Happy Birthday, Indeed: Kalypso Shipments Hit Nearly 30 For Quarter, Almost 160 In First Year

Worldwide demand spurs strong activity for quarter ended March 30

Nevada City, Calif. April 17, 2001 — It's only a year old, but it speaks English, Arabic, Turkish, and Spanish. It's as comfortable in a mid-town Manhattan control room as it is a mobile truck in the middle of Europe. And it's got adults worldwide going ga-ga.

Having turned a year old last month, the Grass Valley™ Kalypso™ Video Production Center family has already racked up almost 160 system shipments worldwide—including nearly 30 in the quarter ending March 30. Media leaders adopting the system include the BBC, CBS, Emirates Media, Euromedia, the Inspirational Network, Sky Channel, and Univision TV Group; the mobile companies Game Creek Video and National Mobile Television; the broadcast stations KQED-TV in San Francisco Calif., and KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas; and system integrators stretching from Miami, Fla. to Casablanca, Morroco.

Today's announcement is part of the Grass Valley Group's Media Without Bounds™ initiative to enable broadcasters and video professionals to get any content, anywhere, any time. On display at NAB 2001 (Booth L10409), this initiative features open, integrated solutions that drive workflow and capital efficiencies to help these digicasters build flexible, powerful, and future-proof digital infrastructures and production operations.

As the hub of a teleproduction environment, the Kalypso Video Production Center family combines industry-leading switching and powerful mix/effects capabilities with an open, networked architecture that offers a precedent-setting degree of operational integration—all from a familiar Grass Valley interface. From the Olympic games to the U.S. presidential elections, Kalypso systems are being deployed in settings ranging from network control rooms to mobile production units.

"The Kalypso system came out of the blocks with a fast start and hasn't looked back since," said Tim Thorsteinson, president and CEO of the Grass Valley Group. "It's just one example of why the Grass Valley Group is winning with a diverse base of customers worldwide—because they understand that reliable, high-quality production systems win viewers."

About The Grass Valley Group

The Grass Valley Group knows more about high-quality video than anybody else—especially as video goes digital. The Internet. Digital cinema. Data-enhanced broadcasting. Interactive television. It's a world of Digicasting-one that demands Media Without Bounds solutions. 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 to get content wherever it needs to go.

For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, visit www.grassvalleygroup.com.

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