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Orion Planetarium Installs New LED Projector

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

The newest projectiondesign projector the FL32 1080 ReaLED DLP has been installed inside the Orion Planetarium at Denmark’s Aarhus University. Equipped with a hand-selected wide-angle lens the FL32 1080 creates a four-meter by six-meter image of the stars galaxies space ships and a wide range of computer generated video animations while remaining hidden from the public gaze.

Global Immersion to Deliver New 4D Theatre Experience at Scotland Visitor Center

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

A new visitor center set to open next month will be the first permanent 4D theatre installation in Scotland and will feature a custom-produced 4D show interactive pre-show area and 78-seat main theatre integrated with an array of experience effects including stereoscopic 3D lighting audio wind snow and aroma. Global Immersion is managing the design and fit-out of both the pre-show area and 4D theatre and began the renovation in January.

S.two Ships New FlashDock Transfer Station



Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

S.two has introduced FlashDock a portable editorial ingest and archival station for FlashMag solid-state magazines from OB-1 S.two’s on-board digital film recorder. The self-contained uncompressed recorder for HD HD4:4:4 and raw production OB-1 weighs less than seven pounds and draws less than 20W of power is powered directly from the camera fully solid state and completely silent in operation. “This is the workflow component that our OB-1 customers have been looking for ” says Chris Romine president of S.two.

Rebuilding the Noble Planetarium

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

The challenge for Visual Acuity was to provide architectural guidance and technology planning for the complete redesign of the Noble Planetarium at the Fort Worth Museum of Science & History in Forth Worth Texas.  Under the direction of the Mexican architectural partnership Legorreta + Legorreta assisted by the locally based firm Gideon Toal the museum was demolished and then completely reconstructed into a series of colorful multi-dimensional buildings which celebrate the design traditions of Latin America and the south-western United States.

Reality Takes the Stage

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

MTV’s hit reality series Taking the Stage is a four-camera one-hour show and to do it cinematographer Marco Hoffman shoots between 20 to 30 hours a week of dance. He chose Sachtler Video 20 heads and Speed Lock tripods to shoot the new season.   Hoffman is known for his work on popular reality programs like Laguna Beach The Hills The Rachel Zoe Project and House Hunters. “We use the Sachtler Video 20 during the ballet and hip-hop dance sequences ” he says. “And we use it for our scene work.

Motiontorial to Love

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

The short high-fashion film The Love Thing was Love Magazine's first commercial and was designed and directed by James Lima at the invitation of Love editor-in-chief Katie Grand. He calls the effort “motiontorial.” Among the very first such systems yet available on the market the Red One camera updated with the Mysterium X sensor provided by Offhollywood brought unparalleled fidelity — with an enhanced level of sensitivity and broader dynamic range — to the shoot which also features Lima's computer-generated artistry and visually emotional storytelling.

Times Square Cinema signs with Cinedigm

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Times Square Cinema of Tyler Texas and a member of the National Association of Theatre Owners Cinema Buying Group has signed an agreement to deploy digital projection systems with Cinedigm. Cinedigm is working with many small exhibitors using a newly completed contract template developed for the (CBG) members.  The CBG represents more than 600 members of various sizes that collectively have over 6 000 screens.

EIB to Lend up to EUR 65 million to XDC for its European Digitization Rollout Plans

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

The European Investment Bank will grant financing of up to EUR 65 million to XDC in the framework of the financing structured by BNP Paribas Fortis to contribute to its digitization rollout plans in Europe. The loan facility granted by BNP Paribas Fortis KBC CBC and the EIB – the financing institution of the European Union – would finance digital cinema equipment aimed to be deployed in European cinemas in the scope of the virtual print fee co-financing scheme.

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