Building on its strong technical base, PlayBox now offers complete HD automation and playout workflows; with graphics as well as easy SD-to-HD upgrade paths. Further developments include key technology that extends PlayBox playout into the News environment. PlayBox's market experience is reflected in many more cost-effective products in areas such as logo insertion, HD upgrades and redundancy, giving customers more flexibility to choose the solution, the format and the price that meets their needs.

HDMixer built for the multi-format age, this is a new version of the AirBox playout server that supports multiple compression types within a playlist, such as MPEG2, H.264, WMV, etc, as well as upconverting multiple resolutions ? SD, HD, Mobile or other arbitrary sizes to HD. Users can also select the output aspect ratio conversion on a per-clip or per-playlist basis.

HDStreamer streaming servers can avoid costly codec cycles by offering a high quality live MPEG2 streaming HD output as UDP/LAN or ASI. HDStreamer can also provide HD graphics overlay.

HDLogo is a cost-effective logo inserter server that is available for SD and HD. Unlike traditional logo inserters this provides flexible operation of schedules and rundowns and is also field-upgradeable to a full-blown TitleBox CG server.

HD2B is an SD AirBox playout server that is HD-ready, providing a very cost-effective field-upgrade path all the way to AirBox HD Mixer.

NEW capabilities for SD and HD workflows

N+1 is an advanced n+1 or n+m redundancy configuration for cost-effective redundant playout pools. A number of playout servers can be monitored by a single, or multiple systems and backup engages immediately a monitored server stops responding. Local backup content caching and central storage scenarios are available to suit operational requirements.

TitleBox, PlayBox Technology's established CG server, is now available in HD as well as SD, and is expanding to provide dynamic data visualisation as well as presenting graphics from traditional sources. This means that TitleBox can now accept data from RSS feeds to present live on-screen updates. For third-party integration TitleBox can extract data from any ODBC-compliant database and, again, display that on-screen in any defined graphics template format.

CaptureBox, PlayBox Technology's widely used ingest server, is now available in multi-channel configurations with record chunking, selectable compression, and date and time burn-in. The traditional flexible and easy-to-use single-channel version is now complemented with dual and triple-channel versions for yet more cost-effective operation in larger multichannel playout workflows. Features include manual or scheduled recording and input options including, but not limited to, analogue, SDI, firewire, ASI, UDP/LAN.

AirNews integrates PlayBox Technology's renowned playout capabilities to news. This is achieved by PlayBox solutions integrating via the MOS protocol used with newsroom control systems. This allows PlayBox automation to import news rundowns from various newsroom control systems and run them into live bulletins.

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PlayBox Technology Don Ash, Director, Sales T +44 1707 664444