 Constellation Andromeda Server™ Provides Customers Backup, Archive, Search, Retrieval Functions Managed Through Single Hardware Platform; RFD-TV and Cooperstown Dreams Park Are First Customers
STUDIO CITY, CA – Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced the release of its Constellation Andromeda Server™ storage management appliance. The product, a combination of the innovative Constellation VCM™ storage and archive management software with customized Windows 7 servers, provides customers with a foundation for performing multi-tiered storage management, archiving and back-up functions – and includes, search, retrieval and manipulation of assets – through a single visual interface. The system is compatible with leading edit and storage systems, including Avid, Apple Final Cut Pro, and virtually all NAS and SAN storage systems.
Media Distributors also announced that RFD-TV, the nation's first 24-hour television network dedicated to serving the needs and interests of rural America and agriculture, and Cooperstown Dreams Park, America’s Foremost Youth Baseball Experience®, are the first customers for the Constellation Andromeda Server.
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Posted on Aug 03, 2010 - 11:04 AM
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Innovative Business Products Manages Installation of Media Distributors' Constellation VCM™ System; Delivers Complete Video Storage Solution for Fortune 1000 Firm
STUDIO CITY, CA and MILWAUKEE, WI – Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced that Northwestern Mutual Life has integrated the Media Distributors Constellation VCM™ storage and archive management system for use in the Northwestern Mutual Life creative services video department.
With the assistance of its Midwestern region reseller, Innovative Business Products, Media Distributors has secured its first corporate video installation for the Constellation VCM system, which debuted at NAB 2009. Constellation VCM is a software-based system that includes an end-user interface that offers full search, retrieve, and manipulation of video and project files, without touching the original video source content.
Innovative Business Products partner Jim Phillips had collaborated with Media Distributors' Tony Cahill over the course of several webinars and product training sessions to customize Constellation VCM to specific Northwestern Mutual Life needs.
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Posted on Apr 13, 2010 - 03:41 PM
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TrusCont Enhanced DVD-R discs are being promoted in the US and Canada as a superior alternative to standard DVD media through a new 4-party consortium. The objective of the new consortium is to make the Enhanced DVD-R media widely available in the US and Canada for professional or standard use at a price range of standard high quality media.
Haifa, Israel – February 2, 2010 -- TrusCont Ltd. a leader in copy protection and Digital Rights Management solutions announced today the foundation of a new 4-party consortium for promoting the TrusCont Enhanced DVD-R media in the US and Canada.
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Posted on Feb 01, 2010 - 11:41 AM
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Former Avid, Creative Media Partners Sales Executives Expand Leading Professional Video Services Team
STUDIO CITY, CA and NEW YORK, NY -- Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production, today announced that it has expanded its Technology and Solutions sales team at its Studio City, California office. The company has named Doug Cavaliere, formerly with Creative Media Partners, as Senior Sales Executive, Tim Lambert, formerly with Avid and the Discovery Network as Manager of Technical Operations and Brian Boring, formerly with Avid, as a Sales Consultant to the Company.
In a separate announcement today, Media Distributors announced that it has been named a full-line Avid reseller for Southern California. The new hires will bolster an already strong Technology and Solutions sales team for Media Distributors; Lambert was formerly the lead sales integration executive in Southern California for the Avid Unity™ storage product, and Boring handled high-visibility accounts for Avid in Southern California.
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Posted on Jan 20, 2010 - 10:03 AM
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 Media Distributors Is First New Avid Gold Premier Reseller in More Than Six Years
STUDIO CITY, CA – Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems and products for professional audio and video production, today announced that it has been named an Avid® Gold Premier reseller. Leveraging its vast solutions portfolio, Media Distributors will pair its proprietary systems with Avid award winning technologies such as Avid’s Media Composer® editing systems and Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork shared storage solutions to facilitate customer migration and upgrades to HD solutions and workflows.
