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Boxer at NAB 2008
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Actus Imago Insight
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FlipFactory Automates BBC Workflow
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Telestream Episode 4.4 - now available!
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Premium TV Deploys Telestream Workflow
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Telestream Release New Product Lineup
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Telestream Releases FlipScan for FlipFactory
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Network Electronics' 3 Gbps Solution wins award
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Ensemble Designs HD up/down/cross converters
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Boxer at NAB 2008
9/4/2008 Conference April 11th-17th Exhibition April 14-17th Now only a couple of days away, NAB 2008 is sure to be as big and extravagant as usual even without a few of the big names of Broadcast attending. We will be sending a number of our team out to the show to meet with suppliers, customers and check out any new products on display. If you are planning on attending NAB why not meet up with one of our sales team at the show? This would give you a great opportunity to discuss and view some of the products and solutions that you are interested in and find out what Boxer can do for you. To arrange a meeting please get in touch. Please contact Ben Richmond on 01582 466100 or via ben.richmond@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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Actus Imago Insight
12/3/2008 Boxer Systems has recently started working with Actus Imago Insight™. For more information please see below. Insight™ is leading the new generation of media monitoring, research and content review systems, empowering all media related functionaries, executives, TV producers, advertising decision makers, research media departments, content creative, censors, political analysts, government agencies and more. Insight™ captures and stores multiple broadcasts, giving its users total video control, from their own desktops. Working with a highly intuitive browser-based interface, users can view online and offline video streams simultaneously, while tracking and analyzing mission-critical information, such as rating figures or focus group. Insight™ deivers the power and capabilities of professional AV control rooms to ordinary desktop computers. Insight™ captures video streams from multiple sources and streams them to users. , Users have total video control: search, retrieve, view, analyze, share and export video from their standard desktop. Mission critical video broadcasts and analysis become work material, increasing your organization’s efficiency and workflow. For more information on Actus Imago products please contact Liam Connors on 01582 466100 or via liam.connors@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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FlipFactory Automates BBC Workflow
2/1/2008 The BBC offers a large amount of video and audio content for download from its various sites in different formats and qualities. To do the transcoding work for them the BBC chose Telestream's FlipFactory supplied by Boxer Systems. For full details please follow this link to the PDF. For more information on Telestream products please contact Marc Risby on 01582 466100 or via marc.risby@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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Telestream Episode 4.4 - now available!
24/10/2007 Expand your professional Mac media workflow with Episode 4.4 - now available! Telestream’s industry-leading Episode encoding applications for the Mac now add direct access to leading broadcast servers and image sequence workflows. Episode Engine 4.4 adds: Encoding to Broadcast Servers with Episode Gateway option - Initial support for Harris Nexio, Omneon Spectrum, Grass Valley K2 - Faster-than-real-time HD encoding directly to broadcast servers - Supports time code, captions & VBI metadata with video frames Image Sequence Importer - Imports large film sequence files directly into Episode for encoding to virtually any format, including Apple’s ProRes format - Automatically monitors, submits and wraps thousands of huge files - Imports DPX, tif and targa files Episode 4.4 also adds the following features: - FTP and SMB monitoring - Improved H.264, WMV & VC-1 encoding – faster and higher quality - Ability to encode Real Media files on Intel-based Macs - Alpha Channel support in Flash 8 - Cable Labs compatible MPEG-2 transport stream encoding - Flexible tape ingest from SDI to DV, IMX & MPEG with our new Pipeline network encoder For more information on Telestream products please contact Marc Risby on 01582 466100 or via marc.risby@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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Premium TV Deploys Telestream Workflow
22/10/2007 FlipFactory and GraphicsFactory enable Premium TV to deliver over 60 versions of branded game highlights to over 50 mobile and broadband global licensees within minutes of live game events Telestream, the leading provider of media encoding workflow solutions, announced that Premium TV, an end-to-end provider of digital services and products to the sports and entertainment industries, has deployed Telestream’s FlipFactory and GraphicsFactory workflow automation products for the Barclays Premier League. The graphics assembly software application is built on Telestream’s world-class FlipFactory transcoding engine to automate high-volume branding and encoding workflows. Premium TV won the contract in June 2007 to produce and deliver in-match, near-livebranded football highlight clips, delayed highlights and other programming on behalf of the Barclays Premier League, to mobile and broadband licensees outside of the UK. The first matches were successfully delivered on schedule in August using an array of five Telestream workflow automation systems. “Fulfilment of this contract would not have been possible without the unique capabilities of Telestream’s GraphicsFactory which adds complex graphics as part of the encoding process and enables us to meet our delivery deadline,” said Andy Measham, COO at Premium TV. “We are extremely pleased with the performance and flexibility of encoding with the FlipFactory engine and with the fantastic customer and technical support provided by Telestream and Boxer to deliver this new service in a very short time.” Premium TV has many