Henninger Media Services Purchases Four Soundtracs D4 Large Format Digital Consoles, A Fairlight Medialink Server And Five Fairlight Mfx3.48 Workstations

In a sale that highlights the market promise of Soundtracs¹ new D4 next generation large format digital console and also demonstrates the increasing traction of the Fairlight/Soundtracs US distribution agreement, Fairlight USA today announced that Henninger Media Services of Arlington, Virginia has purchased four new D4 consoles. The company also purchased five Fairlight MFX3.48 digital audio workstations and will network them together using a Fairlight MediaLink Server. The server will also house an extensive library including Fairlight Audiobase2 and Fairlight Server Sound.

Celebrating its 18-year anniversary this year, Henninger Media Services is the country¹s leading audio and video production and postproduction facility. The company specializes in long format post services for corporate, television and film markets. Recent projects include long-term post agreements with National Geographic, Smithsonian and Centerseat.

According to Robert Henninger, president and CEO, Henninger Media Services, the new D4 exceeds all the audio requirements set by his engineering team and all of the business criteria he sets as a facility owner. "The D4 allows us to present our clients with the most versatile and comprehensive range of post production services in the country," Henninger said. "Our brand new, state of the art mix room will be capable of feature film surround audio mixing in the highest resolution available on the market today. The D4 will continue our leadership in the Hi-Def market while expanding our capabilities with our current clients. We are committed to adding functionality and value because we want to make sure our clients receive the best work possible by insuring our technologists have the best tools available."

Commenting on the sale, Fairlight Vice President of Broadcast Sales, Michael Mueller said, "The D4 is an excellent console is so many ways, I would characterize it as the thinking man¹s large format digital console. As one of the most successful and progressive facilities in the U.S. market, Henninger¹s purchase of four consoles is a resounding endorsement of this characterization and, of course, this console."

One of the added benefits with the Soundtracs/Fairlight combination is that it enables Henninger to take a project from end to end in 96k.

Henninger¹s purchase of five Fairlight MFX3.48 systems is one of the largest deployments of the new QDC engine-powered workstation. Robert Henninger sees the implementation of the Fairlight network as a visionary commitment to a network complemented by the industry¹s fastest, most reliable and most comprehensive workstation. "QDC is a tremendous technology that synchs with our strategic mission to provide our clients the finest products and services by insuring that our engineering staff is the best-equipped in the industry," Henninger added.

The remarkable new QDC Technology engine featured in the Fairlight MFX3.48 sets an entirely new standard for digital audio processing. With it, Fairlight digital audio workstations are the only ones that run 96 kHz/24-bit on 48 tracks from a single hard drive. The QDC Technology engine offers unsurpassed digital audio performance and functionality. Speed and performance are significantly enhanced via the use of a distributed processor architecture employing Analog Devices SHARC chips, delivering 40-bit floating point processing for effortless real-time DSP capability. No matter how complex the operation, such as seamless, gapless, punch-in and punch-out across all 48 tracks, the QDC engine can handle it. This superior performance is available on all QDC-driven products from Fairlight, allowing for 48 tracks at 96 kHz/24-bit throughout its family of advanced digital audio workstations, including the, MFX3.48, Merlin, Prodigy2 and FAME2.

About Henninger Media Services
Founded in 1983, Henninger Media Services Inc. is the nation¹s largest video, film and new media services provider specializing in creation, development and postproduction for online and offline distribution. The privately-held company is headquartered in Arlington, VA and encompasses facilities in Washington D.C., Charlottesville, VA., Richmond, VA., New York City and Los Angeles. In addition to its core services, Henninger offers Internet media services, a film lab, an educational center and a program marketing and funding division. Major clients include Discovery Communications, PBS, National Geographic, The History Channel, Animal Planet, Circuit City Stores, Fox Television, WETA-TV, Smithsonian Institute and Showtime Networks.

About Soundtracs Plc
Headquartered in Epsom, Surrey in England, Soundtracs Plc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of digital and analog recording and mixing consoles for the worldwide broadcast, post production and music industries. Consoles are manufactured in Glenrothes, Fife in Scotland and owners include Pete Townshend, Mark Knopfler, Disney, the BBC and NRK.

Soundtracs consoles are distributed in the United States by Fairlight USA., wholly owned subsidiary of Fairlight Inc. the world¹s premier manufacturer of digital audio editing and mixing systems for audio post production applications.

About Fairlight USA
Fairlight USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fairlight Inc. Fairlight manufactures and markets digital audio editing and mixing systems for audio post production applications. The company's products include the MFX3.48 digital audio workstation, FAME2 integrated digital audio production system, the DaDplus dedicated digital audio dubber, MediaLink, Fairlight's real-time, multichannel, fast audio networking solution, ViVid, Fairlight's nonlinear digital video recorder, Merlin digital multitrack recorder and Prodigy2, the cost effective, fully integrated post production system.

Fairlight USA, 844 North Seward Street, Culver City, CA 90232. Tel: 323-465-0070; Fax: 323-287-0200.