Veteran Brazilian Network Completes $4 Million Conversion to Grass Valley Group Digital Products—New Rede Record Production Facility Touches All Major Product Lines—"This was truly a team effort by all," said Roberto Franco, Rede Record's director of engineering and operations. "Integrating all this technology was hard work but with the dedication of the Grass Valley Group, Videodata, and Rede Record's people, we successfully met our on-air date." Used for on-air production and news broadcasting, Rede Record's new digital facility includes three Grass Valley Model 4000-3 switchers, a Model 4000-2 switcher, a Model 2200 switcher for promotions and post production, a Model 1200 switcher, 10 channels of Krystal™ digital effects, and four channels of master control. It also features two Series 7000 Signal Management System routers (SMS-7000) and a host of modular products. Rede Record also purchased two Profile PDR-200 digital video servers to form a redundant system for playing out its signal to São Paulo City and the rest of Brazil. "Every day, we stake our business on the quality of our products and our ability to understand and meet the intricate needs of our customers," said Tim Thorsteinson, president and chief operating officer of the Grass Valley Group. "As a result, it's very satisfying to have played a part in the creation of Rede Record's new facility." The Grass Valley Group's Emmy® award-winning production systems are the industry pacesetters for reliability, quality, and intuitive user-interfaces. Designed to unleash customer creativity in live operation and post-production settings, the product line includes the recently introduced Kalypso™ Video Production Center family, which combines industry-leading switching and powerful M/E capabilities with an open, networked architecture that offers a precedent-setting degree of operational automation. The Grass Valley Group's signal management systems enjoy a sterling reputation among broadcast and video professionals. These systems include the Grass Valley 7500 Series routers, a new family of matrix frames for switching digital audio and video signals. They also include the Grass Valley Group's modular products. The company has introduced 15 new modules since January and 24 in the last 12 months. The Profile digital video server line is the most popular in the broadcast market, with more than 23,500 channels shipped. Widely regarded as the cornerstone of the digital transition, it is also the industry's most open platform, supporting JPEG, MPEG, DVCPro and HDTV formats. The line includes the recently introduced Profile XP Media platform, a portal for rapid access, management and distribution of video, audio and data assets that maintains the broadcast-quality video and audio for which the Profile server line is known. The Grass Valley Group is a privately held digital broadcast and video equipment company at the forefront of the transition to digital transmission and video content production and has more than $2 billion of equipment installed worldwide. Whether it's distributing video over the air, through digital broadcast facilities and across standard data networks, or providing the industry's best video storage and production products, the Grass Valley Group has the digital solution. Its 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. # Grass Valley Group and Profile are registered trademarks and Grass Valley, Kalypso, and Krystal are trademarks of Grass Valley Group Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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