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Telex Completes Sale to Japanese Broadcaster NHK

Burnsville, MN (October 30, 2003)--Telex/RTS has finalized the details of a major sale to NHK, the national, government-owned broadcaster in Japan. The order includes hundreds of specially designed keypanels that are capable of 8-character Kanji displays, as well as a 4-frame ADAM digital matrix intercom that can support more than 400 users.

NHK has begun an effort to fully transition to HDTV by 2009, and this significant upgrade to its intercom and communications capabilities is occurring at a key phase in those efforts, as the broadcaster is forming the core of its digital terrestrial operations. Kanji is a complex set of characters that represents one-third of the Japanese writing system, used in conjunction with hiragana and katakana. The ability of the new Telex keypanels to display Kanji allows NHK not only to significantly streamline its production and communications operations, but also to have more flexibility in displaying descriptive names for increasingly complex intercom assignments.

"Digital broadcasting requires new sets of skills and capabilities, and technology that can keep pace with the changes in day-to-day operations," says a chief engineer at NHK. "Our engineering department has had a long history of success with Telex equipment, and we were confident that Telex was the logical choice to use as the foundation of our digital broadcast infrastructure."

The new custom keypanels are made of extruded aluminum and metal, and feature state-of-the-art audio processors and drivers. The keypanels also display a mixture of hiragana and katakana characters, making them the first ever to display a complete set of Japanese characters, as well as English numbers.

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