Tektronix. It still looks like IBM encoders...................
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Thursday July 16, 7:40 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Tektronix
Tektronix Ships New Profile PDR300 - Redefines Price/Performance Using MPEG-2 4:2:2 Technology
PDR300 Doubles Capacity, Lowers Storage Costs, Guarantees Quality
BEAVERTON, Ore., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE: TEK - news), the global video server market leader with more than 12,000 digital channels shipped, today announced the availability of the latest addition to the Profile(R) family, the PDR300. The new PDR300's high-quality 4:2:2 MPEG-2 implementation increases storage capacity while at the same time lowering its cost, doubles the number of replay channels, and introduces important new fibre channel ''streaming'' technology that enables customers to begin using material rapidly -- before it has completely transferred over the network.
Profile installations span the globe. Key installations include CNN, Paxson Communications, NBC, and CBS in the United States, BSkyB and TV4 in Europe.
''The quality of support we are receiving from Tektronix is amazing and much appreciated by me and Paxson,'' said Mark Rapson, television director of engineering for the Paxson (Pax Net) Network. ''Our recent MPEG upgrade turned our PDR200 into a PDR300 with no disruption of services. The installation proceeded without a hitch and allowed us to place our Profiles on air almost immediately.''
The PDR300 is ideally suited for broadcast applications including commercial spot insertion, program playout, spot caching for video cart machines, near video-on-demand, and time delay. It offers customers a flexible and highly configurable video server that can be configured for up to 8 video playout channels and 32 audio channels, the only server on the market to offer these capabilities. All Profile servers now offer a unique feature called Scrub Audio which provides the same familiar sound VTR editors are used to hearing when marking in and out points for an edit or while trimming a spot.
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