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DISCOVERY.COM PURCHASES PINNACLE SYSTEMS' STREAMGENIE FOR MOBILE WEBCASTING.


Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems, Inc. is a California-based American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the consumer and broadcast markets. It was founded in 1986. In 2002 Pinnacle purchased VOB Computersysteme GmbH (now pinnaclesys.de). , Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE), has announced that Discovery.com purchased two StreamGenie live webcasting production systems. The equipment will be used to stream live audio and video from events on the Discovery.com website (www.discovery.com). Discovery.com is a trusted destination on the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 that empowers audiences to discover something new every day, offering rich, useful content and commerce opportunities in seven distinct categories: Discoveries, Animals, Health, Travel, Lifestyles, School and Kids.

Pinnacle pinnacle (pĭn`ĭkəl), minor architectural motif of vertical tapering shape, usually crowning a pier, buttress, or gable. Although sometimes it appears in Renaissance design, as in the Certosa di Pavia, it is almost exclusively a medieval  Systems' StreamGenie is a portable Webcasting solution for live streaming over the Internet. It supports multiple camera switching, simultaneous output for the Internet and video archiving, integrated professional titling, graphics, 3-D video effects See digital video effects. , pro-audio and built-in network I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output.

I/O - Input/Output
. StreamGenie manages up to six independent live camera inputs and 10 microphones, and includes broadcast-quality 3-D effects and titling, together with professional quality audio, all in real time. StreamGenie also features the exclusive CastConnect(SM) interface that allows users to register, schedule, perform, monitor and archive Webcasts to as many as one million viewers.
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Comment:DISCOVERY.COM PURCHASES PINNACLE SYSTEMS' STREAMGENIE FOR MOBILE WEBCASTING.(Product Information)
Publication:EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 21, 2000
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