“Professional sports have always been a ‘now’ focused-type of entertainment and the digital era has brought in a whole new world when it comes to fan engagement,” comments Shannon Hosford, Chief Marketing Officer at MLSE.  “Our number one goal is to provide a unique media experience and deepen fan engagement before, during and after the game. Dalet allows us to focus on telling the timely stories that matter to fans right now – whether it’s creating snackable content from interviews, a look into the lives of players, or deconstructing a spectacular play moments after it happens. It also gives us the ability to reuse that content for a related story in the future; connecting the history of the organization to that ‘now’ moment, which deepens the passion our fans have for their favorite team.”

MLSE captures an enormous amount of content from games, practices, media scrums and interviews, and carefully curates that content for delivery to an omnichannel experience their fans have come to expect. Leveraging Dalet Galaxy, MLSE effectively wrangles content with a detailed metadata scheme that makes it accessible and useable in the moment and in the future.

Rebecca Waters, Manager – Media Asset Management at MLSE

By unifying content ingest, production and distribution into a cohesive ecosystem, Dalet Galaxy enables operations to have greater agility to share content across divisions, bureaus and remote locations, driving the interconnected storytelling they require across the brand.

“Content is becoming increasingly more strategic for sports networks, leagues, teams, venues, and brands to better engage and retain their fans, whether it’s direct or through a network of providers,” states Frederic Roux, Vice President of Sales, Dalet. “To be competitive, you need a supply chain such as Dalet Galaxy that can manage the rich content inventory as it grows, effectively utilize it, and quickly tap into new opportunities when they arise. With its agile orchestration and publishing workflow, Dalet Galaxy manages content lifecycle with the built-in flexibility required to make those critical ‘in the moment’ adjustments that keep fans dialed in at all stages of the game experience.” 

 

About the Dalet Workflow at MLSE

Serving as the core media infrastructure for Scotiabank Arena, the Dalet Galaxy platform facilitates all team content logging, transcoding, fast assembly and multiplatform distribution at the venue. The expansion builds on the successful Dalet archive project implemented in 2012 and connects the entire production and distribution workflow, including the group’s post-production activities via Dalet Xtend for Adobe® Premiere Pro® CC.

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With Dalet Brio, which features advanced ingest and playout capabilities, teams and venues can manage simultaneous and synchronized ingest of multiple camera feeds as well as distribute content to screens located throughout the stadium, all from within the SportsPack solution. Support for industry standard metadata sources, such as SMT, Stats and Sports ML, makes it easy for sports teams to associate player stats, boxscore data, league standings and much more with Dalet SportsPack ingested content.

Operators can log events using the integrated Dalet Sports Logger application complete with customizable sports-oriented buttons and features. The underlying Dalet MAM generates metadata-rich content and associates proxies that are stored centrally in a content catalog for easy search and retrieval. The comprehensive metadata capture means coaches, players and back-office staff can quickly search for content from any camera angle that has been recorded, or is currently recording.

Dalet SportsPack connects postproduction activities directly into the production pipeline via its Dalet Xtend module. Fast search and browse tools give video editors the ability to find key plays based on teams, players, games or any other relevant information. They can quickly create highlight reels using the Dalet OneCut video editor or other well-known non-linear editing systems such as Adobe Premiere®, Avid® or Final Cut Pro®. All the key plays logged by sports loggers appear on the video editing timeline as markers for any video recorded of the event, making a video editor’s job simple and efficient while editing multiple camera angles.

Dalet AmberFin transcoding, a key component of the Dalet SportsPack configuration, allows staff to transcode content in multiple formats including to and from SD, HD, 4K and more, making it possible for teams and venues to distribute content to any broadcast signal as well as to YouTube, Twitter and other social networks. Directly connected to the Dalet MAM content catalog, the integrated Dalet Media Navigator application manages playlist creation and playout to multiple platforms inside and outside the stadium.

For more information about Dalet SportsPack, please read this blog post https://www.dalet.com/blog/upper-hand-stadium-sports/.

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Attendees to NAB 2014 (Las Vegas, April 7–10) can book private demonstrations to see Dalet Galaxy, Dalet News Pack, Dalet Brio and other new Dalet technology offerings firsthand on the Dalet booth, SL2725.

Rule Your Workflow With Dalet Galaxy

The foundation for productivity-enhancing workflow solutions including Dalet Sports Factory, Dalet News Suite, Dalet Media Life (program preparation, production and archiving), and Dalet Radio Suite, Dalet Galaxy is an enterprise MAM platform featuring a powerful framework for system integration, advanced BPM capabilities, and multi-site content production and management tools.

Feature highlights of the NAB 2014 Dalet Galaxy premiere include:

Exceptional User Experience: A redesigned user interface with configurable macro buttons gives Dalet Galaxy users a beautifully integrated workspace with tools just a click away.

Intelligent Technology to Orchestrate Workflows: The Dalet Galaxy BPM workflow engine unifies the content chain by managing assets, metadata, workflows and processes across multiple and diverse production, distribution and archive systems. It automates many tasks and processes, and provides operational and business visibility to enable broadcasters to improve productivity.

