Tony: “You generally choose a profile for it and it outputs the entire channel in a form that looks the same as what you’re broadcasting to the web. There is a level of interactivity, where you can click in the zones and see all of the pages that are in there. If you have a link to a web site that features 'Joe’s Pizza,' you can click on the ad and jump to that site. On top of that, the entire channel can be updated to the web. You can post messages to the channel that are controlled by a power user/administrator.”

“As an example, let’s say I am using this channel for public access and the local fire chief wants to report wildfires in the area. Using a web browser, he can post a message to the channel that will get approval. If he has administrator privileges, it can go directly to the channel, which will appear as one of the pages in the channel. You can set up the channel so it will run 24 hours a day with information, content, etc. In a corporate environment, the display screens that appear all over the building could become your Internet.”

Nathan: Earlier on, you spoke about DigiSuite. Does it work in hardware, software or both?

Tony: “Both. It’s hardware with a set of drivers and we work with a plug-in model with Adobe Premiere. It’s a real-time editing product which is used for outputting to tape as a standard delivery format. But it can also export web streams and files for DVD authoring. The whole web capability of DigiSuite is tied into its real-time editing capabilities.”

“As a workflow, you would see someone editing a project, coming from various sources such as DV, betacam, etc. Potentially they could use the client approval thing that I mentioned with Matrox.TV or if the project is finished, they could create a streaming, taped or a DVD version of their show.”