The Met Live: Elektra

The Met Live: Elektra

by | May 21, 2016

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: LIVE in HD,” which had featured ten of the world’s greatest operas on giant cinema screens  throughout the US. The production premiered at the  Aix-en-Provance Festival in France in 2013 and is considered to be a landmark contemporary staging of Strauss’s masterpiece. ...

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The roadmap of AIMS with Steve Reynolds from Imagine Communications

The roadmap of AIMS with Steve Reynolds from Imagine Communications

by | May 21, 2016

April, NAB - Two years ago when we started to talk about IP and a question was – Can we do it? A year ago we were asking – Should we do it? This year a question is – How we do it? Steve Reynolds from Imagine Communications was describing the inception of AIMS, Alliance for IP Media Solutions, during our 1:1 interview. Reynolds added that in 2015 a lot of customers came to Imagine Communication with the concerns that they want to do IP but they were worried that is going to be a fragmentation in that segment of the industry. That was...

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Nuance transforms the TV experience with voice

Nuance transforms the TV experience with voice

by | May 11, 2016

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 imaging applications, is a leader in this area. If a customer uses voice commands to talk to automobile there is 99% chances that it is Nuance technology. Kenneth Harper, VP, Devices & Ecosystem of Nuance talked to us about last advancements in transforming the TV...

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Renoir: Revered and Reviled

Renoir: Revered and Reviled

by | May 1, 2016

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 21, 2016. It is a story told in representative paintings of one of the most influential artists of all time and a principal contributor to the creation of the Impressionist movement  (which he later rejected), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). This compelling overview...

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