Rancho Cucamonga
,
CA
,
April 22, 2006
…CELCO (www.celco.com), the leader in digital film recording systems,
today announced that its new FURY 4K and Firestorm 2X film recorders will
be powered by Red Hat Linux based Operating Software.Film recorders shipping in 3rd quarter and beyond will
ship with Linux software and PC hardware as part of the complete film
recorder package.The combined
speed and power of the two technologies will allow premiere
post-production facilities worldwide to meet the demanding timeframes of
their digital workflow.
Until now CELCO film recorders have been based on
SGI IRIX host computing systems as they were well established and a leader
to date within the entertainment industry.But with the advent of Linux and its significant price performance
advantage, more and more post facilities are incorporating it into their
workflow.CELCO will continue
to support customers running on the SGI IRIX platform.
John Constantine, Director of Marketing, states,
“Since Linux is stable as an operating system and with so many post
facilities now incorporating it into their workflow, it made sense for us
to port our software to Linux to power our film recorder line.It will allow us to provide a low cost, high performance, and easy
to service host computing system to our customers worldwide.”
CELCO manufactures the award-winning FURY and
Firestorm film recorders.These
high-speed film recorders utilize CELCO’s XCRT Advanced Imaging
Technology, resulting in unsurpassed image quality.CELCO film recorders are a core component of the digital
intermediate process, which is increasingly being utilized in motion
picture making.In 2002,
CELCO received Scientific and Engineering Awards from the
Academy
of
Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences for the design and development of the CELCO Digital Film
Recorder Products. The Academy cited CELCO film recorder products having a
significant impact on the industry through continual improvements in their
technology.
About CELCO:
CELCO
was founded in 1950 by John M. Constantine Sr. as an engineering
laboratory dedicated to high resolution display technology. CELCO’s
innovations in the field of electron beam control soon made the company a
leading producer of electron optics including deflection yokes and focus
coils used in high resolution display systems. Its display components have
been used for an abundance of military and civilian applications in
everything from fighter jets, flight simulators, medical imaging systems,
electron beam welders, to the space shuttle. CELCO also became known for
its lab standard test equipment including high performance deflection
amplifiers and precision display systems. The technologies evolved into
the production of complete digital imaging systems starting in the 1970s
with large format satellite imaging systems to the first motion picture
digital film recorder used for Disney’s TRON in the early 1980s.
Clients
have included Rainmaker, Cinema Concepts, Disney Feature Animation, PIXAR,
Industrial Light & Magic, Warner Bros., Tippett Studio,
CFI/Technicolor, Double Negative, The Mill, Éclair Labs, AAV Digital
Pictures, Klasky Csupo, and Fotokem, just to name a few.
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trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of
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For
further information, contact CELCO, 8660 Red Oak Ave., Rancho Cucamonga,
CA, 91730, USA, tel +1.909.481.4648, fax +1.909.481.6899, info@celco.com,
www.celco.com
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