DIGITAL DOMAIN JOINS FORCES WITH CABLE FIRM.Byline: Yardena Arar Daily News Staff Writer Digital Domain, the high-tech producer of effects for "Apollo 13," "True Lies" and several award-winning Budweiser commercials, announced Wednesday it's joining cable company Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late Inc. as a partner. The alliance positions the 3-year-old venture to become an early content provider for broad-band networks hooked up to homes and institutions via cable modems cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. , which deliver digital data up to 800 times faster than conventional telephone modems. That's easily fast enough for interactive productions with state-of-the-art sound and video. And while Digital Domain principals didn't offer any specifics on content, they expressed confidence that the cable modem would be the preferred conduit conduit /con·du·it/ (kon´doo-it) channel. ileal conduit the surgical anastomosis of the ureters to one end of a detached segment of ileum, the other end being used to form a stoma on the . "We are an unprecedented creation, and we are capable of creations that are unprecedented," co-founder Jim Cameron told a news conference at the studio's Venice facility. Cox's undisclosed investment gives it a nearly one-third stake in the company, an interest equal to the shares held by three founding partners - "Terminator (1) A character that ends a string of alphanumeric characters. (2) A hardware component that is connected to the last peripheral device in a series or the last node in a network. " and "T-2" writer-director Cameron, "Jurassic Park" creature creator Stan Winston and former Industrial Light & Magic chief Scott Ross Scott Ross may refer to the following:
Ross said the transition from special-effects house to producer and distributor of digital entertainment was always part of the partnership's business plan. "The vision and the plan has not strayed one bit," he said. Cox, a $3.8 billion media conglomerate based in Atlanta, is the nation's fifth largest cable operator, with 31 systems including one in Phoenix that is already testing cable modems. |
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