Company Overview

OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive broadcast automation, content management and workflow solutions, will be showing the latest version of iTX, the groundbreaking production and transmission solution, at IBC2009. New features and capabilities further strengthen OmniBus' product offerings for broadcasters, whether operating in conventional hardware-based environments, transitioning to an IT-based model or creating entirely new facilities based on the most advanced technology available.

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OmniBus iTX Updates — OmniBus iTX is the next-generation, enterprise-class transmission solution that delivers a superior return on investment compared with conventional broadcast automation, master control and playout systems. Deployed in a variety of scenarios at some of the world's leading broadcasters, iTX combines and exceeds all the functions of a conventional transmission chain in a single integrated suite of software applications and includes a comprehensive range of advanced media asset management features.

OmniBus will demonstrate the latest version of iTX, offering more than 100 new features designed to further enhance the outstanding flexibility and power of the industry's leading platform. New features include a range of enhancements for iTX's advanced graphics functionality, including adjustable-speed text crawls, optionally driven from RSS feeds or external text files, and support for full-screen-resolution TARGA sequences. A powerful new audio processing engine delivers multi-stream PCM and AC3 capability, remapping and processing of streams with full 16-channel embedded output, automatic multi-language mapping using language tags and desktop preview monitoring of multi-channel audio streams. Support is also included for MOS playlists, external HSM archives (DIVArchive, SuitcaseTV), third-party schedule imports and MXF OP1B, as well as regional channels and split breaks. iTX's operational flexibility is further enhanced by new features such as monitoring of commercial minutage against a defined value, VANC data handling and increased support for external graphics devices.

iTX GFX™ — iTX GFX delivers high-quality 2-D graphics, sophisticated 3-D graphics and real-time DVE effects. Running on an enhanced hardware platform, iTX GFX provides 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 directly on the iTX desktop. Because the graphics are resolution-independent, the same graphic can play out in SD, HD or on Web streams without having to be recreated.

iTX for Internet Television & Streaming — OmniBus will show a version of the groundbreaking iTX software automation, master control and playout system specially designed for Internet TV and streaming delivery applications. In use by the industry's largest IPTV provider and powering services to more than a million IPTV subscribers, iTX for Internet Television & Streaming provides all the capabilities needed to produce a highly crafted transmission stream, including video/audio transitions, logo insertions, voice-overs and 2-D DVE moves for squeeze-and-tease effects. It creates extra revenue opportunities by enabling the insertion of advertising based on schedule time, cue tones, GPIs, SCTE 104 DPI or manual triggering. Broadcast HD, SD and lower bit rates can be mixed within a single schedule and are automatically up- or downconverted by iTX. Live sources can be scheduled, mixed and branded along with recorded content.

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