Matrox InfonetTV

By Larisa Bocharova

How to attract high attention to the channel and extend viewers auditory — this is a question which interests broadcasters. But every viewer has other questions appeared: What interesting would be possible to watch and which channel to choose.

New Matrox’s InfonetTV solution is an integrated multi-zone broadcast system allowing simultaneously solving several tasks at once which appears both for viewers and broadcasters.

The system combines all advantages of DiGiMAtion’s Audience software and Matrox’s CG2000 titling card.

By means of InfonetTV one can submit TV broadcast with additional information about weather, sports, different news, lottery results, schedules and other data which are displayed on the screen’s parts sequentially being replaced by each other via different transition effects.

The “viewer” term in this case is used conditionally because the viewer can be either just viewer, and passenger looking onto information table at the station, and man staying in the hotel’s lobby where monitors displaying central or local channels are installed, and Internet user which are watching appropriate channel streaming on his PC’s screen (additional InfonetTV-Audience. web module provides automated creation of interactive versions for TV broadcasts for different Internet and Intranet applications).

From the other side general viewer which doesn’t have sophisticated and expensive TV set with picture-in-picture mode can watch with pleasure not only his lovely program but also has a possibility to get much additional information at the same time.

Branding created in Matrox InfonetTV environment

Moreover, with Matrox InfonetTV appearance the broadcasters obtain the tool allowing them not only create diverse graphic content easily (including static and animated graphics, logos etc.) but also playback graphics together with “live” of pre-recorded MPEG-2 video simultaneously in the independent screen zones on the base of previously created schedules in which number, size, location, content time of appearance and disappearance for zones to be displayed are specified.

Basic InfonetTV-Audience. tv software which includes hundreds of ready-to-use graphic templates and allows upgrade using full versions of Corel Draw and Corel PhotoPaint professional graphic applications has full set of tools necessary for creation, control and multi-zone display of video and dynamic graphics as well as includes tools for creation and editing of air schedules. It also has different adjustment functions which give wide possibilities for broadcast management.

Additional Audience. billboard allows remotely create and refresh screen’s zones content via general local network or via Internet. Besides, Matrox CG2000 video card with integrated composite, analog component and Y/C inputs/outputs (SDI optional) provides video output with broadcast quality with no need in additional converter. For playback of digital video in MPEG-2 format additional OptibaseVideoPlex card needed.

Material provided by System Video Graphics Alliance