Changes at Telarc and Heads Up – Across-the-board change have been instituted at both Telarc International and Heads Up International labels by their parent company The Concord Music Group. Telarc has become basically a distribution channel and will stop producing its own recordings. Half of its 52 employees have been cut and its founder and president Bob Woods has left to start a production operation together with his wife managing classical artists – their first client to be Telarc. Telarc’s former chief engineer Michael Bishop has launched Five/Four Productions, doing high-quality audio recordings for CDs and other media, including Telarc. Woods’ replacement as Telarc president was to have been Dave Love, who came to Telarc as president of the HeadsUp label purchased by Telarc in 2000. However Love left the Concord Music Group on March 6. Concord says in spite of the changes they are committed to jazz and classical music and the Heads Up and Telarc imprints. Heads Up was one of the first labels to offer both surround SACDs and Enhanced CDs with video clips of performers.
3D Mobile Video Eyewear – Vuzix Corporation has a new line of consumer video eyewear with Apple iPhone compatibility. The iWear AV230XL is an upgrade for those who already have Vuzix Video Eyewear and iPhones. Combined with their Wrap 920AV and Augmented Reality Accessory Kit the upgrade supports 3D video in all these major formats: all three anaglyph modes (red/green glasses), interlaced and side-by-side 3D displays. The firm’s VR920 is the world’s best-selling virtual reality system and the AV310 is the world’s first 16:9 widescreen video eyewear. Did you know all this existed? Neither did we…
Harman Supports New Standards for 802.1 Ethernet – Harman Professional has been active in a group of engineers known as the IEEE 802.1 AVB Task Group, working on protocols to allow building standards-based Ethernet networks with high quality audio performance and production. The suggested enhancements require no changes to the lower layers of Ethernet and are compatible with all other functions. The entire Ethernet ecosystem is available to developers, and is expected to make networked systems easier to deploy and use in fixed installations, broadcast to cinema, tour sound and beyond. It will make it possible for media networking to be used in a wider array of applications that has ever been seen before. Harman showed several new Ethernet products at a technology preview in Frankfurt, Germany last week.
Wayne Shorter – In Memoriam
Rememberance of the artist
