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Gold/Mining/Energy : Leitch Technology Corporation - need more info -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hank Stamper who wrote (184)	2/11/2000 11:26:00 AM
From: Jay Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 202

The market seems to like the release too as the the stock is back up over $C20. Let's hope the new management is able to implement their new vision. Jay

To: Hank Stamper who wrote (184)	3/28/2000 1:21:00 PM
From: Jay Anderson	Respond to of 202

Attention Business/Technology Editors: WEATHER 21 CHOOSES LEITCH VIDEO SERVER FOR SCALABILITY TORONTO, March 28 /CNW/ - Leitch Technology Corporation (TSE:LTV) - a leading provider of high quality digital video and audio solutions to the broadcasting, telecommunications, cable and Internet industries - today announced that Australia's Weather 21, a continuously updated, live on-air weather presentation channel for the Austar Pay TV Network, is being re-equipped with a new presentation system and equipment room designed around the Leitch VR300 broadcast video server. Designed and installed by Vision Impossible, a well-known television engineering consultancy house in Australia, the system will fulfill a requirement stipulating reliability and scalability to accommodate future station expansion. "The upgrade from an analog to a digital system was made necessary by changing technology and the need to meet future production requirements," explained Vision Impossible's Richard Smith. "The availability of the now very reliable broadcast server has eased the difficulty of designing a scalable and expandable plant. We are very comfortable with the Leitch VR300 as the platform for this system." A major feature of Leitch's video server is the integrated automation software which handles all commercial insertion needs, and provides versatile automated management for all recorded content on the server. It imports playlists from traffic computers and schedules, and controls playback of commercials, promos, bumpers, news stories and other programming. The random access database allows master control operators to instantly reconfigure breaks, swapping out spot sequences even when playing to air. The Leitch VR300, which is supplied and supported in Australia by Quantum Pacific P/L, utilizes shared Fibre Channel storage and has 1 Gbps bandwidth extended all the way to disk drive level, providing genuine data sharing, not just file transfer. This allows all users simultaneous access to on-line content, thus streamlining operations and boosting employee productivity. Anticipating the installation of his new VR300-based presentation system, Bill Edmonds of Weather 21 comments, "I am confident that the system's flexibility and scalability will totally satisfy our current and future station requirements. I am very much encouraged in the knowledge that Leitch video server technology has been well tried and tested in many installations throughout the world." Leitch Technology Corporation provides leading-edge solutions to store, switch, distribute, convert, and otherwise process high-quality audio and video signals. Applications for Leitch products span the broadcast, telco, cable, post production, Internet, and business-to-business markets. Leitch is headquartered in Toronto, ON Canada with other key offices in Virginia, California, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.