– Mip Interactive online

Reed Midem Organization, the company that orchestrates the mip and mipcom television program markets in Cannes, France, has created Mip Interactive, an online, ongoing market for film and television producers and distributors.

The site (www.mipinteractive.com) will be launched at mipcom Oct. 5 and will provide a continually updated database of companies and people in the industry.

Users can register and describe their profile to receive targeted information directly to their e-mail box. Producers and distributors can register, modify and update information about product. Users can subscribe by the year at a company level with Gold Corporate or Corporate Licenses or at the individual level with Promotion or Consultation Licenses.

Reed has been testing the program since April with tv and film people who have already registered profiles and programs online.

– Teraglobal plans routerless net

Video Stream International, founded in Vancouver, has closed its exchange offer for San Diego-based TechnoVision Communications to form a combined entity geared to creating a group of technology products and services to deliver realtime networked communications.

Operating under the name Teraglobal Communications, the new company is developing a Mac- and Power pc-based product to allow 30-frames-per-second video conferencing and full-data streaming over one terminal without the use of a router, which will allow users to communicate over several bandwidth configurations.

The service is not Internet-based but built around ‘server cluster topology,’ whereby the company is placing server clusters at several locations across North America, allowing users to access the service from the nearest cluster through a terminal leased from Teraglobal.

The system has cost and speed benefits over those using a router, says Teraglobal’s Darren Seed, with a router accounting for about 50% to 60% of a network’s cost.

The company has developed a network technology with Apple and Fire Wire to allow those on the network to communicate with differing connections – like atm and isdn lines – with the potential of having a multipoint connection of up to 200 users on one file.

Teraglobal has approached companies like Disney and Pixar to showcase the system’s entertainment applications, and will have new product demonstrations in September.

– IBC Roundup

At ibc in Amsterdam Sept. 11-15, AMS Neve will announce a new console for broadcast applications as well as hardware and software upgrades for current products.

The new analog Broadcast Transmission Console features a range of user-configurable options including mono, stereo, lcrs or 5.1 surround monitoring, electronic scribble with router interface and a host of others.

The company will also show enhancements to the Libra Live digital broadcast production console and will demonstrate its AudioFile 98 hard-disc editing system based on Neve’s 24-bit processing platform.

– Waterloo, Ont.-based Inscriber Technology will showcase its line of character-generator products, focusing on new upgrades Inscriber vmp 4.0 for nt and Inscriber RTX 2.1 for nt.

The vmp is an integrated modular media creation and management product which includes an online character generator, digital store, Xtreme motion effects software and alpha-aware paint capabilities.

Version 4.0 is the first to fully support pci-based frame-buffer hardware with nt.

rtx is a titling system for data-dense applications and 2.1 includes capabilities for creating multiple windows using a single-frame buffer, with multiple effects operating simultaneously and independently in each window.

– In addition to featuring its flagship Media 100 product line for Macintosh, Media 100 will be showcasing Finish, the company’s new line of broadcast-compliant digital video systems for Windows nt. Product availability is scheduled for October.

Additional details on future product-line developments will also be presented at the show.

The company’s first nt product, Media 100 qx for Windows nt, will be shipping in August.

– Gunning for a scholarship?

Calgary’s Quick Draw Animation Society is offering a pair of scholarships to assist first-time animators in making an independent animated film. The scholarship is open to members as well as non-members of the society and entry deadline is Sept. 4. For details, see the society’s updated Website (www.awn.com/qas).

– People

– tvontario has announced the appointment of Bill Murphy to the position of director of broadcast operations as of Aug. 17. Murphy replaces recently retired Roy Ireland.

Murphy has over 30 years of experience at the cbc in production and operations, working across Canada as technician, technical producer, technical manager, plant manager and implementation manager.

– Patrick Whittingham as been appointed executive vp for Sony of Canada and Tom Ray becomes vp sales for Sony’s broadcast and professional group.

In his new position, Whittingham will oversee all management, sales, marketing and technical support activities for Sony’s broadcast and professional products in Canada.

– Jeff Meadows, managing director of Quantel, has announced his retirement this month.

– Susumu Hotta has been named president of Hitachi Denshi America, based at Hitachi’s Woodbury, New York headquarters.

Hotta was previously gm of overseas sales for Hitachi’s international operations divisions in Tokyo.

Hitachi is planning to expand into new areas. In the broadcast field, the company is looking to further developments in camera technology and digital microwave transmission to meet high-definition requirements and toward a combined computer and video market.