Unprecedented Third-Party Integration Thanks to Open IT Architecture: Developed from the ground up to meet the needs of the broadcast and media industries, Dalet Galaxy is an open MAM platform that boasts integration and support for more than 90 broadcast and IT partners. These development initiatives deliver deeper integration and complete interoperability with broadcast servers, HSM, Quality Control, traffic and automation platforms, as well as broadcast management and CMS systems. At NAB 2014, Dalet technology experts will demonstrate new advanced integrations with NLEs like Adobe® Premiere® CC.

Extensive Support for Formats: Thanks to the redesigned SOAP API interface, Dalet Galaxy offers tremendous versatility, supporting a wide range of media including AVC Intra.

Full Multisite Collaboration: Dalet NetXchange enables complex multisite deployments, in which each component such as ingest, production, archives, playout or distribution can be installed in any site, enabling a better collaboration between multisite organizations.

Faster Editing and Better Integration

The award-winning Dalet OneCut editor can be used as a standalone solution, or connected to the Dalet MAM platform (Dalet 3.5 MAM and Galaxy) through Dalet Xtend, or fully integrated within Dalet Galaxy. Its robust feature set, configurable workspace and easy-to-use tools let content editors, production assistants and journalists quickly perform tasks from simple trimming and cuts to more advanced functions like audio sweetening.

While packages can be completed in Dalet OneCut, it is designed to complement the post-production workflow by offloading straight forward post tasks such as storyboarding and rough cuts, freeing craft editing systems for more complex creative work. Thanks to tight integration via Dalet Xtend, Dalet OneCut seamlessly exchanges content-associated metadata and markers with industry-standard non-linear editors including Adobe®, Avid® and Final Cut Pro® to maintain workflow continuity.

Dalet will also demonstrate at NAB its advanced Dalet Xtend for Adobe® Premiere® CC integration. The new development, which is already deployed at several Dalet/Adobe® customer sites, lets Adobe® editors browse, access and edit media from the Dalet content catalogue, maintaining genealogy and inheritance of locators and time-code metadata between production and post.

Headlining Technology for Dalet News Solutions

Dalet will demonstrate a number of advancements in newsroom workflows including:

Converged Workflows for Enterprise Newsrooms: Dalet News Suite installations leveraging the Dalet Galaxy platform can facilitate TV, radio, web production, broadcast and archive workflows on one platform.

Cost-Effective Solutions for Small to Medium News Operations: For smaller news production facilities, Dalet News Pack is even more cost-effective thanks to journalist-designed tools combined with the high-performance, IT-compatible hardware platform for an end-to-end workflow.

Access to Newsrooms Anywhere: Dalet On-the-Go, available on iOS and Android, and the web-based Dalet WebSpace give field journalists immediate access to content and newsgathering, production and planning tools.

Stunning Broadcast Graphics: The versatile Dalet Cube broadcast graphics module comes with a comprehensive set of tools for designing, managing and distributing high-quality graphics. Dalet Cube is natively integrated with Dalet News Suite and Dalet News Pack to provide a very cost-effective solution.

Fast News Editing: The 2013 NewBay Media Innovation Award-winning Dalet OneCut multimedia editor streamlines operations with versatile integration options and fast editing tools designed for non-technical newsroom staff to quickly assemble stories.

Game-Changing Tools In Dalet Sports Factory

Powered by the Dalet Galaxy platform, Dalet Sports Factory features a wide range of new capabilities for the sports market including:

Logging and Highlight Tools That Make Content Even More Valuable: Dalet Sports Factory’s brand new logging and highlight tools make it easier for venues, leagues, teams and production houses to create and monetize content.

Best-of-Breed Integration and Support: Enhanced integrations with Avid®, EVS and Quantel provide maximum interoperability across the sports workflow while support for SportsML, Opta and SMT LWS ensure compatibility with industry-standard protocols and data services.

Primetime Program Features in Dalet Media Life

Developed for program preparation, production and archiving, Dalet Media Life features tools for mass-ingest, compliance and prep editing, QC, metadata and essence file manipulation, multiplatform distribution, archiving and more. It integrates third-party solutions such as NLEs, traffic systems and automation, orchestrating file-based workflows into an efficient multimedia “factory” where repetitive tasks and background processes are fully automated.

Highlights at NAB 2014 include:

Outstanding Workflow Task Management Tools: Dalet Media Life provides key services and functionalities that increase both operational productivity and business visibility. Its industry-standard BPM workflow engine and task order management tools let broadcasters and content producers tie together a diverse range of systems and optimize their preferred way of working, improving performance at every step of the workflow.

