at ZONA Design, Inc. For the series, which premiered January 23, 2007, ZONA created an image spot, program logo (for both print and on-air), a program package, and animated, composited and edited the image spot. more

Stockholm, Sweden – 14 March, 2007 – Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in film and video, announced today that Thailand-based Fame Post has purchased the Digital Vision Film Master and Data Conform systems with DVO as well as DVNR 2k AGR4 ME systems. These are already in use at the company‘s Bangkok facility on commercial and feature film projects. The systems were purchased to enable the company to offer the highest quality Digital Intermediate colour grading and to augment their successful film effects services. more

Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 13, 2007 – Broadway Systems, a leading provider of media management solutions for cable networks, announces the opening of its Grand Rapids, MI office and the appointment of Don Doctor and Chris Noe to board and active advisory positions. more

SEATTLE, WA, March 13, 2007 – Systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) has announced the completion of the facility design and equipment implementation for TVW, Washington State‘s public affairs network. Earlier last month, TVW moved into a new state-of-the-art media center – tripling its square footage. more

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wondertouch(TM) LLC, www.wondertouch.com, the award-winning developer of particle effects creation tools for the digital content creation industry, invites members of the press and convention attendees at NAB 2007 – April 16 through April19 – to stop by the wondertouch booth SL3827B (in the Plug-in Pavilion), where its particleIllusion(TM) software line will be on display. more

Cyberport Proudly Presents the Fourth “Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum 2007”
Come to meet Oscar Winners and Most Renowned Individuals in the World of F/X and Digital Animation

8st March 2007 (Hong Kong) – Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited (Cyberport) proudly presents the annual Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (DELF) 2007 on 21 March Wednesday for the fourth consecutive year. With this year‘s theme of “The (He)Art of F/X: The Future of Digital Storytelling”, international top-notch award winners with significant global reputation in special effect, digital cinema and animation will come and share their valuable experiences in utilizing the spectacular technology in a number of Hollywood and international productions. more

HSL supplied a 12-way Kinesys automation system, 220 ChromaQ ColorBlock DB4s and 4 Robe DigitalSpot DT5000s to LD Rob Sinclair for the latest leg of Keane‘s “Under The Iron Sea” world tour, which featured a series of sold-out UK arena shows.

The lighting supply was a joint production between HSL and their Blackburn neighbours Lite Alternative. This combination worked really well on the recent Human League tour Sinclair did just before Christmas, so he decided to go with it again. more

“Wicked,” the hit musical about the witches of Oz, returned to Los Angeles February 21 for an open run with three grandMAs and one grandMA Light controlling lighting and video projections. A.C.T Lighting is the North American distributor of the grandMA.

“Wicked” previously played in LA during the summer of 2005; the new production, featuring some new staging, calls The Pantages Theater home. more

Digital hardware/software and media solutions specialists Projected Image Digital (PID) launches a raft of exciting new product ranges.

These will greatly enhance the options available to all those using digital lighting and media technologies for their shows and installations.

“Digital lighting and media technologies are really taking off and becoming more accessible to a greater cross-section of the entertainment and leisure sector” says PID‘s David March, “PID‘s mission is to offer the widest and most flexible choice of products to our clients for their projects, and to ensure that they are kept constantly informed with the changing options in a fast-moving world”. more