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CDC Member Companies

Note: The list of CDC member companies is currently increasing rapidly. Please e-mail us at cdc@tek.com for an up-to-date list of members.

AVECO

AVECO has been serving the TV industry since 1992 with TV automation systems installed in Europe, Asia, and Americas. AVECO automation is used by large premium broadcasters as well as small regional TV stations. It is built entirely on a real-time, mission-critical operating system that has network transparency (which allows for centralized or distributed architecture) and runs on memory protected address spaces where software modules are hot-swappable. Integration with Tektronix Cerify allows AVECO to offer even higher automation at the acquisition side of the workflow with less need for human intervention.

AVECO s.r.o.
Veleslavinska 39
162 00 Praha 6
Czech Republic
Tel. +420 (235) 366 707 email info@aveco.com

AZCAR

AZCAR is an independent broadcast and multimedia professional services organization offering a wide range of innovative digital media solutions to broadcast and media companies, as well as non-profit organizations, government, and multi-purpose sports and entertainment venues. AZCAR's service offerings include technology solutions consulting, systems design and integration, digital media content production systems, program distribution systems, and audio visual professional systems. AZCAR serves clients from offices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

AZCAR Technologies Incorporated
3235 14th Avenue
Markham, Ontario L3R 0H3
Canada
Tel. +1 (888) 694 6623
Fax +1 (905) 470 2559
email info@azcar.com

Blue Order

Blue Order is a global provider of turnkey Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions. Media and entertainment companies, corporations and public institutions use Blue Order products to collect, index, catalog, retrieve and distribute audio-visual and multi-format content. The Blue Order ‘Media Archive®’ product suite provides a comprehensive MAM framework to support new digital content services, optimize workflows and increase efficiencies along the content value chain.

Blue Order Solutions AG
Europaallee 10
67657 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)631 303 5200

CEI

Founded in 1986, CEI designs, constructs and supports some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated media networks for companies such as FOX, ABC Disney, NASA and Hong Kong Telecom. CEI delivers full turnkey professional services from consulting to systems implementation and support, and has won multiple awards for outstanding engineering.

Communications Engineering, Inc.
8500 Cinder Bed Road, Suite 100
Newington, VA 22122
USA
Tel. +1 (703) 550 5800
Fax +1 (703) 550 5180

Digital Rapids Corporation

Digital Rapids develops market-leading hardware and software solutions for transforming and delivering media, enabling the multi-platform experiences that are defining the future of digital video. Scaling from individual applications to enterprise and global operations, Digital Rapids systems span the critical points in today's complex media workflows, including media capture/ingest; encoding; transcoding; streaming; protection; playout; and delivery. Recipient of two prestigious Frost & Sullivan awards in the World Video Encoders and Transcoders market, Digital Rapids combines innovative technology with proven expertise to help our customers maximize their productivity, quality, and the value of their content in the evolving digital media market.

Digital Rapids Corporation
90 Allstate Parkway, Suite 700
Markham, Ontario
L3R 6H3
Canada
Tel. +1 (905) 946 9666
Fax +1 (416) 352 0716
email admin@digital-rapids.com

Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories develops and delivers products and technologies that make the entertainment experience more realistic and immersive. In broadcast, Dolby technology enables fantastic digital surround sound and improves audio quality and consistency.

The award winning Dolby DP600 Program Optimizer is a file-based broadcast audio processor that can solve the problem of loudness inconsistency between programs. It can also streamline the handling of surround audio in file-based infrastructures thanks to a flexible audio transcoding option.

San Francisco Offices
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
100 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103-4813
USA
Tel. +1 (415) 558 0200
Fax +1 (415) 863 1373

UK Tel. +44 (1)793 842 100

Entriq

Entriq helps companies quickly and easily get their digital media content to consumers and users. Entriq’s media solution, proven in production by some of the world’s leading brands, solves all the major problems content owners, rights holders and distributors encounter when attempting to package, control, deliver, and monetize content across all devices and platforms. Every day, customers like BSkyB, Sky News Australia, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, CBS, Oprah's Harpo Productions, BT, Viacom, ESPN, UEFA and Foxtel (Australia), rely on Entriq to thrive in the competitive and fast-paced digital media economy.

Entriq
5857 Owens Avenue, Suite 300
Carlsbad, CA 92008
USA
Tel. +1 (760) 795 2600
Fax +1 (760) 795 2626

Flatirons Solutions Corporation

Flatirons specializes in the products and technologies that enable a comprehensive set of leading-edge solutions that include web collaboration, dynamic, personalized web content, knowledge management, cutting-edge digital assets, and integrated electronic records management. The company is a recognized industry leader in XML, a technology critical to enterprise content management solutions.

Flatirons Solutions Corporation
4747 Table Mesa Drive, Suite 200
Boulder, Colorado 80305
USA
Tel. +1 (303) 544 0514
Fax +1 (303) 544 0522

IMAKE Software

IMAKE is the major provider of open, intelligent solutions and integration services that enable the seamless delivery of broadband digital media, Video On Demand (VOD) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) to cable television providers, telecommunications companies and content providers.

