SGI and Christie Team Up to Enhance Immersive Visualization Experience With SGI Reality Center Facilities
SGI to Provide First-Line Customer Support for Christie's Mirage 3D Projectors
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enhancing the immersive visualization experience with SGI® Reality Center(TM) facilities is the focus of an agreement announced today between SGI (NYSE: SGI - News) and Christie Digital Systems of Cypress, Calif. SGI is now providing first-line customer support for Christie's Mirage stereoscopic DLP(TM) projectors that are sold for SGI Reality Center solutions. Customers who purchase SGI direct support for their entire SGI Reality Center facilities will be ensured timely response for all service requirements, backed by SGI's professionally trained and experienced service organization and the SGI® global call-tracking database.
SGI service support includes call receipt and management, diagnose before dispatch, telephone support, and hardware support. Customers may benefit from faster service delivery because they would not need to call multiple vendors.
SGI Reality Center facilities are the world's leading collaborative computing environments. Teams of technical and creative professionals can engage in interactive, real-time sessions in the scientific, government, manufacturing and entertainment industries. Christie's wide array of Mirage projectors, including models 2000, 4000 and 6000, are a popular choice of customers for installation in many SGI Reality Center facilities.
"SGI and Christie teaming together provides a win-win situation for our mutual customers, who often are pressed to meet time-sensitive project deadlines and need responsive, top-quality customer service," said Terry Oberdank, vice president of SGI Technology Solutions. "Customers will now make only one call to receive first-line service and support on SGI Reality Center facilities and SGI Onyx family hardware and displays from an experienced, geographically diverse service organization."
"Christie is excited to be partnering with SGI to streamline the support process for our shared customers. The Mirage product line of stereoscopic DLP projectors is enjoying success in SGI Reality Center environments, and this agreement is a natural outgrowth of both companies' desire to see our customers continue to benefit from our world-leading visualization technologies," said Bill Schmidt, Christie's senior director of business development, VR and Simulation.
Christie's DLP Mirage Projects Brilliant, Digital Images in 3D
Introduced to the market in early 2001, Christie's Mirage projectors were the first to incorporate DLP technology and provide higher bandwidth, frame and pixel clock rates for all types of stereo images. Christie now offers the widest array of stereoscopic DLP projectors with varying brightness levels (from 2,000 to 10,000 ANSI lumens of brightness) and both XGA and SXGA resolution. Mirage projectors are known for their purity of color reproduction, digital accuracy and brilliant image quality. Recent additions to the Mirage line, the Mirage 4000 and Mirage 6000, incorporate the newest "dark-metal" 3-chip DLP by Texas Instruments for improved black level and contrast ratio.
SGI Reality Center Technology Fosters Team Collaboration
More than 575 SGI Reality Center facilities (www.sgi.com/realitycenter/) are installed worldwide and help users arrive at better decisions in less time by providing cost savings while enhancing productivity. SGI Reality Center facilities deliver the highest levels of realism, image quality and performance available today. These state-of-the-art systems offer great flexibility by supporting multiple independent users, high-performance users, group decision making in an immersive visualization facility environment and collaboration in a Visual Area Network environment.
For more information about SGI products, services and solutions call 800-800-7441 or visit www.sgi.com.
About Christie Digital Systems
Christie Digital Systems, Inc., is a world leader in high-performance projection solutions for Virtual Reality and Simulation, cinema, control rooms, rental staging, meeting rooms, conference rooms and fixed installations. Christie is the first projector manufacturer to play a leading role in developing stereo DLP projection at faster frame rates. Since 1979, Christie, along with its international network of systems integrators, has installed over 25,000 large screen projection solutions in major corporations such as GM, Shell and the University of Illinois, Urbana. For more about Christie and its compelling array of stereoscopic DLP projectors visit www.christiedigital.com.
About SGI
Celebrating its 20th year, SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is the world's leader in high-performance computing, visualization and the management of complex data. SGI products, services and solutions enable its technical and creative customers to gain strategic and competitive advantages in their core businesses. Whether being used to design and build safer cars and airplanes, discover new medications and oil reserves, predict the weather, entertain us with thrilling movie special effects or provide mission-critical support for government and defense, SGI systems and expertise are empowering a world of innovation and discovery. The company, located on the Web at www.sgi.com, is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and has offices worldwide.
NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, Onyx and the SGI logo are registered trademarks and Reality Center is a trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the U.S. and/or other countries worldwide. DLP is a trademark of Texas Instruments. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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