Monday, February 2 2004
RGB Labs(TM), Inc., the creator of the GalleryPlayer(TM) image programming service for flat panel and plasma displays, and Octavo, a company that publishes and preserves rare books and manuscripts in high-resolution digital formats, today announced that they have entered into a contract in which Octavo will exclusively license its high resolution digital book images of rare and precious historical books for high resolution digital display on the GalleryPlayer service. Octavo will also help create additional book-related "galleries," featuring beautiful botanic plates, historically important and rare printed works, and fascinating scientific materials and architectural works.
The GalleryPlayer is a revolutionary image programming service that transforms a plasma display into a digital art and photography gallery, showcasing works of art at the highest resolution possible from such artists as: Renoir, Matisse, Monet, and Sargent. With this new relationship with Octavo, the GalleryPlayer will be able to display rare printed works for the first time, adding such great authors as Copernicus, Redoute, William Blake, Benjamin Franklin, and William Shakespeare.
"We're thrilled to be working with Octavo to be able to show the public the beauty of the rare fonts, fine engravings, and beautiful illustrations that were standard in the first books to be printed -- five and six hundred years ago," stated Scott Lipsky, CEO and Founder, RGB Labs, Inc. "We are confident that the new 'Art Books' galleries that we create for the GalleryPlayer with Octavo will be enjoyed by our clients, and most certainly by the likes of the King County Library System -- which has placed a GalleryPlayer in many of its branches in Washington State."
Octavo has recently completed an ultra-high resolution digitization of the Library of Congress' most precious possession: its unique three-volume binding of one of Johannes Gutenberg's original Bibles -- the Biblia Latina from 1455, the first major work printed in Europe. The Bible images will be featured in an upcoming GalleryPlayer gallery of Art Books.
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