SYPHAnews - 8 September 2004

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The International Broadcasting Convention 2004 is about to open and we look forward to meeting those of you who are attending - our stand will be in media alley between halls 8 - 9/10. There has been a flurry of activity in the past few days and we bring you some of the more interesting announcements so far, as well as news of our latest publications.

The HD Kit Guide is now available. With over 450 product entries, this new guide is the most comprehensive database of current high definition technology for professional production and post production. The HD Kit Guide covers the whole range of equipment, from HDV through to uncompressed HD, plus the growing digital intermediate 2k and 4k market. Take a look and let us know what you think. We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:

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Also don't miss the new edition of the DAW Buyers Guide. Each of the more than 300 product entries has been renewed. The DAW Buyers Guide covers every applicable product and all system types, including turnkey systems, desktop DAWs, audio cards/units, software packages, DAW controllers, disk-based multitracks and portable tapeless recorders. We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:

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HD news

SYPHA Launches The All New HD Kit Guide (8/9/2004)

Canopus Announce HDSC1 Converter (8/9/2004)

Leitch Announces High-Definition NEXIO Server System (8/9/2004)

Matrox Announces Matrox DSX Platforms for Next Generation Broadcast HD and SD Product Development (3/9/2004)

European Unveiling of Chyron HD/SD HyperX CG at IBC 2004 (3/9/2004)

Doremi Labs introduces the HDVI-20 SDI/DVI RGB-to-DVI converter (3/9/2004)

Vizrt 3D Rendering Engine Powered by NVIDIA Quadro FX Graphics Solutions Enables Photo-Realistic, HD Graphics Production (3/9/2004)

D2Software and Bluefish444 Team to Offer Video Output for Nuke Compositing Software (3/9/2004)

New HD Products From Miranda at IBC2004 (30/8/2004)

Harmonic Advances the Art of Next-Generation Standard and High Definition Encoding at IBC2004 (26/8/2004)

FOR-A showcases new range of HD/SD technology at IBC (20/8/2004)

Camera news

Baytech Cinema and IRIDAS to Demonstrate New Technologies for Shooting Uncompressed HD (8/9/2004)

Baytech Announces CineRAM 422 For Single-Link HD-SDI Digital Cinematography (20/8/2004)

NLE news

Media 100 Announces 844/X HD Is Expected To Be Available In 2005 (8/9/2004)

Canopus Announce EDIUS H|DV SP an Affordable Realtime HDV Editing Solution (8/9/2004)

Ulead to Support Sony's HDV 1080i Camcorder With Native HD Video Editing Software (8/9/2004)

Canopus Announce Native Support for New Sony HDV Camcorders (8/9/2004)

Incite Strategic Integration with Omneon's Spectrum Media Server Line

Sobey EditMax7 based on Next Generation Matrox DSX Platform (3/9/2004)

Newauto NC100 NLE powered by Next Generation Matrox DSX Platform (3/9/2004)

Dayang D3-Edit HD Pro9 and D3-Edit Extra based on Next Generation Matrox DSX Platform (3/9/2004)

All-Vision Open V8 powered by Next Generation Matrox DSX Platform (3/9/2004)

VDS releases Neurons 10 for Synapse on Quantel (3/9/2004)

Merging and Dayang introduce new NLE system at IBC 2004 (30/8/2004)

DNF Controls' Slow Motion Controller for Sony DSR DR1000 Hard-Disk Recorder Makes European Debut at IBC2004 (30/8/2004)

Aurora Video Systems Introduces PipeStudio (26/9/2004)

DAW news

SYPHA Launches New Edition of The DAW Buyers Guide (8/9/2004)

Steinberg announces Cubase SX3 with new composition features and production technologies (8/9/2004)

Pyramix V4.3 hits the ground running (8/9/2004)

Fostex Announces New DV824 DVD Multitrack Recorder (26/9/2004)

Avid Completes Acquisition of M-Audio (26/9/2004)

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IBC 2004
Exhibition:
10-14 September 2004
Conference:
9-14 September 2004
RAI, Amsterdam
The Netherlands

SATIS
3-5 November 2004
Paris Expo
Porte de Versailles - Hall 3, France

SBES 2004
24-25 November 2004
NEC
Birmingham, UK