Policy Papers and Statements
The changing face of video consumption
Philip Neighbour, COO of PlayBox Technology UK In the days, not so long ago, when terrestrial television was pretty much the only game in town, technology limited us to just a handful of channels. That was eased by the first cable systems which ...
White Paper: Playout in the Cloud
Today's rapidly changing broadcast marketplace necessitates faster channel launch and much more flexible content management, all while dealing with a massive increase in 8K, HD, and UHD data requirements and the ongoing need to reduce infrastructure ...
5G Broadcasting
The world of broadcasting is a constantly moving feast with changes happening all the time. One significant change is the introduction of 5G networks. In this section, we will provide further details on 5G broadcasting, including how these networks ...
Channel in a Box Concepts
Whether located in a city centre, in a suburb or out in the countryside, these all have one thing in common: space is at a premium from the moment a racks room has been built. TV-Bay readers will know more than most people why this is. The broadcast ...
PlayBox White Paper: Breaking the Mould New options for Centralcasting
Centralcasting is a product of our times: the need to supply many channels and the technology to deliver them nationwide and much further afield. Any centralcast operation must have the storage, playout facilities, asset management and ...
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 ...
Channel in a Box
Interview of Don Ash, President of PlayBox Technology PlayBox Technology TV Channel in a Box 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Distribution and Delivery - Delivering new opportunities with new technologies
There have been huge changes in the technologies that deliver TV content to air in recent years. Most obviously tape is replaced by discs for media storage, but there has also been a succession of developments in the many activities associated with ...
As the economy recovers, broadcasters are deploying PlayBox Technology Channel-in-a-Box and EdgeBox
With the economy still continuing its slow recovery and many broadcasters still having limited budgets to deploy channels locally and around the world, a wide variety of broadcasters are very interested in deploying integrated “Channel-in-a-Box” and ...
Unattended Automatic Remote Playout via Internet
Having successfully set up and launched the Fox Life channel, broadcast on the Sky Italia platform in Italy, Fox Channels Italy wanted to make more use of its media and equipment assets to set up two Fox channels in Athens, Greece. As with the ...
TV Playout for Telecoms
DVB and ATSC broadcasting has been in operation for approaching nine years – long enough for the pattern of workflow from programme tapes to the transmitter to be considered well established. PlayBox is younger than DVB and ATSC broadcasting but is ...
White Paper: Fully Redundant Automatic Remote Playout Anywhere in the World with Public Internet
Content owners are only too aware that there are three ways to maximise the profits of their content, increase the cost of the content, decrease the distribution costs or deliver the content to a wider audience PlayBox Technology AirBox In the ...
It’s All in a PlayBox
Years ago the idea of channel-in-a-box was considered a somewhat oddball way to establish a small cheap playout system. That was in 2000 and PlayBox Technology was just starting out. Twelve years on and with 11,000 TV and branding channels now ...
PC-based IT HD Playout and Titling (Considerations for the HD transition)
PC-based IT systems used in the television production and playout chain have a reputation for being low cost. At the same time there is a concern that they may also be low performance. However, in recent years they have been applied as the technology ...