IMAKE Software and Services, Inc.
Headquarters
6700 Rockledge Drive, Suite 101A
Bethesda, MD 20817
USA
Tel. +1 (301) 896 9200

Institut für Rundfunktechnik

The Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik, Munich, Germany, was founded in 1956 as a private company, and is the central research and development establishment for public broadcasting organisations in Germany (ARD, ZDF and DLR), in Austria (ORF), and in Switzerland (SRG/SSR). In addition, IRT collaborates not only with numerous clients in the broadcasting, media, communication-engineering and IT sectors, but also with various research organisations and universities. The main focus of IRT’s work is the improvement of existing and the development of new, particularly digital, systems and their standardisation.

Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH
Floriansmühlstraße 60
D-80939 München
Germany
Tel. +49 (89) 323 99 - 0 Fax +49 (89) 323 99 - 351

Omneon

Omneon is the leading provider of cost-effective and flexible networked media storage and servers for production and broadcast. Omneon's open and advanced architecture minimizes customers’ upfront and ongoing expenses, while enabling them to capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Omneon
965 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94085-3913
USA
Tel. +1 (408) 585-5000
Fax +1 (408) 585-5099

Ninsight

Ninsight specializes in television automation for on-air broadcast, media management and program asset acquisition. Ninsight's highly reliable solutions serve as the cornerstone of many high profile operations and are fully scalable to address the needs of very large, multi-channel, fully redundant operations as well as small TV channels systems.

Ninsight
Le Technopolis
175, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
92130 Issy les Moulineaux
France
Tel. +33 (1) 73 79 00 00
Fax +33 (1) 41 46 98 249
email j.gillet@ninsight.com

Pharos Communications Ltd

Pharos software solutions improve workflow and increase efficiency for broadcasters and service providers in television, radio, VOD and mobile publishing. Since 1997 Pharos has pioneered collaborative desktop workflow and integrated third party infrastructure management.

The unique Mediator content management platform, with its integrated Playtime playout and Pilot control options, provides efficient tools to deliver multi-format content globally. Pharos software architecture, integration and post-installation support enable the entire business of broadcasting to be unified across the enterprise.

Pharos Communications Ltd
83 London Street
Reading, Berkshire, RG1 4QA
UK
Tel. +44 (118) 950 2323
Fax +44 (118) 950 2525
email info@pharos.tv

Pro-Bel

Pro-Bel offers proven play-to-air automation applications designed for single through to multi-channel operations. Pro–Bel's scalable solution address every area of transmission, from content ingest, storage and playout, to interfacing with back-office business systems.

Pro-Bel
Hartman House, Danehill
Lower Earley
Reading, Berkshire RG6 4PB
United Kingdom
Tel. UK: +44 (118) 986 6123
Tel. UK: +44 (118) 975 5787
Tel. USA: +1 (631) 549 5159

Ruzz TV

Ruzz TV provides strategic technology solutions with a focus on television broadcasting: the processes involved in the actual assembly and transmission of the stream of pictures and sounds that are seen by the viewer at home. This covers everything from scheduling and sales, through acquisition, production, assembly plus playout, transmission and distribution.

The benefits they offer the broadcaster are threefold: Operational, Technical and Strategic.

Ruzz TV is a solutions provider. They combine their award winning products with those from other vendors to deliver innovative solutions focussed on the specific needs of today’s modern broadcasters.

Ruzz TV
408 Victoria Road
Gladesville NSW
Australia 2111
Office Tel. +61 (2) 8877 0100
Sales Tel. +61 (2) 8877 0132
Mobile Tel. +61 (0) 412 273 588

S4M – Solutions for Media

The Cologne-based company S4M – Solutions for Media, a subsidiary of arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes software solutions specialized on the broadcast- and new media industry. The company's fully integrated, cross-media, software suite and "cutting edge" business tools make S4M a leader in media enterprise technology. Today, S4M systems are used in 30 countries around the world. Whether commercial air time sales or video content management; whether program planning, rights licensing, ratings evaluation or production planning -- today and tomorrow -- S4M solutions help manage the world's leading media businesses. Especially the S4M solutions for Video Content Management work with partners for reliable technical solutions, and their partnership with Omneon provides all aspects of efficient data storage and management.

S4M Solutions for Media GmbH
Am Coloneum 3
50829 Cologne
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 221 28555 0
Fax +49 (0) 221 28555 210
email info@s4m.com

ScheduALL

ScheduALL is the leading provider of out-of-the-box personnel and facilities operations management software to the global media and broadcast market.

VizuAll, Inc.
2719 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, Florida 33020
USA
Tel. inside USA: +1 (800) 334-5083
Tel. outside USA: +1 (954) 334-5405
email sales@scheduall.com

Screen Subtitling Systems

Screen Subtitling Systems is the number one supplier of subtitling and captioning systems in the world, providing a range of solutions for subtitle and graphics preparation, transmission and monitoring, as well as subtitle file management software. Screen offers over 30 years' knowledge and experience of subtitling technology and supports its clients through its worldwide distributor network and dedicated 24 hour customer care team.

