MANUFACTURERS DEMONSTRATE SERVER INTEROPERABILITY

AVICA Technology Corporation, EVS, and the Grass Valley Group have announced that they have achieved compatibility for the playback of MPEG2 encoded content on their respective systems.
In related news, the companies also announced the formation of the MPEG Interoperability Initiative, which is chartered to facilitate interoperability between multiple manufacturers.
The results of the Interoperability engineering effort were verified at the Hollywood Digital Cinema Lab in a technology demonstration that marks substantial progress made toward deployment of interoperable Digital Cinema playback systems. Each manufacturer provided encoded content to the others and tests were conducted to verify that regardless of the source, content could be loaded, recognized and played back on all three systems.
Don Bird, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Avica Technology, said: “By joining forces in this Interoperability Initiative, Avica, EVS and the Grass Valley Group have demonstrated a willingness, as competitors to work on facilitating the success of Digital Cinema.”
(GB)