years experience capturing, encoding, preparing and distributing video and audio content for client websites. In early 2007 they purchased an array of multiple Telestream FlipFactory server software systems to improve the efficiency and automation of their encoding services. These servers were supplied and installed by Boxer Systems Ltd, and managed from Premium TV’s own production management system through controls written by in-house programmers using the FlipFactory SDK. When Premium TV won the Barclays Premier League contract in June 2007, they turned to Telestream to meet the challenge. They expanded their implementation to five GraphicsFactory systems, powered by five FlipFactories, working as one load-balanced group with Telestream’s FactoryArray™ software to provide failover protection and database mirroring. The agreement required that Premium TV capture games live, edit and produce 4-6 in-match highlight clips plus half-time and full-time round-ups for each game, add XML game details, insert bumpers and trailers to brand the highlights, encode the finished clips to over 60 different versions of 3GP, Windows Media and Flash and deliver the files to over 50 mobile and broadband distribution licensees – all within minutes of goals or major game events and roundups. According to Measham, “The implementation was completed on-schedule for the first day of the Barclays Premier League season and performed extremely well.” For more information on Telestream products please contact Marc Risby on 01582 466100 or via marc.risby@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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Telestream Release New Product Lineup
18/10/2007 After the success of the FlipFactory Summer Specials promotion, Telestream have completely revamped their range with new products and prices. Gone are the existing FlipFactory Publish and Pro products to be replaced with FlipFactory New Media, FlipFactory New Media Broadcast, FlipFactory Pro SD and FlipFactory Pro HD. GraphicsFactory, FlipFactory News Manager International, FlipFactory Traffic Manager and FactoryArray are still available although each purchase of FactoryArray is valid for installation on up to 5 FlipFactory servers. With each of these new products, many more codecs are included as standard, substantially reducing the costs to the end-user. For a complete list of formats supported and included in each FlipFactory product please follow this link to the PDF. For more information on Telestream products please contact Marc Risby on 01582 466100 or via marc.risby@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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Telestream Releases FlipScan for FlipFactory
4/9/2007 FlipScan will automatically scan and analyse video, audio and metadata for multiple distribution platforms. It will allow you to define business rules for screening source content, integrate pre-scanning and analysis into your FlipFactory workflow and dynamically send content to appropriate factories for processing. FlipScan lets you define a set of business rules to filter for nearly any situation by selecting options from a large set of paramaters, including: formats, codecs, screen size, bit rate, aspect ratio - and many more. Each incoming file is scanned and compared to the rule set and either passes or fails. If it fails, the user is automatically alerted to the failure and the reason for it. If it passes, your business rules will define where the files will be directed for further processing or distribution. For example, 4:3 content might be directed to a factory that will crop and mask to 16:9 content; while content that is already in the 16:9 format will be forwarded to a different factory that maintains the 16:9 aspect ratio. For more information on FlipScan or Telestream products please contact Marc Risby on 01582 466100 or via marc.risby@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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Network Electronics' 3 Gbps Solution wins award
1/6/2007 Network Electronics’ 3 Gbps optical converter and router solutions were recognized for superiority at NAB by the editorial staff of TV Technology magazine with a 2007 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award. The STAR Award, designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry, acknowledged Network Electronics’ 3 Gbps optical solutions for their ability to provide economic and technical advantages via the transport of 1080p 50/60 HD video over 3G-SDI single link connections. “Every year, the NAB show serves as the launching pad for thousands of new products and services for audio and video professionals,” said Tom Butts, TV Technology Editor. “Our panel of editors walked the show floor in search of the most innovative technologies. The products and services that we selected for the STAR Award made the cut--they demonstrated their ability to help advance the acquisition and distribution of entertainment and information across the media spectrum.” Products are evaluated by a panel of judges consisting of TV Technology editors and columnists for their technical applications and overall contribution to the industry. For more information on Network products please contact Marc Risby on 01582 466100 or via marc.risby@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |
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Ensemble Designs HD up/down/cross converters
1/6/2007 Ensemble Designs introuduced the BrightEye 90 series of palm-sized HD up/down/cross converters for use in broadcast, sports and mobile applications at NAB in April. The nine new units are now available for shipping. The units encompass a variety of feature sets, including up, down, cross, and aspect ratio conversion. Each is equipped with HDMI connectors, which interface with most LCD monitors for convenient confidence monitoring of signal feeds. In addition, each BrightEye can be controlled through either the front panel, or Mac and PC software access. Ensemble designed the BrightEye 90 series to be as flexible as possible so that customers can have access to virtually any signal needed, whether its SD SDI, HD SDI, HDMI, fiber or audio. The 90 series fills a much-needed niche for facilities requiring compact, affordable, task-specific signal conversion solutions. Based in Grass Valley, California, Ensemble Designs is a leading provider of signal processing and infrastructure products to the professional broadcast industry. For more information on Ensemble Designs products please contact Marc Risby on 01582 466100 or via marc.risby@boxer.co.uk. ^ Back to Top ^ |