Isidore philosophe biography
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Cinram
CD, DVD, Blu-ray disc and VHS cassette manufacturer
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Optical media |
| Founder | Isidore Philosophe and Samuel Sokoloff |
| Fate | Acquired, Bankruptcy |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario ,Canada |
Key people | Steven Brown (CEO) & John Bell (CFO) & Glenn Langberg (CEO) |
| Owner | Technicolor SA |
Cinram International was a Toronto, Canada-based manufacturer of pre-recorded Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CD-Audio, CD-ROMs, VHS tapes and audio cassettes.[1] It was an affiliate of the Arizona-based Najafi Companies.[1]
History
[edit]Cinram was established in in a Montreal basement[1] bygd Isidore Philosophe and Samuel Sokoloff.[2] The company started manufacturing pre-recorded eight-track tapes and cassettes in in the basement of a commercial building in Montreal. More than three decades later, in , the company completed a US$ billion purchase of the music- and movie-manufacturing assets (WE
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Cinram International, Inc.
Markham Rd.
Toronto, Ontario M1B 2W3
Canada
Telephone: ()
Fax: ()
Web site:
Public Company
Incorporated: as Cinram Ltd.
Employees: 3,
Sales: C$ million ()
Stock Exchanges: Toronto
Ticker Symbol: CRW
NAIC: Prerecorded Compact Disc (Except Software), Tape, and Record Reproducing; Software Reproducing; Motion Picture and Video Distribution; Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Wholesalers
Cinram International, Inc. is one of the world&#x;s leading independent manufacturers of prerecorded video- and audiocassettes, compact discs (CDs), CD-ROMs, and DVDs. Cinram also distributes videos and has stakes in several companies that offer media content online. Major customers of the firm include Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Polygram, Universal Music, and Sony. Based in Toronto, Canada, the publicly held Cinram operates through a number of subsidiaries in North America and Europe.
Early Years
Cinram was founded in by Isidore Philosophe,
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Polymnia Athanassiadi&#;s elegantly produced and very welcome bilingual edition of the text more familiarly known as Damascius&#;s Life of Isidore gives us the last in the series of ancient Platonist biographers in a form more accessible than ever before.1 Our most important source of information, stemming from within their own circle, concerning the last polytheist philosophers of Athens and Alexandria, Damascius&#;s book is widely cited but, because of its fragmentary state, an overall understanding of the work remains elusive. For this reason alone, A.&#;s bilingual edition should be in the collection of every library concerned with classics, with the history of philosophy, or with the world of late antiquity and the eclipse of Greco-Roman polytheism. Her accurate, often eloquent translation is certainly the form in which this important text will be read in English for the foreseeable future.
Isidore, who shuttled back and forth between Alexandria and Athens in the &#;s and