Thanks for your thoughts on ANCR/SGI.
Here is the excerpt of that release quoting Philips DVS...
Film image data is the lifeblood of high-end post production. Ensuring data availability and integrity
is essential to business survival,'' said Steve Russell, marketing manager, film imaging products for
Philips DVS. ''Our applications demand flexibility, so ways to consolidate storage, reduce storage
management overhead, and ensure that vital film image data is safeguarded are critical. Our
customers look to Silicon Graphics and its partners to provide leading technologies such as Fibre
Channel-based switched fabrics to address the requirements of digital media and enterprise SANs.''
Here is a recent reporting of equipment sales to some digital tv studios.....
Philips Digital Video Systems has delivered the CleverCast PC data broadcasting
system to PICKSat, thus facilitating PICKSat's debut of a high-speed multimedia
delivery platform over satellite. The system includes a fully redundant IP-DVB Gateway
system and PC-DVB digital receiver cards, which are designed to fit into any
multimedia PC and integrate into PC software. The CleverCast system allows digital
multimedia data to be broadcast at high speeds through digital satellite transmission
systems to PCs, followed by transmission to a single user (unicast), a group of users
(multicast) or to all users (broadcast). The data is only transmitted to the satellite
network once. This push method saves bandwidth and reduces transmission costs............
Here's a good one, Philips and IBM Global Services combine their talents.........
WPDE-TV, Florence, SC, has purchased a Philips Digital Video Systems automation
system for the automation processing of the local broadcast station and its LMA
channel. The system comprises an MC-900 automation computer and a media manager
computer, which provides media information and acts as a hot backup computer for the
MC-900. The system has a multichannel traffic interface to a digital video server and a
backup video server. The system also controls a router and master-control switcher.
A Philips automation system also provides the remote control of a new nationwide video
distribution system offered by IBM Video Services. The service, which uses advanced
digital compression, is delivered through the IBM Global Services asynchronous transfer
mode (ATM) network and currently links six major U.S. cities. The system is designed
to provide a terrestrial alternative to satellite distribution. The Philips WAN-based
automation system transfers desired connection schedules from the IBM scheduling
system and operates equipment in IBM point-of-presence centers.
Don't know if this one relates, but I include it as it mentions General Signal......
OmniAmerica and Dielectric Communications, a unit of General Signal, have signed an
agreement under which Dielectric will serve as an equipment supplier for
OmniAmerica's broadcast project sites. Dielectric will provide radio-frequency
components for digital and NTSC television and FM radio, including antennas,
transmission lines, filters, combiners, diplexers, switches and dehydrators.
Canal+ is kicking butt in Europe and has very BIG plans for entry into US markets........
Philips Digital Video Systems will supply DVB/MPEG-2 compression equipment to
Canal+ Nederland, the Dutch arm of one of Europe's pay-TV operators. TokenMux
and SimulCrypt satellite broadcast systems were delivered for the August launch.
Canal+ Nederland will use two systems uplinked in the Netherlands and one via a SDH
link in Luxembourg. Philips will produce DST 5816 MPEG2-DVB compatible
receivers for end-users.
Anyway, hoping that the Philips/SGI/ANCR FC products become an important part of the digital studios that are being built now.
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