Chart-Topping and News-Making Features for Dalet Radio

Dalet Radio Suite, an ingest, production, playout and distribution system designed for media convergence, streamlines every aspect of the digital production chain for news and music channels. Journalists have all the desktop tools they need to ingest audio, create scripts, record and edit audio, and build and manage rundowns. DJs can exercise their creativity with easy-to-use playlists, multi-track editing with effects, and carts for jingles and liners. Remote voice tracking tools handle contributions from off-site talent. And when it comes to playout, Dalet OnAir is a proven and highly reliable automated solution used in some of the world’s largest multi-channel operations. Content repurposing and delivery can be accomplished very efficiently, as the Dalet workflow engine automates many processes in the background to facilitate distribution – from on-the-fly delivery of Program Associated Data (PAD) for DAB, DRM or HD radio to transcoding for podcasts or for online or mobile uses.

Dalet Brio, the Flexible, High-Density Server Designed to Support Every Workflow

With more than 1,000 ports deployed in 2013 alone, Dalet Brio’s tremendous track record can be linked directly to its versatility and price performance. Designed to ingest and play multiple and mixed formats, including AVC Intra, XDcamHD, Apple® ProRes and Avid® DNxHD®, the cost-effective servers are built on IT-standard components and delivered in a compact 2RU chassis with a choice of inputs and outputs (up to 12 simultaneous channels) and storage combinations (local and/or direct connection to SAN). With features such as confidence monitoring, streaming multi-viewer for monitoring, media backup, loop recording mode, ingest-once-write-many and proxy generation, Dalet Brio lets operators optimize the overall workflow and infrastructure.

Seamlessly integrated with Dalet solutions, Dalet Brio embeds critical applications that facilitate a wide range of production tasks including sports logging, highlight production, replay, gang ingest, gang playout and more. Featured applications include Multi-camera Recorder, VTR Recorder and Print-to-Tape, Basic and Loop Recorder, Basic and Time Delay Player, Multichannel Player with Graphics, and Highlights Production, making Dalet Brio an ideal workflow solution for fast-paced, task-specific productions like news, sports, programs and more.

About Dalet

Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and media professionals to create, manage and distribute content to both traditional and new media channels, including interactive TV, the Web and mobile networks. Dalet combines into a single system a robust and proven Asset Management platform with advanced metadata capabilities; a configurable workflow engine, and a comprehensive set of purpose-built creative and production tools. This integrated and open environment enables end-to-end management of the entire News and Sport and Program content chain, and allows users to significantly improve efficiency, and to maximize the use and value of their assets. Dalet’s solutions are delivered through a dedicated Professional and Integration Services Department to ensure the highest possible standards.

Dalet systems are used around the world by many thousands of individual users at hundreds of TV and Radio content producers, including public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, France TV, RTBF, RFI, RSR & TSR, RT Malaysia, VOA, WDR), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Mediaset, Orange, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros., Sirius XM Radio) and government organizations (Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission, Parliament of South Australia). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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Dalet Sports Factory will provide PERFORM with a flexible MAM underlayer that manages the workflows and content for different kinds of services—from ingest through production to multiplatform distribution and archiving. Dalet Brio servers will also be used for ingest. Several Dalet desktop and web-accessible tools will help streamline the production chain.

“Given that we have one of the leading digital sports rights portfolios in the world, we are continually adding more distribution platforms and services. In the past, we’ve had individual teams handle all the efforts related to each service. The Dalet MAM will allow us to have edit tools and access to media at every desk. Production teams will be able to work more collaboratively to create and distribute content more quickly and efficiently—whether it comes from a live event, our global newsgathering, or our production library,” says Howard Kitto, CTO, PERFORM. “Dalet Sports Factory will combine PERFORM’s sports data with metadata management to optimize our content. With our operations spread across the globe, we often need to move files between locations so we really appreciate the remote and multisite capabilities of the system. Dalet Sports Factory will really help PERFORM be more productive.”

Dalet Sports Factory is an open system and provides seamless integrations with broadcast and IT systems, including industry-standard NLEs. PERFORM will use the Dalet Xtend module to easily exchange media and metadata (including parent/child relationships of assets) between the Dalet MAM and NLE systems. In addition to the three Dalet Brio 4 x 1 servers for ingest, other core system components include NetApp storage, Xendata HSM Management Software, Harmonic ProMedia Carbon converters, integration with a Qualstar Tape Library as well as integration that pushes content directly to the PERFORM CMS.

“The Dalet MAM is perfectly suited to the ‘content everywhere’ philosophy that is the core of PERFORM’s business,” says Raoul Cospen, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Dalet. “The centralized, shared database facilitates workflow collaboration and the MAM handles multiple sports and different workflows simultaneously. Many back office processes can be automated. Precise metadata management also simplifies the handling of different language versions as well as multiplatform distribution. The integrated easy-to-use tools speed the workflow in fast-turnaround situations like sports. Dalet Sports Factory is highly scalable and very adaptable to new platforms and future technologies.”

Sports Factory is built on Dalet’s robust Media Asset Management platform, which provides lifecycle content and metadata management with comprehensive and customizable data schemes that will allow PERFORM to catalogue and distribute multisport, multilanguage and multi-platform content globally.

About PERFORM

PERFORM is a leader in the commercialization of multimedia sports content across internet-enabled digital platforms. Through production, technical and commercial solutions, PERFORM powers digital channels that distribute content in a number of forms – video, editorial, audio and data – across multiple platforms, to millions of sport fans around the world. PERFORM Group PLC is a FTSE250 listed business on the London Stock Exchange.

