Maxell Wins 2006 Star Award for Holographic Storage Technology - Company Recognized by TV Technology Magazine for Technical Excellence and Impact on Broadcast Industry
FAIR LAWN
May 15, 2006
Maxell Corporation of America has received TV Technology's 2006 STAR award for its holographic storage technology. Maxell's award, received in conjunction with InPhase, was presented during the 2006 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention.
STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) is designed to celebrate and showcase technological innovations. The award recognizes companies whose superior products represent significant technical breakthroughs and impact the future of video technology.
"Maxell has a long history in providing professional grade media to the broadcast industry and we are very pleased to be recognized for our work in developing Holographic Optical Recording Technology," said Anthony Petruzziello, director of sales for Maxell's Professional Media Products Division. "This award represents Maxell's ongoing commitment to innovation and performance based products that serve our clients today and will meet their growing needs in the future."
Holographic Optical Recording Technology breaks through the density limits of conventional storage by going beyond recording only on the surface, to recording through the full depth of the medium. Unlike other technologies that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light. This enables transfer rates significantly higher than current optical storage devices.
The broadcast and film industry have relied on Maxell for over 30 years for the latest recording media available. Randall Dark, a widely recognized HD pioneer, recently served as executive producer for a new film called "Closing Escrow" by director, Armen Kaprelian, which recently gained entry into the Dallas Video Festival on August 8-13. The film centers on three quirky families seeking to buy their next home and was shot using 62 Maxell HDCAM tapes and three Maxell D-5 tapes.
Source: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/05/15/1649721.htm
InPhase Technologies has signed (OEM) agreement with asm
Leading Holographic Storage Developer Pacts with Leading European Optical Storage Library Developer to Help Grow Next-Generation Archive Market
InPhase Technologies has signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with asm, a leading European developer of optical storage library systems.
The asm library provides a permanent and secure archive for video content. InPhase Tapestry-equipped asm libraries are scalable, offering as much as 1,095 TB or 24,146 hrs of HD at 100 Mb/s on 3,648 pieces of media.
The InPhase HDS-300R drive records 300 gigabytes (GB) on a single disk with a transfer rate of 20 megabytes per second (MB/s), or 160 megabits per second (Mb/s). The HDS-300R will enable broadcasters to record 35 hours of broadcast-quality (19 Mb/s) video on a single disk in 250 minutes (160 Mbps transfer rate). InPhase will begin shipments of the product to OEM customers at the end of 2006.
InPhase announced its first broadcast customer, Pappas Telecasting. Pappas will incorporate the InPhase Tapestry™ holographic drives into an archival storage system for its flagship stations, KAZR-TV/KREN-TV, in Reno, Nevada.
Source: http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/2560
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