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Posted on Jan 20, 2010 - 09:37 AM
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10.29.09 MEDIA DISTRIBUTORS ACQUIRES ADVANCED TEK REP (ATR), A LEADING SUPPLIER OF INTEGRATED DATA SOLUTIONS
 COMPANY WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE AND BRAND UNDER THE ATR NAME
Studio City, CA - Media Distributors, the leading US distributor of professional recording media, data storage, motion picture film, editing systems, storage solutions and rentals has today announced that it has acquired ATR – Advanced Tek Rep.
Since 1984, ATR has provided end-users with a diverse array of integrated solutions, ranging from disc duplication solutions, printers, data storage systems, packaging systems, software and medical system solutions. The company represents a range of manufacturers, including All-Pro Solutions, Medstar Systems, Kodak, Primera, Rimage, R-Quest, Sencor/Cedara, Verity Systems, Vidar Systems and others.
Visit: www.advanced-tek-rep.com
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Posted on Nov 01, 2009 - 09:34 AM
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 Archive Station™ R-Series Remote Digital Lab for RED Workflows Ideal for On-Set Capture and Archive Systems Specifically for RED Cameras
NEW YORK - Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced that it has been named an official systems integrator for the RED Rocket, the real-time 4k playback and processing card from RED Digital Cinema. Media Distributors recently introduced its Archive Station™ R-Series Remote Digital Lab for RED Workflows, which includes the Line 1 Media Fusion Drive™, a hybrid storage system that includes LTO-4 and Blu-ray drives for media archive creating an efficient solution for immediate backup of tapeless content for productions.
Media Distributors will integrate both R-Series products and other RED Rocket solutions for customers, enabling leading-edge design and workflow solutions around RED camera systems. The Fusion Drive is currently the industry’s most cost-effective tapeless workflow solution, which enables video post-production professionals to deliver high-end HD video editing and effects in a system that - at a $9,999.00 USD price point - sells for only eight percent of a comparable HD tape-based recording system. Media Distributors’ Line 1 Media division will market the Fusion Drive and other RED Rocket solutions, today at an event at Media Distributors East, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, at 645 West 27th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues.
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Posted on Oct 15, 2009 - 04:51 PM
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 Company Unveils Polaris RAID™ Storage Solution; Fusion Drive™ Unique Hybrid Recorder
STUDIO CITY, CA - Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production conducted a day-long event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, California that demonstrated new tapeless workflow solutions for the professional video production industry. The company demonstrated an array of systems with tapeless cameras and held a range of sessions with leading digital workflow experts that discussed the aesthetic and economic benefits of going tapeless.
In addition, the company unveiled new video workflow systems for production and post-production customers that offer the lowest price points for what are enterprise-class workflow and storage products. The company’s Polaris RAID™, the industry’s most affordable RAID storage solution, and the Fusion Drive™ - a unique hybrid recorder/asset management system that is the industry’s most cost-effective tapeless workflow solution - are the latest tapeless workflow products from Media Distributors, which is the industry’s largest independent distributor of recording media.
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Posted on Sep 24, 2009 - 12:11 PM
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 Leading Post-Production and Visual Effects Company Installs Flexible RAID Solution for Use in Multi-Site Video Workflow Solution; Enables Flexible, Efficient Storage System
STUDIO CITY, CA - Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced that Point360, a leading post-production and visual effects firm, has installed the company’s next-generation Polaris RAID™ storage solution for use across Point360’s growing network of post-production sites. The Polaris RAID solution was introduced today at an event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, California.
The result of several years of consultation and design implementation, the Media Distributors Polaris RAID system is the industry’s most affordable RAID storage solution.
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Posted on Sep 16, 2009 - 03:28 PM
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 Hybrid Video Recorder/Asset Management System Creates Greater Efficiencies for Post-Production Professionals; System Priced at $9,999
STUDIO CITY, CA - Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced that it has introduced the industry’s most cost-effective tapeless workflow solution, the Fusion Drive™. A unique hybrid recorder/asset management system, the Fusion Drive enables video post-production professionals to deliver high-end HD video editing and effects in a system that - at a $9,999.00 USD price point - sells for only eight percent of a comparable HD tape-based recording system.
