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With iDA.Store, you can manage, browse, and apply your digital assets anyway you want to. We provide iDA.Store Lite for home users, iDA.Store Standard for business purpose, and iDA.Store Pro for Broadcasters.

Efficiently manages accumulated video data
Companies, such as broadcasting stations and ad agencies are required to process a great amount of videos. Hence, they need to manage stored videos efficiently.Until now, one must either rely on his or her experience or the background information that has been accumulated on text database to search a video. However, in both cases, video tapes must be taken out from the video storage room and played in order to find required information, wasting valuable time in the process. And, the required data are found only after many such attempts. However, with iDA Store, the users can search the needed videos and materials easily and quickly. How? iDA Store requires storing video simultaneously in the iDA.Store databases and provides information retrieval function. As a result, you can play a video while retrieving the video that you want to see. Three versions of iDA Store are available for use: Lite, Standard, and Pro specific usesof individuals, enterprises, and broadcasting stations respectively. Likewise, in addition its independent operation, iDA Store can be linked to iDA VOD and iDA TV for more efficient management of videos.

Employs digital video

Supports MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video formats that are the industry standard

With the employment of representative screen images, the characteristics of several clips are understood at a glance for video browsing

Easy search without verifying all required screens

Selects MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video file for registration

Supports MPEG encoder board for video registration from external video sources

Remotely controlling the broadcasting Betacam VCR with Betacam control protocol (Sony RS-422 Protocol)

If there are lots of videos to be entered, the input video list is prepared with batch for registration

By using the MPEG decoder board, the searched video is viewed on NTSC monitor

If there is no MPEG decoder board, the video can be played with software

Information search

The video search with desired contents is available by entering the words that can display the contents to be found

Powerful search engine including enhanced search commands such as AND/OR

Query word can be extended by using thesaurus dictionary (iDA.Store-Pro)

Providing information on similarity of searched data to query (iDA.Store-Pro)

Database management

Several databases such as commercial database and news clip database can be created according to objectives

Since user-defined field is supported in addition to basic fields, the fields desired by users can be defined

Ease of Operation

Providing search screen designed for easy use of beginners

Providing browser where characteristics of video clips can be understood at a glance

Since the stored video clip can be played on computer monitor or NTSC monitor, the status can be understood

Providing various product lines ranging from self-execution type of single user only (iDA.Store-Lite) to client-server multi-user only (iDA.Store-Standard, iDA.Store-Pro)

Adopting open architecture

Server: Regardless of platforms from PC server to medium-size Unix server

Server operating system: Unix and MS Windows NT

DBMS:

- iDA.Store-Pro: Supporting BasisPlus and commercial RDBMS

- iDA.Store-Standard: MS SQL server

- iDA.Store-Lite: Paradox

iDA.Store-Lite

For the single user

System configuration

- System configuration

- Encoder (Optional): Optibase MPEG encoder (forge, fusion...)

- Decoder (Optional): Optibase VideoPlex

iDA.Store-Standard

Suitable to client-server type of small and medium-size environment

- Video and database server

Pentium PC

OS: MS Windows NT server

DBMS: MS SQL server

- Indexing station

Pentium PC (MS Windows 95/NT)

Encoder: Optibase MPEG encoder (forge, fusion,...)

Decoder: Optibase VideoPlex (Optional)

- Searching station

Pentium PC (MS Windows 95/NT)

Decoder: Optibase VideoPlex (Optional)

- Network environment

TCP/IP-based network (Ethernet, fast Ethernet, ATM,...)

iDA Store-Pro is the most advanced product among iDA.Store product lines.It is used by major broadcasting stations, which manage a great amount of video information.iDA Store-Pro is a customized product based on the technology of iDA Store.Accordingly, it provides the most appropriate video management solution for customers. It can also interwork with various types of V systems or specialized information retrieving systems such as BasisPlus and Verity TOPIC. Therefore you can set up a professional video data management system without updating or replacing your existing computer. Currently, Digital Chosun Daily uses iDA.Store-Pro as its video data management system.

iDA.Store-Pro, which is most advanced product among iDA. Store product line, has all of the functions of iDA.Store and additional characteristics:

Open system

Supports universal Unix server

Supports various commercial DBMS and information search system

Supports various network environment

System library management

Manages all types of data such as tape, book and photo used in the library

Barcode facilitates data management

The user can check the status of desired data and subscribe its rent without attending to library with subsystems of iDA.Store-Pro

Backup system

The storage load of the video server can be adjusted by backup of video data, which occupy large capacity but are not used frequently, with CD-ROM or DVD

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