Grass Valley Announces REV Pro Drives and Disks as Standard in
IT-Based Infinity Series of Camcorders, Recording, and Storage
Devices SAN DIEGO, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iomega
Corporation (NYSE:IOM), a global leader in data storage celebrating
25 years of business, today announced the introduction of the
rugged Iomega REV(TM) Drive portable storage system as a built-in
storage standard in a series of new IT-based line of
next-generation Grass Valley acquisition, recording and storage
devices. At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in
Amsterdam, Grass Valley, a recognized leader in broadcast and
professional acquisition and production, is unveiling its new
Infinity(TM) Series of products that incorporate Iomega's REV
technology as a new recording medium. The Grass Valley Infinity
Digital Media Camcorder and Infinity Digital Media Recorder include
the new REV Pro drive and removable disk to provide the portability
and cost-effectiveness of videotape with the speed, flexibility and
ease of use of non-linear hard drive technology. The Grass Valley
products are the first such products to use off-the-shelf Iomega
REV removable disks as recording and playback media. REV Pro 35GB*
disks will allow users to record more than two hours of SD
(standard definition) or 45 minutes of HD (high definition) video
with complete flexibility in the use of encoding and compression
schemes. "Iomega's REV drive offers the professional audio/visual
markets a superior cost-effective storage platform with remarkable
capacity, throughput, and durability," said Werner Heid, president
and CEO, Iomega Corporation. "Grass Valley's new breakthrough
products showcase the superior capabilities of REV technology for
professional storage needs in this market." Grass Valley's new REV
Pro hardware is based on the Iomega REV 35GB drive, introduced in
April 2004. To date, over 125,000 REV drives and 600,000 REV disks
have been sold by Iomega to individuals, small businesses,
government agencies and corporate offices as portable backup and
archive storage solutions. Grass Valley's REV Pro disks will offer
users superior performance at wide extremes of humidity,
temperature and altitude. Master and user passwords provide content
security with guaranteed corporate access. Each Grass Valley REV
Pro disk will come preloaded with software for viewing, editing and
metadata modifications on any PC. "Our collaboration with Iomega to
create the Grass Valley REV PRO disk has achieved one of the great
goals of our industry -- a completely open and extremely affordable
recording medium for acquisition," said Marc Valentin, president of
the Grass Valley business within Thomson. "With REV PRO we can
deliver true random access while reading writing without losing
portability or making the user pay a high price." Grass Valley's
Infinity Digital Media Camcorder The Infinity camcorder combines
the best of Grass Valley's multiple Emmy(R) award winning camera
engineering with the leading recording and connectivity
technologies from the computing world. It is the first camcorder to
use off-the-shelf Iomega(R) REV(TM) or REV PRO(TM) removable disks
and professional-grade CompactFlash solid-state memory as recording
and playback media. The REV Pro disk provides video professionals
with tremendous workflow efficiencies, including nonlinear random
access to video files, simultaneous playback while recording, and
estimated 30-year archival storage. Ideal for multi-format
acquisition as well as migration from SD (standard definition) to
HD (high definition), the Infinity camcorder provides a choice of
video formats and standards selectable within the camera: 525i60,
625i50, 1080i50, 1080i60, 720p50, or 720p60. SD formats are
selectable in either 16:9, 4:3 or letterbox aspect ratios. Users
can encode video as DV25 (compatible with DVCam and DVCPRO), MPEG-2
for SD or HD, or the powerful JPEG 2000 compression scheme. Grass
Valley's Infinity Digital Media Recorder The Infinity Digital Media
Recorder (DMR) is a low-cost VTR replacement that eliminates the
compromises of tape-based video editing and playback. It uses
off-the-shelf Iomega REV or REV PRO removable disks and
professional- grade CompactFlash solid-state memory as recording
and playback media. This low-cost VTR replacement can be used
anywhere a traditional VTR is used: as a field recorder, preview
station, playout machine, or for ingesting material into editing
environments. The Infinity Digital Media Recorder offers both SD
and HD recording, choice of compression, and connectivity options.
