Amsterdam, The Netherlands (IBC — Stand 1.D11), September 08, 2011 — Rede Record, Brazil's second-largest television network, is again turning to Grass Valley™ high definition (HD) technology to cover this year's Pan American games in Guadalajara, Mexico (October 14-30), and used a full complement of digital production equipment for its Record TV channel in order to package content captured at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The network has purchased the Aurora™ editing and production systems, K2 Summit™ servers, and a K2 Dyno™ Replay System.

TV Record will use the entire Grass Valley Aurora suite of file-based tools to ingest, edit, and play out content within a completely file-based, shared storage production environment. The Aurora HD workflow being implemented on site in Mexico includes 10 editing stations, attached to 900 hours of production storage (at 100 Mb/s) and six Aurora Playout workstations with 240 hours of storage capacity. The network also bought several Aurora Ingest stations.

The Aurora file-based production system provides a fast and reliable solution to handle the most complex live sports production projects, like the world famous Pan American Games.

As part of the new order, Rede Record has also entered into a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Grass Valley that will ensure 24/7 maintenance and a Grass Valley engineer on site for the duration of the games in Mexico.

"We continue to choose Grass Valley because we have a good track record of reliability and local customer support that has proved invaluable to us," said José Marcelo Amaral, Director of Operation and Engineering, TV Record. "Grass Valley is also one of the few companies that can provide the proven technology and support necessary for such a major event as the Pan American Games. We only get one chance to capture the events, and with Grass Valley we know we have the right partner to get it done."

Rede Record installed a full Grass Valley Aurora HD workflow to support its TV Record 24 News Channel earlier this year. Several of the network's affiliates also use Aurora, such as TV Capital, TV Record RJ, and TV Sociedade. These facilities also use Grass Valley Kayenne™ XL and Kayak™ HD switchers, Trinix™ NXT and Concerto™ Series video and audio routers, GeckoFlex™ signal processing modules, and Maestro™ master control and branding systems.

"TV Record has been a pioneer in file-based production in the region for many years and we are proud to have supported them the entire way," said Jeff Rosica, Executive Vice President of Grass Valley. "Now that they are moving to HD production, we have many new tools to help them work the way they have grown accustomed to, yet produce some of the best-looking content possible. This includes playout and slow-motion capability for pristine replays of the live sports action."

The entire Grass Valley Aurora file-based production system was assembled, commissioned, and disassembled by Grass Valley and Rede Record engineers in June and has already been sent to Guadalajara and set up on site for the Pan American Games in October.

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