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 Discreet, PNY and NVIDIA Announce Visual Effects Bundles Posted by: amigo
Source: Press Release
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003
December 10, 2003 - Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., PNY and NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leaders in visual processing solutions, today announced the limited availability of a series of software and hardware bundles, combining specific PNY-NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics boards (500, 1100, 3000) and Discreet combustion� 2.1 for Windows, the award-winning unified paint, effects, animation and 3D compositing software.
Discreet is offering combustion 2.1 at a specially bundled price to give post production / compositing artists an affordable introduction to Discreet's desktop visual effects technology. Discreet combustion software is built upon, and complementary to Discreet's same Academy Award� winning compositing technology* used in blockbuster films such as Star Trek Nemesis, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. combustion software, along with PNY-NVIDIA's powerful visual graphics cards will offer customers value and performance to generate slick motion graphics that command attention and provide excellent return on investment.
Priced at �219 excl. VAT, the first bundle combines the impressive power of PNY-NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 with Discreet's combustion 2.1 software. This exceptional offer gives multimedia professionals, and video editors or video professionals, the perfect solution for extending their creativity and performance in Visual Effects.
Priced at �645 excl. VAT, the second bundle combines the PNY-NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 professional 3D board with Discreet's combustion 2.1 software. The new NVIDIA Quadro� FX 1100 by PNY is the industry's fastest and most feature-rich, mid-range workstation graphics solution. This offer gives effects artists the unique power to experience 3D compositing with the best hardware and software solutions.
Priced at �1300 excl. VAT, the last bundle combines the PNY-NVIDIA top of the range Quadro FX 3000 with Discreet's combustion 2.1 software.
The special edition of combustion 2.1 contained within these bundles is a full version but does not include the right to purchase a regular upgrade to the latest combustion 3 release.
PNY-NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics boards with Discreet combustion 2.1 solutions, and the compelling new price points, are reaching out to the growing desktop visual effects community empowering creativity in all environments and budgets.
About combustion
Praised for its intuitive, artist-inspired interface and comprehensive toolsets-including tracking and keying technologies, colour correction, particles and rotoscoping tools, combustion has received stellar industry recognition. Among its many awards, combustion has won a 5 mouse rating from MacUser, 4.5 out of 5 from Digit and 85% from Computer Video. combustion is currently in version 3 for Windows, and is expected to be available for Macintosh in early 2004.
About Discreet
Discreet empowers creative professionals to realize the visual experience and transform their most evocative visions into reality. Its award-winning digital media creation, management and delivery solutions address visual effects, editing, color grading, animation, game development, web/interactive, and design visualization. Discreet is based in Montreal, Quebec and is a division of Autodesk, Inc. www.discreet.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,700 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.NVIDIA.com.
About PNY
PNY Technologies started its activity in 1985 in New Jersey manufacturing and marketing a complete range of Memory products. To expand its business the company acquired a facility in France in 1994 to supply to the European market. PNY has several sales offices in Europe (Germany - France - UK).
PNY's partnerships with major OEM's (Brother, Cisco, Dell, Epson, HP, IBM, Kyocera, QMS, Sony, Toshiba,...) bring constant improvements in all the latest technologies, guaranteeing quality and service.
PNY has established long-standing relationships with a number of major retail channel partners where the company has earned its reputation as a supplier of top quality, innovative solutions for everything in and around the computer. PNY's memory products currently account for a majority share of all retail sales in the US and Europe.
PNY has significantly expanded its consumer line in recent years with the introduction of a full range of Flash Media (Memory cards and peripherals). Since 2000 PNY has also been a leading supplier not only of consumer graphics cards with its Verto brand, but also of professional workstation graphics boards with NVIDIA Quadro� by PNY.
Related Links: discreet website
NVIDIA website
PNY website
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