We Wish Everyone a Happy Thanksgiving
The team at Xpresso Communcations wish everyone celebrating Thanksgiving an enjoyable holiday
Words can come from a tree!
Our thought of the week! Words do not grow on trees… Frustration? Writing can be that. Looking for the right angle,having to start all over again.. Happiness? Writing can be that too. Words can come from a tree.
How Vintage Cloud Uses Clarifai’s Visual Recognition API for Film Archives
The history of film goes back over 100 years – to the 1890s, in fact. Since that time, it’s estimated that more than half a million movies have been created. It wasn’t until 1925 that John Logie Baird gave his first demonstration of television – and it’s probably conservative to say that over 40 million…
Virtual reality museum puts Rembrandt in high-def
Using photogrammetry, the Kremer collection has captured versions of more than 70 Old Masters and can now provide what it says is an unparalleled museum experience. — AFP picAMSTERDAM, Oct 27 — The Kremer Collection has spent the past two decades loaning out its collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art to museums and galleries…
IBC2017 round-up: Halls 1, 4 and 5
In the first of a series of articles that distil the main themes and talking points from the IBC2017 Exhibition, Ian McMurray summarises the key trends from Halls 1, 4 and 5. Key Trends at IBC 2017 in halls 1,4 and 5 In any one year, IBC is a snapshot of the state of the nation…
The World’s 1st Molecular Robot Has Just Been Created by UK Scientists
By Philip Perry We marvel at movies like Ant Man, Inner Space, and Fantastic Voyage, where someone or something can shrink down to the nanoscale and navigate a microscopic world. Although shrinking something down with some type of laser or energy field is all but impossible today, we are beginning to exact more and…
Technology that Brings Us Together Also Drives Us Apart
By TheFuture · On October 9, 2017 “I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise.” – Chuck Noland, “Cast Away,” 20th Century Fox, 2000First, it was Al Gore inventing the Internet. Then, Tim Berners-Lee came up…
Good Content Should Be Paid For, Protected
Good Content Should Be Protected By TheFuture · On October 2, 2017 “Though the world has changed, our enemy remains the same.” – Selene, “Underworld Awakening,” Screen Gems, 2012With this year’s Emmys, it was still obvious that diversity and equality come slowly for the M&E industry – heck, every industry – except for one area.…
IBC 2017 – How we experienced the show
IBC 2017 – Fantastic people, great memories, plenty of H2O and possibly too much caffeine. Thanks to all the journalists for meeting our customers and the great coverage in the IBC Daily. The pedometer tells me that we walked, skipped and ran about 50 kilometers over the 5 days. Just as well that Denise and I had stayed fit…
Vintage Cloud Introduced Facial Recognition for Film Digitizing at IBC2017
How Vintage Cloud simplified the film transfer to the digital world. Peter Englesson, CEO of Vintage Cloud tells us more about the Vintage Cloud Steenbeck digitizer which is based on Steenbeck’s legendary film transport. It’s the only system capable of digitizing separate image and audio at the same time at up to 4K resolution and…