Archive for April, 2010

Digital Productions nominated for 2010 People’s Choice Awards, New Zealand’s largest conference and event awards programme

A big thank you to the client who put forward our nomination for the category of “Best video production” for this years conference and event awards. Our nomination is based on grading for positive feedback, qualifications and industry merit and the highest standard of customer service. The team at Digital Productions work hard and take pride in the work we do for our clients – and award or not, will always do the best we can. So, to help us keep up with the good work – please click below and vote for us!

Three conferences and an RFP

It’s been a busy month with conference bookings for live, big screen feeds plus recording the event for later distribution via online and DVD. If your company is looking to stage a conference, contact us for a competitive quote for a video feed to the big screen, and prices for editing into DVD’s and hosting online segments.

Interview special takes off

Conferences aside, Digital Productions special offer for interviews has proven very popular. The demand for well priced, professionally filmed and edited interviews and short segments to camera has allowed us to streamline this service – and a big thumbs up to Sovereign Insurance, with Sovereign Insider making great use of this facility. Have a look at their website to get a few ideas for your business, then book your interview from $599.00 ex gst.

http://www.sovereigninsider.co.nz/Video-List.aspx

Recently, a fairly decent sized RFP from a very large international company, saw a leading New Zealand computer and IT support brand contract Digital Productions with a specialised video demonstration brief. We can’t yet say who the company was, but the feedback we have received was that the video component played a critical part in the presentation’s success. So, for your next RFP, rather than tell them – show them! Contact us for a quote for a video component to your next business presentation.

Coming up: Keep watching for the launch of a new web channel, news of a short film and more.

Keep it online!

Cheers

The Team at Digital Productions.

The iPad – better to wait for version two?

Whilst Apple are reveling in all the hype of the iPad, and it’s sales success (or over-success for those on wait lists), poor old Microsoft and Fujitsu must be scratching their heads, wondering what they did wrong.
You see – the concept of a table PC has been around for quite some time – in fact I was the proud owner of a Fujitsu tablet PC way back around 2003.

The Fujitsu Stylistic was an awesome machine.  Whilst it was a little bigger, and a little heavier than the iPad, it was overall, I believe, a better machine because it had one function the iPad does not; a writing tool.

With its stylistic pen, I could call up a conventional A4 lined writing pad and scribble notes to my hearts content – and never run out of paper.

Best of all, I could review back over years of notes and easily find the page I was looking for.  I had researched thoroughly, and the Fujitsu model had the best overall reviews for writing functionality – and my personal experience was it lived up to and even exceeded its billings.

When some lowlife broke into my car and stole the tablet – it proved impossible to replace (stock not available anywhere due to low sales). So when I finally replaced it with an HP laptop with swivel screen -was not too surprised to find that their model performed poorly for stylistic writing.  Actually that’s an understatement – it was so useless that I gave up on this feature.

For the iPad not to have a quality writing feature is a very large oversight.  With this simple function it would become irreplaceable in every business persons folio – and the iPad could then not only threaten books, but would jeopardise sales of A4 writing paper world wide.  A real “save the trees/planet” marketing opportunity missed.

Microsoft and Fujitsu must be wondering about the fadnatisim type sales the iPad is experiencing despite its shortcomings – guess it was just that the tablet PC put out by them wasn’t looking cool.

So the door remains open to them to take the new wave of tablet acceptance, and come back fighting with a relaunch of a modernised version of their functional model.  But should Apple get the feedback that I believe they will, and load a writing tool into the next generation of iPads – their market share lead would leave tablet PC’s in a very low runners up position, probably forever…