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Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc. [OTCBB:ALIF)] has signed a worldwide licensing deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment, a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation, to release two exclusive mobile games based on the multiple Academy Award winning movie “Braveheart” and the recent box office hit “Shooter.” These two titles were selected based on their strong brand recognition, solid fan base, and adaptability to the mobile game format. The advanced mobile games, using the latest in technology, will be of the action genre with real-time strategy (RTS) features and enhanced 3D graphics. The games are scheduled for release and sale globally in early 2008 via on-deck telecom carriers and off-deck resellers.
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There’s a new Singapore office for Echolab Corporation, a provider of pro video production switchers and broadcast tools. Echolab PTE Ltd. will move forward with the guidance of Aniket Rangnekar, who is the firm’s regional sales and support manager for Asia. Prior to joining Echolab, Rangneka was an application engineer, demo artist and trainer for Benchmark Systems Singapore.
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There’s a new TV series upcoming entitled, “My Home 2.0“. Sponsored by Verizon, this program will show families how they can realize the full potential of technology to improve their lives. The families will receice a complete high-tech makeover, upgrading their home with the latest in networking, home entertainment and gaming technology, as well as the products available. Each house upgrade is uneviled at a community-wide block party, at which the attendees watch the live action on the Jumbotron and enjoy a variety of fesitivities.
And who, you may well ask, is going to provide the power conditioner for the power management for this makeover series? Furman Sound and Panamax, that’s who… the Furman elite-15 DM i power conditioner is the first product featured. The first episode will debut on December 7th on WTXF in Philadelphia. Other products from the company to be featured in additional episodes include Panamax MFP-400, Panamax MIW-PowerKit Pro, Panamax MF5100-PM, Furman Elite-15 PF i and Furman IT-Reference 15 i. “My Home 2.0” airs on major local network channels, FiOS TV video-on-demand, and this website—Petaluma, California
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Supreme Master Programming Expands Influence
In combo with SatLink Communications teleport, Supreme Master Television is expanding their TV channel into Asia via SatLink’s AsiaSat2 MCPC platform. Supreme Master Television is a 24/7 satchannel with a variety of spirituality programs broadcast into more than 40 languages with more than 30 subtitles. AsiaSat2, located at 100.5° E, provides regional penetration and coverage, with the sat’s C-band covering 53 countries and regions in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, CIS and Australasia—Jerusalem, Israel
Plus, Supreme Master TV has also selected the RRsat Global Network for global transmission services. This will allow the channel to be viewed in five continents. As part of this agreement, RRsat began broadcasting the channel at the start of November of this year. The channel reaches North and South America, Africa, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand via satellites such as Galaxy 25, Hispasat 1C, Intelsat 10 and Optus B3—Omer, Israel
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According to comScore in their comScore Video Metrix report, nearly 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched a video online (streaming video and progressive downloads) for an average of three hours of video per person during September of this year. Google Sites, which includes YouTube.com, topped the September rankings with the most unique video viewers and the most videos viewed. More than 9 billion videos were viewed by Americans online. Google’s share of that usage was 2.6 billion videos viewed for a 28.3 percent share. They were followed by Fox Interactive Media, Yahoo! Sites, Viacom Digital, Time Warner Network, Microsoft Sites, Disney Online, ESPN, Comcast Corp. and CBS Corp. If you wish more info, contact comScore at this link—Reston, Virginia
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Wohler Technologies Inc. has debuted their HDCC-200A HD/SD-SDi dual-channel, closed-caption encoder/decoder bridge. This new product is a compact, modular solution to simplify closed-caption encoding of two independent SD and/or HD sources. The unit is compliant with all broadcast standards as well as CEA-608/708. Occupying a single card slot, the HDCC-200A is compatible with conversion frames including the Wohler E-card and openGear frames in 1-RU, 2-RU, or 3-RU configurations. The device accepts HD/SD-SDI World System Teletext (WST) plus live captioning data via an RS-232 or Ethernet port for data in the Newfor protocol. The card automatically formats data for insertion into the HD VANC space as set out in SMPTE RDD 8-2006, which are the specs for Storage and Distribution of Teletext Subtitles and VBI Data for High-Definition Television. The card also simultaneously converts WSS and GPI data for insertion into HD VANC, which in turn allows that data to be recorded onto an HD storage device or for distribution via a facility’s digital video distribution network—San Francisco, California
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A Synapse render-only product for Quantel as just been released by VDS, a developer of broadcast automation software. VDS’ Synapse allows the Quantel operator direct, interactive use of hundreds of pro-grade plug-ins from within the Pablo, iQ, gQ, eQ, QPaintbox and QEffects environments. The Synapse Renderer address the need for Quantel’s braodcast editing products including sQ Edit, sQ Cut and the laptop editor, Marko, to be able to render out pre-cated templates using plug-in effects. Until now, these systems requierd full feature Synapse and plug-in licenses, making it impractical to include plug-in effects in the templates. Initially, the Synapse Rendere is available with GenArts Sapphier V2 plug-ins.
