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Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD Encoding and Streaming System Wins Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award

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.


Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD Studio Media Encoding ServerThe 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

HARMONIC POWERS BROADCAST AND ON-DEMAND IPTV SERVICE IN CURAÇAO

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

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BUTLER-BREMER COMMUNICATIONS LAUNCHES CABLE IPTV SERVICE WITH HARMONIC AND FALCON IP/COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

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

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Harmonic To Demonstrate Multi-Screen, Network PVR and Transcoding Solutions at TELCOTV 2009

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

Midwest Video Solutions Selects Net Insight for Trans-Pacific Video Transmission to US Military Bases

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

Digital Rapids Powers Live Streaming of Digital Entertainment Leadership Panel for Hollywood Radio & Television Society

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

Digital Rapids Connects Top-Tier Content Owners to YouTube with Integrated Content ID Support

Partnership with YouTube integrates Content ID fingerprinting with encoding, streamlining workflows for content protection and monetization


Digital Rapids LogoOctober 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

Case Study: NAB Expanded Show Video Coverage Online with Digital Rapids Transcode Manager

- by Aaron Cullers, Manager, Convention Marketing, National Association of Broadcasters


NAB Show Website During NAB2009For the 2009 NAB Show, the interactive and marketing teams at NAB set out to significantly expand our online video coverage of the event, increasing both the quantity and quality of content available on our website at www.nabshow.com. In essence, our goal was to serve as a web 2.0 newsroom, while also creating unique and dynamic content for consumption by the entire lifecycle.


In addition to our usual daily show highlights packages, we also produced feature segments from the exhibition floor hosted by ‘on-air’ talent; segments from NAB sessions, luncheons and keynotes; interviews; and after-hours and off-site clips to help convey the overall atmosphere of the NAB Show and its positive effects on not only Las Vegas, but the industry as a whole. more

Digital Rapids Adds Features from AFD to XDCAM in Transcode Manager Software

September 10, 2009 — IBC 2009, Amsterdam, Stand 7.G41: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — today announced powerful new features in the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated media transcoding software. more

Digital Rapids Unveils New Features and Storage Options for TouchStream Live Streaming Appliance

September 10, 2009 — IBC 2009, Amsterdam, Stand 7.G41: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — is demonstrating new enhancements for the award-winning TouchStream live video streaming appliance at the 2009 IBC Conference and Exhibition, September 11-15 in Amsterdam.


Digital Rapids TouchStream (Front View)TouchStream delivers Digital Rapids’ renowned streaming video quality and reliability in a fully self-contained, portable appliance with unparalleled ease of use. Software controls are accessed through an intuitive touch-screen interface with integrated video monitoring, eliminating the need for laptops, keyboards, mice and separate monitors. Flexible features allow refinement of the incoming source and the addition of branding to the outgoing stream, while models supporting multiple formats — including VC-1 and H.264 compression formats for Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash technologies — provide easy adaptability to more

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