Vizrt Intros Viz|Reporter

BERGEN, Norway -- Vizrt, a leading provider of real-time, integrated broadcast graphics software, today announces its latest software breakthrough, Viz|Reporter 1.0. Viz|Reporter provides for easy upload of video from a mobile phone into an existing newsroom workflow without incurring any further degradation of the content quality for the purpose of transferring it over mobile networks.

Until now, television news producers and photojournalists with video images captured on mobile phones have faced a time-consuming process to put them on air. Images had to be converted first and then copied onto a PC. During this process, images were compressed and the quality greatly reduced. In the case of breaking news, such a time-intensive procedure could mean the difference between images making it to air in a timely manner or not.

“As the sophistication of mobile phone technology increases, so does the potential of Viz|Reporter to impact the way breaking news is reported,” said Petter Ole Jakobsen, CTO of Vizrt, “Newsrooms that employ Viz|Reporter will not only be able to capitalize on citizen journalists; they will more efficiently use their staff in the field. The product is designed to evolve with the continual improvements implemented on new multimedia cell phones, and content can be uploaded from any location where cell phone coverage is available.”

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