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Archive for October, 2007

Creative Planet’s Interview with Tom Ohanian

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Last Thursday evening, the folks at Creative Planet’s Digital Production Buzz interviewed William Henshall (a photographer/videography) and Signiant’s Tom Ohanian.
Each week Creative Planet’s Digital Production BuZZ keeps listeners in touch with trends and technologies, people and practices in order to keep their audeince up to date with digital production, postproduction and evolving distribution opportunities.
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Boston Avid User Group

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting at the Boston Avid Users Group, held at National Video Boston. It was great to see many of the colleagues that I worked with at Avid and also to meet new members. The topic of discussion was “Accelerating Avid-to-Avid Transfers” which showcased the Signiant-enabled [...]

 
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Will the InterWeb Settle Things? The InterWeb is just the weapon in the Revolution.

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Interesting question but isn’t the question much bigger than this little skirmish in the Digital Media Revolution and isn’t the cable operator that doesn’t respond in a timely manner just helping the media companies regain turf?
How people consume content is changing …
Just last Sunday morning, I sat on the couch with my two kids with [...]

The analog problem, what problem?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

BusinessWeek’s Olga Kharif wrote a story today about retailers being fined for failing to post special labels on their analog-only TVs to notify consumers that, come next year, their TVs will stop working.
As far as I’m concerned, this is a non-event! People’s appetite for larger and cooler flat panels will continue as prices continue to [...]

Al Gore’s not the only one who deserves praise…

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Customers and prospects keep asking the question…Does Digital Media Distribution helps the Media and Entertainment industry go green? You’re damn right it does. Tapes, dubbing, electricity, couriers (unless they’re on bicycles), traffic, exhaust, more tapes, DVDs, you know stuff that winds up in landfills….packages, bubble wrap, those disgusting packing peanuts that wind up everywhere…
Put a [...]

The new power in media

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Paul Kedrosky has a post on the Fox Business/CNBC showdown (or as he calls it “smackdown”) that sets the stage nicely for what should be an interesting storyline heading into 2008 as major networks figure out how to capitalize on their digital media assets.
Whether or not Fox or CNBC becomes the first to put live, [...]

NBC Universal’s Nader Kazemi

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Listen in as NBC Universal’s Nader Kazemi, Deployment Manager for Digital Media Delivery, explains the challenges he faced before having Signiant in place and how Signiant solved his problems. It’s less than 10 minutes long and worth the listen! Nader specifically discusses having:

A globally distributed environment with high latency

Many different workflows with [...]

 
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Signiant Update – IBC, customers and ravioli?

Friday, October 5th, 2007

In this episode of the Digital Media Galaxy podcast, Tom Ohanian and Tony Lapolito discuss what’s been happening at Signiant these last few months. The pair discuss the recent success of IBC and Tom offers the details of a couple of new Signiant customers and the problems that Signiant solved. The two also dish on [...]

 
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