Ross Video Signs Blackmagic Design as openGear® Partner

Iroquois, ON, Canada – May 27, 2009 – Ross Video officially announced Blackmagic Design’s partnership to expand the openGear® signal processing platform.

Blackmagic Design manufactures video editing products, converters, and routers for the post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic introduced eight new converters that support the openGear® platform at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) that will be shipping July 2009.

“We are excited to be part of the openGear® platform,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “Our high quality converters fully support the openGear® rackframe standard making us compatible with a wide range of third party equipment from openGear® partners worldwide.”

“We are pleased with the addition of Blackmagic Design to the openGear® platform,” said Stephane Gauthier, Marketing Product Manager – openGear® Platform, Ross Video. “Their line of converters is a welcome addition to the expanding platform giving customers more choices for their broadcasting needs.”

openGear® is an open-architecture, 2 RU modular frame system designed by Ross Video and supported by more than 20 different signal processing manufacturers. openGear® offers clients the freedom to choose the best technology from a wide range of manufacturers’ products to meet the needs of a broadcast, production, or distribution facility while maintaining a compatible openGear® frame infrastructure.

The Ross DashBoard Remote Control and Monitoring System and companion SNMP plug-in enables unified control over all openGear® cards in a system as well as for openGear® to tie in with 3rd party SNMP based systems. The openGear® modules offered from Ross include a broad selection of audio and video products for distribution, analog conversion, Up/Down/X format conversion, fiber, switching, keying and synchronization, as well as backward compatibility with a suite of solutions from the RossGear 8000 series.

About Blackmagic Design Inc.
Blackmagic Design Inc. manufactures the world’s highest quality video editing products, converters and routers for the post-production and television broadcast industries. The Multibridge, DeckLink and Intensity family of products have revolutionized the post production industry and made HDTV and film editing more affordable. Founded by the world’s leading editors and engineers from the post production industry, this knowledge is constantly fed back into our products. Blackmagic Design has operations in the USA, United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. For more information, please check www.blackmagic-design.com.

About Ross Video
Ross Video designs, manufactures and supports a wide range of innovative products for use in live production applications. Ross’ award winning product line includes Vision, Vision Octane and CrossOver Video Production Switchers; openGear®, RossGear and GearLite Signal Processing; BlackStorm Video Servers; OverDrive Production Control Systems and XPression Character Generators. Ross products are installed in over 100 countries around the world, where they are used daily by top broadcasters, production companies, sports stadiums, government agencies and houses of worship.

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For further information, please contact:
Sara Bell
Media Relations Specialist
t. (613) 652-3020
f. (613) 652-4425
e. sbell@rossvideo.com