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ViewCast is offering tremendous discounts on
refurbished streaming capture cards!

All of these hot deals come with a 30-day warranty and are bundled with the latest versions of Windows Media Encoder, Real Producer and hardware drivers.

Refurbished items include:

• Streaming Capture Cards with Analog Inputs
• Streaming Capture Cards with Professional Digital and/or Analog Inputs

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Professional Services Company is Latest Addition to ViewCast Family!

We are very pleased to announce the acquisition of the assets and operations of Delta Computec Inc. (DCi).

DCi is a provider of professional information technology and customized network support services to Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 corporations, mid-sized companies, hospitals, health care facilities and financial institutions.

DCi provides professional information technology, customized network support, and other innovative service solutions. DCi partners with you to plan and manage the way technology will help your business maintain a competitive advantage in today's digital world.

DCi specializes in onsite professional services solutions, including Internet and Intranet Consulting and Networking, Network Support, Maintenance and Disaster Recovery. With a 25-year history, DCi provides a wide array of computer systems, data communications and LAN/WAN information technology services and products. As a full service systems integrator, DCi analyzes your business needs and make recommendations on the best way to make improvements for today and into the future. A team of professional network architects and engineers work with you to assist in building, expanding, integrating and using today's technology more efficiently.

Properly designed, installed and functional computer systems are critical to your business operations. DCi offers the following professional services to meet your needs;

IT Consulting Windows Rollouts Staff Augmentation Network Services Videoconferencing

Help Desk Services Cabling Services (PDS) Field & On-site Maintenance PrinterCare Program Used Equipment Disposition

PC Reserve/Rapid Restore Professional Staffing Network Query Language Depot Repair Services

For more information call:

US Toll-free: 1-800-477-8586, ext. 760
Delta CompuTec Incorporated • 900 Huyler Street • Teterboro, NJ 07608

Or send inquiries to: [email protected]

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• Osprey-210, Osprey-220, Osprey-500 family, or Osprey-2000 family hardware
• Osprey driver 2.XX or higher
• Windows NT, 2000 or XP

It was four days before Lehigh Valley PBS/WLVT-TV was to launch its first-ever live Webcast - a pre-election debate - when Bill Ziegler, chief technical officer, signed off on the order for his Web-streaming system.

He had seen the product in action, he'd reviewed the sales information on the Web, and he'd spoken to his systems integrator and a ViewCast representative. He knew he had just ordered a high-end plug-and-play streaming solution. What he was about to find out was how well the system would meet the plug-and-play test.

Ziegler ordered ViewCast's Niagara™ 4222RW rack-mount encoder with a ViewCast 5200 server on a Friday. The boxes arrived Wednesday morning, were up and running by Wednesday afternoon, and ready on Thursday to stream the station's news and public affairs magazine program, TEMPO!, which was hosting a live Town Hall with candidates for Pennsylvania's 15th Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"We needed the ViewCast system to be a turnkey solution for us, and it really was," says Ziegler. "There was no training, no need to look at a manual. I just plugged it in, hooked up the encoder and streaming server, called up tech support for some quick configuration information, and I was done."

Thursday evening, TEMPO! was streamed live in its entirety on the World Wide Web for the first time, reaching not only the Pennsylvania communities of Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton, as well as WLVT-TV audiences in western New Jersey, but also a group of viewers who tuned in via PC at www.wlvt.org. The Niagara system from ViewCast gave the PBS affiliate a smooth entry into the world of live Webcasting.

ViewCast's Niagara family of systems is designed from the ground up to offer reliable turnkey solutions that allow users to implement premium, broadcast-quality audio and video over the Internet or throughout a corporate enterprise quickly, with little need for on-site configuration. WLVT's new Niagara system includes ViewCast's award-winning Osprey digital capture and CODEC boards to provide a powerful yet affordable solution for streaming, archiving, and video production applications.

"What distinguishes our Niagara systems from competing products is that we supply a complex, custom solution in a professional-grade product with plug-and-play capability," says Ed Carabetta, Regional Sales Manager at ViewCast. "When I got the purchase order from Bill, we put the machinery in motion. We had everyone working to build, test, and FedEx WLVT's system so that installation would be as easy as possible. WLVT-TV's engineers had the necessary knowledge to get the system running quickly, and when it was time to put the show on the Web, we were pleased to see that the product met the station's expectations in terms of professional performance."

An integrated solution for real-time encoding of video and audio content, ViewCast's 2U rack-mount Niagara 4222RW is a powerful Intel® Pentium® IV 2/GHz system with two channels of audio and video streaming, as well as advanced video and audio capture card capabilities. Niagara SCX control software provides a unified interface that controls both encoder channels either directly on the encoder or from a remote computer connected to the Niagara via LAN or WAN. When the 4222RW is combined with the Osprey SimulStream, two video sources may be input to create several streams at different bit rates and in different streaming formats including RealNetworks Real Video and Windows Mediaä.

In addition to streaming broadcasts to the Internet, WLVT-TV is using its Niagara system for simultaneous archiving of the station's programming. Though linked to the Internet only during Webcasts of local productions, the system runs continually, providing one-step, seamless archiving.

Following the TEMPO! Webcast, Lehigh Valley PBS President and CEO Patricia Simon shared her enthusiasm for the station's new technology, noting that Web streaming offers another avenue through which public television can serve as a vital resource for the community. Though a modest group of viewers tuned in via the Internet, Ziegler feels he is building a system that will meet the needs of future audiences. As more and more WLVT-TV viewers become aware of this option, he says, they increasingly will begin to watch or listen from their computers at home and at work.

"I've been in IT for a long time, and few things work this well," concludes Ziegler. "We haven't had our ViewCast system that long, but we've been very impressed with how easily it worked. Often, products that merge broadcast with IT look as though they've been thrown together. Over the years that I've been in broadcast, I've seen computer-based systems with off-the-shelf PCs that look like an afterthought. This product, however, looks like it was built to do what it does. ViewCast clearly has put some thought into this design."

For more information on Niagara Streaming Systems, click here.

For a Niagara system feature comparison chart, click here.

Linux Drivers for Osprey-210 and Osprey-200 Now Released!

We are pleased to announce support for Linux OS for the Osprey-210 and the Osprey-220. These new full-featured Linux drivers are available for immediate download from the Driver & Service Packs download page.

Would you like to be a Beta tester for our new Osprey-540 Linux drivers?

We have begun our public beta program for Linux for the professionally geared Osprey-540. We are now looking for serious-minded Linux developers to test various features and functionality of these drivers.

Participants in the program will gain first access to the Osprey-540 Linux drivers including open source code.

If you are interested in participating in this program just send an email to [email protected] with your contact information. Someone from our support team will contact you about becoming an official Beta Tester.

Thank you for your interest in joining our Linux Beta Program!

Osprey-500 Driver WHQL-Certified!

Version 2.2.1 of the Osprey-500 driver is now available for download online. This new driver has passed Microsoft's WHQL certification ensuring fully compatibility with Windows XP.

To obtain the latest drivers for all ViewCast products, go to the Driver & Software Packs download page.

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