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The new, multiple award-winning TouchStream live video streaming appliance will make its NAB debut. Ideal in the field, on a desktop or in a rack, TouchStream delivers Digital Rapids' renowned live streaming quality and reliability in a fully self-contained, easy-to-deploy appliance. Leveraging the most intuitive of human interfaces -- touch -- TouchStream appliances offer unparalleled ease of use through a touch-screen interface with integrated video monitoring.

Digital Rapids, a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the Internet and the latest generation of viewing devices -- announced that the company's new TouchStream video and audio streaming appliance was honored with the Most Innovative Product award at the Broadcast India exhibition in Mumbai last month. The award is the fourth for TouchStream since its unveiling in September.

Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the Internet and the latest generation of viewing devices -- today announced the appointment of Barry Fairhurst as Vice President of Sales.

Based in Digital Rapids' Markham, Ontario head office, Fairhurst will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of sales strategies and processes in support of the company's continuing strong growth and broad customer base. Fairhurst joins Digital Rapids following 13 years at Avid Canada, having managed Avid's direct and indirect sales and customer support operations.

I had a chance recently to test out Digital Rapids' StreamLive encoder with multi-codec support and support for On2 VP6 Live streaming.  The heavy duty StreamZLive encoder has lots of features an adjustments for audio and video and provides high quality video output for your live streams.  The live streaming solution I tested was a a qualified turnkey system that makes life simple for those moving from on-demand streaming to live streaming.  The benefit of the StreamZLive turnkey solution is an individual doesn't have to set-up their own encoder and install video cards or a spec out a PC workstation to use for live streaming.  The turnkey StreamZLive solution, since it's qualified, is fully supported by Digital Rapids.  That's one of the advantages of purchasing a qualified live encoder.  The StreamZLive encoders also come with presets for streaming to Highwinds, Limelight and Akamai CDNs.  I also was able get live streaming to work with Internap's CDN using the their MediaConsole to streaming Live Flash video.  Be sure to check out some of Digital Rapids' live encoding tools when you get time.

Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the latest generation of viewing devices -- has been selected as one of the Greater Toronto Area's Top 75 Employers for 2009.

Now entering its fourth year, Greater Toronto's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by Mediacorp Canada Inc., Canada's largest publisher of employment-related periodicals and online directories. This special designation recognizes the Greater Toronto employers that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. Criteria include physical workplace; work atmosphere and social programs; health, financial and family benefits; vacation and time off; employee communications; performance management; training and skills development; and community involvement. Employers are compared to other organizations in their field to determine which offers the most progressive and forward-thinking programs.

Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the next generation of viewing devices -- announced that the company's new TouchStream video and audio streaming appliance has won three prestigious industry awards following its unveiling at the IBC Conference and Exhibition in September.
 
TouchStream was honored with a Broadcast Engineering IBC 2008 Pick Hit Award; TV Technology Europe Magazine's Superior Technology (STAR) Award; and a TVBEurope 'Best of IBC2008' Editor's Pick award.

Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the latest generation of viewing devices -- is further expanding the company's acclaimed live streaming flexibility with support for H.264 streaming through Adobe Flash Media Server 3 to Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player and Adobe AIR applications, bringing Digital Rapids' exceptional H.264 encoding quality to live web audiences.

Support for H.264 (also known as AVC, or MPEG-4 Part 10) streaming through Adobe Flash Media Server is available for the StreamZ Live family of live streaming encoders, and for Digital Rapids' StreamZ and StreamZHD media encoding servers as an add-on option. For large-scale deployments and critical applications, Digital Rapids systems supporting H.264 streaming for Adobe Flash technology can be combined with the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager software for enterprise-level, multi-encoder management, monitoring, scheduling and fault tolerance.

 Digital Rapids, a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the latest generation of viewing devices -- has released a powerful new version of the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager enterprise-class live encoder management software.
 
Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager provides robust management, monitoring and fault tolerance for multiple live streaming encoders. New features in version 1.3 -- the second significant update this year -- include:
 
* Enhanced failover flexibility with control of third-party video routers, enabling video input sources to be automatically re-routed when backup systems take over in the event of primary encoder failure

A leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and movie content to the latest generation of viewing devices -- is one of the key enablers of the unprecedented live Internet coverage of the Summer Games currently being enjoyed by U.S. audiences.
 
Over 2200 hours of video will be streamed live on the Internet at NBCOlympics.com, powered by Digital Rapids' encoding and streaming systems. The unprecedented scale of NBC Universal's online coverage created new challenges going far beyond typical streaming scenarios.

In the past, the live streaming of major international events typically started with the satellite transmission of a single main feed from the source location to the destination country, where that single feed would be encoded, streamed, and distributed. The content of that feed -- the switching between camera angles, viewpoints, and storylines -- was controlled at the source. In contrast, for the Summer Games, dozens of simultaneous live event feeds are being encoded in Beijing and streamed to the U.S. for distribution to web audiences. In doing so, NBC Universal is putting the control in the hands of the viewer, letting users watch multiple events concurrently while interactively switching between streams through a rich media experience enabled by the cross-platform Microsoft Silverlight technology.

Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and film content to the latest generation of viewing devices -- has been short-listed for an IBC2008 Innovation Award in the Content Management category for the company's contribution to the multi-format digital media production workflow at a leading U.S.-based media and entertainment company.
 
The IBC Innovation Awards celebrate the partnership between technology companies and users, with short-listed nominees having demonstrated an innovative and cost-effective solution to a technical, commercial or creative challenge. The winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony September 14 during the annual IBC Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam.

Gurgaon, India: Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and film content to the next generation of viewing devices -- announced the establishment of Digital Rapids India Pvt. Ltd., strengthening the company's sales and support presence in the SAARC countries including India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.

Digital Rapids IndiaDigital Rapids India Pvt. Ltd., based in Gurgaon, India, is led by Managing Director P.R. Suresh. P.R. Suresh brings with him over 15 years of experience in broadcast, IPTV & mobile TV systems integration and consultancy. The team in India also features experienced technical support to address customers' pre-sale system design and post-sale operational requirements, and will work with OEM partners in developing new applications and solutions based on Digital Rapids technologies.

"India is a significant growth market for IP-based media delivery, with IPTV, mobile and Internet content distribution posing tremendous opportunities for the region's many content and rights owners to expand their audience and media reach," said Clive Vickery, VP of Worldwide Sales for Digital Rapids. "We're very excited to establish Digital Rapids India Pvt. Ltd. with our long-term partner in India, and look forward to the increased ability it gives us to connect closely with these customers and meet their unique needs."

Today kicked off the first day of NAB and it was exciting to see how much the streaming media space has matured.

Here are some cool items you should check out if you're at the show:

Microsoft's Expression Encoder 2 - Fully loaded with new features.

Semaphore from Inlet Technologies - A tool for quality control of your compression output files

Digital Rapids - Which has a compression tool which provides encoding and quick publishing of streaming videos

Sorenson Media - Recently released Sorenson Squeeze 5.

Telestream - Pipeline tool supports ingest into Final Cut Server and ProRes422 support

Computer Prompting & Captioning - Provides software to help you do close-captions for web video, Video iPod and Final Cut Pro

Digital Rapids has been selected to provide media encoding, transcoding and streaming systems to NBC for the network's Internet coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China, August 8-24. The announcement was made by Rab Mukraj, Director of Digital Media Delivery at NBC Universal and Brick Eksten, President of Digital Rapids Corporation.
 
Digital Rapids' DRC-Stream encoding and streaming solutions will enable NBC Olympics' unprecedented live and on-demand online coverage of the Beijing Olympics. 2200 hours of video will be streamed live on the Internet at NBCOlympics.com, primarily encoded from video feeds into web-friendly streams through the DRC-Stream systems. Streams will be encoded in the VC-1 compression format for a viewing experience powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology. The encoded live streams will also be archived for viewers to watch on-demand. Digital Rapids Transcode Manager, the enterprise-class solution for scalable, high-volume media file transcoding, will be used to convert affiliate-provided content between compression and file formats for U.S. domestic distribution.

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Digital Rapids -- a leading developer of scalable solutions for media ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming and delivery -- has opened a new Latin American office to bolster the company's presence in the region.

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Digital Rapids-- a leading developer of scalable solutions for media ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming and delivery-- announced today that the company has joined the Microsoft Silverlight Partner Initiative. Digital Rapids announced immediate support for Microsoft Silverlight in Digital Rapids' award-winning encoding, transcoding and streaming solutions. 

The Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in is designed to deliver a new level of rich media experiences and interactive applications on the web. With a media foundation compatible with the SMPTE VC-1 video compression format, Silverlight extends the reach of VC-1 and Microsoft Windows Media Video-based content with robust interactive experiences viewable across multiple operating systems. Through the advanced publishing capabilities of the Digital Rapids Stream software, Digital Rapids encoding, transcoding and streaming solutions-- including StreamZ and StreamZHD media encoding servers, DRC-Stream board-and-software bundles and Digital Rapids Transcode Manager distributed media transcoding software-- support automated publishing of media content into customized Silverlight templates.

Digital Rapids-- a leading developer of solutions for bringing television, video and film content to the next generation of viewing devices-- announced that the company has been recognized with two prestigious awards from highly-respected global research firm, Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan has honored Digital Rapids with the 2008 Customer Value Enhancement and Entrepreneurial Company of the Year awards for the World Video Encoders and Transcoders Market.

Digital Rapids Digital Rapids has begun shipping version 1.2 of the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager live encoder management software, featuring a new graphical scheduling interface and a comprehensive Web Services API for integrating Broadcast Manager into third-party applications.

Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager provides enterprise-level management and control for multiple live streaming encoders. Supporting Digital Rapids' acclaimed StreamZ and StreamZ Live encoding systems, Broadcast Manager simplifies operation with centralized scheduling, remote control and individual and group resource management, while bolstering reliability with automated failover and alerts. Failover management provides fault tolerance by automatically bringing backup systems online, while "self-healing" attempts to resolve problems directly on failed systems.