November 20, 2009 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — announced today that the StreamZHD multi-format, live and on-demand encoding system has won a 2009 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award as the top high definition (HD) hardware encoder. The award was presented this week at a special reception during the Streaming Media West conference and exhibition in San Jose.
The Readers’ Choice Awards are held annually by Streaming Media magazine and recognize the leading streaming and online video solutions, services and innovations as judged by end users, rather than the magazine staff. Over 200 products, companies and services competed in this year’s awards. more
ORLANDO, FLA. — NOVEMBER 10, 2009 — TelcoTV 2009 Booth #539 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Santa Barbara Utilities (SBU) has selected Harmonic’s industry-leading digital video solutions for a new broadcast and on-demand IPTV service at the Santa Barbara Plantation Resort Community in Curaçao, the most populous island in the Netherlands Antilles. The end-to-end IPTV deployment includes Harmonic’s Ion™ AVC HD encoders, ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform, StreamLiner® video servers, Armada® intelligent asset management and NMX Digital Service Manager™. more
ORLANDO, FLA. — NOVEMBER 10, 2009 — TelcoTV 2009 Booth #539 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) and Falcon IP/Complete today announced that Butler-Bremer Communications, a cable and telecommunications service provider based in Iowa, has selected the IP/Complete “bird to box” video solution and Harmonic’s Direct-2 Edge™ (D2E) solution for Butler-Bremer’s new cable IPTV service. The new Harmonic/Falcon cable IPTV solution enables Butler-Bremer to offer a comprehensive and high quality service lineup to all of its customers. Butler-Bremer also operates an IPTV service over its existing telephone network infrastructure and a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. more
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — NOVEMBER 9, 2009 — At TelcoTV 2009 booth #539, Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) will feature its comprehensive range of video delivery solutions for telco service providers, including Harmonic’s MediaPrism™ Convergence Suite, the industry’s most comprehensive suite of tools for real-time and offline content ingest, transformation, distribution and delivery to the TV, PC and mobile devices. Other key demonstrations will include a network personal video recording (PVR) demonstration in conjunction with Minerva Networks, Harmonic’s Electra® 8000 multi-format, multi-channel HD/SD MPEG-4 AVC/MPEG-2 compression platform, the versatile ProStream™ 1000 with ACE™ technology for any-to-any transcoding and the Direct-2-Edge™ (D2E) cable IPTV solution, ideal for hybrid cable/telco operators. more
Digital TV service provider relies on Net Insight’s Nimbra to Deliver Trans-Pacific Virtual Headend Service to Soldiers Stationed in Japan
9 November 2009
ORLANDO, Florida – Net Insight, a leading developer of efficient and scalable optical transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, today announced that is has supplied Nimbra switches to Midwest Video Solutions (“MVS”), a leading provider of robust Digital TV solutions, to provide a virtual headend feed from their facilities in Westby, Wisconsin to a US military base in Japan.
Net Insight delivers 100 percent Quality of Service, allowing customers to transport any service to any network location without packet loss. The optimized Nimbra platform meets the needs of broadcasters, media networks, IPTV/CATV operators, Metro Ethernet and telecom operators in a one-system solution. Headend operators can use the Nimbra platform to form virtual headend services with scalable layer-2 multicast and no packet loss. more
October 20, 2009 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — today announced that the company’s award-winning TouchStream appliance powered live Internet streaming of the prestigious “The Digital Chiefs” event for the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS) last month. Part of the HRTS Newsmaker Luncheon Series and presented in association with National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), “The Digital Chiefs: A Special Conversation on the Future of Media in the Digital Age” featured an all-star lineup of top executives in the digital entertainment industry.
Moderated by Bob Iger, President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, the panel provided an engaging discussion of the monetization of digital media, the impact and future of social networking, and the need for even the most successful digital entertainment companies to continually more
Video quad split offers unparalleled image quality and flexibility of metadata views
At HD World Booth #1040
New York, NY (October 13, 2009) — Algolith Inc, a leader in advanced world-class video processing solutions for broadcast, cable, satellite, and IPTV providers, today announced the launch of their newest product, the Algogear™ Video Quad Split (VQS-1001-MD), which will be launched at HD World on October 14th and 15th in New York city, at booth #1040.
Simplifies Monitoring – delivers unsurpassed flexibility of metadata display on all 4 signals
The Algogear Video Quad Split (VQS-1001-MD) with 4 SD/HD SDI inputs and outputs offers broadcasters a quick snapshot of 4 video feeds with their respective audios as well as metadata on one single monitor. The Algogear Video Quad split simplifies monitoring and offers users a wide variety of options for viewing metadata such as Time Code more
Partnership with YouTube integrates Content ID fingerprinting with encoding, streamlining workflows for content protection and monetization
October 13, 2009 — IP Media Expo 2009, New York: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — today announced that the company is working with YouTube to integrate support for Content ID, YouTube’s content identification and management system, directly into Digital Rapids’ award-winning range of media production and repurposing systems.
Digital Rapids’ encoding and transcoding systems are used by leading media organizations to transform live, tape and file-based video and audio content into the formats required for viewing on multiple platforms including broadcast, cable and satellite television; IPTV; the Web; mobile phones and personal media players. more
New time-saving tool offers quick visual display of image degradation
Montreal, Quebec (October 7, 2009) — Algolith Inc, a leader in advanced world-class video processing solutions for broadcast, cable, satellite, and IPTV providers, today announced the launch of their newest product, the Algogear Signal Conformity Monitor, which will be showcased at HD World on October 14th and 15th in New York city, at booth #1040.
Montreal, Quebec (September 30, 2009) — Algolith Inc, a leader in advanced world-class video processing solutions for broadcast, cable, satellite, and IPTV providers, today announced the launch of their newest product, the Algogear Color Temperature Converter, which will be showcased at HD World on October 14th and 15th in New York city, at booth #1040. Visitors to SBE 22 in Verona, NY will be able to preview the product at booth #B5.
“With the number of TV screens and monitors used in Newsrooms today, broadcasters need a cost effective solution that will allow them to display TV and monitor colors properly during live broadcasts,” said Jacques Patry, Director of Product Development at Algolith Inc. “The color conversion applied to the on-set displays will compensate the color more
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The Readers’ Choice Awards are held annually by Streaming Media magazine and recognize the leading streaming and online video solutions, services and innovations as judged by end users, rather than the magazine staff. Over 200 products, companies and services competed in this year’s awards. more
October 13, 2009 — IP Media Expo 2009, New York: 