About Dalet

Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and media professionals to create, manage and distribute content to traditional and new media channels, including interactive TV, the Web and mobile networks. Dalet combines in a single system a robust and proven Media Asset Management platform with advanced metadata capabilities, a configurable workflow engine and a comprehensive set of purpose-built creative and production tools. This integrated and open environment enables end-to-end management of the entire news, sports and program content chain, and allows users to significantly improve efficiency and to maximize the use and value of their assets. Dalet’s solutions are delivered through a dedicated Professional and Integration Services Department to ensure the highest possible standards.

Dalet systems are used around the world by thousands of individual users at hundreds of TV and Radio content producers, including public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, France TV, RTBF, RFI, RSR & TSR, RT Malaysia, VOA and WDR), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Mediaset, Orange, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros. and SiriusXM Radio), and government organizations (Canadian House of Commons, the European Commission and the Parliament of South Australia). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP and Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other trademarks and products mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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“The Dalet Enterprise Media Asset Management platform has tremendous flexibility and scalability. It is purpose-built for large-scale or integration intensive workflows such as the ones deployed at Antena3, Canal Plus or RTBF. Our MAM applications are designed to produce, store, broadcast and repurpose assets across an enormous production chain…customizing the workflow according to the broadcast environment as a whole,” comments Stephane Schlayen, Chief Operating Officer, Dalet SA. “This next Dalet MAM release brings content production into the heart of the workflow and incorporates very clever technology such as the Dalet Dashboard to maximize performance across the entire operation.”

New Dalet Features and Next Generation Enterprise Workflows

The expanded SD and HD format support in Dalet solutions is natively multi-codec and multi-format. Thus broadcasters can manage a wider range of acquisition and legacy source materials making media ubiquitous across the production pipe and available for multi-channel distribution via the new integrated Dalet OnAir application. The improved interoperability with third-party editing systems such as Apple Final Cut Pro via Dalet Xtend and Avid via Marquis as well as advanced production features such as CG’s in the timeline ensure non-linear production workflows do not sit outside the main workflow in isolated pools of production but instead are brought directly into the heart of the content production chain, enabling large-scale operations to be far more efficient at developing and delivering programs. Dalet’s open platform will also showcase new integrations with SeaChange and other hardware vendors giving broadcasters a greater choice of best in class server options for tapeless News, Sports, and Programs workflows.

The next generation Dalet technology also introduces the Dalet Dashboard – a new system-wide mission critical health monitoring and management application. More than a standard monitoring system, Dalet Dashboard utilizes the language and concepts of broadcast as well as IT giving administrators and users the ability to swiftly interpret, analyze and respond with immediate results. This enables broadcasters to closely manage performance adding yet another layer of security to the Dalet driven workflow from the top down.

Short List of Dalet’s New Features and Next Generation Technology Showcased

Visitors to the Dalet stand (9.D28) can book a private demonstration to see and discuss the following new features introduced at IBC08:

Dalet Dashboard

• Enterprise system monitoring
• Performance measurement
• System failure detection
• Available Q4, 2008

CGs in Dalet timeline

• Automated Graphic play-out
• Desktop preview of video and graphics

New Dalet OnAir

• Live events handling
• Channel assignment
• Router control
• Safety channel

Integration with SeaChange

• Facilitates tapeless workflows for News, Sports and Programs
• Shared DataDirect Networks storage for production, ingest and play-out

Enhanced integration with 3rd party NLEs

• Dalet Xtend 2.0 – seamless integration Apple Final Cut editing applications
• Marquis Medway for realtime connection with Avid editing applications

Enhanced redundancy

• Safety channel for play-out
• Distributed architecture and disaster recovery replication for no single point of failure

Improved metadata model

• Inherited fields avoid loss of metadata
• Locators are maintained when rendering
• Circulation of metadata across multiple system and persistence in the entire workflow

Improved interoperability

• New API calls to improve interoperability with 3rd party systems and sub-systems

New supported formats

• HDV, Mpeg 2 HD (XDCam HD)
• DVCPro HD

Support for New Hardware Devices

• New routers, new CGs, new protocols, MOS 2.8.3

About Dalet Solutions Demonstrated at IBC 2008

All Dalet solutions run on the purpose-built Dalet media asset management platform, DaletPlus. Integrated production and playout capabilities combined with the DaletPlus best of breed file migration and conversion technology enable broadcasters and content producers to optimize media sharing workflows.

With over 10,000 workstations in use today, the Dalet Professional Services team provides broadcasters and content producers with both the technical expertise and the extensive experience required for true workflow optimization.

An extensible media asset management platform, Dalet Enterprise Edition captures, creates, manages, distributes and stores media using a centralized content catalogue fully integrated with a comprehensive set of customizable production tools. Dalet Enterprise Edition also provides a SOA compliant, Web Services API that facilitates the integration of third-party systems and applications. Recently deployed at ABS-CBN, Canal Plus, and Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Dalet Enterprise Edition provides a collaborative media production and distribution infrastructure that optimizes media management from scheduling to playout to archive for all distribution mediums.

