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Focus Enhancements FireStore DV disk recorder demonstrated with JVC Professional DV Camcorders
Focus Enhancements demonstrated its latest DV disk recorder, the FireStore DR-DV5000, with the JVC GY-DV5000 professional DV camcorder. The DR-DV5000 weighs two pounds (including the removable disk drive) and mounts directly between the video camera body and battery system. Up to six hours of DV video can be recorded to a single removable disk drive.
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Medea Introduces StreamRAID 24/7 Server Class Disk Arrays Priced Under $4/GB
Medea introduced the StreamRAID family of 24/7 server -class disk arrays, engineered to support rich media and streaming applications for broadcast video servers, web servers, and storage area networks. The StreamRAID family consists of StreamRAID 12 and StreamRAID 48, incorporating 12 and 48 Hitachi Deskstar disk drives respectively in a single rack mountable chassis.
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Medea debuts two new Mac OS X-compatible VideoRaid disk arrays
VideoRaid FCR2 and VideoRaid FCRX2 disk arrays offer data transfer rates up to 200 MB/second per channel. Theyre housed in a 5-drive desktop tower and are available in storage capacities up to 720 GB. VideoRaid FCRX2 features a 3U rack mountable design that can be populated with 5 or 10 disk drive modules with capacities to 1440 GB per rack. Dual, redundant load sharing power supplies ship standard with VideoRaid FCRX2.
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StorageTek and Avalon Tailor Digital Content Archiving
StorageTek and Avalon (a product division of EMC Corp.) have aligned to provide tailored storage solutions for the broadcast community. The alliance will provide broadcasters and media customers with a cost-effective and efficient architecture to manage enormous amounts of video, audio or any digital media.
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Shining Technology introduces expanded line of CitiDISK DV Firewire digital video recording/storage peripherals
The Mac compatible CitiDISK DV systems are portable, come with their own battery, and allow direct recording of DV streams from camcorder to hard disks and instant playback from the computer. Theyre built for tasks such as: online capture for home video camcorder and digital video cassette player archive; computer data file backup and archive; Web video capture; and multimedia.
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Exabyte and TOLIS Group Offer First Multi-Drive Tape Backup Solution for Mac OS X
Exabyte Corp. announced that TOLIS Group has certified the Exabyte 221L LTO Ultrium tape library for Mac OS X. In conjunction with the Mac OS X version of TOLIS Groups BRU data protection software, the Exabyte 221L is the first tape storage solution to provide multiple drive back up and restore for Apples Mac OS X operating system over Fibre Channel or SCSI.
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Pioneer Delivers New Modular DVD-Video Recorder
Pioneer Electronics showed its PRV-LX1 professional multiple drive DVD-Video recorder that offers powerful, real-time recording to DVD-R and DVD-RW media while providing the ability to customize menus and edit content.
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Rorke Data Teams With Telestream to Deliver StreamLinx Digital Storage Environments
Rorke Data announced the release of StreamLinx, a new application module that complements its StreamMine broadcast server storage archive solution and ImageSAN; Rorkes SAN solution for professional film and video editors. StreamLinx integrates Telestreams FlipFactory to enable shared data storage and seamless file format exchange between heterogeneous broadcast server platforms and multiple NLE application environments.
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Sony Intros New Multi-format DVD With 4x DVD+RW Capablility
Sonys next-generation Dual RW drives, the internal DRU-510A and the external DRX-510UL, are the first DVD+R/DVD+RW drives in the industry capable of recording to compatible DVD+RW discs at up to 4X speeds, which enables users to burn a full 4X DVD+RW certified disc in about 15 minutes. The drives also support up to 4X DVD+R and DVD-R recording, as well as 2X DVD-R, 24X CD-R and 16X CD-RW recording.
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Pioneer Unveils Multiple Drive Pro DVD-Video Recorder
Pioneer Electronics Inc. unveiled its PRV-LX1 DVD-Video recorder designed for the professional industrial video market. Among the key features of the PRV-LX1 is its real-time video recording capabilities, which streamlines the DVD video capture, compression, authoring and recording processes while operating with the simplicity of a VTR. Users now have an alternative to high end PC-based DVD authoring systems because the PRV-LX1 is designed to easily transfer video and audio content to DVD while offering the ability to customize DVD menus and chapter points.
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CommandSoft and Chaparral Network Storage Announce Product Certification and Interoperability
CommandSoft and Chaparral Network Storage announced the completion of product certification of CommandSofts FibreJet high-speed storage area network software on post-production storage networks with Chaparrals RIO DISK storage subsystem. The combination of Chaparrals enterprise storage products and CommandSofts software provide customers high performance and reliability in high-volume post-production settings for HDTV broadcasting.
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Baytech Cinema Announces Industrys First Compact Digital Cinematography Recorder
Baytech Cinema unveiled its first product, CineRAM, a digital cinematography recorder that lets cinematographers capture fully uncompressed, high-resolution images directly from the camera, and then transfer them to a VTR, DDR, or non-linear editor for storage and editing. Analogous to a film magazine, a CineRAM pack can be mounted directly to the camera.
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Medea Introduces StreamRAID 24/7 Server Class Disk Arrays Priced Under $4/GB
Medea introduced the StreamRAID family of 24/7 server -class disk arrays, engineered to support rich media and streaming applications for broadcast video servers, web servers, and storage area networks. The StreamRAID family consists of StreamRAID 12 and StreamRAID 48, incorporating 12 and 48 Hitachi Deskstar disk drives respectively in a single rack mountable chassis.
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Previous Announcements
Storage is vital to digital video production, from the initial recording of a scene to the later editing and distribution. Storage for all parts of the digital video workflow will be on display this week at the Spring National Association of Broadcasters convention and expo, NAB 2003 running this week in Las Vegas.
Of course, storage area networks are big news for video workflows. At the same time, camera vendors have introduced new storage schemes for video, including FireWire hard drives and even an array of SD cards.
Here are a few of the storate-related announcements:
Ciprico Shows New SAN Workflow
Ciprico demonstrated its DiMeda 3600 Digital Media Appliance and its FibreSTORE 2210 as part of a broadcast and post-production digital media workflow. The company offers several lines of high-bandwidth storage solutions and storage area networks for broadcast, post-production, film and video, media server, and digital asset management applications.
Read the full story on:Videography.com.
SNS Intros New SAN-Sharing Application
Studio Network Solutions showcased SANmp, its multiplatform software application that allows workstations running with different operating systems to concurrently access information from a storage area network.
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Panasonic Shows New Solid-State Memory Storage For DVCPRO Systems
Panasonics ground-breaking architecture features a solid-state memory electronic newsgathering system, fully compatible with existing DVCPRO and DVCPRO50-based non-linear editing and server systems, and supports multiple video resolutions for DTV, including HDTV applications. The camcorders record on an array of PCMCIA-size cards based on Panasonics industry-leading SD Memory card.
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SGI CXFS Shared Filesystem Key to Digital Data IT Infrastructure
SGI this week will demonstrate solutions that put information technology to work for broadcasters, post-production professionals and broadband businesses. The SGI dataflow unites a facilitys entire operations through the SGI CXFS shared filesystem with a storage area network (SAN). The CFX filesystem is a robust, high-performance, 64-bit filesystem able to scale up to 18 million terabytes, providing secure sharing of video as data files across high-speed networks.
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Leitch to OEM ASACA FireFly
According to an agreement announced this week, Leitch will begin integrating ASACAs new FireFly DM series digital virtual libraries into its portfolio of server products, and will provide worldwide distribution and support to the broadcast and professional video production industries.
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