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PlayBox Technology continues its expansion into international markets with the opening of an office in the USA. On 1stAugust, the doors open at PlayBox USA situated in Atlanta, Georgia to provide a full range of services for its existing and future American customers of its PC-based television playout systems. With over 100 installations of PlayBox AirBox…
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Stand 8.529 Amsterdam RAI, September 7-11 PlayBox Technology, now supporting over 3,000 SD and HD TV channels worldwide, is expanding the capabilities of its products and playout solutions at IBC2007. The new features include adding more flexibility for playout, especially in live operation, more efficient workflows and interface enhancements as well as technical developments for…
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PlayBox Technology has supplied high definition playout equipment for the 24/7 BravaHDTV channel in The Netherlands. The initial launch is on cable with a satellite service due to start in the late summer. The PlayBox equipment makes up a large part of the playout chain. The content is supplied on HDCAM tapes in 1080/50i, with any…
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PlayBox Technology’s DVB Series comprises a group of new products that addresses the needs of telecoms operations and satellite uplink centres for efficient, cost-effective high quality services for their re-broadcast and NVoD clients. This includes new IP streaming and ASI interfaces that work directly with DVB ASI streams. With over 3,000 television channels already on-air with…
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 PlayBox Technology is to debut TrafficBox, its full-blown traffic management system, at NAB2007, which will be available for immediate delivery. This major expansion to the PlayBox range complements the existing products to complete a full TV and Internet broadcast transmission workflow. With all parts supplied from one vendor, users can benefit from powerful system integration features and have…
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Seminole Government Television (SGTV), Seminole County, Florida, has transformed its playout from analogue to digital with a solution supplied by PlayBox Technology. The requirements included the provision of a soft transition to the new technology as well as supplying fully redundant backup and emergency broadcasting. Playbox supplied a standards-based solution with the main applications comprising…
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SHOWTV, has been on-air for nearly two years with very demanding workflow solutions from PlayBox Technology SHOWTV started broadcasting in 1994 with a tape based workflow from their Master Control Room using Sony LMS robotic VTR systems and in 2004 started a detailed research for an alternative modern IT based solution for their expanding broadcasting…
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PlayBox Technology HD Systems have been chosen by Cineaqua to playout 16 programme channels on 8 Dual Channel AirBox HD Servers to distribute HD movies to theatres and different display points around the leisure centre. This centre is themed on a salt water fish aquarium that also has an HD production centre, a large convention/event…
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PlayBox Technology has completed the installation of a 2 Channel Playout System for Global Broadcaster MTA Television. Each Channel is able to handle 8 Audio Channels to allow for the Main Audio Channel and 7 Simultaneous Translations during the Live Transmission and during the Replay of these Live events The System comprises Two Main AirBox…
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PlayBox Reliability has been a Revelation We run two Christian television channels from our premises in London. Revelation TV and Genesis TV are both on the air 24/7 and transmitted in the UK via the Sky platform. Originally we had invested in server technology for playout as we saw that it should have many advantages…
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