Larry O’Connor, founder of OWC

Larry O’Connor, founder of OWC

NAB, April 2016 - OWC is the abbreviation for Other World Computing, one of the longest running 3rd party computer component and storage solutions providers in the personal computer industry.  The company started with individual users and small companies and now...

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Digital Signage is a modern communication tool

Digital Signage is a modern communication tool

SID Display Week, May 2016 - Digital signage is used to entice and influence shoppers on their way to the retail stores and shopping malls. Tablets that replacing paper menus, allow restaurant patrons to preview and customize their orders. Engaging visual displays are...

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Cinema Summit focuses on HFR and 4K

Cinema Summit focuses on HFR and 4K

April 2016, NAB  – At the start of NAB, SMPTE held the Digital Cinema Summit.  The highlight speaker was Ang Lee who spoke following a discussion that HDR was not a tradeoff for future films, but was a technology that must be adopted due to its benefits in the story...

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The Met Live: Elektra

The Met Live: Elektra

April, Fathom events - On Saturday, April 30, 2016, I had the privilege and pleasure of viewing a screening of a live performance of Richard Strauss’s inexorable one-act opera Elektra,*  the concluding operatic work in a year-long 10th anniversary celebration of “MET:...

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Nuance transforms the TV experience with voice

Nuance transforms the TV experience with voice

April 2016, NAB - Voice and language which is the most natural modalities we acquired since birth. No wonder that we are searching for communication with devices using our voice and language. Nuance Communications, has developed products that provide speech and...

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Renoir: Revered and Reviled

Renoir: Revered and Reviled

April, Fathom events - “Renoir” was presented in select HD digital cinemas nationwide by Fathom Events in cooperation with Seventh Art Productions, enjoying its third successful season in presenting Exhibition on Screen, a one-night film event held on Thursday, April...

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The Met Live: Roberto Devereux

The Met Live: Roberto Devereux

April, Fathom events - On Saturday, April 16, 2016,  Fathom Events presented Gaetano Donizetti’s del canto* masterpiece Roberto Devereux for a one-night only cinematic presentation in hundreds of theaters throughout the United States.  The screening was part of the...

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The Bolshoi Ballet’s  “Don Quixote”

The Bolshoi Ballet’s “Don Quixote”

April, Fathom events - Arthur C. Clark, the renowned English physicist and science fiction novelist, once wrote:  “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”  (Profiles of the Future, 1961), and this prescient observation is nowhere more...

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