MEI Supplies World's first Hybrid DVCPRO Cart and DVCPRO
Video Server System to the Olympic Museum
March 12, 2003

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On March 12, MEI announced that it has equipped the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland with a state-of-the-art automated video library system, allowing visitors personalized access to a selection of the museum’s film archives in 4 languages, some of them in 5 languages. The video library system includes the world’s first hybrid DVCPRO Cart and DVCPRO Video Server System capable of containing up to 720 DVCPRO videocassettes full of opening and closing ceremonies, Olympic games, and other important sporting events. The video library system is a highly efficient system created to provide visitors with quick playback of Olympic programming. At the touch of a button from one of the sixteen video monitors stationed throughout the Olympic Museum, visitors can quickly retrieve high picture quality programming from either the DVCPRO video server or the DVCPRO Cart System. The video library system is designed to have the most requested programs automatically recorded from one of the DVCPRO Cart’s 720 video cassettes onto one of the system’s four video servers. Over 80 hours of the most popular videos can then be simultaneously transmitted from the video server to video monitors in the event multiple visitors choose the sample program.
 

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