DoCaption today announced that it has updated its flagship LRBox platform-based product line, a comprehensive series of hardware tools for SDI ancillary data management including, but not limited to, closed captioning and subtitling. DoCaption’s LRBox products now are available in a modular software solution tailor-made for the company’s portfolio of closed-captioning/subtitling encoders, decoders, and monitors.

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has deployed the award-winning DataMiner solution from Skyline Communications, the global leading supplier of end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, telco and mobile industry. This allows Globecast in Asia to automatically check subtitles as well as to monitor uplinks and multiple satellite transponders, enhancing value for its broadcast customers beyond SLAs.

Screen Subtitling Systems has announced the appointment of Colin France as Head of Research.

France, who previously led the Grass Valley development team responsible for the maintenance and support of Publitronic Software has joined the team at Screen to explore new markets, help extend the product portfolio and consequent reach of the company.

ZOO Digital, a leading provider of localization and digital distribution services is delighted to announce that Tony Ferkranus has joined the team as Vice President of Sales for the Americas.

VDM, one of Frances longest-established audiovisual businesses, has collaborated with digital distribution specialist Under the Milky Way (UMW) to develop a cost-effective solution to the need to subtitle European films. The partnership was established in response to a European Commission call for tenders, Crowdsourcing Subtitling to Increase the Circulation of European Works.

Vimond Media Solutions and iflix, Southeast Asias leading Internet TV service, are to establish a jointly-operated development centre in Kuala Lumpur to create innovations in OTT TV and break new ground in the way consumers watch television in a mobile-first environment.iflix has installed the Vimond Platform to power its range of OTT services across the Southeast Asian region, reaching audiences in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia, with a potential market of half a billion people.

Softel announced today that Frances highly respected TF6 station has installed Swift¢ vTX from Softel to handle subtitle processing for the channels mix of original entertainment, drama and feature films. Swift vTX is handling subtitle encoding and transcoding for TF6s file-based workflow in its Paris studios.

Softel announced today that Frances highly respected TF6 station has installed Swift¢ vTX from Softel to handle subtitle processing for the channels mix of original entertainment, drama and feature films. Swift vTX is handling subtitle encoding and transcoding for TF6s file-based workflow in its Paris studios.

Following the recent acquisition of Softel by Miranda Technologies, a Belden Brand, the company will showcase Swift, its family of re-architected solutions for closed captioning/subtitling and video description software that allows content producers, broadcasters and network operators to quickly and efficiently comply with the FCC Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) mandates for closed captioning video content delivered over IP.

Softel today announced that its Swift¢ TX subtitling and captioning playout solution is integrated in Harmonics award-winning Spectrum¢ ChannelPort¢ channel playout module. This integration allows the Spectrum family of media servers to support just-in-time insertion of subtitles as content plays, supporting late delivery of caption information in multi-lingual playout applications and facilitating fast and cost effective production-to-playout workflows. ChannelPort system users will also be able to achieve considerable operational efficiency gains and reduced rack space consumption compared to the traditional multiple vendor, multiple hardware unit solution.

Softel today announced Swift Subtitle Monitor, a new multi-channel subtitle monitoring software that allows the real-time checking of subtitle match and alignment to the video. Swift Subtitle Monitor is a user friendly tool that offers at a glance monitoring and has been designed to allow the configuration of personalized display line-ups for over 25 subtitled video streams. This new tool complements Softels rich Swift family of end-to-end subtitling solutions, encompassing subtitle creation, extraction, transcoding, insertion, transmission and monitoring.

Softel has announced the publication of a new guide that identifies the 10 most common subtitling and captioning challenges faced by broadcasters and network operators in complex modern workflows. Examining cost efficiency, video editing synchronization, file format transcoding, multi-language/multi-channel processing, live subtitling, quality control as well as web and mobile streaming, the guide explains each challenge and offers advice on how to tackle them, reviewing recent developments in subtitle and caption processing. It summarizes information in simple tables featuring challenges and their solutions and provides detailed diagrams presenting workflow configurations for optimised subtitle and caption processing.