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To: J Fieb who wrote (954)	1/16/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

A Digital Newsroom conference was held recently. Good reception for Philips/SGI............These newsroom will need the FC storage........ Editing choices You can also put Philips on your newsroom must-see list for NAB. The company's Kurt Clawson demonstrated the impressive new NewsBreaker journalist workstation system, working with a MediaPool server for high res and an SGI 0200 for low res, with Nexus newsroom software. Philips have gone back to the drawing board, designing NewsBreaker from scratch. "We saw a specific need for newsrooms. There's no need for us to compete with post production tools. We wanted to work the way the newsroom system has worked for years," said Clawson. Every NewsBreaker workstation (featuring an attractive-looking "non-Windows" interface) can capture, edit, voice over and conform file pointers (Philips' term for EDLs). One SGI server can support 100 workstations. The key to the system is that "we never move media -- we stream it over the network," he said. "EditStar needs one associated channel of Profile, and the same with Clipbox and Profile. NewsBreaker can have maybe 100 workstations with just four channels of MediaPool." The first NewsBreaker installation in Europe is at NTV Berlin.

To: J Fieb who wrote (954)	1/16/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

This is what they said about Leitch's FC-AL products at the news conference.......... lso in full working version was the Leitch ASC Digital Newsroom System, comprising the VR-300 video server and the NEWSFlash editor. Working on the booth with the Nexus scripting system, NEWSFlash (featuring 2:1 compression) is clamed to be the only news editing system to share digital storage with an on-air server system -- and the only one that co-exists and shares media with a server system on the same Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL), giving multiple users instant simultaneous access. No need to transfer files or spool tape. At News World Leitch ASC also previewed BrowseCutter, to deliver MPEG-1 digital video to journalists' desktops. Journalists will be able to build rundowns, edit scripts, search wires and browse video. BrowseCutter, "the last piece in the jigsaw" according to Leitch's business development manager Russell Grute, will be launched at NAB 99.