IBC 2000: Grass
Valley Group Introduces World's First Cost-Effective News Solution,
Unveils Unprecedented Media Storage Capabilities for Profile XP
LONDON, July 18, 2000 —
The Grass Valley Group, a privately held digital media leader, will
unveil
a set of powerful, software-based enhancements that stretch across its
award-winning product lines at the International Broadcasting Convention
in Amsterdam (IBC, RAI Centre, 8-12 September, Stand No 1.110).
Addressing a broad set of content creators' needs, the company will
introduce the world's first comprehensive, cost-effective solution for
hard news production and unveil plans for routing control and facility
monitoring systems that gain more control over facility video and IT
networks. Additionally, it will announce solutions based on its
Emmy® award-winning Profile XP Media
Platform that provide unprecedented media storage capabilities through
Profile XP /SAN (Storage Area Network) integration and that also
streamline digital content creation, branding and distribution work
flows.
"We're delivering the highest possible technical performance and
value to our customers — our solutions are scalable so preserve the
investments broadcasters and others are making in their facilities as
they
transition to digital, the Internet, and exciting new high-definition
applications such as broadcast cinema," said Tim Thorsteinson, president
of the Grass Valley Group. "Whether you're focused on creating and
e-purposing high-caliber content as broadly as possible or on beating the
competition to get your news to air or on the Web first, Grass Valley
Group will help you win."
More information about the company's IBC presence can be found at
www.grassvalleygroup.com/IBC
The Grass Valley Group works with preeminent content producers
worldwide, ranging from BBC, BskyB, TV4, SVT (Swedish Television), NOB
(Nederlands Omroepproduktie Bedrijf NV) in Europe and Emirates Media/Abu
Dhabi TV in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to China Central, MCB
Korea and KBS Korea, Star TV (India), Tokyo Broadcasting, and the
Australian Broadcast Corporation in the Pacific, and ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC,
and CNN in the United States. The company will play a pivotal role in
regionalized coverage of the new millennium's largest sporting event, the
2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
At IBC 2000, the Grass Valley Group will demonstrate the enhanced
capabilities of its ContentShare software platform, Profile XP Media
Platform, Vibrint digital hard news production solution, WebAble
technology, Kalypso Video Production Center, 7500 Series Routers, and
8900
and 2000 modular solutions.
Grass Valley expects to showcase the following at their IBC exhibit.
Highlights of the expected Grass Valley Group and IBC announcements
include:
- Introduction of the PAL version of the Vibrint Digital News
Production Workgroup, now featuring interoperability with the Profile XP
Media Platform , product line that will not only speed the ability to
access and manipulate media in fast-paced hard news environments, but
will
make it possible to apply those same efficiencies to getting hard news
material onto the Web, and to apply those capabilities in newsrooms
worldwide;
- The expanded role of the Profile XP Media Platform, which supports
both the high-quality video standards required for broadcast television
and low-resolution video required for the Internet, as an enabler of
broadcasters' and other professional content creators transition to
digital, the Internet, and building new innovative businesses around high
definition.
- An MPEG Transport Stream (MTS) option to the Profile XP will extract
more efficiency out of broadcast facilities and available spectrum via a
means of moving data along with audio and video through the distribution
chain by eliminating unnecessary codec generations in the distribution of
MPEG
- A shared storage option will enable multiple Profile XPs to
simultaneously access common data stored on a centralized disk array.
The
SAN (storage area network) based system allows other devices, such as
editors, to also share this same data.
- Through continued partnering with Microsoft, the Grass Valley Group
will use the Profile XP to show how Interactive Television can be a
reality for broadcasters today — without requiring enormous time spent
upgrading facilities nor the associated costs;
- As part of their ongoing commitment to state-of-the-art routing
solutions, Grass Valley will also present their strategy for advanced
signal and facility management within television operations that will
give
them powerful LAN- and WAN-based control. This strategy features a
migration path that will allow current users to extend the functionality
of present Series 7000 control systems to significantly expand the role
that these control system play in their facilities. This will allow
broadcasters to add more powerful, network-based control to these
systems.
- The company will demonstrate additions to its 8900 Series of standard
definition modular products and its 2000 Wideband Series line. Both
frames will be demonstrated with a range of control and monitoring
options
including flexible, multi-function Videoframe hardware control panel, a
web-based graphical user interface as well as a new version of
NetCentral™, Grass Valley's, SNMP Manager application that allows
centralized monitoring and error reporting of GVG products. The addition
of the 2000 Wideband Series frame (now available with 9 new modules)
provides a comprehensive range of modular products for signal
distribution, format conversion and synchronizing needs.
- New options being shown for the first time on the Kalypso Video
Production Center include a built-in still store with animation
capability, and internal transform engines for digital video effects.
- The company will detail how worldwide broadcast industry's most
robust solution for grassroots support for the ContentShare software
platform is expanding from world class applications developers such as
AVID, Columbine JDS (formerly Drake Automation), Excalibur and Virage to
end customers in the thick of creating high-caliber content for delivery
through new digital distribution media;
- Grass Valley Group will demonstrate its WebAble tool suite, which is
based on the Profile XP and ContentShare platforms, for streamlining and
simplifying the processes used by broadcasters and other video
professionals to re-purpose their content for Webcasting and Web
distribution. WebAble is the only product capable of converting Grass
Valley Group Profile video server content and data into streaming
formats;
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Editors Note
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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