Search

ABOUT SYSMEDIA

SysMedia supplies products and services on a global basis to broadcasters of all shapes and sizes. No two sales are the same. We work closely with you, both pre and post-sale, to ensure that the entire process is handled to your satisfaction from every angle. We work with some of the biggest broadcasters in the world so no project is too large for us. Equally, we also work with niche players with very specific requirements so no project is too complex.

Below is a selection of some of our more well known customers.

• ARD/RBB (Germany)
• BBC Ceefax
• BSkyB
• CNN Text
• Eurosport IMS (UK)
• ITV
• MTV 3
• NOS (Netherlands)
• RTÉ (Ireland)
• S4C
• Taiwan TV
• Technicolor
• Teletext (UK)
• TV NorgeIntertaktiv
• TV2 (Denmark)
• TVNZ (New Zealand)
• Visiontext
• VTM (Belgium)

BSkyB (UK) produces a highly dynamic interactive digital teletext service using Plasma Gold without the constant need for expensive redevelopment of software. Plasma Gold allows BSkyB to fully exploit its content commercially by the use of banners and full screen interstitial advertising. It also enables them to "syndicate" content areas automatically to other delivery platforms such as mobile phones.

Digital Interactive Broadcasting [previously called TV Text] relies on Plasma Gold to produce commercially successful interactive services on the BSkyB platform. The content includes banner and full screen ads as well as premium content accessible by viewers purchasing "access codes" using their mobile phones.

StarHub (Singapore) wanted an interactive application to offer their audience multi-camera views of the World Cup 2006 matches and a host of other exciting World Cup content. The service was powered by Plasma Gold and StarHub took advantage of SysMedia’s application design services to create the initial framework for the custom interactive application. This had to be fast, clear and very easy for the viewer to use, as well as being almost totally automatic in operation, taking its input from standard XML data feeds. A vast amount of data was made accessible to the viewer included team line-ups, half-time and full-time scores, statistics on ball possession, shots on- and off- target, corners, free kicks, fouls, group information, as well as fixture listings and telecast details.

RTE, Ireland's state broadcaster, uses Plasma Gold to manage its teletext service which is also published to its website, WAP phones and shortly on a new digital terrestrial platform. RTE achieve this breadth of content without the need for separate editorial teams as Plasma Gold allows content to be automatically republished to several different platforms at once.

VMMa had been running an extremely successful analogue teletext service for many years and wanted to extend their brand into the digital domain. With carriage on the Telenet cable service and MHP as a target platform, Plasma Gold enabled VMMa to produce multiplatform interactive services from one common content source. VMMa also used Plasma Gold to produce the content for an 'enhanced' World Cup 2006 service, widely used by its viewing audience.

Teletext Ltd. As the world’s largest and most successful commercial teletext operator, the scale of Teletext Ltd's editorial operations publishing to multiple digital platforms demands a single coherent content management solution. Plasma Gold is enabling Teletext Ltd to satisfy the viewing public’s appetite for compelling, timely content, alongside its highly successful holiday advertising business. With its advanced content management features and integrated workflow, Plasma Gold has met Teletext Limited’s requirements when it comes to running information services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year

SysMedia's teletext systems have been deployed around the world. Below are just some of our customers. Contact SysMedia to find out how we can help you with a system that accurately suits your needs.

• TV2 in Denmark
• MTV 3
• BBC Ceefax
• BSkyB
• TV3 in Malaysia
• CNN Text
• TV Norge Intertaktiv
• n-TV
• Eurosport
• MediaCorp News
• RTÉ
• Hungarian Television

SysMedia's subtitling solutions are used worldwide by a vast range of companies with differing requirements: key broadcasters; DVD post-production facilities houses with multi-lingual translations; and educational facilities specialising in media and translation. Below are just some of the more recent examples:

ITV Central in the UK has recently updated its old 16-bit system to cover its regional news bulletins for both the West Midlands (from Birmingham) and East Midlands (from Birmingham or Nottingham via WAN). The new 32-bit workstations interface directly to the new iNews system and are used to subtitle daily regional news bulletins and a weekly news summary with in-vision subtitles.

Technicolor Creative Services' subtitling division has again demonstrated its commitment to SysMedia's WinCAPS technology by increasing its licences, both for the USA and UK.

TVNZ - New Zealand's public service broadcaster uses SysMedia subtitling solutions for both offline and live news subtitling.

S4C - the Welsh language service use WinCAPS and ProSTAR to provide both Welsh and English subtitles. The service not only provides accessibility for the hearing impaired but also a translation for non-Welsh speakers and those learning the language.

German national broadcaster ARD, and its regional counterpart for Berlin and Brandenburg, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), now use WinCAPS for the subtitling of both recorded and live programmes, having taken delivery in early 2005 of a complete package of solutions for subtitling and teletext for its analogue and digital TV services.

The Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (ESTG Leiria), in Portugal, purchased WinCAPS as a core part of a new educational initiative. The polytechnic runs a wide variety of undergraduate degree courses, from Engineering and Management studies through to Translation and Interpreting. As part of the Translation and Interpreting degree, ESTG Leiria offers a fourth-year subject called Translation Technology that concentrates mainly on subtitling, including live news.

Danish broadcaster TV2 deployed WinCAPS for the first ever truly live subtitling transmissions in the country in 2004. It was initially used for coverage of the Danish Royal Wedding between His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Miss Mary Donaldson of Australia. It continues to be used for TV2's main evening news bulletin.