January 19, 2011 – Las Angeles, CA – Multi-award winning recording artist and Jazz/Fusion icon Stanley Clarke took time from his schedule to talk to M&E Tech regarding what he is up to lately. His new band, The Stanley Clarke Band features three new young artists, Hiromi, Ruslan Sirota and Ronald Bruner, Jr. are continuing [...]
November 4, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – A discussion panel was held at the 129th AES regarding the new standards for loudness balance for TV broadcast and commercials. The panel was led off by Pat Waddell of Harmonix who brought the audience up to speed with the what were the governing documents, and the [...]
October 27, 2010, Digital Media Conference, San Francisco—A panel of content and technology people looked at “Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Exploring New Opportunities In Intersection Of Content And Technology”. Mike Vorhaus, president of Magid Advisers, moderated the panel comprised of David Ulmer, VP content and services at LG Electronics, Travis Parsons, corporate development at Sezmi, [...]
October 27, 2010, Digital Media Conference, San Francisco– the conference opened with an analysis of the digital media industry. Colin Dixon, senior analyst at the diffusion group talked about “Consumer Attitudes and the Future Of Over-The-Top”. Moving pictures have been around for over 115 years and until recently have always been viewed in a group [...]
September 2010, Universal City, CA – The 3rd Annual 3D Entertainment Summit was held at Universal City in September. This years event was attended by a increased audience over the prior years event, and the attendees were covering the full ecosystem of 3D. Past shows were highly attended by movie studio producers and directors. The [...]
It used to be that a small team of people were responsible for the organization’s reputation management efforts/activities. OMG those days are gone and they’re never coming back. Today reputation management is a 24×7 job that is the responsibility of everyone on the team. Sure management sets the tone/direction but someone (even outside the organization [...]
Bet you’re looking forward to next weekend like there’s no tomorrow! Labor Day weekend is a great time to unwind, shed the stress, strain, anxiety of your workday world. Of course you won’t shed it all…you’ll check email, you’ll carry your phone with you. Well we’ll add a little more to the load you’re carrying. [...]
Comic-Con is usually filled with comic books and games/collectibles and movies based on comic books. This years show featured a lot of video games, shows and collectibles that were based on new science fiction, action, horror that were also original stories. Ubisoft featured the new multi-player connected version of Assins Creed Brotherhood. The gaming setup [...]
August 3, 2010, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—The new digital workflows are forcing change in the structure of a production company. The average video runs between 200-800 GB per project. The average editor processes about 8 TB of data, mostly held on Firewire (IEEE 1394) RAID arrays. The smaller producers have no IT staff [...]
The 41st annual Comic-Con was held in San Diego at the end of July. This year’s event was attended by more than 125,000 people and has expanded well beyond collecting, trading and selling comic books. The new show was focused on all aspects of science fiction, fantasy and mobile entertainment. To understand the extent of [...]
