Grass Valley Group Unveils Next Generation Products Across All Lines
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (International Broadcasting
Conference),
Sept. 10, 1999 — At the International Broadcasting Conference
(IBC) in Amsterdam, Grass Valley Group will unveil the show-stopping
results of a $60 million research and development effort by exhibiting
the next-generation of its server, router, switcher and modular
products. Anchored by a newly unveiled wideband digital video router
that is the most competitively priced product in the large-systems
market, these products include the Profile® digital video server and Grass
Valley™ router, switcher, and
modular solutions. These fully refreshed Grass Valley Group product
lines let customers keep pace with the digital transition by offering
the automation, format support, bandwidth, asset management, and global
data access necessary to meet their current and future digital
requirements.
The new Grass Valley Group products on display at IBC include:
- Profile XP Media Platform. With a completely new
architecture revealed for the first time at IBC '99, the Profile XP
Media Platform provides a portal for rapid access, management, and
distribution of video, audio, and data assets. The platform, which
supports standard-definition (SD) or high-definition (HD) signals,
surpasses conventional digital video server capabilities by delivering
higher and more robust performance, setting new standards for
flexibility and reliability, and featuring prices up to 30 percent
lower than previous models. The platform also leverages the strength
the Emmy® award-winning Profile
line, the most popular digital video server brand in the broadcast
industry with more than 22,000 channels shipped.
- Kalypso™ Video Production
Center. Making its debut at IBC, the Kalypso Video
Production Center family is the industry's most self-contained,
powerful, and cost-effective product line for controlling
teleproduction environments and offers an unprecedented degree of
operational automation. Imbued with Grass Valley reliability and
ease-of-use, the family supports SD signals today and will be capable
of supporting HD in the future. Already well received by broadcast and
video customers, Grass Valley Group has received 15 commitments for
this new system.
- SMS-7500WB Digital Video Router. Grass Valley Group
extends its 7500 Series routing family with a new wideband router, the
Grass Valley SMS-7500WB. This cost-effective router provides
simultaneous SD/HD switching without requiring any hardware or module
changes.
- SoftwareBus Open Software Architecture. The Profile XP
Media
Platform features the Grass Valley SoftwareBus open software
architecture, which incorporates the industry's most comprehensive
video server applications programming interface (API). It also offers
sophisticated, SNMP-based remote monitoring as well as Grass Valley
ContentShare™ plug-ins.
- ContentShare™ Software
Platform. A collection of software tools built on standard Internet
technology, the ContentShare software platform enables users of
ContentShare compliant applications to search for any type of media
asset, no matter where it's located, who created it, or how it is being
managed.
Other award-winning products on the floor at IBC include the Profile
MPEG-based PDR300 and DVCPro PDR400, the Profile PRO video disk
recorder, the Profile LVS Event Management System, the Series 8900 and
2000 HD modular products, the M-2100 master control system, and the
Krystal™ digital picture
manipulator. Profile digital video server integration with the Avid
NewsCutter® DV and the GVeous
digital video effects (DVE) product will also be on display. Profile
partners will be on hand with applications ranging from sports to
automation to graphics and database management. Finally, a portion of
the booth is dedicated to Avstar newsroom computing products.
About the Digital Media Foundation Initiative
All Grass Valley Group products on display are a part of the
Digital Media Foundation™ (DMF)
initiative, which was developed to ease the transition to digital
production and transmission facilities; to seamlessly link broadcasters
with their digital assets and production tools; and to enable video
professionals to deliver high-quality content to any digital pipeline.
A gradual, cost-effective strategy, the DMF helps maximize a company's
investments in new facilities.
Grass Valley Group Inc. is a new, privately held digital broadcast
and video equipment company that has entered into an agreement to
acquire the video content production business of Tektronix Inc. Grass
Valley Group is a recognized technology leader, with more than 40 years
of television broadcast experience. Its heritage includes numerous
patents for television technology, as well as helping to shepherd the
broadcast television industry through several critical technology
transitions, including the move from black-and-white to color
transmission and the move from analog to digital broadcasting. Grass
Valley Group's product lines include the Emmy award-winning Profile
digital video server family and the Grass Valley router, switcher and
modular product lines.
For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, see
www.grassvalleygroup.com.
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Grass Valley Group and Profile are registered trademarks and Grass
Valley, Kalypso, ContentShare, Krystal and Digital Media Foundation are
trademarks of Grass Valley Group. All other trade names referenced are
the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
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