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SAMMA Systems Partners with Silver Trak Digital to bring Automated Media Migration to Australia and New Zealand

July 13, 2007 New York, NY – SAMMA Systems LLC has made an announcement today that it has partnered with Silver Trak Digital to bring its automated videotape migration products and services to the Australian and New Zealand region. As a result of the agreement, Silver Trak, Australia’s leading media duplicator, will be the exclusive distributor for SAMMA System’s entire product line, including its flagship SAMMA (System for the Automated Migration for Media Assets) for either purchase or rental.

SAMMA dramatically reduces the cost of digitizing videotape recordings and increases productivity while maintaining a high level of quality. The system is currently installed at The Library of Congress and ABC television in the U.S.

“We are very excited to bring our line of cutting edge migration products to this area which is rich with media assets through Silver Trak Digital,” states Mark Gray, SAMMA Systems COO. “Silver Track has earned a sterling reputation throughout the audio-video community for its high standards of quality and service. We are delighted to have a company of this caliber representing SAMMA in this important region.”

“It is very clear to us that the automated migration system that SAMMA Systems provides is the next logical step in the field of videotape migration,” says Silver Trak Managing Director Ron Anderson. “SAMMA Systems products will allow us to offer our scope of services to an even broader range of clients than in the past.”

Along with the SAMMA robotic system, Silver Trak Digital will also be distributing SAMMA Solo, a one stream, multi encoding systems that incorporates the analytic features of SAMMA, SAMMA Motion JPEG2000 Lossless Encoding Station, SAMMA Sync, and the family of SAMMA videotape cleaning machines.

SAMMA Systems, a division of Media Matters, LLC., manufactures products for automated migration of videotapes into the digital server environment. The flagship product, SAMMA (System for the Automated Migration of Media Assets) includes robotic tape handling, multiple simultaneous migration streams with closed loop process control to allow tapes to be migrated in a totally unattended fashion. More information can be found at SAMMA Systems' website.

Silver Trak Digital has over 20 years of experience in the industry and is a leader in CD, DVD, Video & Audio Cassette duplication, MPEG encoding and Media Transfers. With offices in Sydney and Auckland, Silver Trak Digital provides innovative and effective solutions through personal service and quality products. More information can be found at Silver Trak Digital's website.

For further press information contact Salvatore Di Muccio at Well Above on +61 412 64 99 64 or at salvatore@wellabove.com

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