Nikon Optical Announces Beluga AV 2.6GB MO Drive Available in Fairlight's Range of Digital Audio Systems.CULVER CITY Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 1998-- Digital Audio Facility in Television City Installs New Fairlight Audio Server Networking System Based On Nikon Beluga beluga (bəl  `gə) or white whale, small, toothed northern whale, Delphinapterus leucas. The beluga may reach a length of 19 ft (5. MO AV Drives Nikon Optical Storage and Fairlight ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. , a leading manufacturer of digital audio editing Audio editing is the process of taking recorded sound and changing it directly on the recording medium (analog) or in RAM (digital). Audio editing was a new technology that developed in the middle part of the 20th century with the advent of magnetic tape recording. and mixing systems, Monday announced that the Beluga AV 2.6GB Direct-Overwrite MO drive is now available with Fairlight's range of digital audio systems. The first installation of the Fairlight Audio Server networking system utilizing Nikon Beluga AV 2.6GB optical drives was recently installed in an all new digital audio post-production suite at major TV network CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . The system will allow the broadcaster to bring more of its on-air promos in house. Fairlight systems equipped with Nikon's Beluga AV drives provide digital audio users with a complete digital audio post-production system, offering the ultimate in transportability as well as unmatched speed, flexibility and quality. In addition, these systems allow users to vastly increase their throughput with instantaneous and comprehensive access to audio data from a central file server system whose storage is based on removable 2.6 Gigabyte magneto-optical cartridges. "The Nikon Beluga MO drive exceeded our expectations for performance," said John Lancken, chief executive officer of Fairlight, USA. "It's fast enough to handle the throughput for digital audio applications and the media is extremely robust for transporting large video and audio files. It's the perfect storage solution and complements our product line very well." The new digital audio post facility at CBS, created under the aegis of new senior vice president, creative director of advertising and promotion, Ron Scalera, replaces an earlier collection of various digital and analog multitrack mul·ti·track adj. 1. Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder. 2. tape and console systems that were used to build the network's on-air promos for prime time and children's programming -- virtually every network promotional need except sports and news. "What this means is that we have put a new emphasis on the audio component of our promotion post-productions," explained Marc Hurd, director of Technical Operations at CBS in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . "In doing so, we needed to create a fully digital environment, one that would allow a high degree of flexibility in accessing audio data and distributing it through the facility. To accomplish that, we needed a digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. A key feature of DAWs is the ability to freely manipulate recorded sounds, much like a word processor manipulates typed words. system, a digital audio mixing Audio mixing is used for sound recording, audio editing, and sound systems to balance the relative volume, frequency, and dynamical content of a number of sound sources. Typically, these sound sources are the different musical instruments in a band or vocalists, the sections of an system, and a networking solution that could link all of the suites together in order to increase throughput and enable us to bring more of our promotion post-production in-house. "We looked at a lot of systems on the market and the Fairlight systems utilizing the Nikon Beluga AV optical drives gave us more of the features and capabilities we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. than any other system, at a price that was within our specification." "Nikon invented the Beluga AV drive with this application in mind," said Masayuki Onose, senior marketing manager at Nikon, Optical Storage. "With the LIMDOW (Light Intensity Modulation Direct OverWrite) An enhancement of the magneto-optic technology that improves writing speed by allowing a bit to be written in one pass instead of two. feature on the Beluga AV drive, broadcasters such as CBS can record broadcast quality digital audio tracks to the most reliable media." A high-performance drive, the 2.6GB Beluga AV incorporates Nikon's patented LIMDOW (Light Intensity Modulation-Direct Overwrite (1) A data entry mode that writes over existing characters on screen when new characters are typed in. Contrast with insert mode. (2) To record new data on top of existing data such as when a disk record or file is updated. ) technology. The breakthrough Direct-Overwrite technology allows the Beluga AV to carry out the write process in a single pass, making it up to twice as fast as earlier MO drives. With the fast write performance and AV enhancements, the Beluga AV drive delivers reliable, uninterrupted data streams. The Fairlight Audio Server is a PC-based central file server system that provides a complete networking solution, which can link several Fairlight FAME digital audio recording, editing and mixing systems in a real-time manner. As a result, all the Fairlight FAME's on a Fairlight Audio Server network can simultaneously access music and effects libraries and other digital audio databases, and can also work simultaneously on either the same or on different projects. Standards Compliant, Backwards Compatibility Offering the most complete read/write compatibility utilizing ISO-standard 2.6GB LIMDOW erasable e·ras·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of being erased: erasable ink. 2. Capable of producing something that can be erased: an erasable pen. media, as well as non-LIMDOW 2.6GB, 1.3GB and 650MB media, the Beluga AV provides the most complete media compatibility in the industry. With backward compatibility and media interchangeability, Nikon has made it easy for organizations that have been using earlier technology MO drives to upgrade to the Beluga AV-based FAME system without having to convert previously recorded optical disks. The multifunction drive also accepts CCW (Continuous Composite Write) A magneto-optic disk technology that emulates a WORM (Write Once Read Many) disk. It uses firmware in the drive to ensure that data cannot be erased and rewritten. (WORM) media. About Fairlight With headquarters in Sydney, Australia, Fairlight ESP manufactures and markets digital audio editing and mixing systems for audio post-production applications. The company's products include the MFX MFX Metzler Fund Xchange MFX Multi Effects MFX Midi Effects 3plus Mini 8-Track and the MFX3plus digital audio workstations, the FAME integrated digital audio editing and mixing solution, and the DaD dedicated Digital Audio Dubber. Fairlight USA has headquarters in Culver City. For more information call 310/287-1400 or visit the company's Web site at www.fairlightesp.com.au. About Nikon Nikon Optical Storage, a division of Nikon Precision Inc., provides high performance removable optical storage solutions for a variety of applications including digital audio, digital video and multimedia. These products include the Beluga AV 2.6 Gigabyte Direct-Overwrite MO drive. For more information, contact Nikon Optical Storage, 1399 Shoreway Road, Belmont, Calif. 94002; 888/88-NIKON or 650/508-4674; Fax: 650/508-3860. Or, visit the company's Web site at www.mo-nikon.com. -0- All trademarks and registered trademarks to their respective owners. CONTACT: Nikon Optical, Belmont Kathy Halliburton, 650/508-4674, Ext. 853 khalliburton@nikon.com or Fairlight USA, Culver City John Lancken, 310/287-1400 |
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