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Channel Branding

Branding exists whether we like it or not. Good branding leaves an impression and creates a bias in a person’s mind that allows broadcasters to actively manage that impression rather than leave the person to come to their own conclusions. Good branding also actively shapes people’s minds regardless of the number of viewers and allows…
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PlayBox Flies To Travel Channel

PlayBox Technology, the #1 international channel-in-a-box manufacturer, has worked with the UK-based Travel Channel International (TCI) to expand and streamline parts of its worldwide operations. This has involved the companies working together to achieve the required integration of EdgeBox remote playout servers from PlayBox Technology into TCI’s existing file-based workflow and Zeus trafficking system. Richard…
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PlayBox to Supply DEGA 10 TimeShiftBox HD

PlayBox Technology announces that Dega Broadcast Systems has ordered 10 TimeShiftBox HD media delay servers with TitleBox HD interactive CG and graphics. These have been ordered as a part of a project for a major UK broadcaster for installation in its central equipment area. TimeShiftBox HD, launched at NAB2011, is a one-box time-shift solution that…
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Box or Boxes?

The technology of television has always been evolving fast and effecting some areas more than others. Changes in playout have been huge and the ‘Channel in a Box’ marketing tag is designed to draw attention to new approaches available for tapeless playout. The fact that much of the functionality required to present a TV channel…
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PlayBox Puts More in the Box at IBC

 PlayBox Technology, now with over 10,500 playout and branding systems in over 120 countries, is the #1 international “Channel-in-a-Box” manufacturer. At IBC2011 PlayBox Technology is offering more power inside the ‘box’; expanding modular capabilities within a Windows platform ‘box’, while further driving down the costs of TV channel playout. NEW QCBox – Includes Automatic Loudness…
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PlayBox Powers Six Channels at GMG

PlayBox Technology has delivered a complete multichannel playout system for six new television channels based in Tbilisi for the Global Media Group (GMG), the largest cable television broadcaster in Georgia. This turnkey project was managed by PlayBox Technology’s recently formed Broadcast Systems Group in partnership with the systems integrator Qualitron Systems, Finland. The complete system…
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PlayBox Reaches 10,000 Milestones

PlayBox Technology has reached the milestone of 10,000 playout and branding systems delivered into over 120 countries. These operate in configurations ranging from single channel-in-a-box servers to multichannel turnkey broadcast centres. Don Ash, Director, Sales comments, “Since 1999 we have become a global operation with 15 sales and support centres in 10 countries and our…
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PlayBox Puts QC in the Box at NAB 2011

April 11-14, Las Vegas Convention Center Stand: N5835 PlayBox Technology, the #1 international ‘TV Channel in a Box’ manufacturer with over 9,500 playout and branding channels worldwide, is launching QCBox at NAB 2011. QCBox provides automatic quality control, giving an assessment of the technical quality of the media to guarantee successful playout via an AirBox…
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The Amazing Shrinking MCR

It was not so long ago that a broadcaster’s Master Control Room comprised rows and rows of tall racks, packed with costly professional high-tech heat generating equipment that needed equal power to cool. This was in the heyday of dedicated hardware with each box doing its own thing: VTRs, Mixers, Still Stores, CG, Logo Generators,…
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PlayBox at CABSAT

International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dubai, Stand: S3-C1 PlayBox Technology, the #1 international ‘TV channel in a box’ manufacturer with over 9,500 playout and branding channels worldwide, will participate in the CABSAT 2011 Conference and Exhibition together with the company’s Middle East representative Advanced Media LLC. Developing and refining its core playout technology for over…
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