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Keynote Speakers, Panels, and Schedule Set for September 23rd & 24th, 2010 (Burbank, CA--April 15, 2010) Createasphere's Digital Asset Management Conference will make its New York debut on September 23rd & 24th, 2010, following a successful launch in Los Angeles earlier this year. The event will take place at the New Yorker Hotel, following Createasphere's Entertainment Technology Expo, slated for September 21st & 22nd.

Thematic channel expands outlets to include VOD and Catch-up services for EquidiaWatch (Las Vegas, NV--April 15, 2010) ProConsultant Informatique, the forward-thinking developer of business management solutions for broadcasters and content providers, today announced that LOUISE™, the company's flagship Business Management System, is the content and workflow engine for EquidiaWatch, the newly launched, interactive VOD and Catch-up Internet channel specializing in equestrian events and interests. The new Internet channel expands the audience reach for Equidia, already a leader in television equestrian coverage in France, and positions the company as an innovator in multiplatform, specialized sports coverage.

We have blogged and written about this before, but it keeps coming back as a major pain point when customers get started with WCF in Silverlight.

Out of the box, exceptions are not propagated from the WCF service to the Silverlight client. Instead, you get an annoying CommunicationException containing the text “NotFound”. This is not very useful at all when trying to debug your service.

There are two potential fixes to choose from: one is just on the client, the other one is just on the service. You can choose which fix suits you best. The fix on the client involves switching from the BrowserHttp to the ClientHttp networking stack. The fix on the server involves configuring a special WCF behavior. The pros and cons of each approach, and details on how to implement it are listed in this new topic we just published on MSDN.

While you’re debugging away, just wanted to make sure you had also seen this topic, which gives you detailed steps on how to debug your service.

Thanks,
-Yavor Georgiev
Program Manager, WCF

 

Spring is in the Air

by radosveta102

Enables Advanced Video Exploitation for Geospatial Intelligence Analysis (Las Vegas NAB Booth N2502, NV--April 14, 2010) Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has announced new capabilities that integrate with its commercial Full-Motion Video Asset Management Engine (FAME). These additional features are designed to improve situational awareness by helping manage the massive quantity of video and other data that military and government agencies receive every day.

Video and Audio Broadcast Content Creators Finish Projects on Time and under Budget with Fast, Reliable Storage Optimized for Bandwidth-Intensive Workflows (Las Vegas NAB, NV--April 14, 2010) Advanced Industrial Computer Inc. (AIC) ( http://www.aicipc.com ), an industry leading storage and server OEM/ODM solutions provider, today announced the availability of the AIC Xtore™ Professional (http://www.xtore.com) StudioRAID™ 16RXe storage subsystem that features the ATTO FastStream™ 8200E storage controller which supports SAS and SATA hard disk drives.

MAINGEAR employs dual ECO ALC solution to aggressively dissipate heat with whisper quiet operation (Calgary, AB--April 14, 2010) CoolIT Systems, leaders in advanced liquid cooling technology, is proud to announce MAINGEAR Computers has selected a custom Dual ECO ALC solution to liquid cool the new Quantum SHIFT Xeon workstation PC. CoolIT's technology will help ensure that MAINGEAR's workstation users have powerful computing performance at lowered acoustic levels.

The MAXX-2020HD Reference Recorder provides lossless recording and playback of multiple HD video formats, including 3-D (Las Vegas NAB Booth N-917, NV--April 14, 2010) 360 Systems has announced its new MAXX-2020HD Reference Recorder,™ designed for multi-camera and 3-D production. Matched to the special needs of high quality 3D imaging, the MAXX-2020HD Reference Recorder provides lossless recording and playback of many HD video formats, including paired channels for 3-D. The 2020 Recorder accepts images in any color space with 8, 10 or 12 bits; and does not compress the image in any way. Its two channels can be used for independent HD-SDI streams, as a 3-D pair, or as a single 3G channel. Two recorders can be synchronized for dual-3G operation.

(Los Angeles--April 14, 2010) ARRI, FUJINON and ZEISS announced a strategic partnership designed to utilize the unique strengths of each company in order to create innovative new products for the entertainment imaging community. The agreement consists of an open exchange of ideas, standards and technologies, as well as close cooperation in the development of new products. Carl Zeiss is globally renowned for its high quality prime lenses, Fujinon is a market leader when it comes to zooms and ARRI is the largest manufacturer of professional motion picture cameras in the world. Together, they represent an unsurpassed concentration of expertise and excellence. By examining, incorporating and improving upon current systems, as well as encouraging third parties to participate in an open discussion, the triumvirate of industry leaders aims to deliver higher customer value than existing solutions can offer. Already, the group offers the existing, unrivaled range of prime lenses that are the result of the decade long partnership between ZEISS and ARRI. Now, the new ARRI/Fujinon Alura zooms are introduced. This is a great benefit for customers who can now shoot with modern primes and zooms that are perfectly matched according to tight specifications.

