Adtec Installs Seven Soloist 2 Broadcasr MPEG 2 players With SDi For Turner Studios

Adtec Inc.ville, TN -- Ron Johnson, V.P. of Marketing for <%=company%> announced today that his company has completed an installation of the Soloist 2 Broadcast MPEG 2 Player at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Adtec installed seven Soloist 2 Broadcast MPEG 2 Players that will be used to feed flat panel plasma display monitors with video footage during shows produced by WTBS. The Soloist 2's were configured with the optional SDI output, which is used to concurrently feed WTBS's studio switcher for applications including "on air". Most productions will relate to professional basketball games that the station broadcasts.

David Siegler, one of the Engineers at Turner who worked with Adtec personnel to install the equipment, noted that the product was purchased because of its low price, functionality, ease of operation, and compact design. He stated that the Soloist 2 is "…perfect for their needs."

According to David Cook, Adtec's V.P. of Customer Service, a significant element in Turner's use of the Soloist relates to how MPEG files are rendered for use by the product. Turner uses a DPS Velocity Real Time NLE for editing program content. Edited programs are then converted to MPEG 2 files using software from Ligos Technology. The concept of using software to encode MPEG 2 files is not new, but this is the first time that products from Adtec, DPS, and Ligos have been used together in a high profile broadcast application.

Adtec is the worlds leading manufacturer of embedded MPEG 2 based digital video players, single channel digital commercial insertion controllers, and automated video control systems. The company has offices in Nashville, TN, and Jacksonville, FL with distribution available worldwide.

DPS designs, manufactures and sells innovative hardware and software products that facilitate the creation, manipulation and dissemination of broadcast-quality video and audio content. DPS is based in Markham, Ontario, Canada

Ligos Technology is a leader in real-time MPEG software encoding solutions technology. Ligos is located in San Francisco, CA.