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Incorporating:

SHOW PREVIEW | 18 - 20 June 2019

MARINA BAY SANDS & SUNTEC SINGAPORE

Appear TV Showcases the X-Series Platform
Appear	TV	is	showcasing	updates	to	its
high-capacity,	ultra-low	latency	X-Series
platform	at	BroadcastAsia...

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he X10 and X20 support digital video
broadcasting satellite (DVB-S2x) systems
and digital satellite news gathering (DSNG)
with a new S2x contribution modulator and
demodulator. The company will also highlight
how its X20 platform has proven reliable and
efficient for low-latency video assisted referee
(VAR) applications.
The X-Series offers the complete spectrum
of encoding codecs, and helps broadcasters
adopt the many benefits of an IP-centric
operation in their own timeframe
and with extreme simplicity. The
modulator also has an RF input
that can be connected to a backup
transponder, which can then be
routed to the main output in case
of a hardware failure on the main
transponder. The X10 and X20
can each output two transponders
featuring switchable L-band or
Intermediate Frequency (IF) with
72 Mbaud bandwidth.

In addition to the new modulator, the
X-Series features a new hardware design
for its DVB-S2x contribution demodulator,
an advanced platform that supports the
DVB-S2x DSNG and professional services
profiles. It can demodulate four transponders
from four RF inputs, with up to 64 MBaud
bandwidth, while fixed-key AES-128 and
BISS-descrambling are embedded into both
the modulator and demodulator.
Appear TV's X20 is ideal for VAR as it fulfils

The	X10	supports	DVB-S2x	systems	and	DSNG

Appear	TV's
X20	is	ideal	for	VAR

the highly demanding requirements of
this application. With its unique offering
of channel density and ability to combine
encoding and decoding of multiple
contribution formats in the same chassis,
the X-Series delivers excellent quality in
a redundant architecture to ensure the
strongest availability of video. The need for
high-quality video with low-latency is crucial
for the referees to verify calls made on the
field. With the X-Series, content can be sent
to the referee monitors immediately following
capture, allowing them to make the right call
and not hold up game play.
Appear's X20 contribution links are
currently being deployed in OB vans covering
top football leagues throughout Europe and

Asia. A single X20 chassis
encodes more than 20 signals with
low latency before being encapsulated to
IP and sent to the video operation room
(VOR). At the reception site, the X20 system
decodes the signals for further analysis.
Some of these signals are then encoded
in the same chassis and sent back to the
OB vans. This VAR solution is also futureproofed - for UHD, SDI-over-IP and more
- and can be adapted to customers' specific
needs.
See Appear TV on Stand 1M2-01.
www.appeartv.com

Broadcast Solutions to Premiere 'hi'
Broadcast	Solutions	is	one	of	Europe's	biggest	system	integrators	and	
consists	of	a	group	of	companies	acting	worldwide...

S

tarted in Germany more than 15 years ago,
Broadcast Solutions stands for innovation
and engineering 'Made in Germany'.
With subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the
Middle East, the group plans, implements
and realizes projects and offers its services
in all broadcast and content related areas globally. With more than 100 units delivered
the company is Europe's biggest OB Van
manufacturer.
In addition, with the Streamline Family,
Broadcast Solutions has transformed the
complex process of building an OB Van
into offering a product. Streamline OB Vans
are available in five different models, are
preconfigured and can thus be delivered
in a very short time with decisive costadvantages. Further fields of activity are in
building fixed broadcast facilities, product
development and selling special camera
equipment.
At BroadcastAsia 2019, the company
will show its full portfolio of solutions and
products with a special focus on their

proprietary control software hi.
hi, or human interface, is
the first intuitive control tool
for broadcasting and media
infrastructures.
Equipped with the latest
auto-discovery and zero-config
technologies, hi significantly
reduces
installation
and
configuration efforts. It uses
a graphical user interface that
provides simple control and
monitoring even of complex
infrastructures and is intuitively
familiar to users of typical
mobile devices.
With changing technologies and workflows
in the broadcast and media industry,
configuration processes can take a lot of time
and effort and, in the worst case, must be
redefined each time a device changes in the
system. However, a misconfiguration in an
IP-based system can have a dramatic impact
on the entire infrastructure. This makes it

hi	is	an	intuitive	control	tool	
for	broadcasting	and	media	
infrastructures

increasingly important to provide fail-safe and
secure workflow environments. That's why
Broadcast Solutions has developed hi.
hi makes the configuration process
intelligent and straightforward, automatically

detects new devices and protects the enduser from configuration errors. Since its
market-entry, hi has been used in several
major projects where it proved its versatility,
such as: 4 to 24 camera OB
Vans, flight case studios, SNGs,
broadcast studios or playout
centers.
Based on a distributed
software architecture, hi can
work on almost any platform
- laptop, dedicated servers,
server clusters, and even in
data centers or cloud services
such as AWS or Microsoft
Azure.
This
architecture
ensures
uninterrupted
availability of the system in the
event that hardware, power or
protocol errors occur. Reliability
and ease of use are the keys to successful
interaction between the system and its
users. The main focus when developing hi
lies on end-users and how workflows can be
simplified for them.
Visit Broadcast Solutions at Broadcast Asia
Show, Stand 4F4-01.
www.broadcast-solutions.de
http://www.appeartv.com/x10x20/ http://www.appeartv.com/x10x20/ http://www.appeartv.com https://hi-app.de/#section-2 http://www.broadcast-solutions.de
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