The NAB AIM programme allows attendees to recognise pioneering technologies that display significant advancement through boosting efficiency, increasing user flexibility and creativity or lowering cost.

The STAR Award celebrates and showcases the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry, based on editors' review of a variety of products, their technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, informs an official release.

The Television Broadcast Top Innovation Awards are presented in recognition of Technology Insight for the Bottom LineT, having combined innovative technical achievement with workflow and cost efficiencies. And, the Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit Awards are presented to the most technologically innovative products that promise to have a significant impact on the broadcast and film industries.

"We are honoured to have received such extensive recognition from both NAB attendees and from well-respected publications serving the broadcast industry," said Omneon VP worldwide marketing Geoff Stedman. "The potential of MediaGrid to deliver affordable, powerful, and easy-to-manage digital media storage is unique to the industry, and we look forward to further success as the system continues to be deployed in broadcast facilities around the world."

The release adds that the first content storage system of its kind, the new MediaGrid active storage system is designed specifically for the demands of working with large digital media files within broadcast and video production facilities. The MediaGrid system provides centralized shared storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth and media processing power.