November 20, 2009 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — announced today that the StreamZHD multi-format, live and on-demand encoding system has won a 2009 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award as the top high definition (HD) hardware encoder. The award was presented this week at a special reception during the Streaming Media West conference and exhibition in San Jose.

Digital Rapids StreamZHD

The Readers’ Choice Awards are held annually by Streaming Media magazine and recognize the leading streaming and online video solutions, services and innovations as judged by end users, rather than the magazine staff. Over 200 products, companies and services competed in this year’s awards. more

AMIMON Introduces WHDI Modules for the Notebook PC Market

Enables a wireless HD connection from PCs to HDTVs; Consumers Can Finally Watch all PC Content Conveniently on their HDTV

Santa Clara, Calif. – November 18, 2009 – AMIMON Inc., the market leader in wireless High Definition semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of WHDI™ modules which can be embedded into notebook PCs and netbook PCs. The WHDI modules are available today with a mini-PCI form-factor of 50mm*30mm and will also be offered with a standard Display-Mini card form-factor of 44.4mm*26mm based on the interface defined by the PCI SIG® which uses Displayport™. Additionally, these cards are designed for the WHDI™ (Wireless Home Digital Interface™) standard and are capable of wirelessly delivering full uncompressed 1080p/60Hz HD content throughout the entire home. more

‘Brave New (Open) World: A Producer’s Primer on the Latest Open Source Software’ At The New School’s Lang Auditorium on Tuesday, November 10th from 7:00-9:00 pm

FOR RELEASE ON: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009

NEW YORK – The Producers Guild of America (PGA) New Media Council (NMC) East today announced that it will convene a panel discussion on the latest open source software solutions for new media, film, and television producers on Tuesday, November 10th, from 7:00-9:00 pm at The New School’s Theresa Lang Auditorium, located at 55 West 13th Street, at 6th Avenue in New York City. The event, free to attendees, will feature New York-based leaders of the open source movement, including: Kaltura; Diversion Media, and AdMob. To RSVP, please visit http://pganmceast.eventbrite.com. more

9 November 2009

ORLANDO, Florida – Net Insight, a leading developer of efficient and scalable optical transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, today announced that is has supplied Nimbra switches to Midwest Video Solutions (“MVS”), a leading provider of robust Digital TV solutions, to provide a virtual headend feed from their facilities in Westby, Wisconsin to a US military base in Japan. more

October 20, 2009 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — today announced that the company’s award-winning TouchStream appliance powered live Internet streaming of the prestigious “The Digital Chiefs” event for the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS) last month. Part of the HRTS Newsmaker Luncheon Series and presented in association with National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), “The Digital Chiefs: A Special Conversation on the Future of Media in the Digital Age” featured an all-star lineup of top executives in the digital entertainment industry. more

Partnership with YouTube integrates Content ID fingerprinting with encoding, streamlining workflows for content protection and monetization

October 13, 2009 — IP Media Expo 2009, New York: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — today announced that the company is working with YouTube to integrate support for Content ID, YouTube’s content identification and management system, directly into Digital Rapids’ award-winning range of media production and repurposing systems. more

October 13, 2009 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — announced today that the company’s new MediaMesh content distribution system has won a TVBEurope “Best of IBC2009″ Editors’ Award. The award is the second accolade bestowed upon MediaMesh following its launch at the annual IBC convention in September. more

CVMP, the European Conference on Visual Media Production (www.cvmp-conference.org), taking place on 12th & 13th November 2009 at the BFI Southbank, London, is putting out the final call for short papers presenting the latest research in media production.

The 6th annual conference, which will explore the future of pixels, pipelines and productivity in visual media production, has also confirmed additional speakers, sponsors and media partners. more

ROME, ITALY - When Rome-based content and facilities provider H24 Live decided to create a wireless network throughout Italy’s capital, it turned to Nucomm’s CamPac2 HD/SD COFDM microwave transmitter and Nucomm’s Newscaster DR2 diversity receiver for its signal coverage. more

September 23, 2009 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — announced today that the company’s new MediaMesh content distribution system is the recipient of a 2009 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award given by the editorial staff of TV Technology Europe magazine at the 2009 IBC convention.

The STAR Award (Superior Technology Award Recipient) is designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. TV Technology Europe’s editor reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then chose 25 winners. more