ELMWOOD PARK, NJ (September 3, 1997) – JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY announced that three major duplication facilities in Florida have joined the growing DIGITAL-S family. DIGITAL-S, JVC's renown 4:2:2 digital format is making strong in-roads in major production markets such as Florida. Media Concepts, Allied Digital Technologies, and Vaughn Duplication are the latest three duplication facilities to embrace the cost-effective, high-quality equipment.

MEDIA CONCEPTS, ST. PETERSBURG
St. Petersburg's Media Concepts, Inc. has been a self-described "pace setter with JVC products," according to president, Bob Skidmore. In the mid-1980s Media Concepts set up the largest commercial duplication facility in Florida with all-JVC VHS equipment. The company became the first duplication facility in Florida, and one of the first in the U.S., offering JVC's S- VHS format.

So it was only natural for Media Concepts to be an early proponent of DIGITAL-S. "For mainstream production, we feel DIGITAL-S is far superior to the competition and more in line with what budgets permit," said Skidmore. "We're offering DIGITAL-S because if our customers have created a 4:2:2 quality DIGITAL-S master, they should be able to duplicate from it."

Using JVC's BR-D85 full-featured editing recorder in its full-service production and post-production facility, Media Concepts is able to shoot and master videotapes for a wide range of end users, including federal agencies, hotel chains and Fortune 500 companies. The Resource Exchange Company, a Naples, Florida-based shell maker, and Media Concepts also plan to use DIGITAL-S to meet duplication needs for their new joint venture.

Media Concepts, Inc. offers duplication from virtually any master to VHS, S-VHS and DIGITAL-S for corporate, education, medical, sales and direct mail customers. It is one of the few duplication facilities in the country with quad capabilities for converting historical archives and newsreels to present-day formats. The company's production entity provides concept to completion services for corporate and broadcast clients. Media Concepts is also a JVC equipment dealer.

ALLIED DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, ORLANDO
In Orlando, Allied Digital Technologies sources from DIGITAL-S with JVC's BR-D50 player. The duplication facility acquired DIGITAL-S at the request of a major client who wanted to dub corporate productions to the format.

"They were posting on DIGITAL-S and wanted us to replicate from the posted tape," said production manager, Greg Livengood. "They didn't want to go down a generation or switch over to another format."

Allied Digital Technologies has 10 duplication facilities in the U.S. resulting from the merger two years ago of the network of Allied Film & Video facilities with HMG in Long Island, New York. Nationally, Allied Digital provides CD-ROM and audio cassette duplication; high-speed duplication and fulfillment; laser disc pressing; one-off CDs; and a full-service motion picture lab.

Orlando's Allied Digital offers duplication in 3/4-inch, Beta, Beta SP, 1-inch, Digital Betacam, D-2 large and small formats, DIGITAL-S and 8mm; it can record in SP and EP modes. In addition, the Orlando facility provides international standards conversion, closed captioning, Macrovision encryption and custom packaging. It is also a JVC-licensed loader.

VAUGHN DUPLICATION, TAMPA
Tampa-based Vaughn Duplication Service's BR-D85 DIGITAL-S editing recorder was a "customer-driven" acquisition according to regional general manager, Kenneth Cheek. An anchor account which uses DIGITAL-S as its primary format to shoot and master scholastic videotapes on accounting asked if Vaughn would be interested in sourcing from DIGITAL-S for duplication on standard VHS tape.

Cheek, who is a member of Vaughn's strategic R&D team, was already looking at all the small-format digital video products on the market. "We have 10 additional duplication centers nationwide and we felt it would be good to get DIGITAL-S. Our record technicians immediately fell in love with our BR-D85. They thought the DIGITAL-S pictures were great and they liked all the recorder's features." The anchor client has subsequently referred other DIGITAL-S customers to Vaughn's Tampa facility. The duplication house primarily reproduces to VHS from D-2, DIGITAL-S, Digital Betacam, Beta, Beta SP, 3/4-inch, 3/4-inch SP, 1-inch, VHS, S-VHS, Hi 8 and 8mm videotape. It has Sony Sprinter high-speed tape machines and six Otari loaders.

The Tampa facility also offers Macrovision encryption, closed captioning, CD and CD-ROM compression, international standards conversion, custom packaging and fulfillment services. JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY, based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, distributes a complete line of broadcast and professional equipment including cameras, recorders, monitors, projectors and editing products. For more information, contact David Walton at 1-800-JVC-5825 or see our corporate web site at www.jvcpro.com.