Channel-in-a-box manufacturer PlayBox Technology will present its new expanded product range at next month’s BVE 2013 in London that includes the launch of its latest module, ScheduleBox, presented alongside the latest versions of its established products.
ScheduleBox is a web-based client / server solution for creating and managing advanced schedules. Operating within a web browser the user-friendly GUI handles template-based TV broadcast planning, offering straightforward management of single, or multiple, TV channels.
Programme templates present per day, week or month views and schedule management by date per TV channel, to provide monitoring and control of all activities, from schedule creation to publishing for broadcast. Any number of users can access and collaborate, based on user rights, and there is full compatibility of programme schedules with the existing playlist format as used in AirBox playout servers and ListBox offline schedule creation.
This solution is suitable for TV channels that use a block-based programme schema. It can operate with multi-format TV channels with predefined and repeated blocks as part of the programme schema, and is designed to provide easier control and information gathering as well as better organisation.
Ben Gunkel, UK Sales Director comments, “We have had a phenomenal year of continued strong growth. This is in part due to our Broadcast Systems Group that operates globally, and that we are evolving; now working beyond the “box’. Many of our customers want more; they want complete working systems. Yes, our boxes can do a lot but there is always the need for, at least, peripheral equipment. And when customers are looking for more, all the way up to complete MCRs and studios, we are now able to support them, wherever they are.’
