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Register Your Sony Professional Products Online
Extend the limited parts warranty on select Sony Professional Products and stay in touch with ongoing Sony product and software updates and promotions. Sony Broadcast and Business Solutions Company (BBSC) is making it easier for government customers to register and sign up to receive equipment and software upgrade notifications and promotional offers with a new online registration process. And, for a limited time only, we’re making it well worth your while to log-on and register. Visit the new web site, www.sony.com/PRO to see which select products are eligible for a six-month limited parts warranty extension.

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NEWS
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Goes HD

As part of the U.S. government's concerted effort to transition its video infrastructure from SD to HD, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a bureau of the Department of the Interior, has recently adopted its first high-definition video production platform.

For ten years, the National Conservation Training Center has operated a full-service video production studio in its Shepherdstown, West Virginia training campus. Responsible for producing conservation training videos, public service announcements, and visitor center orientation videos for over 550 national wildlife refuges nationwide, the studio had been receiving increased demands from its field offices to produce programming with more life-like image quality. [MORE]

Understanding HDV Recording Media

By Jo Ann Vozeh, General Manager, Marketing, Sony Professional Media

In video acquisition every shot counts. But in government applications the stakes can potentially be even greater. A lost shot could be evidentiary, of historical significance, or be pertinent to national security. This is especially true in this day and age of further miniaturized high density, high definition recording.

Case in point, the HDV format. This cost-effective HD solution is finding its way into numerous government video applications. However, it is important for users to note that the narrower tracks used with HDV recording actually increase their risk of dropouts. HDV deals in very short wavelengths on tracks that are 33 percent narrower than DVCAM™. That's why Sony's recording media group has created the ideal tape for professional HDV applications.

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Sony Reinvents Police Surveillance With Robotic Network Cameras

Classic movie scenes of undercover officers in the front seat of their car, drinking coffee to stay awake during late-night stakeouts, are now sights from the past due to a revolution in portable, robotic video surveillance brought to police departments around the country by Sony.

These law enforcement agencies are saving time and money by creating innovative, portable surveillance platforms that integrate Sony IPELA® RZ30N PTZ robotic network cameras to replace traditional (and time consuming) stakeout assignments. Instead of having to camp out on rooftops, police in Milpitas, California, for example, now enjoy the same birds-eye view from their office desktops by placing the surveillance platform at crucial locations.

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Air Force National Guard Adopts Wireless Passport Printing System
In the course of the the past six months, three units of the Air Force National Guard have adopted the new Sony UPX-C200 Digital Printing System to handle an increasing workload of passport photo production for thousands of service men and women.

At the Multimedia Division of the 193rd Special Operations wing, out of Middletown, Pennsylvania, for example, the UPX-C200 now provides a digital solution that supports 1800 people, producing as many as 400 new passport photos per year.

"We were trying to get away from using film and chemicals in the Air Force National Guard anyway, and we were actually instructed to eliminate our chemical darkrooms. It was also getting harder to obtain Polaroid film. So, when I saw the Sony system, I took advantage of the opportunity," explains base Multimedia Manager, Senior Master Sergeant David Hawkins.

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TUTORIALS
A New Way of Government

By Jay Dishong
Vice President of
AVIT B2B Sales


Visual communications has transformed the way our government does business. Projectors and displays, videoconferencing, desktop and laptop computers and desktop storage are becoming more affordable than ever and are now standard office equipment in today's business environment.

The expansive Sony catalog of AVIT products presented a unique opportunity to satisfy the needs of the growing government B2B market for audio, video and IT products. Many of our standalone office and/or consumer products have been integrated into cost-effective production systems, designed specifically to benefit the real-world, do-it-yourself government department. Today, government IT departments now know that we're the most direct and easy way to obtain their computers - from single units to many thousands.

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