Blackmagic Design Qualifies Medea's Fail-Safe VideoRaid RTR, VideoRaid RTRX and VideoRaid RTS Disk Arrays for Use With DeckLink Running OS X Jaguar.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 Medea Corporation, a leading storage solutions provider to the digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. (DCC (1) (Direct Cable Connection) A Windows 95/98 feature that allows PCs to be cabled together for data transfer. DCC actually sets up a network connection between the two machines. ) and Internet streaming media markets, today announced that its fail-safe VideoRaid RTR RTR Ready To Run RTR Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs Gmbh RTR Rotor RTR Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (Romansh Radio and Television, Switzerland) RTR Response Time Reporter RTR Ready To Race RTR Ready to Roll , RTRX and RTS (Request To Send) An RS-232 signal sent from the transmitting station to the receiving station requesting permission to transmit. Contrast with CTS. 1. (operating system) RTS - run-time system. 2. disk arrays are compatible with the Blackmagic Design DeckLink system running OS X Jaguar. "Medea is happy to announce that Blackmagic Design has qualified our line of fail-safe disk arrays for use with their new QuickTime(TM) PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). capture card called DeckLink," said Roger Mabon, VP of Channel Marketing at Medea. "VideoRaid RTR, RTRX, and RTS disk arrays offer excellent real-time performance under OS X while protecting the content stored on the system." "We heavily tested Medea's VideoRaid RTR disk arrays with the Blackmagic DeckLink on OS X 10.2. Dual-stream, real-time effects in crystal clean uncompressed video were easily possible," said Grant Petty, 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. at Blackmagic Design. "We are extremely happy with the performance of the VideoRaid RTR, even when running 10 bit uncompressed video. We believe our customers now have the perfect uncompressed storage solution for high end video production on Blackmagic DeckLink." About Medea VideoRaid RTR/RTRX VideoRaid RTR/RTRX disk arrays are designed to support professional animation, compositing, special effects and non-linear video editing See nonlinear video editing. workstations. VideoRaid RTR/RTRX features a single or dual-channel, Ultra160 SCSI interface and field replaceable disk drive modules, power supplies and RAID controllers with Medea's proprietary Multi-Stream Technology(TM) (MST See micro systems technology. ). In addition to offering industry-leading performance, VideoRaid RTR/RTRX provides fail-safe operation. In the unlikely event of a disk drive failure, VideoRaid RTR/RTRX will continue to operate at full performance with no loss of data. This enables work in progress to be completed without requiring immediate drive replacement. Upon replacing a bad drive, the system will automatically rebuild and resume protecting the content stored on the array. VideoRaid RTR/RTRX supports both SD and HD applications, is scalable to multi-terabyte solutions and priced to compete with unprotected storage systems. About Medea VideoRaid RTS VideoRaid RTS Ultra160 SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. disk arrays are the ideal low-cost protected storage solutions for all DCC applications. Utilizing RAID controller technology from the RTR series of products, VideoRaid RTS disk arrays provide data protection in the event of a disk drive failure and offer superb performance, yet cost significantly less than unprotected just-a-bunch-of-disk (JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks ) storage products. Like the RTR series, VideoRaid RTS will continue to operate at full performance with no loss of data in the unlikely event that a drive should fail in the array. This enables the user to complete work in progress without the need for immediate service. VideoRaid RTS supports both SD and HD applications and is scalable to multi-terabyte solutions. About Medea Corporation Medea Corporation, headquartered in Calabasas, California, designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost storage subsystems optimized for digital content creation and Internet streaming media applications. Corporate headquarters is located at 26707 West Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302; telephone: 818/880-0303; fax: 818/880-6906; Internet: www.medea.com VideoRaid RTR/RTRX and RTS disk arrays are available from Medea's authorized dealers and distributors. Call Medea toll-free at 888/BY-MEDEA for a list of resellers or visit the Medea website at www.medea.com. About Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design manufactures the world's highest quality video cards for the post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design also provides products and technology to other high-end manufacturers. Over the last year, Blackmagic Design and its partners have quickly moved to an industry leading position with the first uncompressed 10 bit QuickTime(TM) video card for Mac OS X, the first uncompressed real time effects on Mac OS X, the first 10 bit uncompressed video card to also offer compressed video modes, the first film Cinema Tools(TM) compatible film editing solution, and the first film quality uncompressed 10 bit HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates QuickTime(TM) card. With growth in the creative segment of the professional television industry at an all time high, Blackmagic Design is well positioned to take advantage of its unique technologies for future innovation and growth. Blackmagic Design's headquarters, manufacturing, and development facility is located in the post production district of South Melbourne, Victoria South Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the City of Port Phillip. Historically, it was known as Emerald Hill. The suburb is notable as it was one of the first of Melbourne's suburbs to adopt full municipal status and is, along , Australia. Visit the Blackmagic Design website at www.blackmagic-design.com. About Blackmagic Design DeckLink Blackmagic DeckLink is the perfect solution for building post production workstations at the highest quality possible -- 10 bit uncompressed SDI (1) (Serial Digital Interface) A physical interface widely used for transmitting digital video in various formats. For electrical transmission, it uses a high grade of coaxial cable and a single BNC connector with Teflon insulation. video. Blackmagic DeckLink has been specifically designed to make connecting a Macintosh(TM) workstation to any broadcast digital deck, such as Sony Digital Betacam(TM), D1, Panasonic DVC (1) (Digital Video Camera) A camcorder that records in digital format. See DV. (2) (Digital Video Cassette) An earlier term for the DV format. See DV. (3) See desktop videoconferencing. Pro 25(TM), DVC Pro 50(TM), D5, Sony(TM) J series. All digital decks with SDI video/audio options are supported, and setup is quick and easy. By using SDI connections, Blackmagic DeckLink contains video, and all audio channels down the single BNC type video cable. A Sony(TM) RS422 compatible deck control port is also provided. This eliminates the need for serial port modifications to your Mac system, and saves a PCI slot. |
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