Accom Appoints New Broadcast Products Marketing Manager

Gregory S. Smith was recently hired as the broadcast products marketing manager for Accom . Smith's responsibilities for the digital video technology provider include positioning the Abekas 6000 video production server in the marketplace. Prior to joining the Menlo Park, Calif. company, Smith worked in market develo

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Dec 16, 2004

Gregory S. Smith was recently hired as the broadcast products marketing manager for Accom.

Smith's responsibilities for the digital video technology provider include positioning the Abekas 6000 video production server in the marketplace.

Prior to joining the Menlo Park, Calif. company, Smith worked in market development for SGI where he was involved in the development of integrated systems for media storage, management and distribution. Smith also served as product manager for Louth Automation/Harris where he led the development of DTV automation products. He also worked as the product manger for NLE news editing and live reply products for Sony Electronics.

Smith previously worked in market development for Silicon Graphics

Calif.-based Accom will display its new products at IBC2004 in September. The APR.ClipStore is an SD digital disk recorder housed in a 3 RU chassis. Dveous/MX is the universal format digital video effects system that broadcasters can use in SD or HD formats. Abekas 6000 is a production server that adds HDTV hardwa

Echolab Corp. has appointed Ankit Patel as product marketing manager. Patel is responsible for managing the Echolab production switcher product lines.

Automation system provider Odetics Broadcast has hired John Wadle as vice president of product management. Wadle has more than 35 years' experience in software design and implementation. He most recently served as vice president of product management for the Automation Division of Encoda Systems from 1995 to 2002.

Czech Television recently installed the Abekas Dveous/MX in its Prague studio. The new studio will be used for live cultural programming as well as film and television projects for Czech TV. Accom--based in Menlo Park, Calif.--debuted its Dveous/MX video effects system at IBC2004, along with several other products in

In this position, Rhodes is responsible for marketing and product development of the company’s HD and SD convertible camera systems.

Larsson will now be in charge of analysing the needs of specific market segments.

Accom is now ship APR ClipStore--its uncompressed SD recording product--to Univision, Discovery Latin America and NGC Japan. The company--based in Menlo Park Calif.--makes digital disk recording, digital video production and editing tools. Introduced at NAB2004, ClipStore is a recording device for video, film and grap