At IBC2010, Streambox® will unveil StreamboxME (Mobile Encoder) for Android™, a new version of the company’s smartphone video-encoding application that supports Android-based mobile devices. StreamboxME offers a groundbreaking approach to field newsgathering and video capture that enables Android phone users to upload high-quality video over 3G mobile networks to the Streambox Live™ broadband video contribution service, where it may be accessed by broadcasters, news organizations, government agencies, and enterprises.
Streambox® and Fisher Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: FSCI) today announced a strategic partnership to further develop solutions that will enable Fisher and other broadcasters to expand video contribution and Web streaming initiatives for all distribution platforms. Fisher is also the first U.S. customer to deploy the new Streambox Avenir™ compact mobile encoder. The Avenir joins a number of other Streambox IP-based streaming and video transport solutions deployed by Fisher to enhance the remote newsgathering capabilities of its news teams.
Streambox® today announced that Hearst Television, one of the largest station groups in the U.S., has adopted the Streambox Live™ broadband video contribution service for all of its 29 television stations. With Streambox Live, local news teams have a highly flexible and cost-effective alternative for field newsgathering that enables them to stream live or file-based video over low-bandwidth IP networks.
KOMO 4 News, the Seattle ABC affiliate and Fisher Subsidiary, became the first news station to use Streambox Avenir live on-air. Streambox Avenir is an HD/SD broadcasting device that allows users to send live and file-based video from hard to reach locations that satellite trucks cannot go. The device can route live video through the Streambox Live Server or stream on-air for live broadcast. With battery power and the ability to bond up to eight 3G/4G wireless data cards, KOMO exhibited that Avenir is the ideal solution for field newsgathering and reporting where breaking news is happening.
Streambox, Hughes, Row 44, TECOM and Intelsat General have unveiled an Airborne KU-band SATCOM System that delivers audio and video from air-to-ground at 5 times the speed currently available. This solution is ideal for border patrol, Comms on the move, Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) and other applications where situational awareness is necessary.
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