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Phil Livingston, Technical Liason for Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems, Passes
In Memory of Bob Turner, Influential Columnist and Consultant to the Post Production Industry
The (Painful) Way It Was: Editing Video the Old-Fashioned Way
A Behind-The-Scenes look at the Democratic National Convention
BF/VF Closes: Memories of Boston's Premiere Media Arts Center
SIGGRAPH/2003: Impressions of the Computer Graphics Extravaganza
A New Englander Abroad: The BBC Television Centre
Product Management: How to Build Consistently Successful Products
Product Management, Part II: Selling a Better Mousetrap
Digital Cinematography: HDTV is alive and well
Lighting for Inner Peace
The Webcasting Medium: How the technology is advancing
In memory of Jack Newcomb, former Associate Director at pioneering video production facility at MIT
Technical Innovations at NAB: New Englanders star at the show.
QuickTime 3.0 and the Avid/Microsoft Advanced Authoring Format
QuickTime 3.0 Allows Adobe To Move Into Pro Video Editing with Premiere 5.0
Demo Reels
A Eulogy to CMX, by Bob Turner
Switcher NT: Ramblings from IBC
A Producers' Lament
Keeping the Bank Happy and Credit Flowing
An Historic Parable, A Lesson for April 1
Meeting Follow-Up: Film Preservation News
Technical Report: New Developments in Nonlinear Video, a three-part series. Part 1: Putting High-Performance Nonlinear Systems on Personal Computers.
Part 2: Networking and Video Servers.
Part 3: System Design Issues
Editing Video with Adobe Premiere
The Coming of Video and its Influence on Home Movies
From Vintage Film to Betacam: Saving the Past for the Future
A Personal View of Curt Rawley's (Avid President) Dismissal, by Bob Turner.
4:2:2 Profile in MPEG-2 Compression Heirarchy
Technician's Corner: Questions people have asked me lately
Film/Video Museums Around the World
Recent Progress in Computer Graphics
Wicked Funny April Fool Article
Virtual Reality Movies
Fall Survey Results

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At the Wednesday, May 21 meeting...
EMC Storage Solutions in Broadcast Environments
If you missed our annual April NAB wrap-up it’s now available online: http://www.vestream.com/smpte_new_england

Join us at EMC Corporation in Hopkinton, MA for a look at how combining media asset management software with enterprise-class storage archives in an automated system can facilitate production as well as management of digital media content—not only saving time and labor, but also creating new revenue opportunities.

EMC Corporation is a world leader in products, services and solutions for information management and storage.

Part I. Generating New Revenue/Markets for TV

Providing a tapeless media environment: having searchable access to one’s entire media assets is fast becoming a requirement for broadcasters and media conglomerates in today’s fast moving world of instant global information. See how Gorilla Technologies along with EMC software and hardware technologies have developed a solution that can provide relief in gaining immediate access (regardless of where the content lives), while having the ability to repurpose and deliver the new content to new channels/markets as service delivery requirements expand. Reduce Costs, improve ROI, and share content across heterogeneous NLE environments like never before.

Part II. EMC Storage Solutions in Broadcast Environments

EMC will discuss the use of high performance Media Enabled NAS technologies for broadcast and content creation. Supporting multiple workstations and work groups at the 1.5Gb/s level today and moving to even higher performance levels. This is a very flexible technology supporting Ethernet, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel connectivity and operating systems like Windows and Linux simultaneously.

We will discuss the simplified aggregation of low cost EMC storage systems to achieve very high throughputs for the total system in Gigabytes/second. With this system, there is no need to copy files to workstations before you can edit/modify them.

About the Speakers

Bruce Poole is EMC’s Global Business Development Manager for Broadcast Solutions. He is part of the Digital Media Group within the EMC Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment Business Office. He has more than 30 years experience in the IT and Media industries and has managed Media Partner relationships for EMC.

Dr. Spincer Koh is the Co-founder and CEO of Gorilla Science & Technology Group. The company provides software, hardware and professional services to the broadcast industry. Dr. Koh is widely regarded as an architect for Automated MAM & Tiered Archiving solutions, with 20 years of experience in high-technology industries.

Pre-registration is optional but requested

Please e-mail Section Chairman, Phil Ozek at: paozek@comcast.net

Wednesday, May, 21, 2008
Refreshments at 6:30pm
Presentation at 7:00pm

EMC Corporation
176 South St. (Bldg. #176)
(Executive Building)
Hopkinton, MA 01748

Directions:

From Interstate I-495 (North or South): Take Exit 21B in Hopkinton. Merge onto West Main Street towards Upton. Turn left at South Street.

For more information, please contact Phil Ozek at 617-617-6177 or paozek@comcast.net.

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Updated: 8 May 2008
Bob Lamm, SMPTE/New England Newsletter/Web Page Editor
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