Company Overview

OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive broadcast automation, content management and workflow solutions, will be demonstrating at HD World the latest version of iTX, the ground-breaking master control and playout application. iTX is being used as a high-end enterprise-wide broadcast playout system in a variety of applications and by broadcasters ranging from single-channel operators to large multinationals. iTX 1.2 enhances OmniBus' product offering for broadcasters and delivers value whether the customer is operating in a conventional hardware-based environment, transitioning to a more IT-based model, or creating an entirely new facility based on the most advanced technology available.

New for HD World 2008

NEW VERSION: OmniBus iTX 1.2 Production and Transmission System — OmniBus iTX is the next-generation solution that makes the conventional broadcast automation, master control and playout chain obsolete. Combining and exceeding all the functions of a conventional transmission chain in a single, integrated suite of software applications, iTX is flexible, open and feature-rich, and offers a significantly more configurable and responsive end-to-end solution for a wide range of operating environments. With market-leading support for SD and HD and exceptional ability to integrate with third-party systems, iTX delivers the most powerful solution available while significantly reducing the investment required to launch and operate high-quality channels in broadcast, IPTV, mobile TV, disaster recovery and business continuity applications.

iTX 1.2 delivers a significant number of enhancements and new features including schedule preview; Omneon reference file support that allows content to be read directly from Omneon servers and played out by iTX; multiple language support with instant language track reassignment and track-stacking; an exceptionally flexible audio engine with native Dolby® surround encoding and input/output remapping; support for multi-regional breaks and opt-outs; automated insertion of evergreen content for disaster recovery; capabilities for newsflash and roll-under situations; closed captions; enhanced control of a wide range of external devices such as routers, VTRs, subtitlers and graphics systems; and live random access playback for news and sports programming.

NEW PRODUCT: OmniBus iTX Business Continuity Process (BCP) — iTX BCP is a specially configured variation of iTX designed for business continuity (disaster recovery) applications that includes media replication, fully redundant mirroring and remote operation after evacuation.

This lightweight solution sources content automatically from existing video servers, transferring content as required to a remote location where an iTX playback engine interprets the transmission schedules to provide a parallel service. It includes an automatic service for the insertion of evergreen content to fill schedule gaps for which content is not available, such as live events. The service intelligently selects a piece of standby content based on the duration required and business rules defined for that channel.

NEW PRODUCT: iTX On-Demand™ — iTX On-Demand is a new version of iTX that greatly simplifies the process of creating VOD material by allowing broadcasters to transmit conventional channels and save VOD-ready content from the same iTX workflow and hardware, without having to re-ingest or reformat material explicitly for VOD use.

iTX On-Demand can be used to create everything from low-resolution files for Web download or mobile phones to HD MPEG4 files with Dolby® surround sound for broadband IPTV applications. The flexibility of the IT-based platform, combined with the unique iTX software video/audio processor, allows the full set of features designed for crafted OTA transmission to be used in the creation of on-demand content file packages.

NEW PRODUCT: iTX GFX™ — iTX GFX combines the ease of use of iTX with the proven power of the rtSoftware tOG rendering engine to deliver high-quality 2-D graphics, sophisticated 3-D graphics and real-time DVE effects. Running on an enhanced hardware platform, iTX GFX provides the most compelling real-time graphics effects and delivers full-featured CG capability combined with the ability to handle live video and DVE moves that can be previewed on the iTX desktop. Since the graphics are resolution-independent, the same graphic can play out in SD, HD or on Web streams without having to be recreated.