Dalet News Suite is a robust SD-HD production and playout solution with integrated media asset management. Designed for news and sports, the entire production workflow is integrated. Distributed, multi-channel feed ingest features advanced scheduling, loop record, router control and edit-while-record capabilities. Desktop FireWire transfers of Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM material expedite transfer from the field. Broadcasters like ORT in Russia, BBC World Service, and tvOne in Indonesia rely on the Dalet News Suite integrated approach for managing production and playout in the fast-paced news, sports, and magazine program formats.

Dalet Media Library combines state-of-the-art video server management with exceptional file migration technology, leveraging the power and cost effectiveness of standard IT platforms. Dalet Media Library facilitates access rights, modifications and distribution of content across the production chain. Flexible metadata forms allow users to customize information with maximum details. Dalet Media Library is further complemented with user-friendly storyboarding tools so simple that people with minimal editing skills can easily make cuts, assemble media, record comments and package content.

Dalet Radio Suite combines a comprehensive newsroom computer system with all the professional audio recording and production tools needed to facilitate the coverage of breaking events. The Dalet OnAir component can be configured to the needs of an individual broadcast studio or studio operator. News reading is facilitated by an integrated news prompter. Program associated data (PAD) for DAB, DRM or HD Radio digital radio platforms is generated on the fly.

Designed to support enterprise production workflows, influential radio news broadcasters like Radio France International (RFI) employ Dalet Radio Suite to produce 200 plus programs across 600 workstations.

About Dalet

Dalet is a worldwide leader in software that empowers broadcasters and content professionals to produce and manage audio and video content in a digital, multi-platform world. Dalet media asset management (MAM) solutions streamline production costs and increase revenue opportunities by simplifying the distribution of rich-media assets across both interactive and traditional platforms.

Dalet tools are used around the world by thousands of content producers including major television and radio public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, DR, NPR, RFI, RTM, VOA, WDR), commercial networks (ART, eTV, Grupo Prisa, Prime Television, The Press Association, Warner Bros., XM Satellite) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission).

Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0000076176, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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About Dalet Solutions Demonstrated at IBC 2008

All Dalet solutions run on the purpose-built Dalet media asset management platform, DaletPlus. Integrated production and playout capabilities combined with the DaletPlus best of breed file migration and conversion technology enable broadcasters and content producers to optimize media sharing workflows.

With over 10,000 workstations in use today, the Dalet Professional Services team provides broadcasters and content producers with both the technical expertise and the extensive experience required for true workflow optimization.

An extensible media asset management platform, Dalet Enterprise Edition captures, creates, manages, distributes and stores media using a centralized content catalogue fully integrated with a comprehensive set of customizable production tools. Dalet Enterprise Edition also provides a SOA compliant, Web Services API that facilitates the integration of third-party systems and applications. Recently deployed at ABS-CBN, Canal Plus, and Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Dalet Enterprise Edition provides a collaborative media production and distribution environment that optimizes media management from scheduling to playout to archive for all distribution mediums.

Dalet News Suite is a robust SD-HD production and playout solution with integrated media asset management. Designed for news and sports, the entire production workflow is integrated. Distributed, multi-channel feed ingest features advanced scheduling, loop record, router control and edit-while-record capabilities. Desktop FireWire transfers of Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM material expedite transfer from the field. Broadcasters like ORT in Russia, BBC World Service, and tvOne in Indonesia rely on the Dalet News Suite integrated approach for managing production and playout in the fast-paced news, sports, and magazine program formats.

Dalet Media Library combines state-of-the-art video server management with exceptional file migration technology, leveraging the power and cost effectiveness of standard IT platforms. Dalet Media Library facilitates access rights, modifications and distribution of content across the production chain. Flexible metadata forms allow users to customize information with maximum details. Dalet Media Library is further complemented with user-friendly storyboarding tools so simple that people with minimal editing skills can easily make cuts, assemble media, record comments and package content.

Dalet Radio Suite combines a comprehensive newsroom computer system with all the professional audio recording and production tools needed to facilitate the coverage of breaking events. The Dalet OnAir component can be configured to the needs of an individual broadcast studio or studio operator. News reading is facilitated by an integrated news prompter. Program associated data (PAD) for DAB, DRM or HD Radio digital radio platforms is generated on the fly.

Designed to support enterprise production workflows, influential radio news broadcasters like Radio France International (RFI) employ Dalet Radio Suite to produce 200 plus programs across 600 workstations.

Special Events at IBC 2008

Dalet Diamond Sales Briefing – Friday September 12

Dalet is hosting an executive sales briefing for Dalet Channel Partners at the famed Pulitzer Hotel on September 12 at 09.00 hrs. The Dalet Diamond Sales Briefing event is by invitation only.

Dalet Press Briefing and Cocktail Reception – Friday September 12

Members of the press are invited to attend a special management briefing and cocktail reception on the Dalet stand (9.D28) Friday September 12 at 17.00hrs. In addition to providing an overview of the Dalet product road map, Dalet management will discuss recent and innovative enterprise customer installations.

