Here are the highlights of each of our RapidNews Issues. Click on the links to see the full Newsletter.

January 2005

PATRICK IRVINE, MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION MANAGER, UNITED LEARNING, A DIVISION OF DISCOVERY EDUCATION
"United Learning needed to find a way to increase productivity, and found the Digital Rapids systems. The two Digital Rapids systems are now reliably making 16 simultaneous video files at a time, and because of the hardware based deinterlacing and digital noise filters developed by Digital Rapids, the quality has improved."
October 2004

CURT EVANS, PRESIDENT AND CEO, DIGITAL EVIDENCE GROUP
"We sought out Digital Rapids to provide a solution to common problems we faced in the legal videography market. We've been very pleased that Digital Rapids has allowed us to provide cutting-edge service in the legal videography industry, and that our trial consulting business has grown as a result."

August 2004

JAMES PORTER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, POST PRODUCTION AND BROADCAST OPERATION, STARZ!ENCORE, COLORADO
"The quality of the video encoding was the best we had seen, in fact, it is fabulous, and the features of the StreamEnterprise software, such as RS422 control with frame accurate VTR control, audio controls, video proc amp controls, and graphics overlay were features our production facility had to have."
June 2004

ALEX REBEN, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORIES, NEW YORK
"Not only were we beginning to stream more meetings, we were doing events that required streaming equipment in a variety of remote locations. We had to find a streaming solution that could be used in these situations. Barry Singer from VCA in New Jersey brought the portable Digital Rapids SteamZ to my attention."

January 2004

FOCUS ON EDUCATION

DAVID FUDELL, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
"We use our Digital Rapids encoder to digitize video of 15 to 25 hours per week of classes taught at the College of Pharmacy...I have been extremely impressed with the quality of the unit's output, its reliability, and its flexibility. And the support from Digital Rapids has been excellent."

DANIEL J. BRACKEN, CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
"We are using a Digital Rapids StreamZ 2500XS in the Learning Technologies Group. Its real-time multi-format capabilities far surpass any of the other solutions we've tried."

December 2003

YTN (Yonhap Television News) KOREA
"YTN have found that Digital Rapids 422 batch capture an asset in speeding up production saving both time and cost on the work flow."

MEDIA LAB
"Using DRC, we can make every codec in real-time without any rendering time. Simply it is unbelievable."

November 2003

NELVANA
"With the need for digitized delivery and the vast number of format requirements in our daily production routine, we were looking for a solution that could cover it all-and found it in Digital Rapids."
October 2003

KT (KOREA TELECOM)
"We needed the highest possible video quality at high bit rates and a system that was reliable and easy to use. Digital Rapids is the solution that best does this.."
September 2003

MCM LEARNING, INC.
"The work flow from the Digital Rapids product was seamless as we took the created digital files and sent them to the Sonic system for DVD and CD-ROM creation."
July 2003

 THE YARD BROADCAST NETWORK
"We chose the Digital Rapids StreamZ-2500xs after its trial period showed the stability and reliability that we required."
June 2003

BskyB
"Now with Digital Rapids StreamZ system, journalists and not specialist staff can quickly encode and edit high quality video all on one system, reducing resource costs and enabling a swift response to breaking news."

DKP EFFECTS INC.
"Not only has the Digital Rapids product solved our encoding problems, it's now a solution we count on everyday as a part of our production workflow."
May 2003

KOREA ADVANCED DIGITAL DATA (KADD) INC.
"We chose the Digital Rapids product because it provided high video quality, excellent system performance and the software application is very easy to use."

PUBLICIS DIALOG
"With Digital Rapids, we finally found a solution capable of handling SDI and one which can compress any of our video sources to any format."

March 2003

IMAGESOURCE
"Digital Rapids technology is what gives us an advantage over the competition."

OLYMPIACOS C.F.P.
"The integration between the Digital Rapids server and the provider was seamless."

February 2003

SAMPLE DIGITAL
"It's quite simple: no other realtime capture and encoding solution offers us the video quality we--and by extension our clients--need."

CREATIVE POST INTERACTIVE
"StreamZ's ability to batch encode and automatically ftp clips to our clients or to our server makes it an extremely intelligent encoding choice. "

December 2002

NAVAIR
"The support from Digital Rapids has been excellent, and has brought this project to life."

BEAM TV
"We have found the StreamZ system to be the perfect 'swiss army knife' for day to day encoding."