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Revolutionary PCIe storage technology pioneer catapults into the European broadcast and video post production markets at IBC more

New end-to-end solution powered by Precisâ„¢ production system and Oasisâ„¢ media archive from Bitcentral

IRVINE, CALIF. – Sept. 10, 2008 – Bitcentral, Inc., a leading provider of news production, archiving and distribution solutions to television stations, has dramatically transformed Raycom Media’s WCSC in Charleston, S.C., with an entirely new digital and file-based workflow. more

Honeyshed.com uses JMR’s BlueStor Storage Array to boost post production efficiency

Chatsworth, CALIF – May 13, 2008 – JMR Electronics, Inc. (www.jmr.com), a premier supplier of Storage and Server Platforms for OEMs, Systems Integrators and VARS, today announced that its BlueStor™ External PCIe RAID Storage System with PeSAN™ Technology has been in use at HoneyShed (www.honeyshed.com) as part of their post production process.

HoneyShed, which will launch in Q3 of this year, is the first interactive web site designed to connect a generation that lives online to the popular large brands they love via world-class video content. The website’s look and feel is similar to QVC meets MTV and targets a wide expanse of the younger demographic, selling everything from hip clothing and high-tech gadgets to a Volvo C30 car. “We have been very busy refining our website and doing a great deal of production and post production work in preparation for our official launch later this year,� said Jonathan Parkman, post production supervisor at Honeyshed. “We recently required an upgrade to our main storage repository and were referred to JMR’s BlueStor™ by Gavin Rosenberg of Sunstar Company, an Inglewood, CA based reseller. JMR’s BlueStor™ proved to be the ideal storage platform to help improve our post production editing workflow – the BlueStor product and the company are very impressive.� more

Major update to the leading non-proprietary news production solution in the US breaks the video format barriers of traditional file-based news systems; eliminates transcoding and intermediate formats to speed workflow

Las Vegas, NV - April 14, 2008 - Bitcentral, Inc., a leading provider of non-proprietary digital news production, archiving and distribution solutions to television stations, will demonstrate a major upgrade to their revolutionary Precis News Production System in booth SL 7720 at NAB 2008. Capped by a dramatic change to the browser-based user interface, Precis 4.0 displays significant enhancements to raw media management, format-agnostic playout and remote contribution. more

Bitcentral‘s Précis Digital News Production System Integrates with Matrox for Multiformat Playout

With Matrox‘s X.mio card, Bitcentral may now play to air MXF, DV, MPEG 2/4, WMV and MOV files natively without transcoding, significantly reducing time to air

Montreal, Canada, April 1, 2008 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Bitcentral, Inc. has integrated the Matrox X.mio card, part of the Matrox DSX™ family of developer products, as the hardware engine for Précis, its revolutionary digital news production system. Précis delivers a fully integrated, end-to-end, open architecture solution that eliminates videotape and dozens of costly, time-consuming steps in the news management workflow. Broadcast news stations, such as WINK-TV in Ft. Myers, FL, greatly benefit from Précis‘ unique features.

“After a flurry of demos and presentations, we decided on the Précis system from Bitcentral, said John Emmert, Director of Technology and Special Projects at WINK-TV. “Station management felt Précis offered by far the best value, largest overall feature set and was easily the most adaptable system available. Précis, combined with a leading editing system, is able to ingest and utilize just about every video format easily without users having to go through any special conversion process.” more

IRVINE, CALIF. - February 12, 2008 - Bitcentral, Inc., a leading provider of news production, archiving and distribution solutions to television stations, announced today that Mauro Dresti has joined the company as Vice President of Product Management.

Dresti brings more than 20 years of experience in high technology development, introduction and management for Fortune 500 and other publicly traded companies. He reports directly to Fred Fourcher, President and CEO of Bitcentral, and will manage the company‘s flagship Precis and Oasis digital broadcast newsroom solutions. In addition, Dresti will manage vendor and partner relationships; coordinate pertinent internal support functions, including development, customer support and sales; as well as direct Bitcentral‘s product information development and dissemination. more

Bitcentral‘s Precis end-to-end digital newsroom solution goes live at three television news stations in a single day; complete installations in three weeks

IRVINE, CALIF. - January 3, 2007 - Bitcentral Inc., a leading provider of news production, archiving and distribution solutions to local television stations, has fully installed and gone live with its groundbreaking Precis end-to-end digital news production solution at three television news stations in a single day. The complete personnel training, installation, logistics and conversion of the broadcast stations from tape to complete digital workflows were done in a mere three weeks according to the specific needs of the respective stations. The following stations went live with the Precis solution on Friday, December 14:

• KSEE in Fresno, CA

• KMTV in Omaha, NE

• KTVM in Bozeman, MT

The three Precis installations were scheduled for the same date in efforts to complete full conversion in the small window of opportunity between the November ratings and end of year holiday periods. Adhering to the specific needs of each station, Bitcentral‘s staff compressed the installation and training projects, which usually span across eight to six weeks, into a short three week turnaround according to station schedules. These swift, yet smooth projects set a record time in system configuration, installation and commissioning. more

Bitcentral‘s Precis delivers a fully integrated, end-to-end, open architecture news production solution that is now integrated with all national news providers.

IRVINE, CALIF. - November 15, 2007 - Bitcentral, Inc., a leading provider of news production, archiving and distribution solutions to local television stations, announced that it has completed integration of its premier news production system, Precis, with all major national news services.

This latest acceptance from the broadcast news community is a validation and testament to Bitcentral’s technological vision and ongoing commitment to streamline newsroom workflows to help bring efficiencies to the editorial and production processes used by television stations. The Precis integration allows users seamless access to file based content provided to the station by their national news providers. more