PlayBox expands its portfolio of solutions with ProductionAirBox

Complement to your NewsRoomBox production system, it allows virtually instant switching from one clip to another.

Coinciding with the London celebration of BVE 2014 from February 25 to 27, PlayBox will unveil ProductionAirBox, a new addition to its portfolio of broadcast solutions.

Don Ash, director of PlayBox Technology UK, said: "ProductionAirBox will provide much faster media handling, along with a near-zero latency delivery system required for the fast-paced work environment that comes with producing news, sports or live programmes. It complements our NewsRoomBox production system allowing virtually instantaneous switching from one clip to another. A wide range of file formats and resolutions can be imported into the playlist, with up to 16 channels of digital audio to deliver. room for programs in several multi-channel languages.”

Based on the multi-channel engine architecture developed by PlayBox, ProductionAirBox can quickly deliver content in one go or via a playlist. Files with an alpha channel can be output with fill/key separately.

Other possibilities of this new proposal is the possibility of including a clip timecode in the SDI output in addition to being able to make a trimmer with a dedicated SDI output. ProductionAirBox can be controlled via VDCP and Media Object Server (MOS) protocols.

Changes to the playlist can be made even while we are on the air. Each clip can be trimmed or repositioned on the fly using simple commands. All changes are carried out seamlessly without needing to interrupt the current playout session. Up to four independent players can be accommodated on a single server. Each player has an independent playlist and broadcast control. Four SDI interfaces can be assigned as program or preview outputs. Operation can be simplified using a single-channel or multi-channel interface.

The ProductionAirBox feature set also includes fast-forwarding or rewinding material at speeds up to 32x, mixing different video resolutions and formats into a single playlist, logical content trimming, multi-channel audio output, plus support for a wide variety of compression standards and media containers.