Press Release
SOURCE: DVvideo.com
DVvideo.com and Relax Technology Announce
Sales and Marketing Partnership
DVvideo.com Introduces Their Newest
IEEE 1394(FireWire, iLink) Hard Drive Enclosures incorporating the
Oxford 911 chip and immediate support for Apple OSX 10.1.
LAFAYETTE, Calif., and UNION CITY, Calif., October 16, 2001-DVvideo.com,
the DV video(digital video) starting point, and Relax Technology,
the worlds leading SCSI solutions company, announce a sales and marketing
partnership for IEEE1394/FireWire/iLink hard drive enclosures and
related products. The partnership combines DVvideo.com's knowledge
of the DV video industry and Relax Technology's 20 years of experience
in the computer storage market.
The partnership enables DVvideo.com to market the DVvideo.com
Premier IEEE1394 Hard Drive Enclosures while Relax Technology handles
the customer support, shipping, billing, and returns. When compared to the competition using previous generation
chipsets, the DVvideo.com Premier IEEE1394 Hard Drive Enclosures enable
data and video to be transferred twice as fast and are compatible
with both Macintosh and PC computers. The enclosures incorporate
the new Relax Technology firmware, offering increased hard drive compatibility,
and allowing the Oxford 911 based enclosure to support OSX 10.1.
"We wanted to make our products more available
to the consumer," said Relax Technology founder, Frank Grabreli. "DVvideo.com
provides the vehicle to gain visibility within this emerging marketplace.
We are optimistic about the growth potential for both companies."
Priced at $159, DVvideo.com Premier IEEE1394
Hard Drive Enclosures are a premium pro-grade product incorporating
a dual fan system to keep the drive temperature low and internal Teflon
cabling to ensure the cables are shielded and strong. DVvideo.com
Premier Hard Drive Enclosures deliver a convenient, speedy, scaleable
and portable alternative to the complexity of installing internal
hard disk drives in a computer.
"With DVvideo.com's expertise in digital
video and Relax Technology's 20 years of experience in manufacturing
storage solutions, this partnership seemed like a natural match."
said Ben Miskie, president and founder for DVvideo.com. "The partnership
ensures that mutual customers have DVvideo.com and a company with
20 years of experience backing every DVvideo.com product they buy."
DVvideo.com Premier IEEE1394 Hard Drive
Enclosures connect fast plug and play storage using the same port
DV video cameras use for capturing video to a computer. DVvideo.com
Premier IEEE1394 Hard Drive Enclosures take advantage of the new 2nd
generation Oxford 911 chipset, enabling transfer speeds of 35MB/s
that directly capture DV video. This compares to many other hard drive
enclosures, which use the first generation chipsets and transfer information
at around 15MB/s.
Pricing and Availability
For more information about DVvideo.com Premier IEEE1394 Hard Drive
Enclosures, visit http://www.dvvideo.com/shop/storage/buyEnclosure.htm
DVvideo.com and Relax Technology products
are pro-grade products and can be found in the Shop section on the
web at http://www.dvvideo.com/shop/storage/index.htm
About DVvideo.com
DVvideo.com started in January 2000, providing
an educational resource for beginning to medium-level filmmakers.
Since then DVvideo.com has grown, offering a store to buy DV video
related products, industry news, related product reviews, online films
created in DV format, and a forum for digital filmmakers to converse.
Located in Lafayette, CA, DVvideo.com can be found on the web at <http://www.DVvideo.com/>.
For More Information Contact:
Dennis Johnson, Public Relations, DVvideo.com
dennis.johnson@DVvideo.com
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