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15.08.2000
Orad HiTech interessant
Wirtschaftswoche heute


Die Analysten des Börseninformationsdienstes „Wirtschaftswoche heute“
bewerten die Aktie von ORAD Hi-Tec Systems (WKN 928634) positiv.

Orad HiTech Systems sei auf dem besten Wege, die Sportinformationen im
Internet zu revolutionieren. Die in Israel beheimatete Gesellschaft habe eigens
dafür eine Tochterfirma mit dem Namen OradNet gegründet. Das neue
Familienmitglied solle sich ausschließlich mit der Entwicklung und Vermarktung
von Webcasting-Technologien für Sportereignisse befassen.

Mit Hilfe der von Orad in Kooperation mit Intel entworfenen Technik sei es für
Internet-User möglich, künftig die Perspektive der Übertragung in Eigenregie
auswählen. Beispielsweise könne der Fußballfan die Partie seines Lieblingsclubs
aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln sehen und dabei auf modernste dreidimensional
unterstützte Analysehilfsmittel zurückgreifen.

Der Vorteil dieser Technologie sei, daß selbst bei Standardmodems die
Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit ausreiche, um einen adäquaten Qualitätsstandard
bei der Übertragung sicherzustellen. Führende Sportseiten im Internet wie etwa
Sports.com hätten schon zugesagt, die neue Technik für ihre Berichterstattung
nutzen zu wollen. Wenn das Pilotprojekt Fußball erfolgreich verlaufe, solle das
Konzept auf weitere populäre Volkssportarten wie beispielsweise American
Footbal oder Baseball übertragen werden.

Da die Sportseiten neben den Finanz- und Erotikpages zu den meist
besuchtesten Internetseiten gehörten, stehe nach Meinung der
„Wirtschaftswoche heute“ dem Erfolg von OradNet eigentlich nichts im Wege.
Davon sollte auch der Aktienkurs der Muttergesellschaft Orad Hi-Tech Systems
profitieren.

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ORAD im bericht MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/452330.asp (Ganz unter an die Seite)
HIGH TECH AT HOME
But the technology most home viewers will notice during these Olympics games will be entirely invisible to the athletes. Hovering just in front of runners in a track and field event will be a digital circle showing exactly what world-record pace is. At home, swimmers will appear to be chasing after a green line — a “virtual swimmer” — that moves just in front of or just behind them. Javelin throwers will hurl at stationary lines which represents the current leader and the world record.
The technology was developed by the same people who gave us the imaginary first down line in football. Mark Jeffers, senior vice president of sports sales and development for Orad Hi-Tec Systems Ltd., says the additional information will make competition more exciting for home viewers.
“In kayaking, there will be a virtual finish line,” he said. “We can also put the flags of the nationalities in the picture, so you can tell who’s who. It can be hard to tell right now.”
The moving green line technology is considerably more complicated than the first-down line that has become standard to many football broadcasts, because it must be tied into an official’s scorer’s clock. But Jeffers said it was tested live at a track and field meet in Oslo, Norway, this summer and performed flawlessly.
“It looks silly if it’s wrong,” he added.
Viewers in the United States watching NBC Sports coverage will see Orad’s technology in many events, and dozens of other national networks outside the U.S. are also deploying the technology, Jeffers said.

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Orad Reveals an Array of Technological Innovations at IBC 2000

Visit Orad at IBC Stand #2.240 (Hall 2)

CYBERSET

The “Clickable Video” concept and other webcasting solutions: Television is making the move into Internet space, and more and more websites are using virtual sets for their productions. Orad is now offering a useful tool to bring the virtual set into the Internet enabling both cost savings as well as interactivity. The current interactive plug-in can be used for streaming of game shows, sports, news and weather programmes. Several pioneers such as AENTV (US), Skynet (HK), WSI (UK), and The Toronto Star (Canada) are leading the way by demonstrating how the virtual studio will be a natural tool for interactive webcasting. Next generation “Clickable Video” concept enables producers of content to provide users interactivity with specific objects within the video footage. Information about active clickable areas (hot spots) is embedded in the video and streamed over web (please see separate press release on ‘Clickable Video’). The same technology is used for Interactive TV.


