– Avid boosts storage

Avid Technology has introed a new line of storage drives, the iS Pro series for digital video and audio applications. The storage series includes a nine-gigabyte and an 18-gigabyte storage drive in a 3.5-inch format. The iS9 Pro and the iS18 Pro are available in fixed and removable formats.

The new iS Pro ultra-scsi drives are designed to work with Avid’s existing MediaDock removable storage systems and in Avid MediaDrive fixed storage devices. Using iS18 Pro drives in a loaded – eight-drive – MediaDock allows storage of 140 Gb of digital media, more than 50 Gb higher than previously available.

– SADiE UPGRADiE

U.K.-based digital audio equipment company Sadie recently introed background recording as a new feature in the latest V3 software upgrades for the Sadie and Octavia digital audio workstations. Background recording allows separate users to simultaneously record new material and use Sadie editing tools.

– Stealth DTV

At NAB 98, set for April 4-9 in Las Vegas, Montreal-based Miranda Technologies will announce its opening gambit in the DTV game with the company’s first DTV conversion product, code-named Stellar.

Miranda is also announcing the launch of its picoLink series of miniature encoders/decoders and converters, an addition to the company’s Quanta line. The series, comprised of nine new products and claimed to be the world’s smallest (units are four-by-one-by-seven inches), will be available in the second quarter of 1998. All modules are priced under $500.

Miranda has assumed responsibility for the production, sales and marketing of Skotel’s miniature Little Red time code reader, and will also launch the Little Blue VITC Reader at NAB. The little Little Blue (3.5-by-1.3 inches) can read VITC automatically or from user selected lines in the vertical blanking interval.

– Mountain Gate NAB debuts

Also at nab, Mountain Gate will intro the CentraVision File System to facilitate working with large video and film files in shared environments. CVFS allows workstation data to be immediately available across a network. The system features data converters providing cross-platform support for Windows NT, SGI and Mac systems. NAB will also be the showcase for CentraVision 6200 video disc recorders based on Fibre Channel network-attached storage. When used in conjunction with the cvfs, the product permits shared access to the VDR’s recorded media. The CV6200 allows storage to be expanded as needed to more than 40 hours uncompressed.