Grass Valley Group

IBC'99

Digital Media Foundation

Enabling you to create, manage, and access information independent of format or storage location, maximizing you staff's creativity in the race to air.

DMF Benefits:

FLEXIBILITY

• Allows choice of applications to meet specific needs
• Combines video routing and high speed data networking for optimum efficiency
• Protects users against the technology changes by separating the user interface from the storage media

EASY EXPANSION

• Distributed, networking storage allows easy expansion
• Multiple layers of storage provide greater economy
• Easy transition to new technology resulting form a layered architecture
• Scalability allows expansion at a self-selected pace
• Affordable, incremental technology transition

USER CREATIVITY

• Fosters creativity because users have access to more content in a more timely manner
• Choice of applications lets users work in familiar and optimum methods

EASE OF MANAGEMENT

• Delivers a managed environment for media, allowing finished material, created by different applications, to be easily located and re-used
• Maximizes value of content
• Ability to re-use and re-purpose material saves time and money

STANDARDS AND OPEN ARCHITECTURE

• Permits greater interoperability between vendors, resulting in easier access to more material for more people.
• Networking allows exchange of material between sites