Screen Subtitling Systems Ltd
The Old Rectory
Church Lane
Claydon Suffolk
United Kingdom
IP6 0EQ
Tel.: +44 (0)1473 831700
Tel.: +44 (0)1473 830078
email sales@screen.subtitling.com

SGT

SGT is a technology leader in workflow automation and offers the most comprehensive product line in the Broadcast and Media industries. SGT's VEDA™ software suite manages video content and automates the media-related workflows of media companies and broadcasters. VEDA™ comes with superior features, such as its unrivalled semantic search engine and the new VEDA™ Automation.

SGT
27 Rue Alfred Nobel
77420 Champs Sur Marne
France
Tel. +33 (0) 1 64 73 74 74
Fax +33 (0) 1 64 68 25 65
email contact@sgt.eu

Tandberg Television

TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group (NASDAQ:ERIC), delivers the technology and expertise that’s moving digital media forward. The company’s award-winning advanced compression systems, on-demand or content distribution solutions are used by the world’s leading broadcasters, operators and programmers to deliver new viewer experiences and advertising opportunities and to generate increased return on investment. With a broad suite of open, standards-based products, TANDBERG Television offers the highest quality solutions for Digital TV, HDTV, VOD, and IPTV.

TANDBERG Television, Inc.
4500 River Green Parkway
Duluth, GA 30096
USA
Tel: +1 (678) 812 6300
Fax +1 (678) 812 6400

Telestream

Telestream products have set the standard with the world's leading media and entertainment companies, corporations, and government institutions for encoding-based workflow automation solutions. Telestream helps customers transform their media for distribution to web, mobile, DVD, cable VOD, podcast and broadcast platforms. Telestream’s solutions streamline media workflows for content owners, creators, and distributors in any industry segment.

Telestream
848 Gold Flat Road, Suite 1
Nevada City, CA 95959
USA
Tel. +1 (530) 470 1300
Fax +1 (530) 470 1301

Thomson GrassValley

Thomson is a world leader in digital video technologies providing technology, services, and systems to help its Media, Entertainment & Communications clients – content creators, content distributors and users of its technology – realize their business goals and optimize their performance in a rapidly changing technology environment.

With ContentShare CS² Thomson Grass Valley offers a scalable, enterprise digital-asset management (DAM) solution adapted for organic growth to improve operations for broadcasters and media companies. It combines an asset-management framework for tracking ingest, movement and manipulation of content with a powerful workflow engine that not only supports an organization's business processes and operational tasks but also automates tasks based on policies and rules. This revolutionary approach, which uses a task-oriented user interface with a workplace concept, dramatically improves broadcast and rich media production and operations.

Thomson GrassValley
15655 SW Greystone Ct.
Beaverton, OR 97006
USA
Tel. +1 (503) 526 8286

TMD

TMD specializes in the development and delivery of solutions and services to the global media, broadcast and archive industries using the Mediaflex family of products. Mediaflex enables media organizations to manage both the physical media and digital file based content with their associated workflows. Organizations utilizing Mediaflex for the smooth and efficient running of their facilities include Arqiva, Ascent Media, Discovery USA, Sky Italia, ITFC and Turner Broadcasting.

TMD Ltd.
Tower House
High Street
Aylesbury
Bucks HP20 1SQ
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0)1296 745080
Fax +44 (0)1296 745055
email info@tmd.tv (enquiries); support@tmd.tv (support); webmaster@tmd.tv (web)

Vcodes CPS Ltd

Vcodes is a developer of automated content preparation systems, aimed for Cable, IPTV, Mobile, Web and large archives.

Vcodes CPS Ltd
Tower House
34 Habarzel St.
Ramat Hachayal
69710 Tel Aviv
Israel
Tel. +972 (0)3 649 50 70
Fax +44 +972 (0)3 649 50 79

Vizrt / Ardendo

Vizrt creates leading-edge content production tools for the digital media industry -- from award-winning 3D graphics & maps through integrated video workflow solutions and online publishing tools. We propose a new vision for content creation, management and delivery with an end-to-end solution from conception to multi-format distribution. Through constant innovation and a good measure of fun, we create software and services that push creative boundaries and develop new ways of telling stories.

Vizrt Sweden / Ardendo AB
Vendevägen 87
Plan 5
SE-182 32 Danderyd
Sweden
Tel. +46 (8) 522 277 00
Fax +46 (8) 522 277 89
email erik.ahlin@vizrt.com; charlotta.nilsson@vizrt.com

Xytech Systems Corporation

Xytech's Digital Order module automates file based media workflows, including real-time integration with 3rd party media management applications. Xytech is pleased to announce an Adaptor with the Tektronix Cerify automated Quality Control system. This Adaptor interacts with Cerify using the Cerify Profile, job number and asset file name to initiate and respond to Cerify QC jobs. Completed QC results are then appended to the Xytech Digital Order, allowing full visibility of the QC process from the Xytech user interface.

Xytech Systems Corporation
2835 North Naomi Street, Suite 310
Burbank, CA 91504
USA
Tel +1 (818) 303 7800
Fax +1 (818) 303 7801
email info@xytechsystems.com

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