Montreal: Canada’s pay-per-view programming companies have applied to the crtc for important changes in their direct-to-home conditions of licence, saying the same conditions are prohibiting the rollout of their businesses….

For special effects supervisor Bruce Turner, The Book of Jamie G. is at once a challenge and a breath of fresh air sweeping clean the lingering vapors of death and destruction: ‘It’s refreshing to work on something where nobody dies,’ he…

Montreal: ctcpf lfp executive director Garry Toth and Telefilm Canada executive director and eip administrator Francois Macerola have prepared extensive industry discussion papers in preparation for a national consultation tour which opens in Halifax Monday, Dec. 1 and wraps in Vancouver…

Digital Fusion Version 2.0 and Digital Fusion Post, the nt-based nonlinear compositing and post-production software from Toronto’s Eyeon Software, began shipping earlier this month with a whack of new features and plug-ins that promise to give cg artists access to design…

Tunnel, no light…

*OFDC co-ordinates German intro…

Details of the video-on-demand plan from Digital Renaissance followed on the heels of news that the mother of Canadian telcos had acquired a minority stake in the new-media firm. Digital Renaissance has also formed a partnership with Atlantis Communications and Life…

Toronto new-media and software development company Digital Renaissance and the New Brunswick Telephone Company have brought the dream of video on demand one step closer to reality with a new vod system designed for telecommunications and cable companies….

Applying the benefits of film-resolution scanning and the input of a number of different equipment manufacturers, Toronto’s Dan Krech Productions is bringing a unique film transfer option, with digital film input and output, to commercial post….

*Covitec back in black…

Blackjack, the second project from Alliance Communications and director John Woo, is in production in the gta this month. The series pilot is being shot feature film-style on 35mm and using between four and seven cameras per scene. The action-heavy drama…

Every year, media writing students in the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson Polytechnic University write an article for Playback as part of their course. The following is the first in a limited series of this year’s stellar contributions….