Ascent Media Taps Front Porch for Archiving

Ascent Media Network Services (AMNS) has selected Front Porch Digital as its archive system provider for global origination facilities that serve Discovery Communications. The Front Porch DIVArchive (Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive) software will support production and playout in 60 of Discovery's 9

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Oct 6, 2005

Ascent Media Network Services (AMNS) has selected Front Porch Digital as its archive system provider for global origination facilities that serve Discovery Communications.

The Front Porch DIVArchive (Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive) software will support production and playout in 60 of Discovery's 90 global networks, serving subscribers in North America, Europe and Asia.

Discovery plans to migrate to file-based platforms, enabling enterprise-wide access to video assets. DIVArchive simplifies the process of managing and accessing Discovery content by facilitating interoperability between the facilities' digital media storage devices, video servers, editing systems and digital media workflow applications.

Dubai Media Inc (DMI) will base its archive on the DIVArchive content storage management (CSM) solution from French asset management vendor Front Porch Digital.

A&E Television Networks recently selected Front Porch Digital (FPD) to provide its DIVArchive system to manage video archive content. FPD will also equip A&E with its BitScream transcoding technology to generate WM9 files for viewing using a browser and file formats for digital playout. FPD professional services d

Discovery Communications will use DIVArchive to store assets.

The Office of Radio and Television, an agency of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn., has purchased a new DIVAdirector and upgraded the facility's existing DIVArchive system, supplied by Front Porch Digital, the broadcast and media division of Incentra Solutions. The DIVArchive and DIVAdirector systems are integra

Sette Ltée , Montreal-based provider of post-production and signal management services, has purchased Front Porch Digital 's DIVArchive system as part of a TV5 Monde DIVArchive installation located in Montreal. The facility will be the disaster recovery site for TV5 Monde, a global provider of French-language program

Front Porch Digital resolves content management challenges for Shaw Media promo image

Shaw Media has implemented Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive content storage management system.

Ross Video VOOM HD Networks, a subsidiary of Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, has just completed installation of Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive system . The system will enable VOOM to efficiently manage storage of the network's very large library of HD content files. "The programming that we provide on VOOM HD Network

Regulatory and Standards

Front Porch Digital has been awarded two new U.S. government patents for "methods and apparatus" that are critical to the Content Storage Management functions of global broadcast facilities.