LThe Avid VideoRAID system offers up to 5 terabytes of high-efficiency storage. It is designed to guarantee real-time access for multi-stream, high-bandwidth standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) workflows.

In the event of a disk drive failure, Avid VideoRAID disk arrays continue to operate without loss of data and at full performance. Unlike other RAID solutions that may be unusable during a drive rebuild, Avid VideoRAID maintains full performance while rebuilding in the background.

This is a unique feature!

Avid VideoRAID specifications include:

• Fail-safe protection
• Cost-effectiveness
• High performance
• Full qualification and support by Avid
• No additional host adapter required on Windows-based CPUs

For more details, click here.

[March 30, 2006]

Willard Boyle, a Halifax resident and a McGill University graduate, received a prestigious engineering award in February for the invention of the "Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras such as Canon XL H1 and Sony XDCAM HD.

Mr. Boyle will share the $500,000 US award with co-inventor George Smith. Our congratulations to both of them!

[March 21, 2006]

Last chance for low prices on hardware exchanges!

By exchanging your system before May 23, 2006, you can still save thousands of dollars!

Click here for more information.

[March 21, 2006]

An ideal integrated multimedia station, the Polycom Instructor RP provides extraordinary video conferencing and collaboration tools well suited for all educational environments, by letting you combine the power of a VSX 8000 videoconferencing system with a SMART Board 3000i interactive whiteboard.

Click here for more information

[March 17, 2006]

A few articles about products available at CEV as well as the latest technological news:

 CCD Inventor Receives Award - CCD technology is used in high tech digital cameras such as Canon XL H1 and Sony XDCAM HD.

[March 14, 2006]

Academy Award Winning Movies Created Using Avid Tools Available at CEV

Below is an excerpt from the growing list of Oscar-winning films that were created using various Avid tools available at CEV:

• Brokeback Mountain
• King Kong
• Capote
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Constant Gardener
• Hustle & Flow
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Syriana
• Walk the Line

For more information about the Avid family of non linear video editing products, or for a personalized demo, contact your CEV representative.

[March 10, 2006]

To enter, produce a remix of Fort Minor's "Remember the Name" and upload it to ccMixter between March 22, 2006 and May 6, 2006. More information here.

 How Do Songs Become Major Hits on the Music Market? Researchers look into it and come up with some answers.

[March 9, 2006]

Palm Canada is organizing cellphone movie contest. Enter your 60-second-or-less short film. Mobifest will accept submissions through April 30, with winners announced May 17. More information here.

[March 3, 2006]