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 News ArchiveThis section contains older news items about Codex Digital. Please visit the current news page for the very latest stories. Radio IBC interview with Codex Digital - October 16th 2007
Radio IBC is featuring an audio article about Codex Digital on their website, looking at the workflow and design behind the new Codex Portable recording system.Dan McGraw had heard about the Codex Digital recorders but wasn't sure why they are proving so popular, so he visited the Codex Digital stand at IBC 2007 where he met with the company's Philip Meehan. Philip took Dan through the Codex range and explained their significance, as you'll hear in this 15 minute article. Click here to listen to an MP3 of the interview, or click here to visit the Radio IBC homepage. Codex wins more awards at IBC! - September 19th 2007 For the second year running, the combined editorial team behind TVBEurope and The IBC Daily have chosen Codex Digital as the recipent of their Best of IBC2007 Editors' Awards, this time for the Codex Portable. Their brief was to pick out the most innovative, cleverest new product introductions at the world's electronic marketplace, with an eye for new products that clearly showed the potential to make money, or save money, for end users - rather than clever technology for technology's sake! This award follows on from the IBC2007 What Caught My Eye award, which the Codex Portable also received at the show! Click on the graphic above to view TVBEurope's coverage of this year's awards. Codex Digital at IBC2007 - September 2007
Codex Digital would like to thank everyone who took the time to come and visit us at this year's IBC 2007 exhibition at the RAI Centre, in Amsterdam.IBC saw the launch of our brand-new Codex Portable, featured in the setting of a beautiful woodland glade, complete with badgers, foxes and a mole (click on image below for a large photograph of this year's stand). We would also just like to thank everyone who came with us on our Codex Canal Ride, navigating Amsterdam's waterways on a beautiful Friday evening, gently cruising past some of city's most stunning architectural highlights (or, at least, what we could see of them from behind the 10-foot wide inflatable Codex which we also took along...) Expected to begin shipping in late 2007, you can find out more about the Codex Portable by clicking here. New DCP podcast featuring Codex Digital! - July 1st 2007
Digital Content Producer is featuring the announcement of the brand-new Codex Portable in its latest podcast.Click the logo to hear Codex co-founder Paul Bamborough talking about this exciting new development and its role in the future of digital cinematography. The latest addition to the Codex family - June 22nd 2007
This year's Cine Gear Expo sees the launch of the brand-new Codex Portable high-resolution recorder.Tough, rugged and built for reliability, the battery-powered Portable shares many of the features of its larger siblings, including dual-camera recording (for A & B camera shoots, or stereoscopic 3D work), a wide range of input formats from HD to 4K, removable RAID DiskPacks, high-speed networking and a built-in touchscreen interface. However, the Portable adds a whole new range of features and options, including full-screen sync playback of material, a unique 'Mutter Track' facility (allowing audio comments to be recorded alongside the pictures and production sound, for hands-free shot-logging and note-taking), secure wireless MP4 video streaming, as well as realtime SD monitoring of HD and even 4K material. You can check out the full specs of the Portable by clicking here. The Codex Portable is expected to begin shipping in late 2007. Codex at Cine Gear Expo 2007, Los Angeles - June 22nd-23rd 2007
This year's Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles, on Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd, saw the announcement of the new Codex Portable high-resolution recorder.We'd like to thank everyone who came to visit us at the show and took the time to see how Codex is changing the face of digital cinematography. We'd also like to thank DALSA Digital Cinema for the loan of the HD camera. Look forward to seeing you all again at this year's IBC Exhibition in Amsterdam!  [Click image for larger version] Codex shoots Hopkins in 4K for Greenpeace - April 24th 2007
Anthony Hopkins stars in an anti-whaling TV ad campaign for Greenpeace, shot in 4K using DALSA Origin cameras and recorded to Codex Digital recorders.The 60-second spot has been aired on network TV across America and features the Oscar-winning actor reading excerpts from Psalm 104 and the haunting poem Whales Weep Not! by D.H. Lawrence. The campaign is intended to highlight the declining numbers of whales throughout the oceans and to raise public awareness about the ongoing hunting of whales in protected waters. To find out more, visit the Greenpeace website or read their press release about the ad itself.
Codex at NAB2007, Las Vegas - April 16-19th 2007 Las Vegas's NAB2007 convention saw the introduction of several new products and features from Codex Digital, including the Transfer Station ingest/backup device and the Media Manager, as well as an enhanced Media Recorder and support for MXF export. The Codex High-Resolution Media Recorder was shown in a number of different settings - as a dual-camera location capture device (connected to A and B HD cameras), as a studio recorder and server connected to HD displays and editing systems, and also as a Transfer Station, for accessing and managing original material and metadata in a machine room environment. We would like to thank AArmadillo, Technicolor, PaceHD, InnoMedia, Cine-tal and DALSA for the loan of equipment on the booth and thanks also to everyone who came to see us at NAB2007. Hope to see you all again at Cine Gear Expo in Los angeles, in June!  Editors Guild magazine - March 2007
Debra Kaufman has written an article about Paul Bamborough and the story of Codex Digital for the March issue of the Editors Guild magazine.Entitled Bamborough's Box, the piece looks at how Codex first came into being, how chief developer Delwyn Holroyd saw the need for a high-resolution recorder and how Codex is blurring the line between production and post-production. It also features a photograph of Paul Bamborough fine-tuning a Codex with a hammer... You can read the article in the March edition of the magazine, or online here. American Cinematographer magazine - January 2007
American Cinematographer magazine, the official publication of the American Society of Cinematographers, featured an article about Codex in their January 2007 issue.The article looked at the Codex high-resolution media recorder and its role in the future of digital cinematography. You can read the article online here. Codex podcast available for download - October 24th 2006
The 12th upclose&digital podcast features a look at some of the new technology at IBC 2006, which took place in Amsterdam earlier this year.It features Codex co-founder Paul Bamborough discussing both the business and the technology behind the development of Codex Digital. Curtis's 4K Codex commercial - October 9th 2006
Back in May 2006, Curtis Clark, chairman of the Technology Committee of the ASC, shot a 4K spec-commercial for Michelob beer using two Codex recorders and two DALSA Origin 4K cameras.The on-set workflow and material management of the project was featured in a Codex white paper and you can now view the completed commercial at the Studio Daily website. Codex wins another award! - October 1st 2006
We'd like to thank Broadcast Engineering magazine, for awarding us their "Pick Hit" award for the Codex Digital recording system!Pick Hit winners, similar to the award given annually at the NAB conference in Las Vegas, are determined by an elite group of judges who are actively involved in the film and television industries. For complete coverage of the awards, check out the forthcoming issue of Broadcast Engineering magazine. Codex wins award at IBC - September 28th 2006
At IBC earlier this month, the combined editorial team behind TVBEurope and The IBC Daily picked out the most innovative, cleverest new product introductions at the world's electronic marketplace. They were especially looking for new products that clearly showed the potential to make money, or save money, for end users.We are delighted to say that Codex 'caught the eye' of both TVBEurope and The IBC Daily's teams and made it onto the Best of IBC2006 Editors' Awards list. Codex video from CineGear - July 28th 2006
Studio Daily are featuring a close look at the Codex recorder, filmed at this year's Cine Gear expo in Los Angeles. Their 7 minute video and Podcast examines the workflow developed with DALSA for the recent 4K test shoots for Curtis Clark ASC, and an in-depth overview of the system by Codex co-founder Paul Bamborough.To view the video, or to download the Podcast, visit the Studio Daily website and follow the links.
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