August 24, 2010 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — today announced two new additions to the Flux family of video capture and pre-processing hardware. Complementing high definition models introduced earlier this year, the new Flux-3510 and Flux-3550 cards offer the power of the Flux hardware platform for top-quality encoding and streaming applications requiring only standard definition video input. more
New Nevion products enhance solution sets over all transport protocols
Ventura video-over-IP solutions add security and privacy; JPEG 2000 compression modules support higher bitrates and 3G networking
Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, August 19, 2010 - Nevion, formerly Network VPG, a leading video transport provider for broadcasters, service providers and government entities worldwide, has announced new products at IBC (booth #8.B70, RAI Amsterdam, September 10-14) that enhance solution suites for all video transport infrastructures. New offerings across the award-winning and standards-compliant Ventura platform advance video transport capabilities and performance for video over IP, SDH/SONET and fiber overlay networks.
Survey reveals industry’s biggest concerns about video over IP
Video quality, latency and cost are delaying IP migration
Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, August 17, 2010 – A recent survey by video transport solutions provider Nevion has found that concerns over quality, latency and cost are causing organizations to delay their migration to IP. Maintaining video quality proved to be the biggest area of concern, cited by 43% of respondents, made up of more than 200 network owners from across the globe including broadcasters, cable companies, service providers, government agencies and educational institutions.
Industry’s most versatile encoder powers live and file-based production and publishing workflows for one of the league’s hottest teams
August 17, 2010 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids announced today that The HEAT Group, owners of the Miami HEAT National Basketball Association (NBA) team and operators of Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena, are using Digital Rapids’ StreamZ encoding system to speed the production of high-quality live and on-demand video content for the HEAT.com website and internal production workflows. Most recently, StreamZ was used for live streaming of events leading up to and following the signings of high-profile free agent players Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh. more
As broadcasters migrate to IP, nearly two thirds would use telco networks for video transport
Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, August 12, 2010 – A recent survey by video transport solutions provider Nevion has found that content owners, and in particular, broadcasters, are keen to use communications service providers’ IP networks for video transport. Of more than 200 content owners from across the globe - including broadcasters, cable TV companies, film studios, government agencies and educational institutions – 25% are already taking advantage of service providers’ IP networks, and a further 45% would consider doing so. Broadcasters appear particularly enthusiastic about the opportunity of working with service providers, with 65% saying they would do so.
June 28, 2010 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids today announced that the company is now shipping the powerful new Flux HD video capture and pre-processing hardware, plus a previously-unannounced new version of the Stream software for the company’s encoding and live streaming systems. New features in version 3.3 include enhanced Apple(r) iPad(r) and iPhone(r) encoding, script command insertion, open caption overlay, Vobile VideoDNA fingerprinting support and more.
The new hardware and software further extend the comprehensive and flexible capabilities of Digital Rapids’ encoding, transcoding and streaming product families, which helped earn the company a Frost & Sullivan 2009 Market Share Leadership Award in the World Broadband Transcoders Market. more
May 19, 2010 — 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 is supporting the new WebM open web media project with upcoming support for VP8 compression and the WebM format in future versions of Digital Rapids’ award-winning encoding, transcoding and live streaming systems. The WebM project and the open sourcing of the VP8 codec were announced today by Google and its partners during the annual Google I/O conference. more
Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, May 6, 2010 – Globelynx, the fixed camera network company enabling real-time live TV interviews direct from the business and financial sectors, has selected Colt to provide news feed distribution over Ethernet between London and The Hague, using technology from Nevion (formerly Network/VPG). The solution enables key analysts and commentators to give regular live television interviews directly at their premises, reducing the need for time-consuming journeys to outside studio facilities.
Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, May 7, 2010 – Colt, a leading European provider of business communications and IT managed services, today announced it is providing the high definition broadcast connectivity for AP Global Media Services’ new studios in central London, which will be going live in time to provide coverage of the UK General Election this Thursday May 6.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading developer of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has received a significant initial order for a Digital Terrestrial TV network in South America.
Net Insight has received an order for a first phase of a new nationwide Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) network in a South American country.
The DTT network will be based on Net Insight’s Nimbra platform to distribute video services across the country and the implementation will guarantee 100 percent QoS. The network will provide scalable multicast capabilities and incorporate Net Insight’s unique Time Transfer feature for GPS-free time synchronization. The customer will also implement Nimbra Vision, a complete tool for efficient operation and maintenance of the Nimbra network.
Net Insight received the order in close cooperation with a large international business partner.
“We have been present in South America for a long time and more
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August 24, 2010 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — today announced two new additions to the Flux family of video capture and pre-processing hardware. Complementing high definition models introduced earlier this year, the new Flux-3510 and Flux-3550 cards offer the power of the Flux hardware platform for top-quality encoding and streaming applications requiring only standard definition video input. more
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