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- For Immediate Release
- Contact: Jud Alford
- NewTek, Inc.
- (913) 228-8000
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- Bobbie Hendershot
- Prime Image
- (408) 867-6519
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- NewTek and Prime Image Enter Worldwide Markets
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- Topeka, Ks., February 18, 1994 - NewTek, the company which launched the
- desktop video industy with the introduction of the Video Toaster, and Prime
- Image, a leader in transcoding time base correctors, synchronizers, standards
- converters and still video stores, have announced an agreement that will let
- the Video Toaster bridge worldwide video standards.
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- The agreement brings together the Video Toaster with Prime Image's
- Passport 4000 device that offers a digital video signal handling capabilities
- such as conversion to international video standards including PAL, SECAM,
- PAL-M PAL-N AND NTSC 4.43. The Passport 4000 also offers time base
- correction/synchronization.
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- "NewTek has built a billion dollar industry on the strength of Video Toaster
- technology," said Bill Hendershot, founder and president of Prime Image, Inc.
- "Prime Image's customers around the world have let us know there's
- tremendous pent-up demand for the Video Toaster in diverse video format
- applications. given this demand and given the standards conversion
- technology Prime Image has pioneered, it's a natural fit for Prime Image and
- NewTek to work together."
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- "I was very impressed how well the the Passport 4000 immediately
- complements the Video Toaster," said Tim Jension, founder, owner and
- president of NewTek. "The Video Toaster equipped with the Passport 4000 is
- going to bring desktop television production to vast new markets."
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- The Passport 4000 converts from one standard to another with a new "pass
- through" interpolation technique that does not degrade the signal. The
- Passport 4000 also offers time base correction/synchronization, digital effects,
- and adds AT bus expansion slots for the Amiga 4000. The time base
- corrector/synchronzier can transcode composite or Y/C out and features an
- ultra-stable freeze frame/field.
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- NewTek + Prime Image = Emmy2
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- Hendershot invented digital time-based correction 20 years ago. Prime Image
- has built on this core technology and expanded its application throughout the
- video industry. Jenison invented the Video Toaster and introduced it in 1990
- and it quickly became the standard for inexpensive, broadcast quality
- television production. The engineering Commmittee of the Academy of
- Television Arts & Sciences have awarded the Emmy for Technical
- Achievement to both NewTek and Prime Image.
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- The products are currently shipping. NewTek (booth #11050) and Prime
- Image (booth #17184) will be demonstrating the products at the National
- Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, March 21-24.
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