Technical Partners

Focus Enhancements and its technical partners are committed to delivering the highest quality, best performing media solutions available.
12 Inch Design

12 Inch Design

The team at 12 Inch Design has more than twenty years of production and post-production experience creating content for domestic and international TV networks, Fortune 500 conglomerates, international events and many other businesses. Our work has aired on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, WB, A&E, Discovery Channel, MTV, the BBC, Channel Four and other networks around the globe. Our award winning artists and editors have produced content for events such as the Nagano Winter Olympics and companies such as Acura, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, DDB Needham, Hasbro Toys, MCA/Universal and Microsoft.


AMX Corporation

AMX Corporation

Founded in 1982, AMX Corporation, a subsidiary of Duchossois Industries, Inc., is a worldwide leader in advanced control and automation technology for commercial and residential markets. AMX products enable users to centrally manage and control a variety of audio/video, environmental and communications technologies. Customers also leverage the company's advanced hardware and software platforms to store and distribute digital content, as well as to manage a selection of resources and services. By centralizing the management and control of these devices, AMX customers experience simplicity, efficiency and productivity in any environment. AMX delivers these benefits by working with leading manufacturers, dealers and distributors to integrate its products into vertical market installations around the world. It's your world. Take control.™


Apple Computer, Inc.

Apple Computer, Inc.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.


Avid Technology, Inc.

Avid Technology, Inc.

Avid Technology, Inc. is the world leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management, and distribution solutions, enabling film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals to work more efficiently, productively, and creatively.


Cadence

Cadence

Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, printed circuit boards and systems used in consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence reported 2004 revenues of approximately $1.2 billion, and has approximately 5,000 employees. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry.


Calypso Control Systems

Calypso Control Systems

Founded in 1999 as Calypso Design, and reorganized in its present form in 2005, Calypso Control Systems delivers innovative and complete control and monitoring solutions for professional AV applications. As AV markets expand in education, government, healthcare, retail and elsewhere, there is a growing demand for greater functionality, increased simplicity, open architectures and value pricing. Calypso products deliver on all counts, while promoting a product design philosophy that extends to from Pro AV to broadcast. Calypso's broad range of customers includes companies such as: NBC, Fox News, Time Warner, Green Bay Packers, Texas Instruments, Minnesota Science Museum and Kaiser Hospital.


Canon USA, Inc.

Canon USA, Inc.

Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. The Company is listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America and is rated #35 on the BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands." Its parent company Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ) is a top patent holder of technology, ranking third overall in the U.S. in 2004, with global revenues of $33.3 billion.

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Crestron Electronic, Inc.

Crestron Electronic, Inc.

Crestron is the world's leading manufacturer of advanced control and automation systems, innovating technology and reinventing the way people live and work. Offering integrated solutions to control audio, video, computer, IP and environmental systems, Crestron streamlines technology, improving the quality of life for people in corporate boardrooms, conference rooms, classrooms, auditoriums, and in their homes.


Digital Media Technology Co. Ltd.

Digital Media Technology Co. Ltd.

Digital Media Technologies' primary mission is research and development of highly professional, cost-effective, reliable and open TV automation solutions, as well as delivery of system integration and technical support to broadcasters and content management providers around the world. DMT's PlayBox™ is an open, network-distributed, highly modular TV automation system. Each module is taking care of a specific part of the broadcasting workflow - off-tape batch capturing, scheduled capturing off satellite, content management, program scheduling, content editing, on-air program playback, on-air titling, subtitling, etc.


Hitachi Global

Hitachi Global

Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/ TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 347,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2004 (ended March 31, 2005) consolidated sales totaled 9,027.0 billion yen ($84.4 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services.


JVC Company of America

JVC Company of America

JVC Company of America, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, is a division of JVC Americas Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Victor Company of Japan Ltd., and a holding company for JVC companies located in North and South America. JVC distributes a complete line of video and audio equipment, including high definition displays, camcorders, VCRs, D-VHS recorders, DVD players and recorders, satellite systems, home and portable audio equipment, mobile entertainment products and recording media.

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KenCast Inc.

KenCast Inc.

KenCast, Inc. provides multicast systems for satellite and other networks. A privately owned company, KenCast was founded in 1994 by William E. Steele. The expertise of KenCast is in ultra-reliable, error correcting, digital broadcast over point-to-multipoint networks. KenCast's flagship product is the Fazzt® Digital Delivery System, which has set an industry standard for reliability and performance.


Panasonic Corporation of North America

Panasonic Corporation of North America

Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic Corporation of North America markets a broad line of digital and other electronics products for consumer, business and industrial use. The company is the principal North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE:MC) of Japan, and the hub of Panasonic’s U.S. marketing, sales, service and R&D operations.

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Plasmon

Plasmon

Founded in 1984, Plasmon is a pioneer in optical storage technology and has emerged as a leader in the archival storage industry. Plasmon develops and manufactures UDO (Ultra Density Optical) professional 5.25 inch optical drives and media, specifically designed to meet the secure archival storage demands of corporations and government agencies.


QStar Technologies, Inc.

QStar Technologies, Inc.

QStar Technologies Inc., founded in 1987 is a leading storage management software company that provides sophisticated, large-scale client/server archive and data protection solutions for UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems. QStar provides tiered based storage solutions that allow every level of the corporation to organize and manage data storage resources of even the most heterogeneous networks. The world's leading companies increasingly rely on QStar for the secure, cost effective and reliable storage of their critical data. QStar software supports a wide range of hardware platforms and storage devices, incorporating new technology, as it becomes available.


RAID Incorporated

RAID Incorporated

Headquartered in Lawrence, MA, RAID Incorporated is a managed storage services provider (MSSP) and designs customized storage systems and solutions. RAID Incorporated's flagship service StorageWatch® is the industries only real-time monitoring and managed storage service which reduces customers total cost of ownership by reducing operational costs associated with maintaining and administering storage systems while increasing data availability. Since 1994, RAID has been devoted to researching and developing leading edge technologies while providing twenty-four hour support services to become one of the industry leaders. RAID specializes in solving compute, application, and disaster recovery needs with a unique platform combining hardware, software, and services.


Rimage Corporation

Rimage Corporation

Rimage Corporation (www.rimage.com) is the world's leading provider of recordable CD/DVD publishing systems, which are used by businesses to produce discs with customized digital content on an on-demand basis. Rimage's publishing systems, which span the range from high to low CD/DVD production volumes, integrate robotics, software and surface label printers into a complete publishing solution. Rimage is focusing its CD/DVD publishing solutions on a set of vertical markets with special needs for customized, on-demand digital information: digital photography, retail applications, medical imaging, financial institutions, business offices, and government. Rimage Corporation is located in Minneapolis, MN, with operations in the United States, Europe and Asia.


Showlogix Ltd.

Showlogix Ltd.

Showlogix Ltd. is focused on developing show control software for the entertainment market and the professional audiovisual industry. The company's products are designed to control Video, Lighting, motion based simulators and any third party devices, all in precise accuracy.


Sony Corporation of America

Sony Corporation of America

Sony Corporation of America, based in New York City, is the U.S. subsidiary of Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo. Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.

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