Pinnacle Video Transfer

Press Release:

Pinnacle Systems INC today highlighted the anytime, anywhere entertainment convenience of using Pinnacle™ Video Transfer.  With the device, consumers with little or no technical expertise can immediately begin recording analogue video from any video source directly to the leading personal media players (PMPs).  For consumers, being able to quickly and easily transfer videos directly to these devices without having to copy the files to a computer and convert them saves time and hard drive space.

Pinnacle Video Transfer provides one-touch start/stop recording from video sources such as a TV, DVD player, PVR, camcorder, set-top box or gaming console.  Recordings are transferred directly to an Apple® iPod® Video, iPod nano (3rd generation), iPod classic, Sony® PSP™, Sony PSP slim, a flash drive or USB 2.0 hard drive.  It can even be used to transfer Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) programs (free and subscription) to these portable players so users can enjoy them when and wherever they want.

Market analysts ABI Research estimate there are currently 7.2 million IPTV households across both Western and Eastern Europe. They also predict this market will quadruple over the next five years to 30.3 million subscribers. According to InfoCom1, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden are the leading IPTV players.

Pinnacle Video Transfer hardware is ideal for people who want to enjoy IPTV shows and personal videos on their personal media players, or just want to store them on a USB drive to archive or view later. With PC-less recording, the compact device will also appeal to people who want a simple way to offload footage from their camera to a portable USB device when away from home.  For consumers with personal videos on VHS, Hi8 or VHS-C tape, Pinnacle Video Transfer can be used to make a digital copy on a USB 2.0 hard drive for safe keeping, without having to deal with complicated PC-based software.

Pinnacle Video Transfer captures videos in the H.264 format, the high-compression multimedia technology supported by iPods and PSPs. This eliminates the need for time-consuming conversion. Also known as the Advanced Video Codec (AVC) specification or MPEG 4-Part 10, Pinnacle's H.264 encoding delivers high-quality videos with two to three times the compression efficiency of solutions such as the MPEG-2 standard, which is used in DVD video. Depending on their preference for video quality or the actual size of the video files, users can select the quality level for each recording (Good, Better or Best) with the press of a single button. When ‘Best’ recording is selected, videos can be captured at up to 720x480/576 (NTSC/PAL) resolution.

Since Pinnacle Video transfer captures the recordings in a digital format, users can also edit the videos on their computer with easy-to-use video editing software like Pinnacle VideoSpin™, which is available as a free download from www.videospin.com. More than a video editing solution, the VideoSpin application also makes it amazingly easy to upload videos directly to popular Web sites like YouTube™.

Measuring only 4.843" x 2.638" x 0.906", the device supports multiple inputs including S-Video, Composite video and stereo audio analog. Pinnacle Video Transfer can also be used to recharge an iPod battery during video transfer.

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