AgileVision's New AGV-1000 Wins Digital TV Editors' Pick of Show Award at NAB 2001.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers NAB2001 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2001 AgileVision(TM), a technology innovator in software-based processing for compressed broadband video and data, announced that their AGV-1000(TM) Digital Master Control Switcher/File Server was awarded Digital TV Editors' Pick of the Show Award at NAB 2001. The award was presented to AgileVision's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Anthony Gargano, in the afternoon of the third day of the NAB's annual convention in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Digital TV's Pick of the Show is a prestigious award bestowed upon products shown at NAB that contain distinctive features and offer exceptional solutions to broadcasters. It is a long-time tradition that garners much industry attention as exhibitors vie for the prestigious title for their newest and best and newest products. Pick of the Show is awarded to products in a variety of technological categories, selected according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. guidelines established by Digital TV. According to Anthony Gargano, CEO of AgileVision, the selection of the AGV-1000 is an honor bestowed upon the company and the AGV-1000, its inaugural product. "We are thrilled that a publication with Digital TV's reputation has recognized AgileVision's AGV-1000 as an outstanding product with distinctive features and solutions for broadcasters. Our engineering design team has worked many long hours refining the AGV-1000 and has developed a product which, because it offers so much to television broadcasters, is worthy of such industry recognition as that bestowed upon us by Digital TV." Gargano continued, "We would like to thank Digital TV for its hard work in reviewing the thousands of products at NAB2001 and the recognition by its staff to distinguish the AGV-1000." The AGV-1000 is a complete "emission" level digital television master control switcher and HD/SD file server with a full array of functions integrated in one box. Standard functions include splicing splicing /splic·ing/ (spli´sing) 1. the attachment of individual DNA molecules to each other, as in the production of chimeric genes. 2. RNA s. for easy switching between network and local programming, simplified logo insertion, datacasting and PSIP PSIP Program and System Information Protocol (Digital TV data standard) PSIP Police Schools Involvement Program (Australia) PSIP Profit Sharing Investment Plan PSIP Pollen Signalling Protein (Program and System Information Protocol The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television standard for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast transport stream of a TV station. ). An on-board file server enables storage and automated playout of either HD or SD content. An added bonus of the AGV-1000 is its incredibly small size that frees up a considerable amount of rack space. Platform The basic AGV-1000 consists of up to 16 Motorola PowerPC(R) G4 AltiVec(TM) processors in parallel connected in the RACE++(TM) switched fabric, resulting in 52 GigaFLOPs (GIGA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One billion floating point operations per second. See FLOPS. (unit) gigaflops - (GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point operations per second. and a cross sectional bandwidth of 2.1 GB/second supported by over 1 GB of RAM. The AGV-1000 chassis is scalable for future expansion to 28 AltiVec processors achieving a combined 90 GigaFLOPs. Unique Features Include: -- Multi-Program Transport Stream Insertion & Re-multiplexing where data can be inserted into up to six simultaneous programs from 18 different sources in compressed SD or HD domains. By eliminating the step of decoding and re-encoding, there are no concatenation artifacts, no loss in audio lip-sync. Just superb quality and amazing functionality. -- Multiple Logo Insertion into Multiple Programs allow up to four logos to be simultaneously dissolved in and out logos simultaneously into each SD or HD program in a multi-program transport stream. All logos may be displayed independently and may be positioned anywhere on the screen. The aggregate of the four logos may be as large as one-quarter of the screen size. -- Bit Rate Control & Statistical Multiplexing combine to ensure compliant bandwidth utilization and achieve consistent video quality. About AgileVision AgileVision was formed in 1999 as a joint venture between Sarnoff Corp. and Mercury Computer Systems Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. NASDAQ: MRCY provides high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing solutions. Mercury designs and builds embedded multicomputers, which may be considered to be either loosely coupled Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MRCY). Headquartered in Princeton, N.J., AgileVision is commercializing unique MPEG-2 algorithms on a scalable, high-performance, real-time imaging 'real-time' imaging Visualization of a dynamic process µsecs after occurring, which requires rapid information processing–ie, as the process occurs, as in 'B' mode ultrasound hardware platform that will provide DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. transmission solutions and emerging data service applications for the broadcast, cable and broadband industries. AgileVision and CentralCaster are trademarks of AgileVision. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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