Wednesday, April 9, 2003
 PM Edition

By Michael Hedrick

The NAB celebrated the inauguration of its first annual set of Awards for Innovation in Media (AIMs), naming 15 items in three categories as the convention attendees' chioces for best new products at the Technology Luncheon on Wednesday.

Show attendees were issued ballots in registration packets and at select locations. They cast their votes at boxes placed throughout the LVCC for their favorite new equipment on Monday and Tuesday. The top five vote-getteres in the areas of Content Creation, Content Management and Content Delivery won AIMs.

"The NAB extends its sincere congratulations to the 2003 AIM winners," said NAB President and CEO Edward O. Fritts. "The NAB Exhibition is the leading source of new product announcements in the global broadcast technology marketplace. Given that hundreds of new products are launched at NAB each year, this recognition is truly an honor."

An overall winner in each category will be selected as the 2003 "Editors' Choice" award winners by a panel of industry editors selected from a variety of publications that cover the industry at large, video and audio, the Internet and other fields. The results of the jury's deliberations will be announced on Thursday, April 17. And the winners are...

CONTENT CREATION
Globalstor Data Corp. for the DVD TransPro DVD authoring and dailies creation sytem; Laird Telemedia for the CapDiv direct DV recorder; Reflecmedia for Chromaflex chroma key production; Rockwell Scientific Co. for the ProCamHD 3530 CMOS imaging sensor; and Ross Video for the Squeeze & Tease Warp digital effects switcher.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Adtec Digital Inc. for the Edje-L MPEG digital player; Asaca/Shibasoku Corp. for Firefly direct virtual libraries; Focus Enhancements for The Producer portable production studio; Leitch Inc. for CCS Navigator command control system software; and Reality Networks, Inc. for Managed Content Services content control and security.

CONTENT DELIVERY
FastChannel Network, Inc. for Traffic Video Delivery Internet video trafficking; Frontline Communications for ENG High Top mobile platforms; Sierra Automated Systems (SAS) for Rubicon digital network integration; Triveni Digital for the Skyscraper datacasting system; and Xiran for Direct Path (STM-1000) content delivery acceleration.