XVD Corporation Appoints Richard Harvey to Eastern Region Sales Director For Its Advanced Technology Digital Media Compression and Streaming Solutions

Company ramping up to meet global demand for digital media solutions

San Jose, California, USA (PRWEB) June 5, 2006 -- XVD Corporation, the pioneer of XVD™, a next generation real-time video compression technology, has hired Richard Harvey, a well known sales professional as Sales Director - Eastern Region.

Making the announcement from XVD’s headquarters in San Jose, Daniel Baca, National Sales Director said, “We are delighted to have Rich Harvey aboard as we launch a full scale program to meet the rapidly increasing demand for our advanced compression and streaming solutions. His extensive knowledge of digital media technologies and in particular with video compression systems will provide the desired high level of service to our broadcast and non-broadcast customers.”

Mr. Harvey brings more than 17 years of digital media experience to XVD, starting with a television broadcast leadership role in the US Navy, followed by Sales Manager at Tiernan Communications; Video Products Manager at Tiernan (Radyne), and Sales Engineer with EVS Broadcast Equipment.

Asked why he accepted the position at XVD, when there are many other manufacturers of compression systems that would have welcomed his services, Mr. Harvey said, “There is simply nothing out there today that compares to XVD technology. The XVD product line pushes the application of digital media compression to a new level and their innovative ideas for future products are exciting. XVD will offer new operational capability to broadcast and non-broadcast applications including more bandwidth efficient options for capturing and moving high quality SD and HD content. This puts XVD out front on the cutting edge in ways that will change the value proposition in digital media capture and networking. “

XVD provides the world's most advanced, scalable and secure real-time and non real-time video compression technology. It enables a new class of professional streaming solutions that deliver the highest quality video possible for a given bit rate or network capacity.

In February, 2006, XVD CamCast HD Products were awarded the prestigious “Most Outstanding Award,” at the NHK Program Technology Exhibition in Tokyo. Designed for deployment in highly reliable DSP-based hardware products, XVD achieves the most scalable and secure real-time encoding and streaming of HD and SD broadcast quality video to conventional TV’s, Networked Computers, and allows full frame rate display to cell phones and other mobile devices with minimal decoder power requirement.

The XVD line of CamCast Professional HD product can compress and stream HD content in real-time over broadband IP, microwave and satellite networks using minimal bandwidth as low as 3Mbps. Its features and benefits include highly-reliable DSP-based solution that supports 1080i and 720p. The SD version supports all NTSC and PAL resolutions. The systems provide HD-SDI/SD-SDI video input; analog and embedded audio input; DVB-ASI and/or IP ethernet output; Packet and Burst mode output (DVB-ASI output); TCP, RTP Unicast and RTP Multicast protocols (Ethernet output). Operational functions are provided through front panel and web-based configuration and control. Easy storage of HD and SD video is also provided on some models with onboard hard drive or removable media.

XVD offer a wide range of CamCast Professional HD and SD products that provide new operational capability in digital media operations:

•    HD-TX1100 - HD and SD content over IP networks

•    HD-TX2000 - HD and SD content over DVB-ASI and IP networks

•    HD-RX1000 - Decoding of HD and SD content from an IP input

•    SD-TX1100 - SD content over IP networks

•    SD-TX2000 - SD content over DVB-ASI and IP networks

•    SD-RX1000 - Decoding of SD content from IP input

•    DVB-RX500 - Receiver for HD and SD content over DVB-ASI networks and ASI to IP conversion.

XVD technology leverages over 10 years of international research and development of high performance real-time codec solutions. The company is working with select OEM's to incorporate the advanced XVD codec software and supporting technologies into a range of exciting new products and services for capturing, compressing, storing, distributing and viewing digital content

For more information, please contact Richard Harvey, XVD Corporation, Sales Director - Eastern Region, at 890A US Highway 46, Kenvil, NJ 07847; TEL: + 201 452-1605, or Daniel Baca, National Sales Director at XVD Corporation, 71A Vista Montana, San Jose, CA 95134, TEL: +1 408-325-8806, FAX: +1 408 325-8838; or visit www.xvdcorp.com.

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