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News 2007-2008
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May 23d, 2008 - in
Cannes, XDC Signs Digital Cinema Deployment
Agreements with 4 Hollywood studios |
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XDC, the leading digital cinema service
company in Europe, has signed non-exclusive
long-term agreements with four (4) major
distributors to deploy 8,000 upcoming DCI-compliant
digital cinema installations across Europe.
Cannes Film Festival 2008 – Warner
Bros. Entertainment Inc. (“Warners”), Paramount
Pictures Corporation (“Paramount”), Twentieth
Century Fox Film Corporation (“Fox”) and The Walt
Disney Studios (“Disney”) will support XDC, acting
as a Deploying Entity, in order to roll out and fund
digital systems for theatrical presentations in
several countries in Europe. Under the terms of the
agreements, Warners, Paramount, Fox and Disney have
independently agreed to supply European exhibitors
with their feature films in digital form for
projection on the digital screens, as well as
temporarily contribute to the financing of XDC’s DCI-compliant
digital cinema projection systems. The agreements
with Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures are in a
very advanced stage and are expected to close
shortly. Read the complete press
release
here.
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Feb 2nd, 2008 – The
IP-Racine workflow was demonstrated at iDiff in
Paris |
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The IP-Racine workflow has been
presented to the professionnal audience at iDiff in
Paris on 31st January 2008. Featuring the new 10
Gbit Ethernet VIPER camera, DVS post-production, XDC
playout servers and BARCO projectors, the conference
also reported about progress done by the academic
partners of IP-Racine. The IP-Racine workflow has
also been advertized on Videography in November.
Read the full paper
here.
All presentations
from iDiff are available online
here.
At the end of the conference, the
just released "European Digital Cinema Security
White Book" was distributed to the audience. More
details about the book at
www.edcine.org.
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Feb 1st, 2008 – ISE in Amsterdam |
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At this year's ISE from January 29 to 31, DVS
Digital Video Systems AG will demonstrate its
leadership in presentation technology with a display
of products for a wide range of applications.
Visitors will also be provided with an opportunity
to experience the impressive quality of uncompressed
image data in SD, HD, 2K, and 4K.
Find the press release
here.
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Jan 16th, 2008 –
Filmlight installs IP-Racine technolgy at Hoverlord
in Belgium |
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Belgium post-production house
HoverlorD has unveiled a purpose-built Digital
Intermediate Theatre at its facility in Liege
employing FilmLight’s scanning and colour grading
technology. The key components of the new workflow
are a Northlight scanner, capable of scanning at
resolutions up to 6K, and a Baselight FOUR colour
grading system, which is able to process high
resolution imagery in real time. HoverlorD intends
to use the new resource for mastering feature films,
TV series and documentaries for theatrical and
broadcast release. More details
here.
http://www.videography.com/articles/article_15400.shtml
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Dec 26th, 2007 –
IP-Racine at iDiff in Paris in January |
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IP-Racine invites cinema
professionals at iDiff in Paris for its final
products presentation. The event is at the Palais
des congrès (Porte Maillot, Paris, France) on
January, 31st, 2008 at 14:30. You may print the
paper invitation
here.
More details at the
iDiff web site.
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Nov 25th, 2007 – IP-Racine
presented at SMPTE |
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DVS and JRS have presented
their results achieved in IP-RACINE at the SMPTE
Technical Conference in Oct. 2007. The talk
"Distributed Metadata Management for Post-production
Environments" was given in the "Using Metadata in
the Real World" session of the technical program of
the conference and presented the Spycer® content
management system and the metadata extraction and
browsing tools.
The paper is available
here.
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Oct 30th, 2007 –
A new IP-Racine video is online |
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This video shows the making of the research for the
paper “Choral Music Recording with Acoustic
Quadraphony”, presented by the Acoustic Lab of
Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, at the
International Symposium of Musical Acoustics ISMA
2007 in Barcelona. It features the Quad Impulse
Response measurements in San Giorgio church in
Venice, the pseudo-anechoic recording of a choir and
the final multi-channel rendering of the choir in
the church. More information
here.
This 6'40" video is available on Google Video
here.
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Oct 10th, 2007 – An
innovative DVS-SAN installed |
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At
Colorfront, a leading post production house in
Budapest, Hungary, DVS Digital Video Systems
GmbH is installing an innovative DVS-SAN featuring
DataDirect Networks components.
This step is part of the DVS strategy for the
expansion of its product range of centralized
storage solutions for broadcast and post production.
The DVS-SAN is ideal for collaborative DI workflows
that require distributed storage combined with
real-time access to SD, HD, 2K and 4K material.
Find the press release
here.
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Sep 12th, 2007 – XDC
receives a SMPTE award |
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XDC received the 2007 Bravo Award for
its major achievement in digital cinema during the
SMPTE International Forum on D-Cinema and 3D
Stereoscopic Movies at the Venice International Film
Festival on September 5th.
Find the press release
here.