Media Distributors’ Line 1 Media division will market the Fusion Drive, which is being introduced today at a Media Distributors event, from 12:00-7:00 pm in the Studio Rooms of the Universal Sheraton Hotel, located at 333 Universal Hollywood Drive in Universal City.
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Posted on Sep 16, 2009 - 03:19 PM
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Point360, Shoulder High Productions, and David Sutcliffe Use Polaris RAID™ for Intensive Video Workflow and Archive Solutions
STUDIO CITY, CA - Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced that it has introduced the industry’s most affordable RAID storage solution, the Polaris RAID™ system. Media Distributors’ Line 1 Media division will market the Polaris RAID to production customers that require large-scale storage for video and effects workflow. The system - at $11,999 - offers the most competitive price for its storage capacity.
Point360, a leading Los Angeles-based post-production and visual effects company; Shoulder High Productions, a San Francisco-based film and video production company, and David Sutcliffe Productions, an independent Los Angeles-based television production company, have all either installed or used the Polaris RAID system recently.
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Posted on Sep 16, 2009 - 02:37 PM
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Point360, Shoulder High Productions Among First to Use Polaris RAID™ Storage Solution; Fusion Drive™ Offers Unique Hybrid Recorder/Asset Management
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today unveiled new video workflow systems for production and post-production customers that offer the lowest price points for what are enterprise-class workflow and storage products. The company’s Polaris RAID™, the industry’s most affordable RAID storage solution, and the Fusion Drive™ - a unique hybrid recorder/asset management system that is the industry’s most cost-effective tapeless workflow solution - are the latest tapeless workflow products from Media Distributors, which is the industry’s largest independent distributor of recording media.
Both the Polaris RAID and Fusion Drive will be introduced today at a private event at the Universal Sheraton Hotel in Universal City, California, from 12:00-7:00 pm in the Studio Rooms of the Universal Sheraton Hotel, located at 333 Universal Hollywood Drive in Universal City.
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Posted on Sep 16, 2009 - 02:10 PM
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Polaris RAID™ System Enables Scalable Workflow and Editing for Massive 5-Year Documentary; Brings Enterprise-Class Storage to Independent Production Firm
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Shoulder High Productions, a noted San Francisco-based independent film production company, today announced that it has installed Media Distributors’ recently-introduced Polaris RAID™ storage system for use in the production and post-production of a five-year documentary project on the development of the San Francisco Transbay Transit Center. The next-generation storage system, the most effective in the industry, will enable Shoulder High to easily store and access footage in a single-system environment.
Marketed by Media Distributors’ Line 1 Media division, Polaris RAID is the industry’s most affordable RAID storage solution. The system will be marketed to production customers that require large-scale storage for video and effects workflow. The system - at $11,999 - offers the most competitive price for its storage capacity. Combined with Media Distributors’ Constellation VCM™ asset management system, the first video asset management system to leverage next-generation enterprise tiered storage techniques and digital fingerprinting, Polaris RAID provides for a highly flexible, scalable storage and distribution system for a wide range of customers, from large-scale video rights holders to small production and post-production companies.
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Posted on Sep 16, 2009 - 01:48 PM
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 On-Site Back-Up and Archive Performed Using 8 Sony EX-3 Cameras; Constellation VCM™ Workflow System Used to Manage 12 TB of Footage
LOS ANGELES, CA - For producer David Sutcliffe, capturing an intense, week-long therapy session based on the Core Energetics method for his forthcoming reality show, ‘Group,’ required an equally radical form of real-time video workflow. Sutcliffe and his D.I.T., Emile Hanton, tapped the expertise of Studio City, California-based solutions provider Media Distributors for its recently-unveiled Archive Station™ system, which enabled the production company to perform on-site what might have taken weeks to perform in a traditional post work flow.
