The New Frontier

The latest film and TV-related technologies, gaming news, and articles on how the internet and broadband are changing the film and television landscape.

Tandberg at heart of action for first-ever fully HD games

Tandberg TV recently announced its leading role in the delivery of HD and SD television feeds to a potential worldwide audience of 4 billion for the Beijing Olympic Games. The company is providing a range of MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-2 compression equipment and professional receivers to a number of major broadcast organizations across the globe ….

Do you sneak into movies regularly, you need to read this

Flexpoint Sensor Systems recently announced the company is working closely with a cinema theatre management firm to place Bend Sensors in every seat in a movie theater to monitor customers’ paid attendance. The group has been working with Flexpoint since early this year to develop and test a series of prototypes for this application. The ….

Mediacom to feature coverage of 2008 Beijing Olympics on multiple platforms

Mediacom, in agreement with NBC Universal, will provide its customers with more viewing choices and enhanced content offerings as part of NBCU’s unprecedented coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games which begin Friday, August 8th. Mediacom customers can access thousands of hours of NBCU’s most robust Olympic coverage delivered across multiple platforms, from traditional cable ….

Frank Caliendo and Jay Mohr join Midway’s Blitz 2 roster

Midway Games announced yesterday that Frank Caliendo, host of Frank TV and known for his impressions of legendary football broadcaster John Madden, President George W. Bush and Al Pacino, and actor and comedian Jay Mohr, have been recruited to join Lawrence Taylor in the upcoming release of Blitz: The League II. The voice talent and ….

National Amusements debuts upscale theater concept at Patriot Place in Foxborough

National Amusements recently announced it will unveil its new Showcase Cinema de Lux Patriot Place theatre to the public, this Friday, August 8, 2008 in Foxborough, Mass. This is the second new National Amusements theatre featuring the premium reserved-seating concept called Lux Level, which was launched as a pilot program at Showcase Cinemas in Randolph, ….

SMPTE Expo to showcase new and emerging entertainment tech

New and emerging entertainment technologies of practical use to content creation, management, distribution and display professionals will be the focus of SMPTE 2008 Annual Tech Conference & Expo. Early bird registration is now open for the international event, it was announced by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), technical society for the ….

Tandberg TV to provide HD MPEG-4 AVC encoders for NBC coverage of Beijing Olympics

Tandberg Television, part of Ericsson, has been selected to provide Tandberg MPEG-4 AVC video processing solutions to NBC during the network’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China August 8-24. This is the first Olympics where MPEG-4 AVC will be used for HD content contribution and NBC will deploy a variety of Tandberg ….

First live transatlantic high def 3D broadcast coming in September

On Sunday, September 14, 2008, more than 1000 delegates will witness a historic interview conducted in Los Angeles with DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Elizabeth Daley, Dean of USC School of Cinematic Arts will interview him. Thanks to 3Ality Digital, the interview will be photographed on multi-camera Stereoscopic equipment and packaged for delivery by satellite ….

Cinnafilm ships Cinnafilm HD1, industry’s first all-in-one format conversion platform

Cinnafilm recently announced the availability of Cinnafilm HD1, the industry’s first all-in-one format conversion platform designed specifically for film simulation and unlimited frame rate conversion of digital video. The unique combined hardware and software platform leverages the power of graphics card parallel processing to deliver unmatched quality format conversions and celluloid simulations quickly, easily, cost ….

DivX and CinemaNow to expand content delivery to consumer electronics devices

DivX, a digital media company, and CinemaNow, which delivers high-quality Hollywood movies and TV shows across multiple platforms, recently announced an agreement that will allow CinemaNow to offer users the ability to download premium content in the high-quality DivX format and play back those titles on a PC, as well as a range of DivX ….

Alienware Area-51 m15x first 15-inch notebook to feature NVIDIA Quadro GPU

Alienware has announced that the Area-51 m15x notebook, already a favorite of gamers and entertainment enthusiasts, now offers the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M GPU, redefining graphics performance on a 15.4-inch notebook to best address the needs of on-the-go digital content professionals. As the only 15.4-inch notebook equipped with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M, the Alienware ….

Documentary on professional gaming offers free screenings and launches online store

Independent producers Cohesion Productions recently announced that FRAG, a documentary on professional video gaming will be released August 1st through online distribution. Professional video gaming, cyberathletes and eSports are new concepts for many of us and never before in history has anyone conquered the controversy and corruption seen in this industry. FRAG sheds light on ….