[How is this unique?]
SpectraLayers Offers the Following Transformational Features:
Extreme Audio Editing
- Divide audio files into discrete, user-defined layers that can be processed independently and reintegrated to achieve perfect master files.
- Remove unwanted noises and artifacts with ease while leaving surrounding audio data completely intact.
- Separate music and dialogue into individual component layers.
- Perform pitch correction on user-selected components of an audio file.
- Employ SpectraLayers in audio mastering, sound design, analysis, and forensics tasks.
- All tools are modifiable using a wide range of user-definable sensitivities and tolerances.
Extraction Tools
Extract audio into independent layers using intelligent, programmable tools:
- Area—select any audio for transfer from directly within the spectrum graph
- Frequency—track frequencies and transfer them directly to selected layers
- Harmonics—seek and select harmonics in user-defined amounts and orders.
Read the full story here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/16/4633439/sony-announces-availability-of.html
[Philip Lelyveld comment: this company's business echoes one portion of my HyperPersonalized Entertainment Offer project - which is about giving consumers what they want at the moment is is useful to them.]
Chances are, you’ve had an experience like this: you check out a product on a retailer’s site and then an ad for it follows you around the Web for what feels like the next few months. But, with $15 million in new funding announced Wednesday, San Francisco-based Adrollwants to make a bigger push in entertainment and events. ...
In entertainment, he said, gaming companies are leading the pack by targeting ads for new titles to people who have purchased other games. But he said he expects activity to pick up among other traditional entertainment verticals, like movie studios. Right now, he said, less than half of the company’s roughly 5,000 customers are not retail companies. ...
As of now, the studios are just scratching the surface of what’s possible, the company said, but it’s a major growth area for the industry and one AdRoll is zeroing in on. ...
Read the full story here: http://gigaom.com/2012/07/11/with-new-funding-adroll-eyes-hollywood/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=1348a80d90-c%3Amed+d%3A07-12&utm_medium=email
[Philip Lelyveld comment: Capgemini reports that retailers are finally realizing the importance of customer relationship management.]
The report covered a lot of ground, but here are a few other interesting tidbits:
- Almost 60 percent of shoppers interviewed said they expect the retail experience to extend across physical and digital channels by 2014, but more than half said most retailers currently lack cross-channel consistency
- 56 percent of shoppers said they were likely to spend more money at a physical store if they had used digital channels to research ahead of the purchase
- 44 percent of shoppers would like to use a mobile app to support in-store shopping
- 61 percent of respondents want online stores to remember their personal information and payment credentials to speed up shopping in-store but only 41 percent want to be identified through their mobiles when they enter a physical store
- 55 percent of women shoppers are more engaged when using digital channels compared with 44% of men; women indicate more interest in receiving personalized offers, recommendations and information about new products
Read the full story here: http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/is-the-future-of-retail-showrooming/
Singapore's Changi Airport commissioned German "new media" firm ART+COM to design an art installation for their Departure Hall for Terminal 1. What they came up with is "Kinetic Rain," this gorgeous, CNC-controlled moving sculpture made from 608 copper-clad aluminum raindrops suspended from the ceiling.
See the full story with video here: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/choreographed_metal_rain_would_make_an_awesome_3d_display_22871.asp
Originally filed back in 2006, the patent, titled “Peripheral treatment for head-mounted displays,” describes how images could be projected to generate a peripheral display that would create “an enhanced viewing experience” for the user. It will be interesting to see if Apple ever does leverage this patent — and how it could wield this patent against competitors.
Read the full story here: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/apple-patent-hud-display/
Philip Lelyveld comment: The latest evolution in film financing - extended multi-level pricing. See the details at the link
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409838010/authorized-devo-documentary-film
Maybe the real lesson here is that we should stop struggling to discern whether our media outlets are compromised or our brands are trying to fool us into watching extended advertisements, and just embrace the fact that the Coca Cola Variety Hour followed by the Shell Oil News Burst will someday represent the apex of our post-mass media entertainment landscape.
Read the full article and watch a sample video here: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428407/ted-has-competition-from-an-advertising-firm/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-07-05
As of 2010 Chinese cinema is the third largest film industry by number of feature films produced annually. In 2011 Chinese films earned 54% of a total box office of US$2.06 billion. China's box-office receipts grew 33.3 percent in 2011 and by the first quarter of 2012, it has surpassed Japan in box-office receipts by becoming the second-largest in the world.
Read the full story here: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/07/movies-and-tv-produced-in-china.html
A new Google study entitled “The six business models for copyright infringement,” just released with the UK’s PRS (Performing Right Society) for Music, finds that live TV is the fastest-growing segment of copyright infringement.
See the article for more info and a blow-up of the graphic here: http://paidcontent.org/2012/07/03/fastest-growing-segment-of-piracy-live-tv/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=2cf50fdb10-c%3Amed+d%3A07-04&utm_medium=email
The social TV analytics and curation company Trendrr is planning to launch a new service that will enable TV stations to measure social conversations around local programming and talent — and compare those conversations with their competitors.
Trendrr will enable clients to measure and compare social conversations not only around local programming — for example, ranking newscasts and talent in a DMA by social activity — but they’ll also be able to slice social data around syndicated and network programming down to the local level. “So if your lead-in is Ellen, and you want to see what does the conversation for Ellen looks like in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, push button, receive data,” Nagler said.