CyberSet NT: Orad now offers the only full-featured NT based virtual set rendering live on off-the-shelf Windows NT workstations. This multi-camera 3D NT virtual set version is the most cost-effective solution on the market. CyberSet NT is integrated with Orad’s tracking modules and allows free camera motion. The system comprises all other virtual set features such as live video I/O, Depth Key, texture processing tools (for photo-realistic look) and more. It is simple and easy to use and configured as a plug-in to 3D Studio MAX. Within a short period Orad gained customers in Japan, USA, Italy and Germany using the NT virtual set live on air. Some of these customers include: the BBC, Brazil’s CNT, US’s MirageQuest and Indonesia’s RCIT.


Lava, 3D On-Air Graphics product: Orad is proud to announce its new 3D live-to-air graphics tool termed Lava using dozens of creative ready-to-go animation and graphic templates. It is available as the new animation authoring and control system of CyberSet as well as stand alone 3D live graphics and animation system. These new product offers the broadest variety of 3D effects and the most intuitive user interface on the market.


New Loader for Maya: This new feature enables the immediate usage of complex models and animations designed in Maya by CyberSet. It is fully compatible with the Maya 2.5. CyberSet virtual set systems also work with SoftImage, Alias Power Animator, Wavefront , 3D Studio Max and others.


MapSetTM: This new cutting-edge feature allows the user to preserve the exact qualities and attributes of the renderer in the authoring software, instead of using inaccurate and ‘cartoonish’ scenes that are hardware rendered in the host computer. This allows the user to obtain a photo-realistic look to his virtual set.


InfraTrack: Orad’s new proprietary tracking method which tracks a rigid array of targets attached to the studio camera. The system supports a complete 3600 shooting sector and unrestricted camera movement. The camera-mounted structure is compact and light, so that the camera can be shoulder-mounted or hand-held.


High video quality option - in order to improve the video insertion quality of CyberSet productions, Orad has developed new ways to insert the video into the graphical set without losing the quality of the video in the process. As a result the video insertion has higher resolution when presented in the graphic set.


CyberWeather and other packages - Orad has launched CyberWeather together with WSI that will enable customers to create a customized, high-tech, look for weather sets using WSI’s WEATHERproducer and Orad’s CyberSet system. In addition, broadcasters can choose a system version, templates, sets and technical assistance for special productions such as Election Night coverage, News Specials, or the Olympics.


Sports Production System/IMadGINE

Orad’s real time tool for sports broadcasting enhancement now offers a range of improved features. New live/instant replay effects such as off-side, 10yds circle and virtual runner are now available. System versions have been developed for American football, track and field and other sports types. Orad has over 70 customers worldwide for its sports production systems including Sky Sports (UK), TV Globo (Brazil), CFL & TSN (Canada), IMAGICA (Japan), and Nine Network (Australia). Many leading international broadcasters will be using the system during the Sydney 2000 Olympics, among them are: USA’s NBC, Germany’s ARD, France2 and Australia’s Channel 7. CyberSport will be demonstrated live at Orad’s booth.
Recently, IMadGINE was chosen by the ATP’s Tennis Masters Series as well as the Canadian Football League and The Sports Network (TSN) to provide virtual advertising for their broadcasts.
The new features are:


Integration of PSY and CyberSport - Since the acquisition of Getris, Orad has integrated PSY, Getris’s unique video graphics workstation, with CyberSport. The outcome will enable the display of the most compelling 3D graphics of statistics, scores and other information to be shown in field coordinates as well as video effects. PSY’s field coordinates graphics’ output will be fed to the CyberSport system showing it with chromakey feature.

4 video insertions: the DVP 200/240 can have up to 4 simultaneous video insertions. Up to now, the DVP 120 had one video insertion only. Each video insertion can come from a different source (NTSC, PAL, ITU-R601 YUV 4:2:2) and each is handled separately creating mipmap levels to preserve the highest broadcast quality of images.

