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ZANDAR SHIPS 1000TH DX SERIES MULTIVIEWER
August 18th 2004
As an outstanding endorsement to Zandar’s innovation and
vision, customers around the world have chosen to make Zandar their
favorite MultiViewer company. We are proud to announce that by IBC
2004 over 1000 DX Series units will have been shipped, making this
Series, the world’s best MultiViewer product.
With a backdrop of two years of quiet markets, a slow business environment
and increasing competition it is no mean feat to establish these
products at the core of broadcast operations worldwide. Evolving
from its earlier MX Series, the first DX MultiViewers shipped at
the end of 2001. Quietly listening to user feedback and anticipating
the demand for multi-image, multi-channel monitoring, Zandar developed
a product that was the first MultiViewer to incorporate auto-sensing
inputs, negating the need for different processors for analogue
and digital signal formats, allowing users to mix formats and reduce
costs in their migration to digital. It is also the smallest MultiViewer
on the market, processing 16 channels of monitoring in a highly
compact 1RU, drastically reducing installation costs for broadcasters.
Its popularity stems from its flexibility too with a range of output
options for the user - composite and component video, SDI and VGA.
The SDI embedded audio in picture monitoring function is a very
useful and cost effective way of monitoring up to 4 channels of
audio. This facility provides real time monitoring of audio levels
with in-vision bar graphs and VU metering, adding flexibility and
functionality.
The DX Series MultiViewers have been installed in every corner of
the globe - from the Caribbean to Korea . Some of our biggest customers
include US broadcasters, Turner Broadcast Networks and Discovery
Communications, Latin American broadcasters TV Globo, DirecTV
Latin America, Star TV in Hong Kong, TTV in Taiwan, CCTV in
China, TV-8 in Singapore and leading European HDTV OB operator,
Alfacam as well as Europe’s largest satellite broadcaster BSkyB
in the UK. Network operators such as BT (British Telecom)
and EBU (European Broadcasting Union), like many others rely on
Zandar equipment 24/7 to view signals that are a vital part of their
fabric and the commercial success of their organizations. The scale
of DX installations does not come much bigger than Turner Broadcast
Systems Inc who have 44 units monitoring in total 704 feeds at its
headquarters in Atlanta Georgia, whilst smaller, diverse applications
include TV-8 in Singapore who use the DXs to display contestants
in game shows. These and other Zandar products can be found at the
hub of major events such as the International Broadcast Centre at
this years summer Olympics in Athens and even 115 Fighter Wing of
the United States Air Force, at Truax Field in Madison Wisconsin
where F-16 Fighter Pilots are trained with assistance from Zandar
MultiViewers.
Whilst the celebrations continue for this enormous achievement,
the company’s own achievement as a whole is far greater since
it has a whole range of popular and successful video and audio monitoring
products which includes the Fusion, MX, OmniVideo and the new Predator
Series MultiViewers.
MultiViewers have truly come of age and Zandar’s pioneering
developments have delivered the functionality to the eyes of broadcasters
worldwide with resounding success.
About Zandar Technologies plc
Zandar Technologies is a dynamic and progressive company with a
worldwide presence and a wide range of innovative multi-source display
and management solutions. Zandar’s international customer base
includes many of the world’s leading companies in the Broadcast,
Security and professional Audio Visual markets. Zandar’s dedicated
sales and engineering team, professional resellers and responsive
technical support specialists underline a commitment to quality,
continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
For further information about this and other leading MultiViewer
products please visit www.zandar.com
or contact:
Sharon Smyth
Zandar Technologies plc
Telephone: +353-1-293 8966
Fax: +353-1-293 6955
E-mail: ssmyth@zandar.com
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