Digital Rapids Shines On World Stage From Summer Games To IBC

Digital Rapids, a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and film content to the latest generation of viewing devices - will be bringing the excitement and momentum of its worldwide Summer Games involvement to the annual IBC conference and exhibition in Amsterdam, with the IBC debuts of new and enhanced products at Stand: 7.G41.
Digital Rapids systems will also power the encoding of content for the IBC TV News website and mobile delivery.
Leading up to IBC, Digital Rapids' award-winning encoding and streaming systems are being showcased on the world stage from the United States to China following their selection by NBC Universal and CCTV.com for online coverage of the Summer Games. Major broadcasters in countries including the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia are also using Digital Rapids systems to power their online Games coverage.
Continuing to set new standards in quality, productivity, flexibility and workflow efficiency, featured Digital Rapids solutions at IBC2008 span the critical points in today's sophisticated media workflows.
A new 3GPP/Mobile configuration joins the StreamZ Live family of streaming encoders. With additional format options including AVC/H.264, VC-1, On2 VP6 and MPEG-2, the StreamZ Live product line offers top-quality live streaming supporting distribution channels from IPTV to webcasting and mobile video.
The year's second major upgrade to the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager live encoder management software also debuts, with new features including control of third-party video routers for enhanced fallover and scheduling flexibility and mosaic-style multi-channel video confidence monitoring.
Digital Rapids' award-winning StreamZ and StreamZHD servers continue to raise the bar for multi-format encoding solutions, seamlessly supporting three-screen experiences by offering simultaneous encoding to multiple formats and devices.
A new version of the StreamEnterprise software for StreamZ and StreamZHD will be unveiled at IBC, continuing Digital Rapids' tradition of easy upgradeability to support new formats, features and distribution opportunities.
Version 2.0 of the CarbonHD Digital Disk Recorder makes its first IBC appearance, featuring an intuitive new software interface and enhanced functionality. CarbonHD supports both uncompressed video and JPEG2000 compression, and features integrated HD/SD up, down and cross-conversion.
The latest version of the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager distributed media transcoding software will be showcased, featuring expanded format support and a comprehensive Web Services interface for custom integration.
Transcode Manager provides centralised management, failover and intelligent load balancing for high-volume transcoding workflows.
Streamlining the delivery of media files to multiple distribution points, the Copper C2 high-speed global data delivery software extends the highly regarded transfer speed, reliability and security of Digital Rapids Copper delivery technology to add network mesh topologies, parallel transfers and simultaneous send/received.
Digital Rapids will be at Stand 7.G41. Further information is available at: www.digital-rapids.com.
(KMcA)