Don,
it looks like Panasonic is cleaning up, signing some big deals.
Also Canal+ is going to add CNN+ so they will need some more encoders.
Panasonic has just announced a number of big deals with news
organisations including ITN, Reuters, CNN and ZDF in Germany.
The ITN order is in excess of œ1 million and follows the UK independent
news company's decision at last year's IBC to adopt Panasonic's
DVCPRO format for its next generation of field and acquisition equipment.
This time the order includes 23 AJ-D800s, five AJ-LT75 laptop editors and
over 20 VTRs.
The CNN order comes on the back of the company's partnership with
Canal+ Spain which will result in CNN+, a new digital news service.
Panasonic (Stand 10.130) is showing a range of new products. Among
them was DNA, a DVCPRO news automation client server system for
news acquisition, post production and distribution. Running with SGI's
Origin servers, it teams Panasonic's Quickcutter nonlinear editing system
and its AJ-D780 VTR, Ciprico online disk storage and a high-speed fibre
channel network.
"Combined with DVCPRO acquisition, DNA is a total system solution for
the broadcast news environment that combines Panasonic high-speed
nonlinear online edit systems with a supercharged video server, flexible
networking, substantial online storage and with a cost-effective archive and
innovative system software," says Bob Mueller, president of Panasonic
Broadcast and Digital Systems USA. He envisages the system as suitable
not only for news room operation but also for production, postproduction
and even HD. |
