Post-Integration

On show at this year’s Integrate Expo was a host of new additions and enhancements, including to ArtioSign and ArtioView, the central components of the Avedia IPTV & digital signage platform. Amongst the new additions, the AvediaStream m9500 4K Media Player made its first appearance in the region. Since the merging of the Exterity and VITEC brands into a single identity (following Exterity’s acquisition in 2021), VITEC now offers a broader range of solutions, with the combined teams working together to deliver an enhanced portfolio suited to even more market applications.

Visitors to the VITEC booth saw the enhanced ArtioView, a fully customisable, interactive IPTV portal for a range of viewing environments, from hotels and cruise ships to student or workplace accommodation, stadium VIP suites, offices, hospitals or military camps. Designed specifically for use with ArtioView IPTV portal is the new m9500 Media Player, a 4K/UHD IPTV end-point which delivers interactive viewing portals and advanced network video decoding. Its quiet, fanless design, Power over Ethernet (PoE) functionality and low power consumption make it an economical choice for environments where premium video quality is important. 

The ArtioSign digital signage platform has also been improved with several additions, including the new ArtioSign Data Connector element which delivers the ability to use data feeds to dynamically update a table. Files can be uploaded from where they are saved locally, or directly from SharePoint or OneDrive. ArtioSign Smart Control — which centralises control of VITEC end-points and non-VITEC devices such as large format displays — now has a new tablet-specific ‘toggle’ interface, enabling users to control a large site from the comfort and convenience of a single tablet.

Also recently announced was the new VITEC PRISM Transcoder, a real-time IP video transcoding system that enables content to be adapted to an optimal format for efficient delivery to any device. A further product addition is the VITEC MGW Diamond+ OG, a 4K/Multichannel HD, HEVC, H.264 and MPEG-2 encoder with SDI and SMPTE-2110 input in an openGearTM card format. Rounding out VITEC’s offering was the ChannelLink distribution gateway, which acts as a central hub where IP channels from the field can be reliably received and retransmitted live.