Coverage Of The 2008 Olympic Games Enabled By Nearly Half A Million Gigabytes Of Storage Provided By Seagate

Seagate's Barracuda® ES Hard Drives Enable NBC’s Record 3,600 Hours of Coverage of the Beijing Olympics [The following is a release from Seagate]

August 14, 2008

The Seagate® Barracuda® ES Series is the hard drive of choice for NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Seagate hard drives are powering 20 Omneon MediaDeck servers to digitize and ingest HD coverage from the Olympic Games. The video files are actively transferred, while still being recorded, to a MediaGrid active storage system in Beijing then to a second MediaGrid storage system in New York. -- The media servers and storage systems allow NBC to present more than 3,600 hours of coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the most ambitious single media project in history and more than the combined total of every Summer Olympics ever televised in the United States. -- NBC’s coverage will average nearly 212 hours per day for 17 days – more than 8 days of coverage during every single day of the Olympics. -- Seagate storage is enabling Olympics viewers around the world to watch what they want, whenever they want and wherever they want: -- ONLINE: Olympic fans will have access to approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming Olympic broadband video coverage on NBCOlympics.com. -- ON-DEMAND: In addition to the 3,600 total hours of coverage mentioned above, NBCOlympics.com also will feature approximately 3,000 hours of Highlights, Rewinds and Encores. -- ON-THE-GO: Watch Olympics coverage On-the-Go anywhere...anytime. Once you've downloaded the episode you'll be able to watch it anywhere at anytime, even offline. -- DIRECTV on Demand is offering 10 hour-long Olympic titles each week to customers with VOD-enabled DVRs, which can translate into even greater demand for high-capacity DVR storage to capture the additional hours of programming. -- Seagate donated a number of its FreeAgent Pro external drives and 1TB Barracuda desktop drives to photographers from China's Digi-Life magazine, who documented the construction of the mammoth Beijing Olympic Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest". The stadium covers 258,000 square meters and holds more than 90,000 people.

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