CBS Upgrades Graphics With Vizrt

CBS News has signed a $600,000 deal with Vizrt to replace its existing graphics hardware platform with Vizrt graphics software operating on PCs. A customer of Vizrt's since 1997, CBS News also added four additional systems and acquired its first six Viz|Trio CG systems. Viz|Trio is a real-time 2D and 3D characte

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Apr 13, 2006
Updated on: Feb 23, 2018

CBS News has signed a $600,000 deal with Vizrt to replace its existing graphics hardware platform with Vizrt graphics software operating on PCs.

A customer of Vizrt's since 1997, CBS News also added four additional systems and acquired its first six Viz|Trio CG systems. Viz|Trio is a real-time 2D and 3D character generator. In addition to the basic CG features, the company said it offers a feature-rich 3D design system for creation 3D graphics and animations.

The systems are used for daily CBS News programs and special events broadcast from CBS headquarters in New York City.

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After carefully evaluating the top character generation (CG) systems on the market, WSHM-TV3 chose Vizrt’s Viz|Trio realtime 3D character generation and graphics system as the graphics platform for its newly launched news operation. As a CBS affiliate serving the Springfield/Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts market, WS

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