The production - shot over a six-day period in the remote location of Laurel Springs, California - combined Sony PMW-EX3 cameras, Pure Digital’s Flip cameras for personal diary takes, and the Archive Station for a unique workflow that enabled the crew to shoot with eight cameras, ten hours a day, and include footage from 20 Flip cameras without a hitch. The resulting hundreds of hours of footage was instantly archived and backed up to a SAN and LTO drives using the Archive Station, creating a new paradigm for reality TV production.
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Posted on Jul 28, 2009 - 08:02 AM
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 Leading Professional Video Services Firm Signs Former Sony Electronics, Wexler Video, and Bell Micro Executives to Help Growing Sales Operations
STUDIO CITY, CA and NEW YORK, NY—Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production, today announced that it has expanded its sales team in the Los Angeles and New York markets, as well as bolstered its technical services team. Mike Caputo, formerly district sales manager for Sony Professional Media in New York, will join the company’s New York office, where he will head up regional sales; Kendall Draper, formerly with Bell Micro, will join the company’s Studio City, California office, as will Jeff Bown, formerly director of strategic sales initiatives at Wexler Video. Media Distributors also announced the hire of Jason Myres to the company’s technical services division.
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Posted on Jul 22, 2009 - 11:28 AM
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 Media Distributors to Bundle Panasonic DVCPRO/Varicam, P2 Equipment With Remote Station, Constellation VCM, and Archive Station Gear to Media/Entertainment Industry
LAS VEGAS, NV – Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced that it has signed an agreement with Panasonic. Broadcast as a systems integrator for the company’s DVCPRO/Varicam and P2 broadcast equipment. Media Distributors’ Rental Station division will act as a Panasonic systems integrator, expanding the company’s already strong reputation for services in the media and entertainment industry.
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Posted on Apr 21, 2009 - 08:44 PM
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 Sold Through Company’s Line 1 Media Division; Write-Once White Inkjet-Printable Media Provides Patented High Durability Protective Coating
LAS VEGAS, NV – Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced the introduction of its Line1 Media recordable Blu-ray Disc media, which enables producers to more easily print disc label content, thanks for the media’s patented High Durability (HD) protective coating. The product comes in a single rugged jewel-case configuration. The Line 1 Media recordable Blu-ray Disc is the latest product in the Line 1 brand, which was launched by Media Distributors in 2007. The product line offers both thermal and inkjet-printable media in 25-pack spindles and. The Line 1 Media Blu-ray Disc portfolio will expand to rapidly meet the needs of video, enterprise, and gaming professionals.
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Posted on Apr 20, 2009 - 07:53 PM
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 Leading professional video services and systems provider to sell Codex products
Las Vegas, Booth #C10408, April 20th, 2009—Codex Digital, specialist in high-resolution media recording systems, has signed a reseller agreement with Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production across the U.S.. Media Distributors will sell Codex Digital’s range of HD 2K 3D 4K field recording products to production and post-production customers from its offices across the U.S., and will also integrate Codex systems into recently-launched archive and asset management systems. The companies will conduct ‘live’ demonstrations of these systems, using a Sony F23 camera, during NAB 2009 at Booth #C10408.
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Posted on Apr 19, 2009 - 08:34 PM
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 Constellation VCM™ Provides 24-Hour Sports Channel with Flexible Deep Archive Solution; Enables Networked Asset Management For Sharing Video Assets
STUDIO CITY, CA—Media Distributors, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production today announced that it has delivered a new video content management system for Universal Sports, the 24-hour Olympic-related and lifestyle sports network owned jointly by NBC Sports and InterMedia Partners. The Constellation VCM™, introduced today by Media Distributors, provides Universal Sports with a flexible network-based system for archiving video assets.
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Posted on Apr 17, 2009 - 08:39 PM
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