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FTR Ltd. (FTR), the leading global supplier of multimedia recording and content management solutions for courts and hearing rooms, today announced that it has formed a co-marketing alliance with Marantz Professional (Marantz), a worldwide manufacturer of studio and professional audio and video equipment. FTR sells software tools that are used to create notes that are automatically associated and synchronized with recorded audio/video through ThinkLink, FTR's core technology. The notes can then be used to manage, retrieve and navigate the FTR audio/video content. Marantz is the leading supplier of portable solid-state digital recording hardware for the capture of the record in hearing rooms, meeting rooms and public meetings. The portable Marantz digital recorders have become the standard for audio capture in these markets, but the company wanted to enhance these units by offering a software-based method of playing and transcribing the audio on PCs, and by providing content management tools. TheRecord Player version 3.3, FTR's premier software-based audio/video playback and transcription application, is now seamlessly compatible with the Marantz PDM670 and 671 solid-state digital recorders. Marantz customers can download TheRecord Player from the Marantz or FTR Web site at no charge and then play back, manage and transcribe audio recorded with either Marantz recorder. Additionally, FTR's ThinkLink-enabled note taking and audio/video management programs such as FTR Log Notes, TheRecord Annotator, FTR Minutes and WordLink can be used by Marantz PDM670 and 671 customers. According to Peter Papageorge, director of sales and marketing of D&M Professional, a division of Marantz America, the co-marketing agreement with FTR will enable Marantz to offer a simple, yet superior recording, playback and transcription solution to its customers. "Our strength is developing solid-state recording products that work in all types of environments and markets, and one of FTR's strengths is developing easy-to-use, market-focused software solutions for playback and management of multimedia content," he said. "By partnering with FTR, we can combine the core strengths of the two organizations to benefit our mutual customers." Erik Lige, FTR's vice president, marketing, defines the co-marketing plan as a huge milestone for FTR. "FTR has already become the dominant vendor to the court market by becoming the standard for 4-channel digital recording and content management tools," he said. "This alliance allows markets already dominated by Marantz portable digital recording solutions to access the ThinkLink-enabled content management applications provided by FTR without replacing their current recording solution," he added. About Marantz Professional Marantz Professional, a subsidiary of D&M Professional, was founded in 1950 and is a world-renowned manufacturer of audio and video recording, broadcast and installation equipment. The company offers a variety of professional audio and video products to the broadcast, government, audio/visual, education, security, and related industries. For more information about Marantz Professional, please visit http://www.marantz.com/. About FTR Ltd. FTR Ltd. was founded in 1995 in Phoenix as a wholly owned subsidiary of FTR Pty Ltd, which is located in Perth, Western Australia. FTR Pty Ltd was founded in 1993 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the WebCentral Group Ltd, a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:WCG). FTR sells its products direct and through a global network of value-added resellers (VARs) and audio/video integrators (AVIs). For more information, please visit FTR's Web site at www.fortherecord.com. Editors please note: FTR Ltd. and FTR Pty Ltd are registered trademarks of the WebCentral Group Ltd, and TheRecord Reporter, TheRecord Annotator, FTR Log Notes, FTR Minutes, WordLink and ThinkLink are trademarks of either FTR Ltd. or FTR Pty Ltd.