(Santa Monica, CA--April 14, 2010) Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently created CG frogs that appear alongside live counterparts in a new fairytale-inspired commercial for Mitsubishi. Entitled "No Fairytale," the spot debuted on Canadian TV on April 6, 2010. The project was directed by Albert Kodagolian of Steam Films, a long-time collaborator of Brickyard VFX partner and lead 2D artist, Patrick Poulatian. The ad puts a new spin on the classic "Princess and the Frog" tale while highlighting the sleek and sporty design of the new 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer. The clever :30 TV spot follows the Lancer as it winds down a beautiful mountain road. The ad illustrates some of the Lancer's safety features as it swerves and stops short to let an unexpected throng of frogs cross the road. Impressive CG work and editing follow, as the viewer sees the woman behind the wheel emerge and walk through the group of frogs. The hero frog begs the woman behind the wheel for a kiss. She obliges, turning it into a prince - but much to her dismay, the prince falls in love with the Mitsubishi and takes off.

Now available for immediate download as a free trial (St. Louis, MO--April 14, 2010) NAB BOOTH SL-8922 – Studio Network Solutions (SNS), a premier provider of post-production storage products for video and audio workgroups, today announced immediate availability of SANmp version 3.1 SAN sharing software, bringing many new features as well as the ability to download and try it free on an unlimited number of computers.

VidiGo, developer of smart software products for creating and managing broadcast quality TV content easily, will officially launch VidiGo Graphics and VidiGo Toolbox during NAB 2010 at Booth SL-8929 (Amsterdam, Netherlands--April 14, 2010) NAB BOOTH SL-8929 - VidiGo , developer of smart software products for creating and managing broadcast quality TV content easily, will officially launch VidiGo Graphics and VidiGo Toolbox during NAB 2010.

(Santa Monica, CA--April 14, 2010) Company 3 announced today that it has added award-winning colorist Alex Bickel to its artist roster. Bickel joins Company 3 from New York City's Outside Editorial, where as senior colorist he also served as head of the color department. "Alex has a wealth of experience with a wide range of toolsets, and we're very pleased to be bringing him on board," commented Company 3 co-founder Stefan Sonnenfeld. "His expertise very nicely complements the technologies already in place at Company 3, with an eye toward bringing Company 3 talent to new locations and markets."

Twice the performance, twice the capacity, loaded with improvements and new features (St. Louis, MO--April 14, 2010) NAB BOOTH SL-8922 – Studio Network Solutions (SNS), a premier provider of post-production storage products for video and audio workgroups, today announced immediate availability of Evo version 2.1, bringing new features and major performance advancements to its SAN + NAS shared storage system.

Vinten Radamec is providing encoded pan and tilt heads and pedestals for a series of virtual reality demonstrations at the 2010 NAB Convention in Las Vegas. (April 14, 2010) (Valley College, NY--April 14, 2010) Vinten Radamec is providing encoded pan and tilt heads and pedestals for a series of virtual reality (VR) demonstrations at the 2010 NAB Convention in Las Vegas. Included in the demonstrations is the first ever showing of the real-time integration of live stereoscopic 3D cameras as part of a virtual environment, at the Brainstorm Multimedia booth.

Post-production workflow automation and synchronization tool revamped to support the huge performance breakthroughs in Adobe's video editing software (Vancouver, British Columbia--April 14, 2010) Singular Software, developer of automation applications for post-production, announced that its flagship product PluralEyes™ for Final Cut Pro® and Sony® Vegas Pro® has expanded its support for non-linear editing applications to include the just announced Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 software. PluralEyes will also support Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. The new Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 includes a variety of groundbreaking features and enhancements that accelerate the professional video workflow.

New End-to-End File-Based Workflow Will Accelerate News Creation and Distribution Across Television, Radio and Print Businesses (Las Vegas NAB Booth #SU902, NV--April 14, 2010) Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it is partnering with WHIO-TV—a member of Cox Media Group Ohio and a number one CBS affiliate in the U.S— to implement a variety of Avid HD news production solutions for use in WHIO-TV's new, state-of-the-art multimedia broadcast facility scheduled to open later this year. The new media campus, the first of its kind in the country will include the nation's largest integration of television, radio and print news businesses. By bringing its TV, radio and print businesses together under one roof, WHIO-TV will be able to enhance content creation and collaboration capabilities and dramatically improve time-to-air by implementing an end-to-end production workflow from Avid.

(Cupertino, CA--April 14, 2010) As Apple released the following statement today, disappointment looms heavy for international fans of Apple's iPad™ as Apple tells the world that we will have to wait for the global release of the highly anticipated, eagerly awaited iPad™. "Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April."

Visit Bluefish444 at NAB Booth SL-5099 (S. Melbourne, Australia--April 14, 2010) Bluefish444, a leader in 2K and HD video cards for feature film and broadcast television, today announced it will make significant software upgrades to its support for Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite and Symmetry software by offering desktop and SDI/DVI/HDMI preview and mastering of RED Camera R3D files, which will be available Q2, 2010.

Breakthrough Interactive Design Tools Maximize Impact of Creative Content and Digital Marketing Campaigns Across Media and Devices (San Jose, NV--April 14, 2010) Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced Adobe® Creative Suite® 5, a breakthrough release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Focusing on interactivity, performance and maximizing the impact of digital content and marketing campaigns across media and devices, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full version upgrades of flagship creative tools while delivering significant workflow enhancements to designers and developers. Featuring integration with online content and digital marketing measurement and optimization capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite 5 products include access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyze information generated by Web sites and other sources. Additionally, a brand new component, Adobe Flash® Catalyst™, joins the Creative Suite, ushering in the ability to design interactive content without writing code and improve the collaborative process between designer and developer.