FOX News Chooses MultiDyne HD Fiber Transport Links

InfoComm Booth #C1926

June 4, 2008

Locust Valley, NY – MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, a leading provider of fiber optics for the transport of video and audio for broadcast & pro A/V applications, announced today that FOX News in New York has purchased 50 MultiDyne HD-1500 HD-SDI Fiber Links.

"Our HD fiber transport products provide the future-proof, cost-effective design needed to meet the changing broadcast requirements of FOX News,” said Bob McAlpine, vice president of global sales and business development. “The HD-1500 provides looping, equalized, and reclocked inputs, dual outputs and MultiDyne’s unprecedented, standard 7-year warranty.”

The HD-1500 Series of 5 to 1.485 Gb/s Serial Digital Video Fiber Optic Transport Links is designed to ease the engineering and financial difficulties associated with the migration to Digital and High Definition Television. The HD-1500 line provides an economical solution for the fiber optic transport and distribution of virtually any digital signal from 5 Mb/s to 1.5Gb/s. Supported standards include SMPTE 292M 1.485 Gb/s, SMPTE 259M, with operation from 143Mb/s - 360Mb/s, SMPTE 310M 19.4Mb/s, M2S or DVB-ASI 270Mb/s, SMPTE 344M 540Mb/s and SMPTE 305M SDTi rates. The systems will transparently pass any embedded audio and data; audio and data must be embedded and extracted separately.

The HD-1500 series is available in compact stand-alone and rack-mount packages making it ideal for applications including field remotes, sporting events, ENG/SNG, production and in-plant signal distribution. The compact unit offers an economical solution for the distribution of digital signals from 5Mb/s to 1.5Gb/s up to 20KM over Singlemode or more than 300M over Multimode fiber optic cables.

About MultiDyne:

MultiDyne provides fiber optic transport systems for video, audio, SDI, HD-SDI, 3G HD-SDI, AES, ethernet, data, PTZ, RGB/VGA, DVI, HDMI, and CATV; optical multiplexing, CWDM; automatic protection switching; loss detectors with automatic switchover; test signal and character ID generators; video, audio and digital distribution amplifiers; cable equalizers; automatic gain AGCs; electrical and fiber optic routing switchers; tactical cable assemblies; XLR adapter panels as well as other television accessories. MultiDyne has been serving the broadcast, cable, satellite, production, digital cinema, pro AV, corporate, retail, surveillance, teleconferencing, judicial arraignment, transportation, government and healthcare sectors for over 30 years. For more information, call MultiDyne at 1-800-488-8378 or 1-516-671-7278, visit our Web site at www.multidyne.com, or send an email to sales@multidyne.com.

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MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems

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Locust Valley, NY 11560

Tel: +1 (516) 671-7278

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