ICE packs more channels and sophistication into the Box at NAB

ICE packs more channels and sophistication into the Box at NAB

Industry-leading Channel-in-a-Box gets even more effective and capable

12th April 2015: Snells ICE Channel-in-a-Box system, already the most comprehensive CiaB solution in the market by a significant margin, arrived at NAB with a host of new features and capabilities - including a full master control style panel for manual interventions - that further extend its effectiveness and capability.

The new ICE developments on show at NAB are:

Master Control Panel - Operators need a hardware control surface for managing highly reactive playout situations such as live sports. Thats why Snell has developed a user-configurable hardware master control panel for ICE which puts all major live functions at the users fingertips. The 1U panel is responsive for confident on-air use, and includes user-definable, relegendable LCD buttons that offer one-touch control of the upstream router, and one-touch graphics, keyers, DVE, audio-over etc.

Eight outputs - doubling the branding power of ICE, enabling users to support more channels or variants on a single ICE system - all within the same compact 2U mainframe; for example, HD and SD channel pairs, clean and branded feeds, and even delay feeds, making ICE even more capable and efficient.

Play out growing media - now ICE users can begin playout before media is fully transferred; great for working with late-delivered media, and adding new flexibility to ICE playout operations.

Faster FTP transfers - now with 3x faster ingest capability, delivering faster turnaround and more efficient handling of high bitrate media.

High quality scaling built-in - ICEs new built-in scaling capability uses high quality HD/SD up/down conversion algorithms to deliver stunning pictures and bringing even more of the broadcast chain into the ICE box.

Media Biometrics - ICE now includes Snell Media Biometrics, extending its media intelligence right through the production chain to playout, providing the ultimate in quality assurance.

"ICE has earned a reputation in the market for delivering an incredibly large feature-set alongside rock-solid on-air reliability," said Karl Mehring, Head of Product Architecture, TV Everywhere at Snell. "These latest developments will again reset customer expectations for just how much a well-engineered Channel-in-a-Box can deliver - and how much time, opex and capex it can save too."

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