Avid Audio and Video Solutions Meet ARRA Guidelines

Stimulus Funding and Aggressive Educational Pricing Enables Educators to Provide Students With Real-World Audio and Video Production Experience

 Avid announced today that its wide array of audio and video solutions meet the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding guidelines for education and training. Configured to address the respective skill and grade level of students ranging from elementary school through college,

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Pilat Media Adds BXF Support to IBMS for More Responsive, More Adaptable Workflow

Pilat Media, a global supplier of business management software solutions to the media industry, has announced a new version of its IBMS broadcast management system featuring support for the Broadcast eXchange Format (BXF). Already in use at a major U.S. network in New York, IBMS with BXF functionality contributes to business agility by facilitating rapid exchange of data between integrated systems in the broadcast workflow.

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SGT and Interra Systems Sign Industry and Technology Partnership

The two partners will work together to provide joint customers with powerful, seamlessly integrated, and customizable solutions to enhance systems quality and reliability.

SGT, a leading global software vendor in the broadcast and media industry, and Interra Systems, the leading provider of Digital media solutions to enable delivery of high quality media products and content, today announced that they signed an industry and technology partnership agreement to provide their joint customers with seamlessly integrated, customizable and flexible product solutions to enhance the systems quality and reliability of their broadcast installations.

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DVEO Shipping Multi-function Portable High Definition Digital Disk Recorder

Ultra-Small Millennia HD Records Content from HD Cameras onto Inexpensive Removable Hard Drives or Flash Disk Media

DVEO, the broadcast division of CMI, today announced the release of their new multi-function compact H.264/AVC digital disk recorder (DDR) with both removable 120 GB hard drive and CF card storage.

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Compix Supports Growing Momentum With Appointment of Lisa Kirtley as New Director of Sales

Compix, a leading developer of broadcast-quality character generators (CGs), is pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa Kirtley as the company’s new director of sales. Kirtley will be responsible for developing, supporting, and managing Compix sales initiatives across the Americas and fostering continued expansion of the company’s business for a variety of industry sectors and markets.

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Dielectric Receives Grant to Develop New Design for Universal Rural Wireless Broadband Access

Wireless Communication Laboratory at University of Maine to Yield Significant Economic and Technological Benefits for School and State

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Jupiter Systems Announces Acquisition of Teranex, Leading Supplier of High Performance Video Processing

Latest Acquisition Provides Jupiter with Rich Base of Technology in Video Conversion and Extends Market into Broadcast Arena

Jupiter Systems, provider of display wall processors, announced its acquisition of Teranex Systems, a leading manufacturer of high-performance video processing platforms for the post-production, and broadcast industries. Teranex, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupiter Systems.

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KTLA Puts Telairity BC8100 HD Encoder Into Service: First MPEG-4 Encoder For News Copters

New encoder upgrades video quality while lowering output transmission rate from 18Mbs to 12Mbs

Telairity announced today that KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, one of the nation’s most distinguished local television news organizations, has successfully completed switching over its helicopter news transmissions to high definition MPEG-4 using the Telairity BC8100 H.264/AVC HD encoder.

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EVS XS Server now Available in 2-Channel Version for Studios

EVS’ latest server provides reliable and cost-efficent VTR replacement

EVS’ recently unveiled XS server, which is dedicated to tapeless ingest, production, and playout in studios, is now available in both 4-channel and 2-channel configurations. The introduction of the new 2-channel entry-level server model offers a simple and cost-efficient VTR replacement solution for all types of studios looking for the most reliable tapeless alternatives and improvements in productivity.

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Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV Builds Next-Generation HD Broadcast Facility with Grass Valley Technology

WPVI-TV, ABC’s owned station in Philadelphia, is now equipping a brand new digital news production facility—including system infrastructure, digital news production, live production, master control, and signal routing—with a full complement of Grass Valley high-definition (HD) technologies and systems. The all-digital, HD facility will be fully operational in September 2009.
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