Dalet VIP Customer Cocktail Reception – Saturday September 13

Dalet will be hosting a VIP Customer Cocktail Reception at the RAI Beach on Saturday September 13. The party will kick off at 17.00 hrs.

About Dalet

Dalet is a worldwide leader in software that empowers broadcasters and content professionals to produce and manage audio and video content in a digital, multi-platform world. Dalet media asset management (MAM) solutions streamline production costs and increase revenue opportunities by simplifying the distribution of rich-media assets across both interactive and traditional platforms.

Dalet tools are used around the world by thousands of content producers including major television and radio public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, DR, NPR, RFI, RTM, VOA, WDR), commercial networks (ART, eTV, Grupo Prisa, Prime Television, The Press Association, Warner Bros., XM Satellite) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission).

Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0000076176, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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“Dalet News Suite is at the core of our news production, from scripting, to editing and playout to archiving,” says Ferry Aryanto, IT Manager, tvOne. “Journalists like the unified, end-to-end workflow; they write stories, preview, select and edit their video and even record voiceovers right at their desktops. Producers can continually update the rundown, confident that Dalet News Suite is syncing the last minute changes with the playout server.”

Dalet News Suite runs on the purpose-built Dalet media asset management platform, DaletPlus. Integrated production and playout capabilities combined with the DaletPlus best of breed file migration and conversion technology offer tvOne an optimal end-to-end media sharing workflow. The installation done by the Dalet Professional Services team in conjunction with Dalet System Integrator Roscor enabled tvOne to execute their program format change on an extremely short timeline.

“The DaletPlus media asset management engine provides a proven platform for highly collaborative and demanding workflows such as news and sports,” comments Arnaud Elnecave, General Manager, Dalet Singapore. “Our Dalet Professional Services team is quite experienced working with journalists, news directors and IT managers to customize the DaletPlus engine and News Suite capabilities to fully optimize the production and playout pipeline according to customer requirements.”

The tvOne facility is equipped with more than 30 Dalet workstations connected via Gigabit Ethernet with a 10TB NetApp device for production storage. Six Dalet Ingest workstations handle incoming video feeds as well as ingest from Panasonic P2 cameras used in field reporting. Other Dalet workstations are used for rundown management, writing text and video production. The majority of the daily news video editing is done at the desktop with Dalet MediaCutter. For the more advanced, promotional editing, Dalet provides easy exchange with Apple Final Cut Pro systems. Native integration with an Omneon Spectrum Media Deck enables precise control over production playout. Dalet also provides seamless integration with the teleprompter and Orad graphics system as well as the station’s Xendata archive system.

About tvOne

Based in East Jakarta, tvOne is a national, privately-owned, commercial television operation. Formerly known as Lativi, the ownership of the channel was transferred in 2007. The name change to tvOne dates to the format change in February 2008 and reflects the emphasis of the combined elements of news, sports and entertainment programming now available on the national channel.

About Dalet

Dalet is a worldwide leader in software that empowers broadcasters and content professionals to produce and manage audio and video content in a digital, multi-platform world. Dalet media asset management (MAM) solutions streamline production costs and increase revenue opportunities by simplifying the distribution of rich-media assets across both interactive and traditional platforms.

Dalet tools are used around the world by thousands of content producers including major television and radio public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, DR, NPR, RFI, RTM, VOA, WDR), commercial networks (ART, eTV, Grupo Prisa, Prime Television, The Press Association, Warner Bros., XM Satellite) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission).

Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0000076176, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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Dalet Enterprise Edition | MAM with Extensible Architecture

An extensible media asset management platform, Dalet Enterprise Edition gives the ability for media organizations to capture, create, manage, distribute and store media using a centralized content catalogue fully integrated with a comprehensive set of customizable production tools. Dalet Enterprise Edition also provides a web services, SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) compliant, Application Programming Interface (API) that facilitates the integration of third-party systems and applications.

Dalet News Suite | End-to-End Production and Playout for News and Sports

Dalet News Suite is a robust digital newsroom solution with integrated media asset management. The entire news production workflow is integrated. Distributed, multi-channel feed ingest features advanced scheduling, loop record, router control and edit-while-record capabilities. Desktop FireWire transfers of Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM material expedite transfer from the field.

Dalet Media Library | Turn Key Media Asset Management

Dalet Media Library combines state-of-the-art video server management with exceptional file migration technology, leveraging the power and cost effectiveness of standard IT platforms. Dalet Media Library facilitates access rights, modifications and distribution of content across the production chain. Flexible metadata forms allow users to customize information with maximum details. Dalet Media Library is further complimented with user-friendly storyboarding tools so simple to use that people with minimal editing skills can easily make cuts, assemble media, record comments and package content.

