InBroadcast - January 2024 - 43

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InMedia
Pavlin Rahnev, PlayBox Neo founder and
CEO, summarizes a successful year
R
ule 1 in the broadcast media
business: Listen
carefully
and
talk
to
customer feedback. Rule 2: Respond
constructively
promptly with
enhanced products or services.
It is a formula we implemented right
from the introduction of the AirBox
playout automation system in 1999.
AirBox and its successors achieved
global success, powering over 19,500
TV and branding channels in more
than 120 countries.
Today's multichannel multi-platform
huge
multimedia world
provides
opportunities for content owners and
broadcasters. Our role is to provide
the tools necessary to ensure that the
routine tasks of content ingest, pretransmission
processing, scheduling
and playout
are handled with a
maximum of financial return and a
minimum of fuss.
Trade shows such as CABSAT in
Dubai, Broadcast Asia in Singapore,
NAB in Las Vegas and New York,
as well as IBC in Amsterdam, still
prove useful
venues
at
which to
about how best
one-to-one with customers
their
to support
requirements in an industry which
sees operational flexibility as vital.
Most of our customers continue to
opt for on-site installations based
around a standalone channel-in-a-box
or multiple AirBox Neo-20 systems,
supplemented
by
Cloud2TV when required
cloud-based
to add
operational flexibility.
Q1 2023 saw the latest expansion
to the software connectivity of our
channel branding and playout servers
with support now provided for the
Arion newsroom system from SNews
Broadcast Solutions. Arion's News
Graphics template generation and its
playout are directly integrated with our
TitleBox Neo-20 graphics processor.
The combination allows newsroom
staff
activity without
to concentrate on their core
distraction,
time and maximizing production
efficiency.
Among the advances PlayBox Neo
introduced during 2023 was a new
saving
interface to the Emergency Alert
System which gives broadcasters in
the USA increased flexibility when
airing emergency alerts and reduces
the need for potential
make-goods.
Media Gateway, which we
introduced in 2022, won a Best of
Show award during the April 2023
NAB Show. Media Gateway allows the
entire process of playout routing and
decoding to be handled in software.
Installable onsite or in the cloud, it
eliminates the capital cost needed to
operate hardware routers, codecs and
related devices.
We were also pleased to receive
Dolby®
official
Digital
Plus
for the PlayBox
certification of
Professional
Neo
encoding
Suite Live
Encoder. Integrating the latest Dolby
software libraries, the Dolby Digital
Professional™
Professional™
are
and Dolby Digital Plus
implementations
now available as individual licenses.
2023 was a good year for customer
projects in the Americas, APAC and
advertiser
MENA. Many thanks to our customers
for their ongoing loyalty and trust in
our technology. With the joint efforts
of our distribution partners worldwide,
our product development colleagues,
sales, marketing and administration
team, PlayBox Neo continues to lead
the way in smart media solutions.
Looking ahead, we see efficiency,
reliability and flexibility as the key
priorities across the entire media
industry, freeing creative staff
to
concentrate on what really matters:
Content
always will be.
https://www.playboxneo.com
is king, always was and
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