Digital Rapids Enable HD For Innovative Dental Education Portal

A leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences, has announced that digital media production company 1MediaProduction have employed Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD and TouchStream.
These encoding and streaming solutions from Digital Rapids, will create high definition content for the first interactive, full-screen HD video learning platform for the dental profession.
DentalEDU.tv's rapidly expanding user base of registered dental professionals earn Continuing Education credits through its live and on-demand video course offerings. While the site’s exceptional video quality is enough to differentiate DentalEDU.tv, its supporting capabilities enable its effectiveness as an educational platform. The site’s custom video player automatically detects the viewer’s bandwidth and selects between HD or lower-resolution versions of the video accordingly. The player tracks the minutes of each chapter – or of the entire production in the case of a live event – that are watched by the user, ensuring that the viewer is meeting the minimum requirements for certification of completion of the course.
A StreamZHD encoding system, supplied by Digital Rapids reseller Trock Media, is used to capture, encode and stream live HD productions from 1MediaProduction’s multi-camera studio. The StreamZHD encoder is also used to transcode edited media files from Apple Final Cut Pro into formats ready for on-demand web distribution.
A TouchStream portable encoding and streaming appliance, configured with HD-SDI input, provides a second live streaming channel – allowing users to switch between multiple streams – while giving 1MediaProduction increased flexibility in live production at remote sites. Encoded outputs are delivered in the H.264 compression format for playback through DentalEDU.tv’s video player – powered by Adobe Flash technology – and simultaneously encoded for streaming to BlackBerry mobile devices.
"We're very pleased that Florida-based 1MediaProduction has chosen our systems as the backbone of DentalEdu.tv," said Brent Ross, Director of Sales for the Americas at Digital Rapids.
"The ability to deliver high definition content over the web is enabling a wide range of innovative new video-based services, and the superior quality, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of TouchStream and StreamZHD make them ideal solutions to power these applications."
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