In this video clip, Signiant’s VP of Marketing, Tony Lapolito, talks about the excitement of IBC 2007. Signiant was the platinum sponsor of the IPTV Zone and demonstrated the latest version of its Digital Media Distribution Management Suite.
Signiant also made announcements regarding the company’s recently formed relationships with BT, Marquis and IBM.
Click (or hover the mouse) here to listen to an interview with Dave Lemont of Signiant from the floor of NAB 2007. Dave was interviewed by the Digital Production BuZZ podcast and his segment begins about48 minutes into the podcast.
What would happen if you awoke one morning and went to work only to be told that there would no longer be any parcel pickups? No more FedEx, no DHL, no U.S. Postal Service? No more bicycle couriers hurtling in and out of traffic with your precious content on 300 GB firewire drives strapped to [...]
Click here to read Signiant’s announcement of a major new category of software for the media & entertainment industry: digital media distribution management.
UGC.
No, it’s not an abbreviation for Upper Gastrointestinal Condition.
UGC is becoming an abbreviation for User Generated Content and it certainly has a huge spotlight on it. While we may most think of UGC as a name attached to the “YouTube” phenomenon, the idea of being able to create and broadcast content to anyone in the [...]
On March 2, David Fincher’s next film, “Zodiac” will be released and the production and post-production methodology is as cutting edge as there is. Shot on Thomson Viper FilmStream cameras and recorded to D.Mag Digital Film Magazines (from S.two), the film undergoes a digital acquisition and digital post treatment with a film out for the [...]
I was blown away by this article in Broadcast Engineering which rather dryly notes:
Implementation of dual-link 3Gb/s distribution methods for 1080 60p would reduce the capacity of an existing HD infrastructure by 50 percent. SMPTE has issued 3Gb/s standards (424M, 425M) that can be used for intrafacility 1080 60p SDI distribution over a single coax [...]
Ever since yesterday, when Tom and I recorded the first Digital Media Galaxy podcast, I’ve been thinking hard about the challenges he discussed in that episode.
Then, today, I ran across this story in Broadcast Engineering.
The predictions of what’s going to happen (30Mb/sec in the home!) in the short term has gotta make the harried production [...]
Frequent readers of blogs always seek out the first post to see what the blog’s intent is. If it catches their fancy…well, the blogger might get lucky and get a subscriber.
Bloggers really sweat these first posts: What if it stinks? What if I don’t have real content to deliver regularly that would make people take [...]