PASTE Magazine Puts Rock'n'Reel Festival Short Films on DivX Stage6 Digital Video Community; Cutting Edge Magazine Creates Online Festival Channel Featuring High-Quality Short Films and Viewers' Contest.DECATUR, Ga. & SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Paste Magazine, an innovative music, film and culture magazine, today announced the launch of an interactive online channel for content creators See content provider. , fans and artists involved in the 2nd Annual Paste Rock'n'Reel Festival. The "Paste Fest" channel is available on the new DivX Stage6 digital video community at http://stage6.divx.com/Paste_Fest. Beginning on September 15, during the actual physical Rock'n'Reel Festival, the Paste Fest channel is hosting selected short films and videos shown in four rounds of competition -- ten short films and ten videos per week. Finalists will be featured from October 16 - 27, with the opportunity for community and film enthusiasts to vote for the winners. The online winners will be announced on 31 October and will receive prizes provided by sponsors DivX Stage6 and Spout.com. Entry into the competition is still available for music videos and short films, and can be found at http://www.pasterocknreel.com/2006/. All video content will be available for viewing and download in the high-quality DivX format. Videos downloaded on DivX Stage6 are compatible with over 1,800 models of DivX Certified See certification. DVD players A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. , portable media players, and other consumer electronic devices from major manufacturers. "When we launched the Paste Rock'n'Reel Festival in 2005, we wanted to showcase quality shorts and music videos in a vibrant festival setting," said Tim Regan-Porter, President/Publisher of Paste. "Rock'n'Reel 2005 also gave us great content for DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Samplers. Thanks to great technology like DivX and an accessible, powerful Internet community like Stage6, we can take share the Rock'n'Reel Festival experience with a global audience in a powerful, communal way." After the end of the online festival, Paste Magazine will continue to offer viewers a wide selection of genre-busting video and music content on the DivX Stage6 "Paste Presents" channel. From short films to music videos, concert footage and coverage of festivals to cultural events, the channel will look to shine a spotlight on the "Signs of Life in Music, Film & Culture" that the magazine covers on a monthly basis. Expanding the experience available with the magazine, the Paste Presents channel will allow users to engage and interact with the content, viewing personal journal posts from the Paste Magazine team, downloading additional material, and joining the conversation themselves, weighing in on their favorite bands and videos through interactive forums and user-created journals. To join in on the Paste Fest channel in high-quality DivX video, visit http://stage6.divx.com/Paste_Fest. About PASTE magazine PASTE magazine prides itself on being the premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and song craft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit in·hab·it v. in·hab·it·ed, in·hab·it·ing, in·hab·its v.tr. 1. To live or reside in. 2. To be present in; fill: Old childhood memories inhabit the attic. from indie rock Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. The term is sometimes used interchangeably with underground music as a whole, though more specifically implicates that the music meets the criterion of being rock, as to jazz. In addition to its poignant music coverage, PASTE has become known for its thoughtful analysis on the best in film, books and other aspects of popular and alternative culture and provides a free 21-song CD sampler sampler, sample piece of needlework or embroidery, of silk, cotton, or worsted, for the preservation of some pattern or as an example of the ability of a child or a beginner. In museums and private collections there are samplers dating from as early as 1643. along with each issue. Now in its fourth year of production, PASTE magazine is distributed in over 12 countries and is available on newsstands all over the U.S. and Canada - including: Borders, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Tower, Hastings, Joe Muggs, B. Dalton Dalton, city (1990 pop. 21,761), seat of Whitfield co., extreme NW Ga., in the Appalachian valley; inc. 1847. It is a highly industrialized city in a farm area. , and independent newsstands and music stores everywhere, with more being added all the time. About DivX Stage6 DivX Stage6 is a digital video community that allows content creators to easily upload video content and create custom channels to build and grow communities around their own unique brands. Anyone can distribute their DivX video content through the service, choosing to either offer the content for free or to set their own price to sell content directly to consumers. DivX is a digital media format similar to MP3 for video, offering higher quality with greater compression so users can view up to full High Definition video within a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . All DivX content available through the service is interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. with the over 46 million DivX Certified consumer electronics devices, such as DVD players and portable media players, that have been shipped worldwide. |
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