Deluxe New York, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, has launched online editorial and visual effects services for the New York television and commercial market.
The new services are as a result of a collaboration between Deluxe and Ben Murray, whose online and visual effects editorial credits include NBC’s 30 Rock, Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, and HBO’s Bored to Death.
Murray’s expertise goes beyond editing. He began working in the industry as a colorist in 2001, expanding his career to image restoration and animation. His body of work includes television episodic, specials, documentaries and feature films including Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story where he served as supervising conform editor.
Deluxe is making an aggressive move to partner with creative talent to add to its array of services. “Deluxe has been in the New York market for two years now, and we felt it was the right time to partner with top notch creative talent to complement our editorial and postproduction services,” said Mike Jackman, VP/general manager, Deluxe New York. “Ben brings a wealth of experience, fantastic attitude and immense talent. We are thrilled to be partnered with him.”
Deluxe New York is a full service television and film postproduction facility offering processing of both 35mm and 16mm film, HD/SD telecine, a full EFILM® Digital Intermediate platform, as well as Media Management services for film and video deliverables. A 40-seat new screening theater supports multiple-format digital and film projection in premier digital audio formats.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More