Pioneering Swedish post facility places order with Digital Vision and Nucoda

Stockholm, February 28, 2005 - Digital Vision, the leader in image processing systems for video postproduction, and Nucoda, a leading developer of advanced software-based colour correction and motion-picture conform systems, announced today an order from The Chimney Pot, a pioneering post facility based in Stockholm, Sweden.

After an intensive testing period by its leading colourists, The Chimney Pot purchased two Nucoda Film Master colour correction systems and a Nucoda Data Conform system. The systems will be equipped with 4:4:4 RGB video I/O. The Chimney Pot will use the Nucoda Film Master systems to implement a complete, resolution-independent, end-to-end RGB film finishing solution with comprehensive and powerful editing, effects, colour grading and mastering toolsets for both television commercial and feature film Digital Intermediate (“DI”) applications.

Henric Larsson, The Chimney Pot's Head of Feature Film, selected Nucoda Data Conform for its Stockholm post house based on their experience in Oslo, and on the functionality provided by Nucoda's conform, edit and review system. The Nucoda system, which utilizes a standard PC platform equipped with the latest generation of Graphics Processing Units (“GPU”), allows The Chimney Pot to quality check the digital negative against the offline edit using the EDL or keycode list generated during the scanning process. This saves them time and money by eliminating laborious and time-consuming project configuration steps.

In conjunction with this implementation of the Nucoda software, The Chimney Pot also purchased the first RGB system in Sweden from Digital Vision, which includes a Valhall Colour Grade HD RGB system with the AGR4 ME motion compensated Film Grain and Electronic Noise Management System.

"What Nucoda and Digital Vision in combination can provide to us is of great importance. Digital Vision’s Valhall system fits perfectly with the Nucoda Data Conform and is faster than most software colour correctors. Furthermore their system is a very good restoration tool and can complete numerous primary layers and multiple secondaries of HD 4:4:4 RGB in real time, with a very advanced grain and noise manager. We look forward to seeing Digital Vision's noise reducer, dust buster as restoration tools on the Nucoda software platform in the near future, which is also imperative to us," explained Larsson.

He adds, "We chose Nucoda Film Master following stringent testing of other products on the market. During this time we discovered that Nucoda is the only company whose software can handle multiple secondaries in 2K in real-time with 4K coming soon. "

"Both Digital Vision and Nucoda have some of the industry's leading engineers and establish close links with their customers providing fast updates and fixes for daily production whilst continuing to develop innovative products," concluded Larsson.

Digital Vision recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Nucoda Ltd. The two combined companies offer enormous potential in the post-production and broadcast markets, as well as emerging new markets, with a powerful combined product portfolio providing DI and colour correction solutions.

Digital Vision provides innovative image restoration, enhancement, colour correction and data conforming systems that major movie studios, television networks and post-production facilities use to produce and enhance feature films, TV programs and commercials. The company’s Nucoda product line provides a strong suite of products for the burgeoning digital intermediate 2K/4K market. The company’s award-winning products are a standard of the media & entertainment industry and are deployed at top facilities around the world.
Digital Vision AB was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with two wholly owned subsidiaries, Digital Vision (US) in Los Angeles, California, and Nucoda Ltd in London, England. The company maintains its global presence through a network of qualified distributors. Digital Vision is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. For further information, go to www.digitalvision.se.

All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their respective companies.

For more information, please contact:

Robert Ekström, E-mail: robert.ekstrom@digitalvision.se, Phone: +46-733 55 26 02
Digital Vision AB (publ), Solna Strandväg 98, SE-171 54 Solna, Sweden
Web site: www.digitalvision.se

Media contact: Jennie Evans, +44 (0)1635 44991, jennie@manormarketing.tv

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