Digital Vision launches BitPack-HD
Digital Vision launches BitPack-HD - Pre-mastering Workstation for HDTV Las Vegas, April 19, 1999 - Digital Vision launches BitPack-HD - the first HDTV off-line pre-mastering system for Electronic Cinema and Broadcast cable & satellite playout applications. BitPack-HD offers a cost-effective path to create HDTV files for ATSC 1080i/720p as well as 1080p/24 formats, using the same fast and intuitive BitPack control environments as for the standard definition version. BitPack-HD is the optimal tool for high quality encoding based on Digital Vision's proprietary, non-chip based MPEG2 engine. It provides excellent picture quality and system flexibility with integrated machine control and automatic frame accurate encoding as well as playback. The powerful Windows NT user interface enables project management, graphical encoding control and quality analyses. Peter Weiss, CEO of Digital Vision comments: "With BitPack-HD Digital Vision responds to new customer demands for a high quality and flexible tool to create HDTV MPEG2 files. One of the new and exciting applications involve Electronic Cinema, but BitPack-HD also has a wide range of applications in many other new areas." Digital Vision is a leading manufacturer of digital processing equipment for the post-production, pre-mastering and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1988 and sells its products throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Digital Vision received an Emmy Award in 1992 for its work on advanced motion compensation technology as applied to standard converters. The company also holds the IABM Peter Wayne Award for New Technology for BitPack@, its MPEG-2 pre-mastering workstation and the ITS Monitor Award in recognition for the Advanced Scratch and Dirt concealer. Digital Vision's headquarters is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company also maintains international sales and support offices in London and Los Angeles. Sales throughout the rest of the world are handled via a network of more than 25 distributors. Thus Digital Vision has a strong presence on the world market. For more information, please contact: Karin Cedronius, Digital Vision DV Sweden AB Upplagsvägen 1, S-117 43 Stockholm, Sweden. Phone: +46 8 18 24 65, Fax: +46 8 18 24 66 E-mail: karinc@digitalvision.se US contacts: Hugh Heinsohn, Digital Vision (US) Inc., +1 310 914-5200 or Linda Frank,Visible Ink, +1 818 249-8885 Web site: www.digitalvision.se ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/04/19/19990419BIT00400/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/04/19/19990419BIT00400/bit0002.pdf