Broadcast Asia HD Xperience

The 2008 edition of the HD workshop will explain how the use of Dalet Media Asset Management (MAM) technology helps broadcasters redesign their workflows to reap the benefits of open standards based production and archiving. Designed as a tutorial in partnership with other leading broadcast manufacturers including DataDirect, Orad, and Panasonic, this second edition of the HD workshop will provide a comprehensive, end-to-end overview of how a Dalet MAM enabled workflow is the key to profitable broadcasting in a multi-platform, multi-format world.

About Dalet

Dalet is a worldwide leader in software that empowers broadcasters and content professionals to produce and manage audio and video content in a digital, multi-platform world. Dalet media asset management (MAM) solutions streamline production costs and increase revenue opportunities by simplifying the distribution of rich-media assets across both interactive and traditional platforms.

Dalet tools are used around the world by thousands of content producers including major television and radio public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, DR, NPR, RFI, RTM, VOA, WDR), commercial networks (ART, eTV, Grupo Prisa, Prime Television, The Press Association, Warner Bros., XM Satellite) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission).

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“We are very pleased to collaborate with a market leading technology provider such as Dalet. The seamless integration between our XT[2] server and Dalet Media Library 2.0 perfectly meets broadcasters’ requirements for integrated workflows between production and archiving,” says Nicolas Bourdon, Marketing & Communications Director of EVS.

“Broadcasters today want the freedom of combining best-of-breed broadcast equipment such as EVS XT[2] production and playout servers within their enterprise back-office; the integration with Dalet Media Library 2.0 does just that: it allows for SD and HD content captured with EVS to be seamlessly migrated to an open media asset management platform,” explains Kevin Savina, Product Director, Dalet.

Dalet Media Library 2.0 is the first asset management and archive system specifically designed for broadcasters. It provides a fast-access digital library that seamlessly integrates with existing systems and video server platforms. This new release provides dramatic improvements in terms of file-based ingest and content distribution as well as support for HD formats.

EVS XT[2] production servers deliver a full range of applications for live/studio production, post content management, and playout. The XT[2] server permanently records cameras on RAID-protected hard disks, ensuring no vital shot is missed. All XT[2] channels are reversible, and can be used as inputs or outputs in SD or HD, depending on the production requirements.

About EVS

EVS Broadcast Equipment is a leader in the design of hardware and software for the production and play out of sport, news and TV programs in both live and near-live environments. Their innovative Live Slow Motion system revolutionized live broadcasting and their technology is now widely used in nonlinear editing and High Definition Television across the television broadcast market worldwide. The company sells their branded products in more than 70 countries and is capable of providing service in any region. The company has offices in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and the United States.

For more information on EVS, visit evs.com.

About Dalet

Founded in 1990, Dalet is a leading developer of software solutions that facilitate the management of audio and video assets for broadcast, entertainment, government, education, corporations and non-profit organizations.

Dalet solutions are used in 50 countries by over 1,700 customers including the largest public broadcasters (ARD, BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, Media Corporation of Singapore, NPR, RFI, Radio Suisse Romande, VOA), commercial networks (Arab Radio and Television, BFMTV, Emap, Emmis Broadcasting, Prime TV and XM Satellite) and government organizations (Queensland Courts, The Scottish Parliament).

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Designed to facilitate the implementation of collaborative tape-less workflows, Dalet solutions drastically enhance productivity by providing immediate access to valuable media assets. Dalet software solutions run on standard IT infrastructure and integrate proprietary broadcast equipment so as to implement mission critical systems for professional content providers from television news and sports, radio, government organizations and media companies.

Dalet Solutions Showcased

DaletPlus News Suite

DaletPlus News Suite combines an advanced newsroom computer system with easy-to-use media production tools and reliable feed ingest and news play-out automation. Thanks to its unique workflow engine, DaletPlus News Suite can be easily configured to meet the requirements of the most demanding broadcast operations. BFM TV in Paris is one of an increasing number of broadcasters to leverage DaletPlus News Suite in their operations;

DaletPlus News Library

DaletPlus News Library leverages the MOS protocol and the MXF file format to interface with legacy systems and provide a turn-key solution for archiving, indexing and distributing news and sports material. DaletPlus News Library is the ideal archive solution for operations adopting tapeless electronic news gathering solutions such as Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM. WBNS in the United States is one of an increasing number of broadcasters to leverage DaletPlus News Library in their operations;

DaletPlus Media Library

DaletPlus Media Library combines a flexible content catalogue and workflow engine with rules based scheduling, conversion, and transfer tools to unleash the benefits of media asset management for media driven organizations. With its flexible architecture, DaletPlus Media Library is the platform of choice for implementing tapeless program management and optimize promo production. S4C in the United Kingdom is one of an increasing number of broadcasters to leverage DaletPlus Media Library in their operations;

DaletPlus ActiveLog

DaletPlus ActiveLog is an enterprise-strength platform for recording, logging, archiving and distributing audio and video feeds across multiple sites. DaletPlus ActiveLog combines advanced recording features with sophisticated replication mechanisms so as to implement complex content distribution networks (CDN) spanning across multiple sites. The Queensland Justice Attorney General in Australia is one of an increasing number of organizations to leverage DaletPlus ActiveLog in their operations;

