Digital Fountain Expedites Production for Return of the King; Global Data Transfers Accelerated By Meta-Content Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2003 WETA WETA Western Tanager (bird species Piranga ludoviciana) WETA Wingnut Entertainment Technical Allusions WETA Website of Excellence in Tourism Award WETA Waikato Environment for Text Analysis WETA Washington Educational Television Authority Digital/3foot6 Productions, a leading post-production company, has deployed Digital Fountain technology at its production facilities in Wellington, Burbank and London to facilitate the production of the highly-anticipated Return of the King, the third installment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. WETA Digital ''' Weta Digital is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand, an offshoot of the Weta Workshop physical effects company. Directors Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, Tania Rodgers and Jamie Selkirk, founded Weta Digital in 1993 to produce the digital special , winner of the 2003 BAFTA Baf´ta n. 1. A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export. Award for Best Visual Effects, uses leading edge technologies to produce the Lord of the Rings, major feature films and other media productions. Use of the Digital Fountain systems enables fast and perfect transfer of massive simulations, graphics, and media files over the global IP network even when the network suffers from packet loss and high network latency See latency. due to the trans-Pacific distances. 3Foot6 Limited, WETA's production house in Auckland, has enjoyed five- to twenty-times speed improvements, cutting transfer times from hours to minutes. 3foot6 is using Digital Fountain's technology to speed post-production for dailies, special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , and sound files, saving time, money and resources. According to Duncan Nimmo, IT manager of 3foot6, "we could not have reliably sent files and achieved our timeframe requirements without Digital Fountain. Digital Fountain's Meta-Content technology allowed us to meet our demanding schedules, and took the risk out of sending multi-gigabyte files over unpredictable networks." Leading Hollywood studios and post-production shops use Digital Fountain's technology. Film industry leaders have all adopted digital post-production techniques, and are using Digital Fountain technology as a critical component to achieve faster results within the constraints of ever tighter budgets. Currently Digital Fountain technology is available for incorporation into a wide range of media solutions for transferring dailies, managing media asset, and transmitting broadcast-quality video over IP networks. Digital Fountain has been serving Hollywood since 2001. According to Charlie Oppenheimer, Digital Fountain CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , "The industry is changing, and we are proud to be a key factor in the digital revolution of movie production. Our technology has supercharged su·per·charge tr.v. su·per·charged, su·per·charg·ing, su·per·charg·es 1. To increase the power of (an engine, for example), as by fitting with a supercharger. 2. the digital distribution process so that pioneers such as WETA can spend more time making movies and less time shipping tapes or waiting for transfers to succeed." Digital Fountain systems have been deployed for media productions in Hollywood, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Miami, Paris, Hong Kong, London, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Prague, and South Africa. About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain's patented Meta-Content technology provides perfect communications over imperfect networks. The company licenses its breakthrough network transport technology to leading system and software companies around the world. Digital Fountain's Meta-Content technology is being used today in a variety of enterprise, military and consumer devices and applications. Leading organizations including Technicolor, Warner Brothers, PeopleSoft, Altera, Sumitomo Electric Networks, the United States Postal Service and the United States military use Meta-Content powered products in their day-to-day operations. |
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