Grass Valley Group And Sony Demonstrate Compatibility Between Vibrint NewsEdit And Sony NewsBase System At NAB 2000—Companies Commit to Providing Integration Through Open Systems and Standards-Based Technologies—"The Grass Valley Group is very excited about continuing product integration efforts that began last NAB when Vibrint and Sony demonstrated compatibility between Betacam SX products and Vibrint NewsEdit," said Tim Thorsteinson, president and chief operating officer of the Grass Valley Group. "Interoperability is a key objective for the Grass Valley Group and we are dedicated to interfacing the Vibrint digital news production workgroup with third party servers based on open standards, as well as to interfacing our Profile with third party news editors." At NAB 2000, the Grass Valley Group is demonstrating SDTI-CP interoperability between Profile™ digital video platforms and the Sony MPEG IMX VTRs as well as SDI interoperability between Vibrint NewsEdit and NewsBase. The companies also plan to provide SDTI-CP connectivity between Sony's products and Vibrint digital news production workgroups, including NewsEdit. "Since NAB '99, the broadcast industry has responded very positively to the steps we are taking towards providing truly interoperable solutions based on the MPEG-2 standard," said Chris Summey, senior vice president, systems integration, Sony Electronics, Inc. "Vibrint's solutions fit well within our strategy for the future because they have been built right from the start to be open and standards-based. It's not a matter of re-working legacy software to fit into a new open environment. We are very pleased to be working with the Grass Valley Group and their Vibrint product line." Using the Sony NewsBase and Vibrint NewsEdit systems, broadcasters can record incoming feeds to the Sony NewsBase system. Even while a feed is still recording, editors can browse media captured by the NewsBase system and begin editing directly to a NewsEdit timeline. Because NewsEdit also supports direct tape-to-disk editing, the NewsBase media can be mixed with local footage captured on tape without leaving the edit bay. Completed sequences can be transferred via SDI from NewsEdit to the NewsBase server for playout, which can begin even before the transfer is complete. More information on NewsBase and NewsEdit integration is available by contacting the Grass Valley Group's Vibrint Product Group at 1-877-842-7468. ABOUT THE COMPANIESSony Electronics' Broadcast and Professional Company (BPC) provides advanced products and systems for a variety of professional and broadcast markets, including production, corporate, industrial, government, security, medical and education. BPC products, systems and applications are designed to facilitate the transition to digital technologies and the emerging broadband network era, while managing current assets. Sony BPC products and services include those for broadcast and professional acquisition, production, storage, data management, system integration, digital imaging, digital printing, large and small venue display and projection needs. BPC is a division of Sony Electronics Inc., a U.S. company that had record sales exceeding $11 billion for fiscal year 1999. For more information, visit www.sony.com/professional. 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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