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Monitor IQ System Introduced At NAB
D

igital Nirvana showed several,
key new features in its latest
release, Version 3.2, of its Monitor
IQ broadcast monitoring solution at
the 2013 NAB Show held in April in
Las Vegas, Nevada. These updates
are a direct result of customer
feedback.
“At NAB, broadcasters saw
demonstrations of our new Monitor
IQ features and learned how they
benefit a broadcaster’s logging,
monitoring, and compliance
workﬂow,” said Hiren Hindocha,
President and CEO of Digital Nirvana.
“Our NAB exhibit demonstrated how
diligently we address customer
suggestions for new features like
the ones we included in Version 3.2.
This on-going product development
is part of our mission to deliver
the industry’s most innovative,
customer-focused and costeffective solutions.”
Monitor IQ Release 3.2 Features
Web Captioning generates
captions in the Timed Text Format
(SMTPE-TT) from the broadcast
closed captioning for association
with the content repurposed for
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the web. This ensures that web
programming complies with new
FCC Web captioning mandates
and provides a valuable service to
hearing impaired viewers.
Programme Guide Extraction
enables recording by programme
as well as by time segments. It
automatically extracts Event
Information Tables (EIT) from the
PSIP (Programme and System
Information Protocol) programme
guide embedded in the ATSC
transport stream. This feature
simpliﬁes programme searching
and recording without requiring a
paid subscription to a third-party
source for programme extraction.
Hybrid Appliance allows users
to mix and match different signal
inputs, such as ASI, HD/SDI, and
ATSC/QAM, in one server. By using
one server for multiple signal inputs,
customers can reduce equipment
costs, lower power and maintenance
costs, and save valuable rack space.
Monitor IQ Infrastructure SelfCheck proactively monitors the
total health of the Monitor IQ
infrastructure. It automatically

Monitor IQ Version 3.2 iPad Programme Guide

performs over forty types of ongoing system checks, including
CPU, RAM, and power levels, and
automatically alerts users when the
system needs maintenance.
The Monitor IQ system has been
divided into four packages so that
a wide range of broadcasters can
take advantage of the company’s

technology: Monitor IQ Starter,
Monitor IQ Essentials, Monitor IQ
Plus, and Monitor IQ Premier.
During the NAB show, Digital
Nirvana also launched AnyStream
IQ, hailed as the industry’s ﬁrst-ever
cloud-based solution for reliably
recording, logging and monitoring
live streamed media.

Pilat Media Streamlines With IBMS Express Workflow
I

n today’s ever-changing media
environment, demands are high
for broadcasters of all sizes.
Staying competitive means
keeping consumers engaged with
quality programming whenever
and wherever they want it. The
challenge lies in how to remain
efﬁ cient and generate revenues
while dealing with the increased
workloads that come with a
growing number of channels and
multiscreen offerings.
Pilat Media has leveraged its
years of experience with toptier customers from around the
world to create IBMS Express, a
compact and modular broadcast
management system designed for
broadcasters in need of a solution
that they can deploy quickly with
minimal investment. Installed and
managed in the cloud by the Pilat
Media professional services team,
IBMS Express brings broadcast
management best practices to
users’ fingertips, opening the
door for highly efﬁcient operations
that can support the expanding
business needs of today’s
broadcast operations.
Distilled from the robust and
proven IBMS platform, IBMS
Express offers a compact yet
powerful system, capable of
streamlining workflows while
handling everything from content

acquisition and rights management
t o p ro g r a m m e s c h e d u l i n g ,
promotions, media management,
airtime sales, trafﬁc and reporting
for multiplatform operations.
IBMS Express is available in
multiple conﬁgurations including
Content Express which enables
b ro a d c a s t e r s t o s c h e d u l e
media assets and manage them
throughout the broadcast lifecycle,
from acquisition to post-production
processing, transmission and
reconciliation. Rights Express
provides rights management across
all broadcast operations including
linear and non-linear rights and
consumption and configurable
rights dimensions such as regions,
platforms and devices. Other

IBMS Express – Planning Grid

conﬁgurations for IBMS Express
will include modules for sales as
well as on-demand management.
The true strength of IBMS
Express lies in the speed and
relative ease with which it can be
deployed. Predeﬁned workﬂows
radically reduce conﬁguration and
training times. Furthermore, the
deployment of IBMS Express in
a private cloud environment as a
Software-as-a-Service serves to
accelerate deployment, reduce
upfront investment, provide a
secure repository for business
data and facilitate the scalability
of the supporting infrastructure as
business needs grow.
F ro m t h e s t a r t o f t h e
implementation, Pilat Media’s

experienced team handles the
analysis and conﬁguration, trains
personnel and prepares the go-live
support services required for the
integration. A broadcaster can be
up and running using IBMS Express
in a matter of weeks.
IBMS Express minimises IT
investment and maintenance, and
it reduces up-front deployment
capital through a “pay-as-yougrow” pricing model that takes
into account not only the size of an
operation, but also its evolving need
to support more channels, services
and IBMS Express configurations.
Pilat Media is ready to support
broadcasters’ outsourced IT
implementations with high-value
planning and monitoring services,
as well as proactive strategies for
managing their IBMS system in the
cloud. The company’s professional
services team monitors and
maintains the hardware instance,
database conﬁguration, software
updates and backup policy in the
cloud – eliminating, for broadcast
staff, the burden of purchasing,
installing and maintaining the
supporting infrastructure for an
IBMS Express installation.
IBMS Express will make its Asian
debut at Broadcast Asia 2013, where
Pilat Media will highlight its awardwinning business management and
OTT solutions for TV Everywhere.
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