SYPHAnews - 29 November 2004

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Camera news

Thomson Opens Camera Design and Manufacture Center of Excellence in The Netherlands (26/11/2004)

Sony Confirms Delivery of New HDV Camcorder to EU Countries (26/11/2004)

Sony Unveils The HVR-Z1U Pro 1080 HDV Camcorder (16/11/2004)

NLE news

Lightworks in Hollywood: An Editing Icon Resurfaces (22/11/2004)

Sony Announces Vegas Software Support For New Professional HDV Products (16/11/2004)

Canopus EDIUS SP For HDV Available Now (15/11/2004)

Canopus Announces Affordable HDV Workstations (15/11/2004)

Pinnacle Systems Ships Liquid Edition Version 6 For Professional and Affordable HD Editing (10/11/2004)

Desktop Images Offers Avid Editing Essentials Training DVD (5/11/2004)

Discreet Ships New Versions of inferno, flame, flint, fire, smoke and lustre Systems (1/11/2004)

HD news

Artbeats Releases Film Clutter 2 Collection (26/11/2004)

Hammer to Distribute Infortrend's Cost-effective Disk Storage Solutions Aimed at Sequential Data Environments (26/11/2004)

Promax Ships High Performance Removable FireWire 800 External RAID Solution (26/11/2004)

New HD Log Video Logger Editions Built for Mac OS X (26/11/2004)

Digital Vision Introduces Next Generation Valhall System (5/11/2004)

DAW news

Obedia Provides Professional Technical Expertise (22/11/2004)

PreSonus Announces The FIREBOX FireWire recording system (22/11/2004)

Digidesign Announces Pro Tools 6.7 Software for Pro Tools|HD and LE Systems (22/11/2004)

Digidesign Announces Pro Tools 6.6 Software for Pro Tools|HD on Mac OS X (22/11/2004)

Fairlight Introduces DREAM Suite Studio Package (15/11/2004)

Fairlight Introduces New Constellation XT (15/11/2004)

Frontier Design Presents TranzPort For Wireless Control Over DAWs (11/11/2004)

Open Labs Unveils the OMX64 Extreme Digital Audio Workstation (11/11/2004)

Cakewalk Announces Support For Mackie Control C4 In SONAR 4 Producer Edition and Studio Edition (11/11/2004)

CoSTAR FieldEditor Supports German Language (10/11/2004)

Steinberg Premiers Nuendo 3 (5/11/2004)

SADiE And CEDAR Audio Announce the Release of a Suite of Multichannel Restoration Tools for SADiE Series 5 and PCM H64 Workstations (3/11/2004)

SADiE And CEDAR Announce the Imminent Availability of Multichannel CEDAR Retouch v3 for SADiE Series 5 Workstations (3/11/2004)

SADiE and SMART AV Announce Agreement to Develop Interface Between Smart Console and SADiE Series 5 Workstations (3/11/2004)

SADiE Announces PCM2 Portable USB2.0 Connected Editing System (3/11/2004)

SADiE Version V5.3 Software Now Shipping (3/11/2004)

New Software Bundle for Tascam's Computer Interfaces Includes Cubase LE, GigaStudio 3 LE and Nomad Factory Plug-Ins (2/11/2004)

Tascam Announces the DP-01 Digital Portastudio with Eight-Track Recording and a Musician-Friendly Interface (2/11/2004)

Tascam Announces DV-RA1000 High-Resolution Audio Recorder With DSD Recording to DVD (2/11/2004)

Tascam's IF-FW/DM FireWire Expansion Card Adds 24-channel I/O from Computer DAWs to the DM-24 Console (2/11/2004)

New Software Updates For Tascam US-2400 And FW-1884 Add Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo Support And Plug In Control (2/11/2004)

Smart AV Announces The Smart Console (1/11/2004)

Tascam's New FW-1082 Interface Makes a Moving-Fader Control Surface Affordable To Any Studio (1/11/2004)

Tascam's New FW-1804 18-channel Audio Interface Offers Audio and MIDI Interfacing in a Rackmount Package (1/11/2004)

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