News Releases - 2004

OverDrive Wins Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit of Show Award

Ottawa, Ontario – April 23, 2004. Ross’s OverDrive Production Control System was announced today as a Broadcast Engineering magazine Pick Hit for NAB2004.

An anonymous group of judges who work in the broadcast, post, and network and satellite industries – not the editors or publisher of Broadcast Engineering - selects products to be honored. Several criteria are used, including the product’s positive impact on the everyday work of the intended user, its technological improvement over previous products and its appropriateness in pricing for its intended users.

“This is a great honor.” remarked Ross Video President, David Ross “It is great to see that key industry experts are as excited about OverDrive as we are.”

OverDrive is a production control system that enables touch screen control over the devices used in a production control room. OverDrive integrates with the Synergy SD and MD-X series of production switchers, leveraging their powerful control interfaces over video servers, VTRs, DDRs, audio mixers, robotic cameras, routers, still stores and more.

OverDrive also offers a newsroom interface that ties into a variety of newsroom systems such as Associated Press’ ENPS system via MOS protocol. This enables a show’s elements to be built in pre-production in ENPS as well as providing a live link from the news room system line up to the OverDrive production run down during a news cast.

Details of the new Synergy MD and MD-X may be obtained by contacting your local Ross Video agent, calling the Ross Video main telephone number at +1 613-652-4886, send a fax to +1 613-652-4425 or email solutions@rossvideo.com.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit honor is the longest-running new product technology award granted in the industry.

Ross Video manufactures industry leading Analog, SD, and HD Production Switchers, Routers, DVEs, Keyers, Distribution Amplifiers, A-D and D-A converters. Ross global headquarters is in Iroquois, Ontario. Synergy, RossGear, GearLite, Aspectizer, Squeeze & Tease, AuxKey, UltraChrome, FlexiClean, MediaCache, Global-Store, MLE-Store, MultiDSK, and OverDrive are trademarks of Ross Video.

For further information, please contact:
Jan Mills, Media Marketing Manager
T. (613) 652-3019 F. (613) 652-4425
E. jmills@rossvideo.com