Rancho Cucamonga, CA, February 20th, 2007…CELCO
(www.celco.com), the leader in digital
film recording systems, today announced that all new Digital Film Recording
Systems are now shipping with their new Linux Based PC and Film Recorder
Driver Software. The Linux PC will be powered by high speed Dual/Dual Core
processors and Red Hat Linux based Operating Software. The Linux software
and PC hardware will be included as part of the complete and integrated film
recorder package. The combined speed and power of the two technologies will
allow premier 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 2X 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, Cine
Image, Éclair Labs, AAV Digital Pictures, and Fotokem, just to name a
few.
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respective companies.
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
