Nextologies broadcasts that its NXT-MCR distant grasp management answer has received on this yr’s Best of Show awards at IBC 2023 within the TV Tech class.
The awards acknowledge the easiest broadcast merchandise and options on show at the present, with lots of of merchandise and options thought of. All entries have been reviewed by a panel of business consultants, audio system and editors. Factors taken into consideration embody how numerous and complete our product’s options are; how straightforward it’s to make use of and the way it integrates with different merchandise; its worth for cash throughout the market; and the way revolutionary and distinctive it’s throughout the market.
According to the awards’ editorial crew, “This yr, we acquired a report quantity of entries and the standard throughout the board was unbelievable. Those who received needs to be extraordinarily proud of their achievement – their product confirmed true innovation and vastly impressed our judging panel. A well-deserved congratulations from the whole awards crew.”
“We’re an issue fixing firm, so our crew is at all times creating new and higher methods to resolve our shoppers’ challenges and provides them a aggressive benefit,” says Sasha Zivanovic, CEO, Nextologies. “To have that core half of our firm’s DNA acknowledged when one of our options wins a Best of Show award is a good honor.”
NXT-MCR is a hybrid answer designed to supply a unified distant grasp management interface for reside occasion manufacturing. It orchestrates incoming satellite tv for pc and/or IP indicators, video routers, video switchers, audio coms, video monitoring, scheduling techniques and pre recorded recordsdata, and generates a downstream feed that’s absolutely loaded with SCTE markers, CCs and all of the metadata essential to distribute the sign to any taker all over the world.
“With reside occasions, a collection of dependent steps should all go completely – sign supply, routing, switching, monitoring, ad-break coordination, which modifications based mostly on what’s taking place within the occasion, and so forth – and there aren’t any redos,” says Zivanovic. “Typically, a number of individuals should handle all of the completely different techniques, options, and steps, and people individuals are situated inside a bodily facility. We designed NXT-MCR in order that reside occasions might obtain the whole course of on one display screen, from anyplace on the earth, with out requiring our shoppers to put money into a single piece of {hardware}.”
NXT-MCR eliminates the burden of connecting to varied techniques via completely different distant management interface purposes combining a one-stop UI, straightforward to study and function, that may scale back the manpower required for productions by 50 %.
The advantages of NXT-MCR are already being realized by some main reside sports activities occasions. Those advantages embody
Increased flexibility. The distant automation software program ties again to the Nextologies cloud infrastructure, the place all of the {hardware} and software program are situated. This frees the operator from being tied to any location, permitting them to be situated contained in the OB van, manufacturing truck, or they may very well be sitting at a station a thousand miles away from the place the gadgets are with just about zero latency.
Visibility. NXT-MCR permits the operator to observe the well being of the sign in a single display screen and, as a result of the software program is constructed into Nextologies’ Control Panel, to modify indicators with out leaving that display screen.
Lower operator value. Because NXT-MCR permits one operator to run a number of items of {hardware} remotely, fewer individuals are required to run every reside occasion.
No cap-ex funding. NXT-MCR is a totally managed service, using Nextologies infrastructure, {hardware}, and software program, in addition to the operator required to run the occasion. In an period of unprecedented hiring challenges, that’s certain to be a key profit.
You can learn extra about NXT-MCR on TV Tech’s web site, of their common publication and different promotional channels from the model within the coming weeks.
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