With multi-stream capabilities, the DMR can transfer SD video data
while another source is being recorded. REV Pro removable disks
replace traditional videotape in the Infinity DMR because they are
more rugged and durable, transfer video data at the speed of a hard
drive, and offer random access to stored video clips. REV Pro disks
replace videotape in the field, in preview rooms, in edit bays, in
control rooms -- anywhere VTRs are used. In addition, the DMR can
be connected directly to a nonlinear editing workstation or, for
greater accessibility, it can be attached to a file server for
immediate enterprise-wide use. Removable REV Pro Disks Offer
Unprecedented Price/Performance The extremely durable REV Pro
removable disks provide the portability and cost-effectiveness of
videotape with the availability, speed, flexibility and ease of use
of true nonlinear media such as hard disks. Smaller than a deck of
playing cards (10 x 77 x 75 mm), the compact REV Pro disk stores 35
GB, enough to record more than two hours of SD or 45 minutes of HD
video. REV PRO products use standard laptop hard drive components
but are engineered to provide all the benefits of portability,
removability and archivability. For the video professional, REV PRO
products offer many advantages over standard REV products,
including enhanced bandwidth capacity (110 Mb/s real time
record/playback for throughput for HD video) along with the needed
overhead support for audio, time code, and metadata tracks. REV PRO
products also offer simultaneous record/playback capability and
faster rendering speeds for non-linear editing systems. On-board
applications include reverse, stop and forward, and browsing,
logging and trimming. Pricing and Availability Grass Valley REV PRO
storage disks are expected to be available in Q4 2005 in 10-packs
for approximately $75 per 35 GB disk. The Grass Valley Infinity
Digital Media Camcorder is expected to be available in Q1 2006,
with prices starting at $20,000 US. The Grass Valley Digital Media
Recorder is expected in Q2 2006 at a price of $10,000 US. About
Iomega REV Products The Iomega REV 35GB drive is currently shipping
in ATAPI, external USB 2.0, FireWire(R), SCSI, SATA and multi-disk
autoloader configurations. The Iomega REV drive is the winner of
more than 15 industry awards worldwide, including "Best of CeBIT
America" for personal hardware and a PC Magazine "5 Stars" rating
and Editors' Choice award (June 22, 2004, issue). Iomega REV drives
and low-cost removable REV disks are popular in traditional network
backup and archive applications, where REV disks offer superior
speed compared to tape. Service agencies and individuals use 35GB
REV disks as project disks and as tools for full system backup and
disaster recovery. About Iomega Iomega Corporation provides
easy-to-use, high value storage solutions to help people protect,
secure, capture and share their valuable digital information.
Iomega's award-winning storage products include the Iomega(R)
REV(TM) 35GB drive in several different computer interface models;
Zip(R) 100MB, 250MB and 750MB drives; high-performance Iomega
external hard drives; Iomega Mini USB drives, Micro Mini(TM) USB
drives, and the Iomega Mixx(TM) MP3 player; Iomega external CD-RW
drives; Iomega Super DVD drives and the Super DVD QuikTouch(TM)
Video Burner; and Iomega floppy USB-powered drives. Iomega
simplifies data protection and sharing at home and in the workplace
with Iomega Automatic Backup software, Iomega Sync software,
HotBurn(R) CD-recording software, and Active Disk(TM) technology.
For networks, Iomega NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to
1.6TB. For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access, Iomega
offers iStorage(TM) secure online storage. Iomega also offers
businesses and consumers a comprehensive data recovery services
solution for recovering lost data due to hardware failure, file
corruption or media damage. The Company can be reached at
1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at
http://www.iomega.com/. About Thomson -- Partner to the Media &
Entertainment Industries Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS)
provides services, equipment and technology to help its Media &
Entertainment clients -- content creators, content distributors and
users of its technology -- realize their business goals and
optimize their performance in a rapidly changing technology
environment. The Group intends to become the preferred partner to
the Media & Entertainment Industries through its Technicolor,
Grass Valley, RCA and Thomson brands. For more information:
http://www.thomson.net/. Thomson's Systems and Equipment division
develops video and film technologies, products and services sold to
all major Hollywood studios, all major television, satellite, and
cable broadcasters under the Grass Valley brand-name for the
delivery of analog and digital entertainment. The division also
includes Thomson's Broadband Access Products Business, which
develops technologies and products for broadband and
telecommunication networks to deliver digital entertainment and
data to consumers and businesses. For information about Grass
Valley products from Thomson please visit
http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/. NOTE: The statements contained
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completion of product development and testing, market acceptance
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Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004,
and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. * 1 GB =
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