broadcast metadata generation systems from EtherGuide Systems

standard features

• Engineered, debugged and tested over many years to provide reliable and continuous metadata output
• Live indication of system status, including actual bit rate
• Automatic ingest of TitanTv.com program listing service
• ATSC A/76 Programming Metadata Communications Protocol (PMCP) interface built in
• Flexible output options: Ethernet UDP/IP and DVB-ASI using Dektec or Linear Systems interface cards, also supports Harris NetVx and Lucent encoders, Logic Innovations TSS/TSM-2800 multiplexers
• Remote control and telemetry of system status
• Includes integral Microsoft SQL Server instance for data reliability

standard PSIP/PSI features

• User-selectable maximum repetition rates for Event Information and Extended Text tables permits fine tuning and mimimizing metadata bit budget even while providing 16 days of EPG schedules
• Automatically inserts mandatory descriptors and permits automatic inclusionof optional ATSC descriptors.
• Fully syncronized PSI/PSIP output including all descriptors insures the highest degree of compliance with applicable standards and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations
• Outputs all mandatory and optional PSIP tables (except Directed Channel Change, Directed Channel Change Selection Code and Rating Region [region 1] Conditional Access and User Private tables, which are optional)
• User-selectable SCTE-65 Profile ("Cable PSIP") output synchronized with PSIP/PSI

metadata generation systems

	EtherGuide Prophecy	Economical, powerful and reliable integral broadcast metadata generator in a 2 rack unit Intel 64-bit hardware platform.  Includes three year hardware limited warranty (component swap).
	EtherGuide Emissary	EtherGuide Systems 32 bit software package (licensed on a per-transport-stream basis) that runs on customer-supported computers running Microsoft Windows. Custom configurations available upon purchase of 5 licenses.
	EtherGuide Sincronizada	Sincronizada (Spanish for "syncronized") is the name of a Mexican specialty dish -- a "ham and cheese" quesadilla. EtherGuide Sincronizada is a integral 64-bit PSIP generation system that permits full service satellite TV stations, Class A TV, LPTV and TV Translator stations to dynamically integrate PSIP/PSI metadata received off-the-air, program listings from TitanTv.com and information on locally produced programs into fully compliant PSIP output, without the need for a traffic or automation system. Includes three year hardware limited warranty (component swap).

Optional features

• ATSC Mobile Digital TV (also known as M/H) signaling and OMA BCAST/MDTV Service Guide output
• Flexible, coordinated redundancy options
• Rating Region Table (RRT) for region 1
• Directed Channel Change Tables
• Directed Channel Change Selection Code Tables
• Conditional Access Tables
• ATSC Non-Real-Time Metadata and data output
• Extended Binary Information Format (EBIF) output
• SCTE-18 Emergency Output options