Operators gear up for Olympics 2020 with Torque Video Systems’ monitoring, recording & playout solutions
New at NAB 2019: Torque Electronic Couch Potato™ (ECP) & DVMon ATSC
Las Vegas, April 7, 2019 – Torque Video Systems, inventive digital television networks and video transmission solutions provider, is presenting the latest in its line up of monitoring probes – the elegantly new Electronic Couch Potato™ (ECP) and DVMon ATSC – at NAB 2019, booth SU7923.
The Electronic Couch Potato™ (ECP) is designed to monitor and test video quality of experience. This affordable, compact, palm-sized monitoring probe monitors true customer viewing experience by providing measurements from the end point of the content delivery chain: the STB. Scanning through available channels or navigating through interactive content menus via an external IR blaster, the ECP provides a single dashboard highlighting service quality across all channels.
Perfect for ATSC broadcasters, the DVMon ATSC model provides a combination of RF and Transport Stream monitoring of off-air ATSC signals. Starting with RF modulation quality, the built-in measurement receiver includes key real-time measurements of signal level, MER, EVM and BER, as well as a fully graphical constellation display.
Danny Wilson, Founder and CEO of Torque Video Systems said, “From the Olympics, to global sporting events, to linear playout channels, our disaster recovery playout platform has helped many operators mitigate risks by providing a cost-effective solution with perfect, original quality playout.
“Functionality demanded by customers is constantly evolving, but in today’s environment of reduced budgets, doing it “like we’ve always done” cannot necessarily be so. Buying an additional playout and automation chain just for redundancy is a good example.
“With content delivery moving to more end devices, television operators both old and new are faced with an explosion in the complexity of their networks along with the number of copies of the same content at different resolutions. While manually monitoring with human eye balls seems impossible, the ECP provides a simple and consistent way to measure and monitor end-user QOE.
“As for the DVMon ATSC, RF measurements can be continuously logged for later inspection or trend analysis. From there, the demodulated transport stream is extracted from the RF signal, where full MPEG-TS monitoring and analysis is possible, including in-depth analysis of complex PSIP,” added Wilson.
The ECP features a modern open architecture API, making it easy to integrate measurements and alarms into any third party system. This flexibility means that the ECP is not only an indispensable tool or monitoring broadcast content, it is an important tool in automating testing in R&D and system QA applications. It epitomizes the ideal solution to measure the end-to-end process in a television delivery chain. It is available in three different models, each with different inputs: HDMI, DVI and VGA.
The easy-to-use HTML5 GUI of the DVMon ATSC makes remote access a snap, with no special plugins or clients required.
Torque Video Systems exhibits at NAB 2019 in Las Vegas, booth SU7923 from April 8 to 11. Demos are available on-site.
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Sharifah Ahmad
Marketing Communications Manager
Torque Video Systems