TeL Systems announces the end of clunky tape-based video playback systems with the new and powerful tapeless video server. AirWave represents the next generation of video playback automation for professionals in the television broadcast industry as well as those who are interested in video playout automation for other markets such as retail, hospitals, hotels, corporate television, campus wide TV and other unique vertical applications.

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AirWave Server - Powerful Tapeless Video Playout and Automation - with SD today and HD tomorrow
The AirWave Server from TeL systems provides automated video playout for cable TV stations, over-the-air broadcasters and corporate TV users. It is designed to be extremely robust, in order to meet the highest reliability demands of on-air playout. Due to its unique support of entry-level MPEG2, HDV and DV platforms, it is also suitable for webcasters, hotel Pay TV channels, corporate presentations, video wall displays and other program distribution systems.

At a cost that is less than of the price of most digital videotape players, a single channel AirWave Server offers better visual quality than VTRs at its S-Video, component and SDI outputs plus multi-channel playback, NTSC and PAL support, synchronized graphics, logo and subtitle insertion, last-minute playlist changes or clip editing. AirWave supports MPEG2, HDV and DV streams from virtually every known production platform providing AVI, MPEG or QuickTime content . It has an integrated remultiplexing engine, ensuring the output stream is compliant with the MPEG2 or DV specs. This engine corrects on-the-fly a number of multiplexing errors such as unequal video/audio duration, missing or corrupted frames or packets, poor stream integrity, PTS/DTS inconsistencies, etc.

Any combination of MPEG2 clips at differing resolutions, bitrates, profiles and levels can be played in a single sequence seamlessly with no glitches or hardware reinitialization. The cut from one clip to another is completely seamless even with live streams - no black frames, no pause, no last frame freeze, no audio pops, no glitches, no duration limitations... The continuous output stream can be sent to a variety of output platforms or streamed through ASI or UDP technology. Wide hardware platform support covers a broad range of applications and budget choices.

The main difference is video output signal quality and bitrate/profile capabilities. Professional platforms support bitrates up to 50 Mbit/sec and 4:2:2 color sampling, or up to 80 Mbit for MPEG2 HD. For live productions, any changes to the playlist during on-air session are possible! There are no “que'd” or “locked” clips. Every clip in the playlist, except the one which is currently playing, can be trimmed, edited or repositioned. Moreover, playlist order can be changed on-the-fly with commands like “skip to next” or “Jump”.

Such order changes are performed seamlessly without stopping the current playout session. For automated playout AirWave allows fixed-time scheduling for weeks ahead. Resulting gaps or time overlaps are automatically resolved in order to ensure continuous operation even when conflicting timed events are present. For budget-minded operations, AirWave provides excellent storage savings through the MPEG2 Main Profile at Main Level IBP streams. At 8 Mbit/sec, 24 hours of full-motion, full-resolution content fits in less than 90 GB storage. At these low bitrates, high-speed SCSI storage or Fiberchannel networks are not a "must" anymore. Playout sessions are being logged for monitoring and control purposes. The log can be later used for extracting actual playout sequence with exact timings or identifying user intervention into the playout session. The logging and recovery options allow completely unattended remote operation.

AirWave Video Server Key Features:

• Multi-channel Video Playout - Expandable playout channels. Up to four concurrent playback channels per chassis.
• AV Capture Module - capture new video/audio from VTR without interruption of multi-channel program playback!
• Multi-format Inputs & Outputs - supports composite, Y/C, component, DV and SDI I/O (AirWave Pro required for SDI).
• Highest Quality Video - play video clips at resolution far beyond DVD quality. 4:2:2 video playback up to 50Mbits/sec.
• Playlist Editor w/ Program Scheduling - arrange video clips in a sequential list. Apply specific times for clip playback.
• On-the-Fly Video Editing - Mark In/Mark Out, set Volume Levels, Split clips & arrange clips w/ no program interruption
• Fail-safe RAID Mirrored Storage Array - stores 190 hours of full resolution MPEG-2 (DVD quality setting). Fail-safe!
• Fail-safe RAID Mirrored System Disk - data protection for applications & system files. Never worry about disk failures.
• Imports MPEG-2 files from Non Linear Editing Systems - works great w/ Canopus, Leitch, Premiere & other systems.
• Auto Record Function - unattended scheduled program recording from composite, Y/C, component or SDI sources
• Genlock Support for External Sync - integrates seamlessly into professional broadcast environments.
• Logo Inserter Function - superimpose your station logo or graphic element over video in realtime. Targa 32 and PSD.
• External Video Switcher Event Control - AirWave controls external matrix AV switchers from Kramer, Leitch and others.
• Auto-Fill Events - AirWave automatically inserts specified video clips (such as PSAs) between scheduled programs.
• On-Screen Multichannel Monitoring System - monitor up to 4 video channels on the 19” Flat Panel LCD monitor.
• Offline Clip Browser + Editor** - remote video editing and playlist scheduling via high-speed network
• Digital Connectivity - system workstation includes FireWire, USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet connections.
• DVD-R/RW Recordable DVD Drive + DVDIt 6 - Archive to DVD. Record 2 Hours of MPEG-2 Video to DVD in 8 minutes!
• Includes 1-year On-Site warranty for all included hardware;

High Performance Playlist Editing - with unprecedented ease-of-use!
AirWave features a friendly drag and drop user interface allowing you to setup and schedule video events with simplicity. If you have a basic familiarity with software and editing systems, you'll be right at home with AirWave.

Stunning Video Quality - Reliable Playback Automation
With Bitrates up to 50Mbit/sec SD and 80Mbit/sec. HD, AirWave delivers the promise of full resolution digital video capture and playback without comprimising image quality. Outstanding image quality with user-definable bitrates and the choice of MPEG-2 4:2:0, MPEG-2 4:2:2 and standard DV plus the option of HDV - it's your choice. AirWave is the only solution that allows users to mix and match multiple MPEG video formats without playback problems.

Realtime On-the-Fly Clip editing!
An AirWave first! You can edit clips that are in already in the playlist. This makes AirWave a great solution for anyone who may need to make last minute changes to the program material. AirWave provides a comprehensive clip trimmer that allows you to perform cuts-only edits to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DV and HDV with frame accurate results in both SD and HD formats. Imagine being able to open clips that are already scheduled for on-air playback - then perform edits to remove a section - trim the intro or the ending of video clips. You can even perform sophisticated sub-clipping in order to split large clips into multiple smaller clips. AirWave offers unprecedented capability without restrictions.

AirWave Capture Module - Professional MPEG-2 and DV capture
AirWave's Capture Module allows professional clip logging using timecode. VTR control is provided via DV (IEEE-1394) and RS-422 using industry standard 9 pin serial interface. AirWave's Capture Module supports high bitrate encoding using 4:2:2 sampling and bitrates up to 50 Megabit per second - for image quality far beyond DVD or Betacam SP.
Clips captured using the Capture Module are immediately available for scheduling & playback in the AirWave playlist.

AirWave Titling Option . . . . create professional titles for your television channel!
With AirWave's Titling Option - you can create beautiful titles with high resolution anti-aliased edges for super clean results. The titling option allows you to create keyed titles, rolls, crawls and import animated graphics with embedded alpha channel from your favorite applications like Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, LightWave 3D and more! AirWave Titling option also supports import of PowerPoint presentations (PPT), MacroMedia Flash (SWF) and WAVE audio for tagging graphic clips with audio sound effects.

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