(Parsippany, New Jersey--October 31, 2008) The final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, the US Open, is one of the largest sporting events of the year. IDS, an innovator in live sports event technology and an IBM Business partner that was part of the IBM Technical Solutions team for the U.S. Open, was on hand to deliver the real-time 3D graphics and statistics for the live broadcast of this prestigious sporting event.
The system that IDS relied on included Brainstorm and the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5600 SDI by PNY Technologies.
IDS graphics systems, which use Brainstorm's software and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI from PNY, were integrated into the broadcaster production suites for CBS, USA and World Feed. IDS supplied the television interface and the graphics system as part of its services provided on behalf of IBM, the technology sponsor for the US Open. According to David Lunghino, vice president of IDS: "We chose the Brainstorm / NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI by PNY solution because it allows us to deliver state-of-the-art graphics, including animations for both HD and SD productions."
"The power, performance and reliability of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI by PNY, combined with its ability to generate and output HD-SDI content in real-time, makes it the ultimate graphics solution for a live HD broadcast environment like the US Open," said Jeff Medeiros, senior business development manager, PNY Technologies.
Based on NVIDIA's revolutionary new unified GPU architecture, offering exceptional performance, a massive 1.5 GB frame buffer, and SD and HD-SDI output, the new NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI by PNY is specifically designed for professional HD Broadcast and film applications. This latest HD-SDI graphics-to-air broadcast solution has already been adopted by PNY's industry-leading Broadcast and Film partners, to read their testimonials please click here.
For product information on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI by PNY visit:
www2.pny.com/NVIDIA-Quadro-FX-5600-SDI-P2563C38.aspx
To learn more about IDS Sports visit:
www.ids-sports.com.
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