Etere and Playbox AdBox Neo Comparision

In the attached chart, a comparison of Etere and Playbox AdBox Neo is listed.

Key Features - Etere Ad Insertion

Capabilities
■ Supports multiple platforms including satellite, terrestrial, cable and IP television
■ Manages Ad Insertion on compressed video channels with high density DPI ad server
■ Frame accurate splicing on any frame
■ Intuitive PC and web-based interface enhance control and operational efficiency
■ Integrated Cue-Tone decoder
■ Fault resilient performance with main and backup redundancy
■ Manages channels independently for each network
■ Start via GPI/SCTE signals/VANC codes
■ Multi-network support
■ Supports IP connection, SD and HD inputs and outputs
■ DVB Subtitles
■ Supports Splicing and pass-through
■ Time-shift with very high accuracy
■ Manages loudness control and syncs loudness levels across all channels and formats

Significant Cost Advantage
■ IP workflows support for a more cost-efficient setup compared with baseband systems
■ Uses standard servers
■ Lowers total cost of ownership across multiple platforms
■ Integrates seamlessly into any environment without a major change in the system
■ Does not require dedicated streaming server with local file-based storage

Ad Insertion
■ L-shaped squeeze and overlay for ads
■ Insert graphics, texts, crawlers and logos
■ Able to manage last minute changes and filling events
■ Flexible ad insertion: Overlay, around the content via slices, overlays and text crawls
■ Seamless insertion of advertisements into live, linear or video-on-demand (VOD) content
■ SCTE-104 and SCTE-35 compatibility for targeted ad insertion
■ Effective video monetization with location specified programming

Easy Scalability
■ Scalable at any stage according to requirements
■ Does not require a major change in the system

Splicing
■ Frame accurate splicing
■ Able to splice on any frame
■ CBR & VBR splicing
■ Stream-to-stream (live to live program)
■ File-to-stream (advert to live program)
■ File-to-file (advert to advert)
■ Stream-to-file (live program to advert)
■ Embedded file asset streaming server
■ MPEG video playout server

Logo Generation and Embedment
■Enhanced advertisements with the embedded 2D & 3D logo generator, supports multiple overlays and layers
■Seamless commercial graphics/logos workflow from production to edits, scheduling, invoicing and playout
■Pre-set and real-time preview features enable preliminary checks on the graphics
■Dynamic ad insertion: Inserts 2D and 3D logos into live and stored video feeds
■Compatible with a wide range of graphics files: TGA, AVI, MOV, SWF, PNG, JPEG, GIF