Video storage and archiving products take the stage at the electronic media show in Las Vegas. One offering helps smaller organizations rapidly access archived video content, while another lets users quickly create discs with customized content and labeliVideo storage is big this year at NAB 2005.
A handful of vendors have announced video storage and archiving products at this week's electronic media show in Las Vegas, sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters.
Breece Hill, an information storage and retrieval vendor based in Louisville, Colo., and Pictron Inc. of San Jose, Calif., jointly announced an integrated video acquisition media asset management and archive solution aimed at SMB (small and midsized) broadcast stations, post-production facilities and video-editing businesses.
Based on Breece Hill's iStoRA Video Archive Server and Pictron's Dual Xeon server and Media Asset Management software, the solution helps smaller organizations rapidly access archived video content, said Darwin Kwan, vice president of business development at Pictron.
Thought Equity Management Inc., a video management and licensing solution vendor, has incorporated a variety of StorageTek technology to enable cable companies, broadcast networks and media companies to download video clips that don't require extra licensing without human intervention.
StorageTek's L20 tape libraries with LTO Ultrium Generation tape drives, L700 tape library, FlexLine FLX280 enterprise storage system and FlexLine FLX240 SATA disk system, as well as software from Front Porch Digital for managing media content, make up the bulk of the offering.
The combination of technologies will allow Thought Equity Management to store motion content and retrieve it in a variety of ways, said Mark Lemmons, chief technology officer at the Denver, Colo.-based company.
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Rimage Corp., a Minneapolis provider of recordable CD and DVD publishing systems, announced a new product that automatically record and prints directly onto CD and DVD discs.
Using wizard-based software, the Rimage 360i lets users quickly create discs with customized content and labeling. The product, which delivers 16X DVD recording and 48X CD recording, incorporates a Hewlett-Packard Co. thermal inkjet printer engine.
Finally, London-based ICF (Interactive Content Factory), a developer of software products for the media industry, has signed a VAR agreement with ADIC (Advanced Digital Information Corp.) of Redmond, Wash., that will allow ICF to integrate ADIC's StorNext management software technology within the ICF Media Platform Archive solution.
ICF Media Platform Archive, a new module of ICF's existing media asset management solution, will allow broadcasters and users in other content-driven industries to remotely search, browse and select video segments for transcoding and delivery using partial restore technology, said Max Haot, ICF general manager. Partial restore eliminates a user's need to wait for the entire movie or clip to be retrieved from storage, he said.
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