Author: donash

See PlayBox Technology on stand 8.B70 at IBC2015, Amsterdam PlayBox Technology announces the completion of a new broadcast playout system for TBN Zambia. Owned by the world’s largest religious television broadcaster, Trinity Broadcasting Network, TBN Zambia produces and co-ordinates two programme channels at its studios in Lusaka. “Having seen its successful operation at our sister…
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TV Vision Norge has chosen a PlayBox Technology broadcast playout and channel branding system for installation at its headquarters in Drammen, southern Norway. The project was completed in partnership with Scandinavian systems integration specialist Engstroms AB. “We have been using PlayBox Technology equipment for many years,” says TV Visjon Norge Operations Manager John Sanjee. “Our…
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See PlayBox Technology on booth N5512 at the 2015 NAB Show, Las Vegas Convention Center Lighthouse Television, a Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliate, has chosen a PlayBox Technology channel-in-a-box solution as the core of a major modernisation project at its studios in Kampala on the edge of Lake Victoria. The investment enables Lighthouse to advance from…
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Germantown Municipal Television (GMTV) in Tennessee has chosen a complete PlayBox Technology solution for the core of its ingest, CG and graphics, and playout infrastructure. GMTV transmits a wide variety of content ranging from classic television shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies and Dragnet to completely original content produced locally by the students of Houston…
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PlayBox Technology announces a major expansion to the audio capabilities of its AirBox channel-in-a-box broadcast playout solution with the addition of SurCode for Dolby Digital Plus encoding and decoding “Large screen television displays, typically 55 inches and above, are becoming increasingly popular among home television viewers which in turn is creating strong interest in high-quality…
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Why is it so hard to come up with a universally accepted definition of CiaB? As one of the originators of the “TV Channel in a Box” term, or in the USA, “MCR in a Box” or “Master Control in a Box”, I can say the term was meant to convey that a single PC…
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Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne (RTI), state broadcaster for the Ivory Coast, has taken delivery of a new CG titling and television playout solution from PlayBox Technology, the world’s leading manufacturer of television channel-in-a-box systems. This was installed by Brussels-based systems integrator Periactes Broadcast Solutions at RTI’s production and transmission centre in Abidjan.  “We have been using PlayBox…
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MundoFox, a joint venture between FOX International Channels (FIC), News Corporation’s international multi-media business and RCN, the Latin American television network and production company, has chosen a PlayBox Technology AdBox system to automate digital program insertion for its WTTG FOX 5 free-to-air television channel, based in Washington DC. “We have been using PlayBox Technology systems…
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See PlayBox Technology on booth N5434, NAB 2014, Las Vegas Convention Center PlayBox Technology has chosen NAB 2014 as the launch venue for the latest version of its AirBox universal playout and streaming automation server.  AirBox provides automated content playout for satellite channels, cable head-ends, over-the-air broadcasters and corporate TV users. At a fraction of…
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See PlayBox Technology on booth N5434, NAB 2014, Las Vegas Convention Center 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 simultaneous programme delay for more than one SD/HD channel.  “We have developed TimeShiftBox Duo in…
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