DVP200/240: the new and improved DVP200 is 20% faster than the old DVP. It has up to 24 processors (compared to 8), up to 4 simultaneous video insertions, and up to 2GB texture memory. The DVP200 is only 4u high with 128MB texture memory.

Sensors over audio: with the new ASR (Audio Sensor Receiver), the sensor data coming from the camera can be sent to the CCU over the triax cable as an audio channel. The audio signal can then be extracted back to the sensors data and then sent to the system for processing. One ASR can handle up to f our cameras. The data from the ASR can be sent either on serial cable or via Ethernet.

New GUI: the new GUI will give CyberSport a new look. It will enable the user faster access to key features, use of text file, hot keys and many small utilities will no longer be necessary. The integrated application will have easy to use MMI as well as several applications such as drag & drop and mouse clicks.

Country Box - For the first time Orad has tested its system to enable insertion of graphics in remote locations. This multiple global signal transmission would enable to insert customized graphics according to the specific locations around the world. The system will be operated during the Olympic Games, transmitting signals from Sydney to Beijing.


Sports Production System
SporTrack: Active real-time RF tracking and identification of multiple cooperative targets in real-time with high positional precision and with video refresh rate. System will have miniature ID tag - smaller than a credit card and lighter than 20 grams which identifies each target in its exact location. The system can produce broadcast enhancement features, for example: live highlighting, of a moving object like a specific horse, showing the distance between two constenants and displaying real-time are coverage maps, locations of kicks to goals etc. On the webcasting, system can provide live or delayed graphical simulation of real events, statistical analysis, unique databases and more.

Vtrack: Uses automatic video tracking to track football, tennis players, swimmers, etc. Like SporTrack, Vtrack allows the instant display of statistical functions like accumulated distances, locations of kicks to goal, players’ speed profiles, ball possession, etc.



Immersive Sports webcasting
Orad’s new proprietary simulation technology allows interactive viewing of sports highlights. The 1st version is delayed and current development of real time tracking technologies will soon provide the user with real time interactive experience. A live application is available for horse webcasting. Orad’s new application provides LIVE 3D webcast with a unique on-line archive of tracking data.


GETRIS and Numeric Video
Following the acquisition of Getris by Orad, we are pleased to add an innovative & complimentary line of products. At Orad`s stand will be shown the following:
PSY for sports - on-air 3D sports graphics solution integrated with CyberSport`s tracking system. PSYsports replaces traditional DVEs and CGs with unique true 3D animations with NT-based tied-to-the-field ability.
At Getris`s stand (no. 231 at Hall 2 - opposite Orad`s stand) will be shown the following:
PSYnews - on-air 3D graphics solution (for elections, finance, special events coverage)
PSYset - virtual set with on-air 3D graphics solution (for elections, finance, special events coverage and more). PSYset uses real-stationary cameras virtually simulating studio camera moves, without any camera-tracking system. Ideal for webcasting and cable TV applications.

PSY is already in use in almost 50 Television stations around the world (TF1, Canal Plus, France Television, TG4, TV Globo, VRT and many more...)

Forum - Orad’s Numeric Video will be launching the new disc recorder called Forum. It is a 6-channels disc recorder designed for slow motion and editing. It is the first real disk recorder which competes with EVS’s LSM. It is an open system to be used with Orad products to allow more efficient and integrated solutions. Forum will be demonstrated for the first time at Getris’s booth.

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Im September hat es schon eine ganze menge neuigkeiten gegeben bei ORAD:
http://www.orad.co.il/what/index.htm
September 2000

.Orad Reveals an Array of Technological Innovations at IBC 2000
.Orad Hi-Tec Systems Reveals a New Webcasting Solution - Clickable Video for Virtual and Real Productions
.REALVIZ and Orad Develop Automated Image Processing Applications for CyberSet
.Orad Hi-Tec Systems launches SporTrack - a revolutionary tracking system
.Orad Hi Tec Systems and WSI launch CyberWeather at IBC
.Orad Hi-Tec Systems Secures Its Dominance In The Virtual Set Industry With The Acquisition of Germany’s Xync GmbH
.Orad Chosen by Leading International Networks for Sydney 2000 Olympic Summer Games Broadcasts