Platform for EBIF™ authoring and playout to be shown at CableLabs® Winter Conference
SAVANNAH, GA - (February 4, 2010): Ligos Corporation, a leading provider in solutions for advanced television, has announced that it will demonstrate its ETV Mosaic system at next week’s annual CableLabs® Winter Conference as part of the EBIF™ Ecosystem area. ETV Mosaic is a visual EBIF authoring and playout system that provides tools to create and deliver sophisticated interactive content to subscribers, and is aimed at multichannel operators, content owners and solution providers adopting the EBIF (Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format) CableLabs Project specification for interactive applications.
ETV Mosaic’s graphical environment enables designers to create dynamic interactive content using a workflow similar to composing presentation slides. The system provides all of the required functions – video and graphics input, compositing, encoding, authoring, ETV carousel and stream output – into a single, compact server platform. In addition to a visually rich output video stream, the system generates the corresponding interactive EBIF application for use with the industry’s leading ETV User Agents and with standards for content definition (CoDF), advanced advertising and messaging (SaFI).
Using ETV Mosaic, content developers can build and deploy applications for video-rich program guides, polling applications, commerce, advanced advertising, RFI, VOD and premium channel promotion, customer care and billing, and TV Everywhere initiatives. Ligos will be showing a number of these interactive applications at the Denver conference next week.
ETV Mosaic is the latest groundbreaking product from Ligos Corporation, whose mission is to extend standards-based video processing technology in order to deliver highly personalized video services over open platforms. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Savannah, GA, Ligos has been a leading provider in solutions that enable the delivery of digital video and advanced television experiences. ETV Mosaic is available now, and multichannel operators and content providers are invited to visit us at the conference or contact us through our website at http://www.ligos.com, or by phone 1-912-236-8993 for more information.
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Cable operators are invited to visit the Macrovision Solutions Corporation booth #915 at The Cable Show to be held in New Orleans at the Morial Convention Center on May 18-20, where they will be demonstrating how Ligos’ MediaRig Mosaic product enables Video Rich Navigation with TV Guide’s i-Guide(tm) IPG.
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Compact broadcast platform for dynamic, video-rich navigation to debut at NAB 2006
National Association of Broadcasters: Las Vegas, NV (April 20, 2006): Ligos Corporation has announced that it will introduce its latest product, MediaRig Mosaic, at the National Association of Broadcasters show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 24 – 27, in booth # SU4596. MediaRig Mosaic is a 1RU server-based system for Multi-channel Service Operators who are seeking the most compact, cost-effective solution to provide tiled video Interactive Program Guide channels to their subscribers.
MediaRig Mosaic takes the places of up to a dozen hardware MPEG decoders and the stack of equipment that might otherwise be required to generate a single video-rich guide channel. It consolidates all of the required functions – input, MPEG decoding, re-scaling, compositing, XML navigation metadata generation, MPEG encoding, multiplexing and output – into a single, compact platform that can be managed online in real-time, either locally or remotely via IP.
The user interface provides the operator a straightforward way to dynamically add and modify layered tiles for video, still graphics, text and navigation elements over a background of the user’s choice. Elements are easily modified and can be keyed on or off dynamically, and layouts can be saved and recalled for future use. Modifications to the layout and metadata happen in real-time, allowing the operator to instantly see their modifications in the output video stream.
Regardless of provider – cable, telco, or satellite – MediaRig Mosaic is the most efficient and flexible solution available for operators to produce and utilize mosaic style channels for value added services such as interactive program guides, video-on-demand and pay-per-view gateways, localization, audio-only channels, specialty advertising, news and information tickers and more.
For more details and a demonstration, please visit Ligos at NAB2006 in booth # SU 4596, or visit our website at www.ligos.com to request additional technical and contact information.
About Ligos Corporation
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ligos Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of proven alternatives for cost-effective digital video processing. Since 1997, Ligos has been at the forefront of video compression, delivering real-time software codecs and video tools designed to run on standard platforms. For more information on Ligos Corporation, its products or licensing, visit its website at http://www.ligos.com.
Ligos® and MediaRig® are registered trademarks of Ligos Corporation. All other trademarks product names, and/or trade names are used solely for the purpose of identification and belong to their respective holders. Copyright © Ligos Corporation 2006.
Two companies partner to exhibit at NAB show and CBA@NAB2006 meeting on April 24
National Association of Broadcasters: Las Vegas, NV (April 19, 2006): Ligos Corporation and DTV Innovations announced that they will be exhibiting together at the National Association of Broadcasters show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 24 – 27, in booth # SU4596. Both companies are also exhibiting co-sponsors of the Community Broadcasters Association CBA@NAB2006 meeting on Monday, April 24th in Ballroom B of the Las Vegas Hilton. The Community Broadcasters Association is the trade association of the nation’s 2600 Class A and Low Power Television stations, and this year’s meeting theme is “Go Digital!” Ligos and DTV Innovations offer high-quality equipment for broadcasters that address this industry’s requirement for easy to use, cost-effective solutions as they make the digital transition.
At the events, Ligos will be featuring MediaRig Encoder SD, a feature-rich 1U rackmount system capable of processing up to two channels, and suitable for a wide-range of DTV applications. It supports standard definition MPEG-2 (MP@ML and 4:2:2P@ML) video, MPEG Layer 2 and Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio, Static PSIP and PSI/SI control tables, closed captioning, and superior quality even at lower bitrates. More about Ligos and its MediaRig family of products can be found on the web at http://www.ligos.com.
DTV Innovations will be featuring their Digital TV Conversion System, an integrated solution that combines their powerful and flexible multiplexer, MediaRig Encoder, and DTVI’s own Dynamic PSIP Pro software, all in a single 1RU PC system. Not only is it an ideal solution for the LPTV and Class A stations looking to make the transition to digital broadcast, but it’s also an excellent option for any DTV broadcaster who wants to meet their redundancy requirements in the most cost-effective fashion. More about DTV Innovations and their end-to-end solutions and services for digital broadcasting can be found on the web at http://www.dtvinnovations.com.
For more details or information on pricing (including reseller opportunities), please visit both companies at NAB2006 at booth # SU 4596. And for those in the LPTV and Class A industries, be sure to join us and “Go Digital!” at the Community Broadcasters Association CBA@NAB meeting on Monday, April 24th from 6pm-10pm in Ballroom B of the Las Vegas Hilton. For more information on the CBA, visit http://www.dtvnow.org.
About Ligos Corporation
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ligos Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of software-based media stream management technology. Since 1997, Ligos has been at the forefront of video compression, delivering real-time software codecs and video tools designed to run on standard platforms. For more information on Ligos Corporation, its products or licensing, visit its website at http://www.ligos.com.
Ligos® and MediaRig® are registered trademarks of Ligos Corporation. All other trademarks product names, and/or trade names are used solely for the purpose of identification and belong to their respective holders. Copyright © Ligos Corporation 2006.
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