Telestream Announces new Partners and Products at NAB2004

Participation in 22 partner demonstrations highlights Telestream’s broadening reach; new features unveiled for all Telestream digital media access and exchange products

Las Vegas (National Association of Broadcasters Convention), April 19, 2004 – Telestream, the recognized leader in automated media encoding and delivery solutions, has firmly established itself as the most integrated workflow automation solution in the broadcast and entertainment industries. The increased number of new partnership alliances, the number of partners integrating Telestream products in their NAB demonstrations, and the number of new products and features being introduced by Telestream at this year’s NAB, combine to substantiate the company’s broadening reach. They also validate the important role Telestream plays in enabling digital media access and exchange for a variety of workflows.

“We are pleased to announce that more than 20 companies have included Telestream products in their NAB demonstrations,” said David Heppe, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Telestream. “We understand the desire for tapeless workflows, including the ability to easily access, organize and share digital media files across local and wide area IP networks. Our standards-based solutions seamlessly integrate with a broad range of applications and systems to enable these tapeless digital workflows.”

Announcing New Partner Alliances:

At NAB2004, Telestream announced new partnerships with the following companies which have integrated Telestream products into their offerings for resale. Blue Order, a global provider of media asset management solutions demonstrates Telestream FlipFactory integration with its broadcast offerings in booth SU6759. Grand Vitesse integrates FlipFactory with its storage-for-broadcast solutions in booth SU8117. The MediaBeacon asset management solution now integrates FlipFactory transcoding technology. The packaged system is being sold through Microboards and is being featured in its booth SL3706. BitCentral offers FlipFactory transcoding for its news delivery service.

Additional new partner alliances were announced at the show. The Associated Press ENPS group is demonstrating FlipFactory automated transcoding/delivery from SnapFeed onto the news server in booth SL2775. Aspera has partnered with Telestream to boost transfer speeds for Telestream ClipMail appliances, and the combined solution is being featured in booth SL966. NVerzion demonstrates FlipFactory integration with its storage solutions in booth SU7075.

Telestream’s newly launched MAPone™ established itself as a key element in news workflows as evidenced by two leading news solution vendors. Thomson and Avid Technology are promoting Telestream’s MAPone™ for their laptop news editing solutions.

Existing partners integrating Telestream products into their NAB demonstrations include:

Media Asset Management Solution Partners
Adware	in SU8929
Documentum/EMC	in SL2769B
HP	in SL4220
IBM	in SU9839
Pictron	in SL5249
Stellent/Ancept	in SU9839
TWIinteractive	in SL1771
Broadcast and Production Solution Partners
Harris	in C1906
Pinnacle Systems	in SU10160
Rorke Data	in SU8071
Sony	in SU11051, SL2769K
Sundance	in SU7470
Content Distribution Solution Partners
Ednet	in SL2452
Pathfire	in SU10000
Starnet/MediaDVX	in C10039

New Products and Features
The big news for Telestream this year is the introduction of a new class of media solutions aimed at dramatically simplifying the way content owners and creators access, organize and share digital media. Based on a media-sensitive file system, Telestream’s Media Application Platform (MAP) has spawned a full suite of distributed media access products. At NAB2004, Telestream introduces: the new MAPx workgroup media organizer; the MAP Enterprise Edition which aggregates content from any of the individual MAP workgroup solutions, providing visibility and access to media over wide area networks; and the new MAPreviewsc single-channel bundled solution for live compliance recording applications.

With over 2,000 systems now installed worldwide, Telestream’s ClipMail MPEG encoding and IP delivery appliances have firmly established themselves as the industry standard for fast, efficient, high-quality media delivery over broadband networks. New, advanced playback controls, which allow users to easily jog and shuttle through any clip, are featured in Telestream booth SU7183.

Telestream’s powerful FlipFactory transcoding automation workhorse continues to feature support for many new formats and systems, providing interoperability between legacy systems and enabling tapeless digital media workflows. At NAB2004 FlipFactory features expanded media server support for Pinnacle MediaStream, Omneon Content and Director Media Servers, and Leitch Nexio. Telestream continues to support the new MXF file interchange standard with encode and decode support for the Sony SDCAM, eVTR and MAV2000 video server. Utilizing the MXF toolkit from MOG Solutions, FlipFactory can support integration with any MPEG or DV based standard MXF system. New encoder/decoder support includes HD support for Windows Media 9 and the Real 10 Helix encoder, the H.264 encoder by Main Concept, Avid DV QuickTime encoder, and expanded QuickTime encoder support.

New Telestream products, features and a number of partner integration solutions are demonstrated in Telestream’s booth SU7183 at this week’s NAB convention in Las Vegas.

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About Telestream (www.telestream.net)
Telestream products have set the standard with the world’s leading media and entertainment companies, corporations and government institutions for the encoding, organizing and delivery of digital media. Customers rely on Telestream products for convenient, cost-effective, and robust digital media access and exchange over IP networks. Telestream’s automation applications and smart media organization solutions streamline workflows for broadcasters and media companies, as well as content owners and content creators in government, higher education and corporate markets. Telestream and its team of video experts are located in Nevada City, the “video valley” region of Northern California. The company is privately held.

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