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ADAM Systems' ADAM-1000
October 1, 2003
Broadcasters increasingly find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Facing stiff competition, they have a growing need to differentiate
and improve their offerings. At the same time, they are confronting mounting fiscal pressures and government edicts to adopt HDTV. To
cope with this predicament, broadcasters need faster, cheaper and more effective ways of creating, repurposing and handling valuable digital
rich media content, also called digital assets. >more
[Courtesy of Broadcast Engineering Magazine, a Primedia publication]
> Storage & Entertainment Article
Digital Asset Management: An Entertainment Industry
Necessity
September 2003
Like characters in a sci-fi movie, media-storage formats entering the zone of the digital entertainment revolution morph from familiar
photos, slides, film, movies, tapes, cassettes into bits, bytes, and other kinds of digits that don't necessarily exist in tangible "hold-'em-in-your-hand"
form. And while the advantages of being digital are far too compelling to resist, the entertainment community's new world of storing,
creating, delivering, and archiving media content presents it with some brand-new challenges. "How can I quickly find and access
my digital media when I need it, how do I make sure that only authorized people can access it, how do I securely send it where it has
to go, and how do I store it without degradation?" >more
> Digital Cinema Article
Changing the Entertainment Asset Management Paradigm
by Curtis Chan. Dec 30, 2002.
It's been more than a century since the visionary Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, showcased their first show of living pictures
on the Boulevard des Capucines in 1895 and forever changed the world. Since then, mankind's fascination with capturing and manipulating
imagery and sound has evolved from an idea into a global entertainment network comprising countless enterprises and individuals, generating
an ever-increasing amount of rich media assets -- with no end in sight to the ongoing proliferation of technological innovation and subsequent
data formats. >more
> Digital Cinema Article
Inside The Intelligent Library System
October 2001
Over the past decade, digital technology has proliferated and established a firm foothold in the film industry - particularly in film-to-tape,
1080p/24 acquisition, digital effects and post production processes. In addition, new digital production technologies coupled with the
emergence of high-speed computing, Internet and broadband network infrastructures have helped to move the film industry toward a new era
in digital cinema. Crucial to the success of this burgeoning frontier will be the protection, management and preservation of content as
the number and size of digital assets rapidly expand as media formats and technologies continue to evolve. Coupled with sophisticated
archive management, efficient distribution schemes are needed to help the industry to exploit additional revenue streams while curbing
non-essential expenses. >more
> Hollywood Reporter Article
Livewire sources digital security
by Chris Marlowe
Film and television companies can go digital with degrees of security and quality previously
available only to NASA thanks to a deal between Liberty Livewire Corp. and Advanced Software
Resources Inc.
"This is a whole new entity within the digital applications division created to create a single source of digitized media at all resolutions
for all extractions," Liberty Livewire vp digital applications Chip Aycock said. >more |
