ATLANTA (October 8, 2008) – Crawford Media Management, a division of Crawford Communications, Inc. – one of the largest broadcast facilities in the United States, acquires a second Betacam tape robot by SAMMA Systems, the global leader in media migration. This state-of-the-art robot, coupled with Crawford’s existing robot and four SAMMA Solo™ videotape to digital file migration systems, further enhances the Company’s leading-edge services.
“Based on our success over the last year with SAMMA’s platform, we have made an aggressive expansion of our migration capabilities by purchasing two robots this year,” says Jesse Crawford, CEO of Crawford Communications. “These SAMMA Systems meet the challenge of migrating large collections, and seeing the benefit to our clients confirms our choice of this product.”
The first Betacam robot was purchased at NAB this year, and the second one was bought at the recent IBC Conference in Amsterdam
SAMMA’s robotic technology benefits clients with broadcast and archival projects. With the ability to operate around the clock, even large libraries can be migrated in a fraction of the time. Proxy files can be encoded simultaneously with high resolution files.
Crawford launched its media management division in 2007. According to Steve Davis, vice president of media management for Crawford, “The complimentary relationship between our two companies has proven to be a powerful combination. SAMMA Systems’ technology applied with Crawford’s expertise allows our clients to stay focused on their core mission, while their collections are migrated on time and on budget.”
Mark Gray, CEO of SAMMA Systems comments, “Crawford Communications’ focus on their customers is stronger than ever. Over the past year, SAMMA has observed Crawford’s technical and operational prowess resulting in best-of-class customer offerings. I see the industry turning once more to Crawford for leadership in content digitization and management services.”
About Crawford Media Management
Crawford Media Management (CMM), a division of Crawford Communications, Inc., provides services to help owners of large media collections with migration to a digital file-based environment. CMM offers digitization, archival storage, asset management and consultation. The mission of CMM is to help clients “over the hump” of digitizing large libraries of film, video tape and audio tape. CMM is focused on end-to-end workflow with special attention to management of metadata and selection of file-types. For clients who do not have their own storage or asset management solutions, or who desire secure backup storage, CMM offers solutions customized to the clients’ needs. For more information about Crawford Media Management, call Steve Davis at 678.421.6805 or email [email protected]. The Company can be found on the Internet at www.crawford.com.
About SAMMA Systems
SAMMA Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures the world’s only systems designed to cost effectively digitize medium to large size videotape archives. SAMMA Systems’ products facilitate the automated migration of videotape based content into the emerging digital file based environments. The flagship product, SAMMA (System for the Automated Migration of Media Assets) Robot, includes robotic tape handling of multiple simultaneous migration streams, with closed loop process control to allow tapes to be migrated in a totally unattended fashion. The result is higher quality and faster migration at lower cost than any other method. SAMMA Systems also manufactures SAMMA Solo, the world’s first semi-automated real-time analog to digital file migration system, and specialty components such as computer controlled tape cleaners and a low cost Motion JPEG2000 lossless player. More information is available at www.sammasystems.com.
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