Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle has entered the video server market with their new Thunder and iThunder products. It also includes an asset management system and a downstream keyer on each channel for live compositing. The system looks like a BVW-75 VTR to most video products to allow seamless integration into facilities and broadcast stations. Pluto Technologies Pluto currently offers two product lines in the Digital Disk Recorder category and also has a Video Server product. Quantel NAB 99 marked the U.S. debut for Quantel's new Inspiration integrated news and sports production system.
Inspiration handles everything from editing through playout of finished video.
The company also markets the Clipbox video server, featuring up to 160 hours of online storage and the ability to edit material within the server with no copying, transfers or bottlenecks. SeaChange International SeaChange offers the Broadcast MediaCluster product line in two configurations, the 1200 Series and the 800 Series. The main difference between the two is that the 1200 Series includes 12 disk drives per node and the 800 series features 8 drives per node for reduced cost. According to SeaChange, the Broadcast MediaCluster product line offers full fault resiliency without mirroring the entire system. The result is that a SeaChange system can tolerate up to three points of failure without losing information, compared with other systems that can tolerate only a single point of failure.