ESPN selects Pinnacle Systems' still store for worldwide broadcast center; 15-unit order placed for revolutionary, open architecture two and three channel systems.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1994--Pinnacle Systems 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 :PCLE) Thursday announced that ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (Bristol, Conn.) has chosen the company's Flashnet Plus powerful networked still store system to manage graphics and still images for ESPN's worldwide broadcast center located in Bristol. The 15-system order includes both standard two-channel and new three-channel still store systems, which offer leading-edge connectivity and peer-to-peer networking See peer-to-peer network. capabilities in an open architecture, PC-based system. ESPN will utilize Flashnet Plus to network still store stations within the broadcast facility, and has the ability to network remote sites in the future. Flashnet Plus has been optimized through the company's joint-development effort with ABC Television ABC Television may refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and the participation of ESPN's engineering group in Massachusetts. "We are pleased to add ESPN to the growing list of major national and worldwide broadcasters that have adopted the system, including ABC Television (New York) and Australia (Sydney, Australia)," said George Uibel, Pinnacle's business manager, FlashFile Family. "ESPN's choice of Pinnacle demonstrates the growing need and desire of the broadcast industry to replace aging technologies with new, modular, open architecture still store solutions that can be configured to meet specialized requirements, now and in the future. "ESPN's acclaimed international, around-the-clock sports and event coverage will be able to leverage the advanced capabilities of Flashnet Plus from day one, and then still have a range of upgrade options, including the implementation of powerful, dedicated client/server technology, in the future." Targeted to meet the requirements of television networks and other major broadcasters worldwide, Flashnet Plus offers advanced file management, archiving and networking capabilities that can be tailored to the specific requirements of the customer. The system is capable of managing hundreds of thousands of still images from multiple workstations in a single network. Flashnet Plus incorporates Artisoft's new CorStream software, optimized for client-server and peer-to-peer networking capabilities to ensure both speed and uninterrupted reliability. The system has a flexible input/output structure, which supports either NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. or PAL, analog composite, analog component or serial digital. Flashnet Plus also incorporates 4:2:2:4 signal processing See DSP. and provides superior linear keying. The system consists of multiple Pinnacle FlashFile stations and is connected via Hewlett Packard's new high-speed (100 Mbit/s, SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, White Plains, NY, www.smpte.org) A professional society for motion picture and TV engineers with more than 9,000 members worldwide. It prepares standards and documentation for TV production. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.12 standard) 100VG-AnyLAN as the foundation networking protocol running on VTP VTP VLAN Trunk Protocol VTP Virtual Terminal Protocol VTP Voting Technology Project VTP Vascular-Targeted Photodynamic (therapy) VTP Virtual Training Program VTP Viaje Todo Pagado (Mexico) level-S cabling. Industry-accepted disk drives and other components are integrated into Flashnet Plus, as well as SCSI-2 technology. Pinnacle is also capitalizing on the Flashnet Plus high-powered still store networking system with the ABC Television Network, which has just taken delivery of its initial systems in a multi-phase installation project. The system was co-developed with ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and incorporates a third channel option, thus providing more flexibility with the ability to call up images and queue a third stream of video in advance -- a critical feature for the time-sensitive needs of broadcasters. ABC's client/server configuration system includes Hewlett Packard's 100 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium NetServer LM and Vectra PC-based librarian browse stations for high-throughput serving and simultaneous distributed output. ABC is in the initial implementation phase of a project that will eventually achieve access for its nationwide affiliates to ABC's central database in New York. ESPN Inc., a subsidiary of Capital Cities/ABC Inc., is America's largest cable network, reaching 62.7 million households. The company is synonymous with sports programming, and is composed of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN International (distributing programming to 120 countries in 11 languages), ESPN Radio Network and ESPN Enterprises Inc. (ancillary businesses such as PPV Positive predictive value (PPV) The probability that a person with a positive test result has, or will get, the disease. Mentioned in: Genetic Testing PPV porcine parvovirus. PPV Positive-pressure ventilation , ESPNET and video games). Pinnacle Systems Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, has been awarded two EMMYs: the first in 1990 for pioneering the video workstation concept, and the second in 1994 for developing its address compression technology. Today, the company is a leading manufacturer of open architecture video manipulation, graphics creation and storage, and integrated desktop video products. Pinnacle's products are used extensively in the professional broadcast, cable, post-production and desktop markets. The company's products are available through direct sales offices and a worldwide network of distributors and resellers. For further information about Pinnacle Systems and its products, call 800/4PINNACLE. -0- Note to Editors: Please contact Pinnacle or The Benjamin Group for photography related to this announcement. All trademarks and registered trademarks are those of their respective holders. CONTACT: Pinnacle Systems Inc., Sunnyvale
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