TVU Networks’ Innovations Honored as Best in Class

MOUNTAIN
VIEW, CA – April 17, 2019 – TVU Networks, the global technology and innovation
leader in live IP solutions, today announced industry-wide recognition of the new
4K version of its TVU One mobile IP transmitter, the TVU MediaMind Appliance AI-based
metadata generation and search engine, and its IS+ proprietary transmission
algorithm during last week’s 2019 NAB Show held in Las Vegas. TVU also provided
mobile cellular transmitter equipment to producers of “NAB Show LIVE,” the
official broadcast of the NAB. The live transmissions went flawlessly, and Broadcast Beat, producers of “NAB Show LIVE”, will continue to use TVU equipment
at future events and venues.

“We’re
thrilled to have these different organizations recognize different sectors of
our work,” said Eric Chang, Vice President of Marketing, TVU Networks. “This
really points to the depth of our company and to the IP-based solutions we
provide to a range of applications occurring in diverse locations. The products
and technologies selected are all next-generation improvements and essential in
the creation of a story-centric workflow. We’re focused on pushing the limits
of what’s possible to meet our customers’ live content production challenges
today and in the future. I believe our run of award wins during the past 10
years as an NAB exhibitor is a direct reflection of our continued commitment to
live production innovation.”

In
the first NAB Show 2019 Product of the Year Awards, TVU Networks won in the AI/Machine
Learning category for its TVU MediaMind Appliance – an AI-based metadata generation and search engine
that speeds production performance and content reuse. This is an independently judged awards program that
recognizes the most significant and promising new products and
technologies exhibited during NAB.

TVU MediaMind,
is a metadata generation and search engine that speeds production
performance and content reuse within an existing broadcast media supply chain.
The system uses a combination of time-code and AI-based facial and speech
recognition to generate metadata. And an open API lets users connect directly
with MAM and NLE systems. Because the MediaMind appliance utilizes both AI and
time code to generate search results, it can convert audio and video into
structured data in real-time. It’s capable of searching a raw asset at any
stage of production – from assignment through to on-air. With the help of TVU’s
AI engine, real-time speech recognition lets users find text results even
faster than they would searching for images alone. Users simply type in what
they’re looking for and the appropriate section of a time code appears. The
real-time content search engine uses time code to identify each asset with a
unique ID. 

TV
Technology magazine presented TVU Networks with a Best of Show
Award for the TVU One 4K cellular
mobile transmitter during the 2019 NAB Show. The awards are judged by a
panel of industry experts on the criteria of innovation, feature set, cost
efficiency and performance in serving the industry. All nominated
products are featured in a special Best of Show Awards Program Guide, which
will be distributed in digital edition form to more than 100,000 readers of
seven Future publications.

Also
introduced during the 2019 NAB Show, the 4K version of the TVU
One mobile
transmitter, a
cellular mobile unit with the ability to transmit Ultra-HD/4Kp60 HEVC content. The
TVU One TM1000 is TVU’s flag-ship HEVC cellular
4G/LTE mobile transmitter. “UHD/4Kp60
is a much more technically challenging resolution to achieve in a cellular
mobile unit,” explained Chang. “However, we are able to overcome these challenges and encode video in full
UHD/4K at 60 frames per second.”

The TVU One
offers a robust set of functions to meet the needs of any live video
broadcaster. It delivers industry-leading video transmission resiliency and HD
picture quality from an ultra-compact and rugged hardware chassis. With TVU
One, users can fully leverage the versatility of a lightweight IP-based video
transmitter in the field as a part of an end-to-end workflow without
sacrificing performance, features, or picture quality.

PRODU presented TVU Networks with a NAB
2019 Tech Award for its IS+ technology.  TVU’s
proprietary transmission algorithm, IS+ enables users to simultaneously
transmit over multiple mediums with sub-second latency. Thanks to IS+, TVU
transmitters can simultaneously aggregate any combination of bandwidth
mediums including cellular 3G/4G LTE, WiFi, Ethernet, Ka-band and Ku-band
satellite, microwave, microwave mesh and BGAN to deliver a reliable and
dependable broadcast picture with latency as low as 0.5 seconds. IS+ uses
advanced Forward Error Correction technology to produce superior
transmission performance. When compared to traditional FEC/ARQ methods, IS+
uses minimal data overhead without latency introduced by packet
retransmission. The result is a reliable transmission with
high-quality images and ultra-low latency even in a moving vehicle.

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About
TVU Networks®
TVU Networks® is the global technology and innovation leader in
IP-based live video solutions. With over 2,500 customers in more than 85
countries, TVU Networks family of IP transmission and live production solutions
gives broadcasters and organizations a powerful and reliable workflow to
distribute live video content to broadcast, online and mobile platforms. The
TVU Networks suite of solutions has been used to acquire, transmit, produce,
manage and distribute professional-quality live IP HD footage as an integral
part of news, sports and major global events. For more information about TVU
Networks solutions, please visit www.tvunetworks.com.