The technology division of Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE:
TMS), the global technology and creative services corporation, opened the doors
of its Burbank Innovation Center (BIC) today to its partners and clients in the
media and entertainment industries. Located at the company's Burbank campus, the
Center showcases Thomson's ongoing research and innovative solutions for
entertainment production, postproduction and delivery. Thomson's Technology
division created the BIC to educate the industry about its tools and the
products they power, to collaborate with customers throughout the technology
development process, and to demonstrate the strength of the corporation's
overall technology and workflow expertise.
Among the solutions on display at the BIC are: practical, disk-based and solid
state storage systems for digital cinematography cameras; a production metadata
communication solution; a module for the Grass Valley post-production platform
Bones that provides advanced color correction capabilities; a color separation,
digital restoration tool that significantly reduces the time required to restore
archived film content; a soon-to-be-standardized display technology that
delivers compressed content with classic film grain texture; and a scalable
video coding solution that enables one broadcast stream to simultaneously
deliver content for multiple platforms.
At Thomson, we not only create advanced technology solutions, we use
cutting-edge tools to provide services to our clients, said Jean-Charles
Hourcade, CTO Thomson. We are excited to demonstrate the fruits of our both our
strategic and tactical expertise.
At the Burbank Innovation Center, we will be able to share our work in progress
and gather critical feedback, added Nicholas de Wolff, VP, Marketing &
Communications, Thomson. Our goal is to develop tools that address the needs of
the media and entertainment industries and to support their continued
advancement.
Media: For a personal appointment to tour the BIC, call Rochelle Winters at
213 250-4603 or Nicholas de Wolff at 818 260-4926.