SYPHAnews - 31 January 2005

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Camera news

Thomson Expands Grass Valley Viper FilmStream Camera System, Adding Venom FlashPak Dockable Solid-State Recorder (30/1/2005)

Thomson Announces Two Grass Valley Cameras, Expanding Range of Affordable Choices for Broadcasters (30/1/2005)

Panasonic Introduces AJ-HDX400 1080i DVCPRO HD Camcorder (19/1/2005)

Panasonic Ships AJ-SDC905 DVCPRO50 Camcorder With IEEE 1394 (10/1/2005)

NLE news

Thomson Introduces Aurora Software Suite for Digital News, Sports, Feature Production (30/1/2005)

Omneon's New MigrateTool Enables Direct Conversion of Legacy Server Formats to QuickTime Format (24/1/2005)

Bluefish444 Announces Co Development with Avid to Create an Uncompressed HD Workflow Solution Between the Sony SRW-5000 VTR and Avid DS Nitris (21/1/2005)

Media 100 and Lumière HD Announce HDV Support for Media 100 HD (17/1/2005)

Apple Announces Final Cut Express HD (17/1/2005)

Merging Technologies Ships VCube (13/1/2005)

SGO Presents Freestika 1.5, The Mistika's learning tool (13/1/2005)

SGO Announces the Release of Mistika 1.5 (13/1/2005)

Incite Releases Incite Editor 3.3 (10/1/2005)

HD news

Thomson Expands Popular Grass Valley Kayak HD High-Definition Video Switcher Line (30/1/2005)

Thomson Expands Grass Valley Digital Post-Production Line to Deliver Even Greater Creative Workflow Control (30/1/2005)

Rorke Data Targets Apple and Windows Video and Broadcast Resellers with Galaxy-HDX SATA-II RAID Program (24/1/2005)

Red Giant Software to Offer FinalTouch HD from Silicon Color (19/1/2005)

Leitch Launches X75 HD Up/Down/Cross Converter and Synchronizer (19/1/2005)

Doremi Labs introduces the HDG-10 portable HD and SD Video Test Generator (17/1/2005)

Doremi Labs Introduces ORCA HD MPEG2 Capture Station (17/1/2005)

Z-LINK Adds +HD to its Fibre Optic Camera Link System (17/1/2005)

JVC's DT-V Range Provides HD Monitoring at SD Price Levels (13/1/2005)

MainConcept Updates MPEG Pro Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro (13/1/2005)

Sonic to Equip Studios with HD DVD Authoring Systems (10/1/2005)

DAW news

Tascam Announces New Drivers for FW-1884 Add Cross-Platform Support for Cubase LE/SE and PCI-822 Driver Update for Windows XP (30/1/2005)

Sonic Studio Launches Trial Download of SonicStudio•DDP (30/1/2005)

Edirol Introduces the FA-66 Compact 24-bit/192kHz FireWire Audio Interface (30/1/2005)

Cakewalk Announces First Truly Native 64-bit Host DAW Application (30/1/2005)

Cakewalk Unveils Project5 Version 2 Performance Workstation (30/1/2005)

Alesis Announces the IO|2 USB Portable 24-bit/96kHz USB Interface (30/1/2005)

Hercules Technologies Unveils the HERCULES 16/12 FW External FireWire Audio Solution (24/1/2005)

XP Sound launches the XP202 professional USB Audio Interface (24/1/2005)

Marantz Professional Launches the PMD660 Hand-Held Field Recorder (21/1/2005)

Sonic Studio Specifies Mytek for Latest I/O Options (21/1/2005)

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