DaletPlus Radio Suite

DaletPlus Radio Suite facilitates collaborative digital radio production, programming and play-out across the enterprise by offering easy-to-use tools integrated in a flexible workflow management platform; Qatar Broadcasting Services (QBS) in Doha is one of an increasing number of broadcasters to leverage DaletPlus Radio Suite in their operations;

OpenMedia Plug-In Suite

Expanding the legendary newsroom system with ingest, logging, and playout capabilities, the new Dalet OpenMedia Plug-in Suite includes: Dalet OpenMedia Ingest, Dalet OpenMedia Logger and Dalet OpenMedia OnAir offers ingest, logging and playout capabilities right within the OpenMedia system. Dalet OpenMedia is used by over 10,000 journalists and newsroom staff for newsroom computing.

About Dalet

Founded in 1990, Dalet is a leading developer of software solutions that facilitate the management of audio and video assets for broadcast, entertainment, government, education, corporations and non-profit organizations. Developed for standard IT hardware, Dalet software solutions enable organizations to capture, manage and store digital media. The all-digital solutions greatly enhance productivity through immediate access to and management of valuable media assets. Traded on the Eurolist C compartment, Euronext Paris Stock Market (ISIN FR0000076176, Reuters DALE.PA), Dalet has offices throughout Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific.

Operating worldwide, Dalet solutions are used in 50 countries by over1 700 customers including ABC, ARD(Tagesschau, BR, DW, NDR, SR, SWR, WDR), ART, BBC, BFMTV, Cadena Ser, CBC-Radio Canada, Catalunya Radio, DR, EMAP, Emmis, Entercom, ERT Greece, ERT Tunisia, eTV, FashionShow Media Network, MBC, Mediaset, MediaCorp Singapore, National PublicRadio, Polskie Radio, Prime TV, RadioFrance, Radio France International, Radio Suisse Romande, RTP Asturias, Radio Television Malaysia, The Scottish Parliament, SKY Television, S4C, SABC, SEBC Korea, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, UBF, Voice of America, The Weather Channel, and XMSatellite Radio.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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Thanks to DaletPlus InterWeb, reporters throughout Iraq now have the ability to directly log into the DaletPlus News Suite newsroom computer system so as to browse incoming stories and contribute directly from the field.

This DaletPlus News Suite digital newsroom with integrated media asset management will be deployed in Jordan Media City in Amman, Jordan, with the cooperation of the Dalet local business partner, Mediators General Trading. Using DaletPlus News Suite, ART journalists will browse SNTV agency wire feeds, build rundowns, assign stories, write scripts with embedded Vizrt® computer generated graphics (CGs), and drive gallery devices during newscasts.

“We look forward to putting the DaletPlus News Suite digital newsroom to work,” explains Mr. Hassan Meiri, Director of Engineering at ART Jordan Media City. “Optimizing the use of on-air graphics in our newscasts is essential for our sports coverage and DaletPlus News Suite will truly empower our journalists to do so.”

“The new ART Network sports newsroom is going to be a leading-edge newsroom in the Middle East,” comments Mr. Mohammed Abu Zannad, Sales and Marketing Manager of Mediators General Trading. “With the wide range of digital technology available, broadcasters really pick-and-choose the best products available to build the ideal production and broadcast environment; and there is no doubt that DaletPlus News Suite is the leading newsroom today.”

“DaletPlus News Suite will help the ART Network staff leverage all the resources at their disposal,” explains Mr. Nicolas Hans, Product Strategy Director of Dalet. “Right from their desktops, journalists and producers will have the ability to use and control all the MOS-compliant devices and applications available in the newsroom and the gallery: it’s truly an integrated production environment.”

About Dalet

Founded in 1990, Dalet is a leading developer of software solutions that facilitate the management of audio and video assets for broadcast, entertainment, government, education, corporations and non-profit organizations. Developed for standard IT hardware, Dalet software solutions enable organizations to capture, manage and store digital media. The all-digital solutions greatly enhance productivity through immediate access to and management of valuable media assets. Traded on the Eurolist C compartment, Euronext Paris Stock Market (ISIN FR0000076176, Reuters DALE.PA), Dalet has offices throughout Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific.

Operating worldwide, Dalet solutions are used in 50 countries by over 1700 customers including ABC, ARD (Tagesschau, BR, DW, NDR, SR, SWR, WDR), ART, BBC, BFMTV, Cadena Ser, CBC-Radio Canada, Catalunya Radio, DR, EMAP, Emmis, Entercom, ERT Greece, ERT Tunisia, eTV, FashionShow Media Network, MBC, Mediaset, MediaCorp Singapore, National PublicRadio, Polskie Radio, Prime TV, RadioFrance, Radio France International, Radio Suisse Romande, RTP Asturias, Radio Television Malaysia, The Scottish Parliament, SKY Television, S4C, SABC, SEBC Korea, UniversidadAutónoma de Barcelona, UBF, Voice of America, The Weather Channel, and XM Satellite Radio.

For more information on Dalet, visit www.dalet.com.

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