Archive for May 14th, 2009

“PIZZA & POST” With Alicia Hirsch – VP of Post Production @ Fox Television Studios

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Video Symphony Presents

“PIZZA & POST”
With Alicia Hirsch – VP of Post Production @ Fox Television Studios

Tuesday, May 26th

7-9PM @ Video Symphony

266 E. Magnolia Blvd. Burbank

FREE

This month we’re proud to have Alicia Hirsch, the Vice President of Post Production at Fox Television. She will be sharing her insights into how new technology is impacting post production workflow.

Alicia has quite the resume – Before landing at Fox she was the VP of Post Production/International and domestic distribution at MTM Enterprises and then she went on to become the senior VP in charge of special editorial projects, technical services and worldwide distribution at Universal Studios. She was also the Co-Producer in charge of HD Post Production, Visual Effects, Dubbing, and Spotting on both “The District” and “Nash Bridges.”

“Pizza & Post” is a great opportunity to gain new insights, ask a few questions, network with your post-production peers, and as always, eat a lot of pizza.

This event is free and takes place from 7PM to 9PM at Video Symphony TV & Film School, 266 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA.  There’s free parking in the adjacent parking garage (entrance at 239 E. Palm St., one block east of Magnolia).

Seating is limited, so kindly RSVP to RSVP@VS.EDU.   Let us know how many will attend – the event is open to the public so you can bring interested friends or associates.  Your RSVP holds your seats unless you hear back from us that the event is full.

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write a boxee app, win a Sony HDTV/Drobo‏

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Below is a copy of an email I got from boxee:

the new boxee API enables developers to build and publish apps for boxee users. while people are working on a variety of boxee apps, we thought it would be a good idea to provide some extra incentive for the developers.

the boxee dev challenge will have 3 categories: Video, Music and Photos. in each category we will have a People’s Choice award and a Judge’s Choice award:

People’s Choice Award: Drobo, http://bit.ly/boxeedevchallenge-peopleschoice
Judge’s Choice Award: Sony Bravia XBR9 46″, http://bit.ly/boxeedevchallenge-judgeschoice

the deadline for submitting your application is June 14th at 11:59pm PT, but we encourage you to submit early and often as we’ll be talking up cool applications as they come in.

voting will take place between June 15th – June 22nd.

on June 23rd will have a boxee event in San Francisco (RSVP @ http://bit.ly/boxeedevchallenge-rsvp) announcing the People’s Choice and our esteemed judges will choose a winner from the 10 most popular apps in each category.

the judges at the event will be:
Veronica Belmont – Tekzilla, Qore (http://twitter.com/veronica)
Ryan Block – GDGT, former EIC Engadget (http://twitter.com/ryanblock)
Avner Ronen – boxee founder and CEO (http://twitter.com/boxee)
couple more judges (we are interviewing prospects: Obama, Oprah, AplusK)

planning to participate in the challenge? fill http://bit.ly/boxeedevchallenge

looking for more info on how to develop boxee apps: check out http://developer.boxee.tv and take a look at the sample app at http://developer.boxee.tv/2009/04/14/building-your-first-boxee-app (we will publish additional sample apps). please submit your app to dev_challenge@boxee.tv.

whether you’re a developer or just a boxee fan, we look forward to seeing you at the event. RSVP @ http://bit.ly/boxeedevchallenge-rsvp.

see you in SF,
avner
http://twitter.com/boxee

* the challenge is open to residents of the milky-way galaxy except for employees of boxee, and any other organizations involved in sponsoring the contest, as well as their parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and those employees. immediate family and household members. exceptions extend also to those who think they might become a boxee employee, or an employee of the aforementioned parent, subsidiary, affiliated, or succesor companies in the future. .Immediate family members. of employees shall mean their parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, pets and spouses. .Household members. of employees shall mean people who share the employee.s residence at least three months a year sleeping on a couch or a bed (blow up mattresses do not ap.)

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