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Digital Rapids StreamZHD
Provides Live Encoding and Delivery of Multiple Formats for Kofi
Annan Award Ceremony
Other Topics: IPTV 1080P High
Definition, Video over
Internet Protocol Solutions, MIMO
Video Development
Digital Rapids
November 23, 2006
Passfield, UK -- Digital Rapids, through Swiss distributor VCS, has
just completed the multiple encoding and live streaming of the award
ceremony surrounding United Nations Secretary General Mr. Kofi
Annan's receipt of the Freedom Prize from the Max Schmidheiny
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VCS was approached by
Swiss TV to provide services for the ceremony, which was broadcast
in real time to a worldwide audience over the Internet. The
ceremony, which included a speech from Mr. Annan and a Q & A session
with the students, was part of the 37th St. Gallen Symposium, which
is organised by the ISC (International Students Committee) as the
world’s leading neutral platform to foster fundamental debate by
raising issues of global concern.
With such a high profile speaker and event, it was important to
Swiss TV to work with VCS, on whom they could rely to provide the
most versatile equipment, delivering the highest quality output. It
was essential that the encoder provided by VCS was able to encode
and deliver multiple formats, both video and audio, at the same
time.
VCS supplied one Digital Rapids StreamZHD encoder to provide
simultaneous real time encoding and delivery of WMV streams at
multiple rates for the Internet, MP3 audio for radio stations and
MPEG-2 output for South African TV.
Says Sascha Klement, Chief of Production Management for TPC TV,
Swiss TV: "The Digital Rapids technology exceeded the expectations
of both the customer and everyone involved. The easy handling and
virtually limitless performance makes this kit, in my opinion, a
must-have for reliable, all-round distribution in the IPTV field".
About Digital Rapids Corporation
Digital Rapids is a leading
developer of professional hardware and software solutions for video
ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming, and delivery.
Digital Rapids offers solutions that scale from individual
applications to enterprise and global workflows, with the proven
expertise to help our customers maximize their productivity and the
value of their content in the evolving digital media market. Digital
Rapids products integrate seamlessly into new and existing post
production, broadcast, institutional and media distribution
environments, dramatically increasing the volume and quality of
media produced while lowering overall costs. Digital Rapids
Corporation (www.digital-rapids.com) is headquartered in Ontario,
Canada with sales offices in the United States, the UK and
Australia.
Copyright 2006 Digital Rapids Corporation. All rights reserved.
Digital Rapids, the Digital Rapids logo and StreamZHD are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Digital Rapids Corporation. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Features,
pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change
without notice.
Press Contact (North America)
Mike Nann
Marketing Manager
Digital Rapids Corp.
(905) 946-9666 Ext. 135
E-mail: mike.nann@digital-rapids.com |
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