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Compliance And Logging Systems Cont.

Mediaproxy's LogServer IP now includes TSAnalyzer QC monitoring
and logging features

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stream monitoring, a ﬂexible IP multiviewer and multi-channel review
application. Scalable to hundreds
of single and multi-programme
transport streams across a linked
network of servers, LogServer IP
also seamlessly integrates with
LogServer ASI providing an easy
upgrade path for existing customers.
TSAnalyzer is a new application,
which provides powerful transport
stream analysis for DVB and ATSC
compliant network stream, filebased and existing LogServer
sources. Available for Windows
desktop and server platforms as well
as a rich HTML5 web application,
transport stream monitoring is now
available across several Windows
platforms including all mobile
devices. Unlimited licenses of
TSAnalyzer are included with every
LogServer IP purchase.
Erik Otto, CEO, states: "LogServer
IP offers the most cost effective
and comprehensive native MPEG
logging and monitoring suite of
applications for broadcasters.
Combining unlimited licenses for
MPEG multi-viewing, multi-channel
MPEG review, transport stream
analysis, IPTV distribution and DVRstyle scheduled recording provides
incredible value for customers
looking for a professional yet cost
effective logging and monitoring
solution. Building on our decade
of experience in the logging and
monitoring arena, we continue to
look ahead and innovate, continually
offering new enhancements and
products to meet broadcasters
evolving needs."
Digital Nirvana is bringing its
innovative broadcast monitoring and
content delivery solutions to the NAB
2014 convention. "The video delivery
ecosystem is expanding rapidly with
the availability of content across a
wide range of digital platforms," said
Hiren Hindocha, President and CEO
of Digital Nirvana. "It is our vision to
expand our offerings with powerful
tools to help our customers monitor
and manage any type of media in the

entire ecosystem. Digital Nirvana's
latest generation tools address that
challenge with broadcast and OTT
media monitoring, content capture
and repurposing."
DVEO, the broadcast division
of Computer Modules, Inc (CMI),
conﬁrms that Cocola Broadcasting
Companies has chosen the
company's Ad Serter technology to
add advertising at one of its stations.
Located in Fresno, California,
Cocola Broadcasting Companies is
a locally owned television broadcast
company that operates 30 TV
stations in California and Idaho.
" A t C o c o l a B ro a d c a s t i n g
Companies, we are constantly
needing graphics on different
channels. Before the Ad Serter,
re-wiring the graphic inserter on
a different channel was a frequent
occurrence," said Gary M. Cocola,
Chairman and CEO of Cocola
Broadcasting Companies. "Now,
thanks to the Ad Serter, we overlay
graphics after the encoder on the
multiplexed transport stream. No
more recabling for different channels.
In the UK, PlayBox Technology
re c e n t l y d e m o n s t r a t e d i t s
integrated portfolio of channel-ina-box products and introduced
the new ProductionAirBox at BVE.
Complementing the established
NewsRoomBox production system,
Production AirBox allows switchover
from one clip to another with
practically zero latency.
UK Sales Director Ben Gunkel
notes: "Interest in our broadcast
systems capability continues to
grow, going beyond the scope
of traditional channel-in-a-box
products. This aspect of our
business has great development
potential as television itself expands
into new application areas."
In the realms of broadcasting
compliance, PlayBox Technology
is expanding the range of models in
its TimeShiftBox series of television
playout delay servers. Previously
available in SD and HD/SDI, the
new TimeShiftBox Duo allows

Digital Nirvana has brought its innovative broadcast monitoring and
content delivery solutions to the NAB 2014 convention

Hiren Hindocha
Digital Nirvana, CEO

"...powerful tools to
help our customers
monitor and
manage any type of
media in the entire
ecosystem

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simultaneous programme delay for
more than one SD/HD channel.
" We
have
developed
TimeShiftBox Duo in response to
demands from broadcasters who
need to re-transmit television
channels across multiple time
zones," comments Stanislav
Petkov, PlayBox Technology CTO.
"Designed for easy integration into
playout centres, DTH operators
or for other applications where
delay of SD/HD-SDI is required,
TimeShiftBox Duo provides all
the resources needed to perform

accurate time offsets for any
duration ranging from 10 seconds
to more than one month."
SGT and Active Circle have
finalised an OEM agreement
that enables SGT to complete
its workﬂ ow by adding archive
management as a new module
in its VEDA suite of broadcast
applications.
Over the last 20 years, SGT has
built a comprehensive range of
software for the broadcast industry,
based on two main product
lines: Media Management and
Transmission Management.
Customer needs have evolved
towards workflow automation,
rich-media content management
and new distribution channels such
as the Internet or mobile phones.
In line with this SGT has evolved
its product lines by merging them
into the VEDA range: a single,
seamless and modular end-to-end
suite, based on a service-oriented
architecture.
NAB 2014 sees the launch of
a number of further software
and hardware developments in
compliance and logging systems.
Watch - and listen to - this space.

PlayBox Technology is expanding its TimeShiftBox products

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