Norah Jones DVD, Live in New Orleans Produced by 5.1 Production Services

Expanded Studio & Staff Enable 5.1 to Increase Production Load for Major Studios and Record Labels

11-Mar-03

Blue Note Records sought 5.1 Production Services expertise to produce the #1 top selling DVD ìNorah Jones, Live in New Orleansî following her eight Grammy Nominations. Surround mixing, compression and authoring were all performed at 5.1 Production Servicesí award winning studios in West Los Angeles. The goal was to have the DVD available at retail worldwide on the Tuesday following the Grammy Awards.  Having established a 24/7 operation with all the resources for mixing, mastering, graphics design, authoring, compression and quality control under one roof, 5.1 Production Services is in the perfect position to work on different assets simultaneously ensuring a timely delivery of product. The company has recently doubled capacity to serve the growing need for the DVD-Audio format. ìWeíve grown accustomed to the quick turn times required from the music and entertainment industries. We have the staff to react, and have built a very loyal customer base because they know they can count on us to respond immediately,î said Bob Michaels, President of Production Services at 5.1 Entertainment. Recently, 5.1 Production Services was awarded Best Surround Mix, and Best Menu Design at the Surround Music Awards. This year marks tremendous growth for 10-year-old, Los Angeles based 5.1 Production Services, a division of the 5.1 Entertainment Group, which provides full-service state-of-the-art production services to the music and movie industries. As pioneers in DVD technology and 5.1 Surround Sound, 5.1 Production has produced and mixed over 180 DVD-Audio albums and was the first studio to produce DVD-Audio three years ago. The company has mixed and produced projects for companies including Warner Music Group, EMI, Capitol, Virgin, Interscope, Vagrant, Blue Note, Paramount Pictures, Fox Pictures, Sony Pictures, and Universal Music to name a few. 5.1 Production Services is comprised of DVD Authoring and Compression, Music Production, Graphic Design, Digital Audio Encoding, Sound Recording, Audio Mastering, Visual production, Digital Audio Archiving and Audio Mixing, both traditional stereo and 5.1. 5.1 Production Services is a division of the 5.1 Entertainment Group, a vertically integrated music company which owns the immergent, Silverline and Electromatrix and Myutopia record labels, and 5.1 Music Publishing. The company is a recognized leader in the audio/visual production, release and marketing of music in the DVD format. 5.1 Entertainment Group has released the largest catalog of DVD music worldwide.