Grass Valley, Panasonic Demonstrate DVCPRO Interoperability Over Fibre Channel Networks—Vibrint Announces Format Independent Strategy Will Include DVCPRO—Supporting this flexibility, this week's demonstrations will highlight Fibre Channel transfer of material between the Grass Valley Group's Profile® PDR400 DVCPRO platforms and Panasonic newsBYTE™ and Avid NewsCutter® editing systems. Material can be transferred from a Panasonic DVCPRO VTR via SDTI or from a PDR400 via network into the Panasonic newsBYTE or an Avid NewsCutter editor. When stories are completed, clips can then be transferred via Fibre Channel network to a PDR400 for playout. "We are pleased to add support for Grass Valley Group's High Bandwidth Streaming Format to the current file transfer capabilities of our 4X newsBYTE nonlinear edit system," said Michael Brinkman, director, Strategic Development, Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Company. "Panasonic is committed to teaming with leading manufacturers like the Grass Valley Group who subscribe to supplying open systems and standards-based solutions. The Grass Valley Group has documented its High Bandwidth Streaming Format and submitted it to SMPTE for consideration as a current practice standard. This decision was an important reason why Panasonic has selected to include this functionality for our mutual customers." In support of the DVCPRO format, the Vibrint product line of the Grass Valley Group, formerly known as Vibrint Technologies, reaffirmed its commitment to provide media compatibility with Panasonic's DVCPRO VTRs at NAB this week. This past fall, Vibrint featured a technology demonstration of a DV version of their NewsEdit™ product at the International Broadcasters' Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam. Now, Vibrint's products also will incorporate an optional SDTI interface which allows high speed transfer from appropriately equipped VTRs to Vibrint NewsEdit. At NAB, Vibrint will also show a technology demonstration of DV media compatibility in the NewsQ™ playback system. This demonstration is a preview of planned format-independent releases of Vibrint's Digital News Production products later this year. "This format-independent approach is consistent with the Grass Valley Group's strategy and is part of our plans to expand our reach into newsrooms worldwide," said Peter Tarca, vice president and general manager of Grass Valley Group's Vibrint product line. "We began work with the Grass Valley Group last year on interoperability and have adopted their format for streaming compressed material between our respective products. Many facilities have standardized on Profile and they applaud this level of integration." ABOUT GRASS VALLEY GROUP'S HIGH BANDWIDTH STREAMING FORMATUnlike some file transfer techniques, the Grass Valley™ High Bandwidth Streaming Format is optimized for high bandwidth video transfers over fast network connections and has the capability to simultaneously stream, record, and playback video, delivering on the productivity promise of streaming technology. This format enables broadcasters and video professionals to overcome the limitations of networking in applications such as the recording of news feeds. Previously, traditional networking techniques required editors to wait for a recording to finish before they could gain access to review or edit the material at another suite. The Grass Valley Group's High-Bandwidth Streaming Format provides the ability to begin replay while the material is being transferred and is completely compression-format and data-rate independent, lending itself to use with DVCPRO and MPEG, as well as for high-definition formats. "Streaming and interoperability standards have been the Holy Grail for many facilities looking to capitalize on the new plethora of compressed video products. Along with SDTI, these network-based solutions are signs that the technology and market are maturing beyond independently available products to become interoperable, networked systems," said Ray Baldock, director of Strategic Marketing, Grass Valley Group. Los Angeles-based Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Co. (NYSE/PCX: MC) is a leading supplier of broadcast and professional digital video and audio products and systems. Panasonic Broadcast is dedicated to providing customers with comprehensive equipment choices, from Emmy Award-winning D-5 high definition and DVCPRO digital VTRs to ultra-bright presentation systems and advanced digital audio mixing consoles. The Vibrint product line of the Grass Valley Group provides complete, innovative solutions for digital news production — solutions that offer a cost-effective transition from analog-mechanical systems to more efficient computer-based systems. Vibrint products include applications for interactive feed capture, news editing, and news and commercial playback, as well as those for MPEG encoding and time delay. All Vibrint applications run on the Vibrint MPEG 4:2:2 workstation which relies on the Microsoft® Windows NT® file and operating system and standard networking and storage. With the Vibrint platform in place, broadcasters can easily grow from single-system applications to more collaborative digital news production workgroups. The Grass Valley Group knows more about high-quality video than anybody else—especially as video goes digital. Interactive television. Digital cinema. Data-enhanced broadcasting. Internet. It's a world of Digicasting™ — of Media Without Bounds. Whether online or on the air, the Emmy® award winning Grass Valley Group, a privately held digital media leader, has the hardware, software, and new media technologies necessary to get content wherever it needs to go. For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, see www.grassvalleygroup.com. # |
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