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digital-cinema.org
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Aug 20th, 2007 –
A new web site about D-cinema |
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A very useful web portal
dedicated to digital cinema is gaining notoriety in
France. The site is in french, but very well up to
date. Lets of news from IP-Racine partners may be
found there. Also contains a discussion forum and a
'classified ads' section.
Find the web site
here.
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June 29th, 2007 –
Official Cannes Festival partner |
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DVS Digital Video Systems is widely acknowledged as
major provider of central storage systems for
Digital Intermediates (DI). After successful
qualification testing, da Vinci Systems has
certified the DVS-SAN central storage for their
products Resolve and Revival.
Read the full press release
here.
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April 10th, 2007 –
Official Cannes Festival partner |
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As the official partner, XDC is providing all of the
necessary equipment and technical support for more
than 16 auditoriums using digital screening
including the parallel sections during the May
competition.
Read the full press release
here.
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April 4th, 2007 –
Spycerbox and Clipster |
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NAB is the big April event. DVS is presenting a new
Clipster and the Spycerbox.
CLIPSTER: Digital
Cinema becomes a reality thanks to this
high-performance DI workstation that fulfills the
requirements of Digital Cinema: DCI Mastering,
JPEG-2000, DCDM, and DCP.CI and offers 16 AES/EBU or embedded audio
channels.
The SpycerBox adds essential features to the
DVS-SAN. The broadcast and post production industry
will benefit from proxies that provide direct
insights and offline editing.
Read the
Clipster and the
Spycerbox press releases.
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March 26th, 2007 –
Hydra JPEG2000 board |
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 DVS
Digital Video Systems GmbH exhibits its newest OEM
product Hydra at NAB 2007. OEM customers present
their products equipped with DVS boards at the DVS
booth.
Hydra is a PCI-X board for uncompressed input and
output of audio and video material as well as for
decompression of JPEG2000 in real time. Hydra
supports SD, HD, 2K, and further formats specified
by DCI and offers 16 AES/EBU or embedded audio
channels.
Read the press release
here.
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March 8th, 2007 - IP-Racine
paper presented at VISAPP 2007 |
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"Vector Quantisation Based Image Enhancement"
was presented in Barcelone at VIASAPP 2007 (8-11
March 2007).
We present a new algorithm for rescaling images
inspired by fractal coding. It uses a statistical
model of the relationship between detail at
different scales of the image to interpolate detail
at one octave above the highest spatial frequency in
the original image. We compare it with Bspline and
bilinear interpolation techniques and show that it
yields a sharper looking rescaled image.
The full paper can be read
here.
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March
6th, 2007 – DVS showcases 4K in real time
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 From
April 16th to 19th, 2007 the NAB attendees will be
presented with sensational news at the DVS booth
SL2608: the German-based company focuses on 4K in
real time, on DCI mastering with JPEG2000 and
Spycer® for Linux..
DVS also unveils Spycer®, the innovative data manager, in a Linux version at NAB 2007.
Read the press release
here.
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February 16 th , 2007 –
IP-Racine publishes a paper about flash memory
storage for digital cinema cameras |
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 The
magazine called FKT - Offizielles Organ der Fernseh
und Kinotechnischen Gesellschaft (issue 1-2 / 2007)
published a paper titled "Flash-Memory-basierter
mobiler Recorder für kinotaugliche digitale Kameras"
written by consortium member Jens-Peter Wittenburg
from Thomson.
See the
publisher's web site.
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January 10 th , 2007 –
IP-Racine carries out new technical tests in Belgium
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MEDIAPRO has coordinated the second "test bed" which
took place in the Belgian city of Kuurne on
December 13th, 2006 as part of the IP-RACINE (Integrated
Project Research Area CINE) project. These technical
tests, which were carried out in the Barco company
head-offices, set out to test the interoperability
of the various technical equipment used by the
participants in the project.
This time around, the tests looked at
the areas of post-production and screening, using
the images recorded from the
first "test bed", which was held in Madrid in
June, from sequences supplied by Thomson. As a
consequence of these tests, the interoperability of
the different partners and equipament used in the
IP-Racine project have been guaranteed.
IP-RACINE is a consortium made up of
both industry and academic partners. The principal
objetive of the project is to establish a set of
European proposals to integrate all the processes
that are involved in digital film production, right
from the shooting of a scene to the finished article
on the cinema screen in order to make the industry
more competitive and encourage local film-making.
MEDIAPRO is taking part in the
project to develop the new generation of digital
cinema with a consortium of 15 European companies:
DVS (Germany), Joanneum Research (Austria), XDC SA,
Barco NV, Hasselt University-Expertise Centre for
Digital Media (Belgium), Thomson-Grass Valley (Holland/Germany),
Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio (Italy), Pandora
Internacional, FilmLight Ltd, University of Glasgow
(UK), Brainstorm Multimedia, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Fundació Barcelona Media Universitat Pompeu
Fabra and MEDIAPRO (Spain).
( From the MEDIAPRO press release,
Dec 22, 2007 )
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