(Wednesday 30th June 2010)

Corsair Solutions and Playback Systems have today announced changes to the master distribution of Grass Valley Desktop and Enterprise Solutions (DES) products in Australia.

As of the 1st of July 2010, Corsair Solutions will be responsible for the marketing, sales and support of all product families except the ADVC Professional product line. This includes EDIUS Editing solutions, ProCoder software transcoding, FireCoder hardware transcoding, MediaEdge IP based video distribution, ADVC HD and ADVC Broadcast products.

Mark Lampard, Managing Director of Corsair Solutions said “I am excited to be once again involved with the marketing of Grass Valley DES products, and look forward to working closely with customers and resellers in this region”. Mark spent the period of 2002 to 2008 working as a Product Specialist for Canopus and then Grass Valley.

Mike Van Bremen, Director of Playback Systems said “Mark and his team at Corsair Solutions are the right choice moving forward to bring Grass Valley DES products to market. His considerable experience with the product line and Corsair Solutions’ focus on this market segment will be of ongoing benefit to all resellers and customers of Grass Valley DES products in this country”.

Customers and resellers of ADVC Professional products should continue to place sales and support enquiries with Playback Systems, whereas customers and resellers of all other product lines should contact Corsair Solutions. Contact details for both companies are included below.

Grass Valley's Frank Nicolaci told AusCam online, "Corsair Solutions is Mark Lampard who has for a long time been associated with Canopus/Grass Valley Desktop products as an employee and more recently as a Professional Products distributor and reseller.  Corsair is focussed on dealing with our professional range of Editing and Video over IP Distribution products and with his product knowledge and expertise he will do a sterling job of promoting our Edius and MediaEdge product line to the Professional market and take care of resellers, and reseller/end user Customer Support". 

"Playback Systems (Formerly Canopus Australia) these days is more adept at dealing with ‘consumer’ related products.  The  Grass Valley ADVC video converter range is product that is best suited to their distribution methods to the wider reseller market for Sales and Customer Support which this market needs and demands".

"We believe that such a distribution split was necessary for Australia, and in the best interests of our customers that they have clearly defined access to the best distributor and/or reseller for this broad product group that is Grass Valley (DES) Desktop and Enterprise Solutions".

Corsair Solutions, established in 2009, and aside from Grass Valley DES is the Australian Distributor for Logickeyboard, Dulce Systems, XLNT Idea, Qsan and builds custom duplicator systems under the Corsair Duplicators brand. For sales and support enquiries, please call 1300886590 or email sales@corsairsolutions.com.au

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