PlayBox Neo channel-in-a-box goes live at Life TV Asia
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| 08 July 2019

Philippines-based Life TV Asia, has chosen PlayBox Neo Channel-in-a-Box as the core of its broadcast playout system.

Life TV says that it exists to cultivate the holistic growth of individuals and families by ‘nourishing the body, enriching the mind and uplift[ing]’ the spirit through life-centred content. Its new installation based at Marikina City forms the core of an infrastructure upgrade designed to maximise the station's operating efficiency. The company has invested in two PlayBox Neo 1U dual Xeon channel-in-a-box servers to provide full transmitting via digital terrestrial, direct-to-home satellite and cable.

“They provide the full channel branding, broadcast playout and social media playout capabilities we need to transmit live and scheduled content in standard definition and high definition,” explained Life TV Asia station engineer Rexor B. Garcia. “It is a great system, integrating easily with our existing equipment and giving us the freedom to expand our facilities easily if or when needed to support additional channels. Our staff find the PlayBox Neo graphic interface very easy to work with, providing all the information needed to support each phase of the playout process without pushing them into mental overload.”

Technical partner for the project was 8BTSI Corporation. The system it designed and configured for Life TV Asia incorporates TitleBox Neo graphics and text management which allows the playout team to produce all the logos, titles and onscreen scripts they need when scheduling programmes, creating promos or finessing existing content. Also included is SocialMediaBox Neo which provides a toolset for coordinating comments from multiple social networking feeds.

“Comments can be selected and moderated from a variety of different social media outlets, integrating sources such as Facebook and Twitter on a single feed for transmission,” noted 8BTSI CEO Loreto Dela Cruz Jr. “SocialMediaBox Neo is also very useful for live television shows which produce auxiliary-screen pages for viewer feedback. The custom feed can be output as an RSS feed and used in other systems, or sent to TitleBox for on-air presentation. Direct 'push' control to the TitleBox character generator allows better live interaction.”