Cambridge Imaging System to launch new digital TV system at IBC 2007.

15 August 2007 - Cambridge Imaging System to launch new digital TV system at IBC.


T-Gate is a new solid state DVB-T to IP gateway. It takes an input signal and converts it to several multicast UDP streams. For digital terrestrial and satellite TV the unit can receive and filter an entire DVB multiplex.
Using a single T-Gate blade, a number of digital terrestrial TV or radio services can be transferred to standard Ethernet networks using TCP/IP.
T-Gate is a single card solution which can handle up to 11 unicast or multicast UDP streams and can stream packets that contain any sort of data. It requires very little configuration by the user and can be combined with our off-the shelf scheduling and stream capture software.
Users can configure the device to filter TV and radio channels from the multiplex and send the filtered channels to separate network streams. Up to eight filters can be set up but one is used internally.
T-Gate is designed to fit onto a slightly extended Eurocard size PCB. Power and RF are supplied to the rear of the board, with all remaining I/O connectors and LEDs on the front edge.
For users who require a more efficient DVB-S to IP gateway, Cambridge Imaging Systems are launching T-Gate¹s Œtwin¹ named S-Gate.

The company is exhibiting at IBC in partnership with Global Distribution, supplier of leading data storage components and Spectra Logic, suppliers of tape libraries and other storage solutions.

Cambridge Imaging Systems will demonstrate the ways in which its innovative off-air recording facility interfaces with Spectra Logic¹s versatile tape libraries. The Box of Broadcast (BoB) system developed by the company holds entire television programmes in digital file form on hard disk in a rolling archive and allows a range of functions such as transcoding to lower bit rates and clip selection by the user of the broadcast programs.
The system offers high performance enterprise level distribution and has already proved popular with universities and libraries. It is currently in use at the University of Bournemouth and is being installed at the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales.

Box of Broadcasts

  * Records all free-to-air freeview/satellite channels

* Scheduler software automatically records any programme 24/7

* Create your own archive containing 1000s of programmes

* Buffers the last 48+ hours of the major channels

* Automatically generates browse copies including : Flash VIdeo, Windows Media, Quicktime, MP3

BoB is a simple to use off-air recording system designed to be accessed by large numbers of users on a network. BoB allows any authorised user to schedule a recording of a programme appearing on the freeview spectrum or satellite. BoB displays digital tv and radio broadcast information for the next seven days in a web browser based interface - a bit like a digital radio times. You can also type in the name of the programme you’re interested in and BoB will find it for you, or you can search on any key word or phrase and BoB will look for any programmes where those words appear in the programme descriptions.

Once you’ve found your programme, BoB will automatically tune in at broadcast time and record it for you. The show is then added to your own personal account where you can create playlists of your favourite shows. You can watch the show in a web browser (as Flash Video) or download a version to your PC or laptop to play offline (Quicktime or Windows Media). Digital Radio is even converted to MP3, so you can even play it on your iPod.

All the shows recorded are stored in a database of programmes that any BoB user can access. So not only can you search for programmes coming up in the next seven days, you can also search the archive for interesting programmes already recorded and ready to play. You can even search for other user’s playlists and tag the programmes yourself to make it easier for other users to find them.

Stand 7.835

 

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17/08/2007
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Cambridge Imaging System
John Foster
 
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