New Jersey - Alfred Haber, Inc.'s (AHI) executive vice president of worldwide sales Robert Kennedy announced that the company has cleared the 51st Grammy Awards in several key territories, including Foxtel (Australia), WOWOW (Japan). This follows the recent announcement that the 51st Annual Grammy Awards will air live on CBS at 8pm from Los Angeles' Staples Center on February 8, 2009. The show also marks the 20th consecutive year in which AHI has represented the show internationally. The Grammy … [Read more...] about Alfred Haber, Inc. (AHI) goes platinum with international sales for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards
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3DI establishes new premier film scanning and grading facility in Jakarta
Jakarta: P.T. Tri Digital Intermedia (3DI) took steps to establish itself as a premier film scanning and grading facility in Indonesia, confirming its order for 35mm and 16mm film scanning and grading systems. The Jakarta based facility ordered the Director 2K scanner from Lasergraphics, featuring both 35mm and 16mm gates. Images will be graded on the new R-series Resolve from da Vinci. The dpx. files from the scanner will be stored directly on BrightDrive, which has both online and near-line … [Read more...] about 3DI establishes new premier film scanning and grading facility in Jakarta
Adlabs launches 4K DI theatre with FilmLight technology
India: Adlabs, a part of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, India‘s leading entertainment conglomerate, made a major investment in state-of-the-art 4K film scanning, colour grading and colour management technology from FilmLight. The key elements of the package include a Northlight 24K pin registered film scanner, five Baselight colour grading systems and facility wide Truelight colour management. The company employs the systems in its Digital Intermediate workflow at its … [Read more...] about Adlabs launches 4K DI theatre with FilmLight technology
67,000 attend CommunicAsia2008 & BroadcastAsia2008
Singapore - CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia 17-20 June 2008 saw a total of 67,573 attendees, with 52 percent coming from outside of Singapore, hailing from about 100 countries and regions across Asia-Pacific, Europe, US and the Middle-East. Held together with CGOverdrive2008 and inter-government and industry meetings such as the imbX Ministerial Forum and the Regional Seminar on Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting, the event spread over eight halls. More than 2,300 exhibiting companies … [Read more...] about 67,000 attend CommunicAsia2008 & BroadcastAsia2008
National Geographic Channel Asia partners with MEASAT
Kuala Lumpur – MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (MEASAT) and National Geographic Channel Asia have announced an agreement for the National Geographic Channel HD and 2 other standard-definition channels, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild to be distributed to payTV operators across Asia Pacific, the Middle-East and Africa via the MEASAT-3 satellite on the PCM (now GlobeCast Hong Kong) HD MCPC platforms. The 24-hour National Geographic Channel HD in Asia Pacific is currently … [Read more...] about National Geographic Channel Asia partners with MEASAT
WiMAX expo opens in Taipei
Taipei - The total output of Taiwan’s WiMAX production value is estimated to reach NT$30 billion (US$987 million) by 2015 through the combined efforts of the government and the private telecommunications sector, according to vice minister of economic affairs Shih Yen-shiang said yesterday. Addressing the WiMAX Expo opening ceremony at the Taipei World Trade Center, Shih said the exhibition would showcase the nation's most advanced WiMAX technologies, which provide wireless data over long … [Read more...] about WiMAX expo opens in Taipei