Black Diamond Video launches new medical, commercial conferencing play

Black Diamond Video, which manufacturers and integrates high-resolution, digital video processing solutions for mission-critical medical and commercial applications, is launching Sapphire-QHD1, a four-faceted package that offers bi-directional HD video and audio conferencing, unidirectional HD video and audio streaming, HD video recording, and HD image capture.

The high-definition conferencing solution can be incorporated into BDV's popular Integrated Digital Surgical Suite for medical applications or stand alone as a commercial, business, or military conferencing system.

"Our Sapphire-QHD1 is an extensive solution that reaches beyond medical market applications," said Founder and CEO of Black Diamond Video Ed Priest. "HD audio and video conferences can be initiated and accepted with the push of a few buttons from a business conference room... Military personnel can easily and securely conference with remote forces to discuss plans of action while panning and zooming surveillance cameras to view activity from thousands of miles away, all with the greatest detail possible thanks to our high-definition video feed."

Sapphire-QHD1's conferencing element provides advanced bi-directional HD video and audio conferencing functionality. VoIP support allows phone calls into and out of the conference room, command center, or with no external, third party conferencing codec required. BDV's Sapphire-QHD1 is compatible with all major conferencing systems that can support SIP and H.323 protocols, including Polycom, Tandberg, Codian, and Sony.

The product's first deployment will be at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Connecticut, with updates of existing IDSS systems at other leading medical institutions to follow shortly thereafter. The Sapphire-QHD1 system is also available for purchase on the commercial market.

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