DAVID Systems Announces Enhancements to its Broadcast Exchange Platform Designed to Connect Teams, Locations and Processes

MUNICH, GERMANY, September 11, 2010 (Press-News.org) DAVID Systems, a leading provider of global broadcast solutions, offers the Broadcast Exchange Platform as a solution to decrease the complexity of broadcast workflows with heterogeneous infrastructures and proprietary systems throughout the production chain. Journalists in the field are enabled to transfer their contribution to the main broadcast station from all over the world using standard network connections. A story can then be sent immediately to a local playout server, re-distributed to affiliate stations or shared in-house for post-production. DAVID Systems' solution covers all workflow steps from ingest to distribution and provides editorial teams with time savings to concentrate more attention to their content and programs. Most recently, DAVID Systems added XDCAM-HD and Read-While-Write (RWW) support to this solution and will be demonstrating these enhancements at IBC 2010, in hall 7, at booth 7.G34. DAVID Systems is also represented at Microsoft's booth in the Topaz Lounge.

DAVID Systems' Broadcast Exchange Platform provides reliability to content acquisition, production and distribution processes - for centralized newsrooms with local offices, and international station groups with foreign correspondent offices. It is based on standard IT protocols and supports any available bandwidth to serve file-based exchange of content among all editorial staff. Whether point-to-point or point-to-multipoint, content transport is handled efficiently, and includes all metadata required for broadcast and archive consistency.

Audio/Video content can be ingested at the station using tape and file-based ingest tools from DAVID Systems. Journalists in the field can perform a remote ingest using a standard web browser and securely upload their contribution to be imported into the DigaSystem CMS.

Media processing is addressed by DAVID Systems' new Media Component Library (MCL). MCL is a flexible, scalable and future-proof transcoding framework which can be used with DigaSystem and 3rd party applications for low-res proxy generation, SD/HD upand down-scaling, file analysis, logo insertion and transcoding. The high-quality software-based transcoding covers a wide range of media formats including XDCAM-HD with MXF container.

"Our Broadcast Exchange Platform is closing the collaboration gap between reporters, regional stations and head organizations by providing seamless tri-media workflows from ingest, editing and in-house exchange to multi-channel distribution." says Vincent Benveniste, CEO, DAVID Systems GmbH. "For IBC, we are pleased to announce the general availability of many new enhancements to the powerful DigaSystem solution, most notably our new Media Component Library, XDCAM-HD and Read-While-Write support with new file ingest capabilities. Our customers can now easily add enhanced functionality to their existing workflows via a simple software upgrade."

To arrange a live demo with DAVID Systems at IBC, please visit us in hall 7 booth 7.G34 and also at the Microsoft booth in the Topaz Lounge. You are also invited to contact us at sales@davidsystems.com for more information and to schedule a meeting

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DAVID Systems GmbH has been developing products and system solutions for the broadcast market since 1991 with a focus on radio, TV, and associated Internet services.