Demonstrates Industry's Fastest 2K Film Recording in a Complete Workflow with Digital Intermediate Solutions from Scanning Through to Film-Out

Las Vegas, NV - NAB 2006, Booth#SL1826 (April 24, 2006)-IMAGICA Corp. today announced the release of the industry's fastest new HSR film recorder. IMAGICA is expediting digital intermediate (DI) workflows with a family of products from film scanning to film recording. The company is rolling out new systems that bookend the DI pipeline, including the Imager HSR film recorder and the Imager HSX film scanner, being demonstrated in an end-to-end solution together with other IMAGICA scanning products at Booth #SL1826 throughout the show.

Imager HSR delivers high speed and high quality for the final, typically time-crunched phase of DI: recording projects back to film. The system can record three frames of 2K-formatted files per second, up to six times faster than current laser film recorders operating at 2K.

For the front end of the pipeline, the Imager HSX features impressive scan times of a frame of 4K media each second, or three frames per second at 2K. The system, displayed publicly for the first time at NAB, uses a newly developed CMOS area sensor and LED illumination system, and also uniquely offers customers such options as an integrated keycode reader and 35mm Wetgate.

"We are excited to be at NAB 2006 with a complete IMAGICA-based workflow from film scanning to calibrating and output," stated Makoto Tsukada, Managing Executive Officer, Engineering Solutions Division, IMAGICA Corp. "With the development and introduction of class-leading products like the Imager HSR, the highest speed recorder available on the market today, we are on a roadmap to wrapping faster and higher throughput around the DI chain."

Imager HSR was built on pioneering recorder technology licensed from Eastman Kodak Company. It combines a newly developed optical engine with JVC's D-ILA LCOS image device and LED illumination to record motion picture data to Eastman Kodak 5242 intermediate film for interpositive or internegative films. Imager HSR and HSX systems additionally both support 10-bit Cineon and DPX files, further meeting the expanding demands and requirements of DI.

Visit the IMAGICA Booth #SL1826 April 24-27, 2006, at NAB for demonstrations of these and other DI products.

About IMAGICA Corp:
IMAGICA Corp. is one of the largest post-production companies in Japan and is a leading supplier of digital imaging products for digital intermediate and digital cinema applications. IMAGICA provides front and back-end digital imaging solutions for feature film with the Imager XE and HSX Film Scanners and the HSR Film Recorder. Founded in 1935, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, IMAGICA also maintains a sales and support office in Los Angeles, California. For more information, please visit www.imagica.com.

Media Contacts:
Yukiko Ozaki, IMAGICA Corp. +81-3-3280-1119, Ozaki.Yukiko@imagica.jp
Richard Antley, IMAGICA Corp. (310) 277-1790, Rantley@imagica-la.com