FOX Sports Deploys Fast Forward Video Omega Deck™ DVRs for Sunday NFL Coverage

IRVINE, Calif. - September 1, 2002 - Fast Forward Video, Inc. (FFV), a recognized innovator of digital video recorder (DVR) technology for industrial, military, presentation, and professional broadcast applications, today announced that FOX Sports is implementing the company's Omega Deck™ DVRs in seven mobile production units for coverage of Sunday NFL match-ups this season. A pair of Omega Decks installed within each truck provides technical directors with four channels of playout for element animations, replay moves, wipes, and transitions between head shots or replays, as well as promos.

"Our TDs need a playout system that will cue instantly, without any audio glitching or flash frames," said Richie Basile, lead technical director for NFL on FOX. "The game moves so fast - you want the clip to be right there when you hit the button. That's exactly how the Omega Decks have worked for us. They're quick and reliable."

Because the Omega Deck features a removable hard drive, staff in the network's graphics department can preload the clips and animations required by each crew for upcoming games. Each drive is sent out to the appropriate stadium for game-day use. There, the TD simply inserts the drive into an Omega Deck on board the mobile production unit, and the unit is ready for operation.

"We didn't need an expensive tape-editing machine to play out our animations, so we liked what we saw when we found out about the Omega Deck," added Basile. "It's affordable and it does the job well, giving our operators the power and confidence they need to run really slick effects."

The Omega Deck features the familiar controls, inputs, and outputs of standard analog tape decks while providing clean digital video and non-linear random access. Enhanced networking and playback functions give operators greater control in a variety of environments and configurations, making it easy to implement the Omega Deck in a broad range of broadcast applications.

In addition to Ethernet networking and chase lock, the Omega Deck features a convenient LCD touch-screen menu and front-panel control over compression levels, recording options, playback looping, genlock timing, and playlist creation, as well as dynamic tracking, slow motion, instant cueing, and jog/shuttle functions. The Omega Deck features component and composite video input/output, switchable component and RGB outputs for NTSC and PAL, Motion-JPEG compression ratios as low as 2:1, and data storage in industry-standard CCIR-601 4:2:2 digital format, regardless of input type (analog or digital). The Omega Deck features RS-422 machine control on Sony/SMPTE protocol with Odetics Broadcast extensions, as well as SMPTE/EBU longitudinal time code (LTC).

The Omega Deck is available from Fast Forward Video's worldwide network of distributors.

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About Fast Forward Video
Fast Forward Video, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets digital video recorders and time-code systems for professional broadcast, presentation, industrial, and military applications worldwide. Founded in 1985, the company was the first to incorporate digital computer technology, including random access disk storage and data compression capabilities, into professional video products. Today the company provides video technology solutions into a wide range of applications in broadcast, presentation, security, and graphics and animation markets. Additional information is available at http://www.ffv.com/.

About Fox Entertainment Group
Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., 85% owned by The News Corporation Limited (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A), is principally engaged in the development, production and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programs, television broadcasting and cable network programming. Fox had total assets as of March 31, 2002 of approximately $24 billion and total annual revenues of approximately $10 billion. The Company's studios, production facilities and film and television library provide high-quality creative content, and the Company's broadcasting and cable networks provide extensive distribution platforms for the Company's programs. For more information about Fox Entertainment Group, please visit http://www.fox.com/.