Video Clarity Launches ClearView Venue Player

Video Clarity has launched the ClearView Venue Player – a video server that automatically plays multiple uncompressed segments of content to multiple screens in precise timing and sequence.

The product is designed for amusement and theme parks, live events, museums, stages shows and other environments that rely on repeated, synchronised video playback for entertainment and display.

Users are able to programme segments to play from multiple Venue Players, according to specific timing and order of recall, through an advanced synchronisation software, as well as synchronise with devices and effects. Start-time commands are synchronised by either Network Time Protocol (NTP) or by LTC timecode; this enables multiple venue players to start playout at the same time.

Users can control the ClearView Venue Player independently through Video Clarity's Venue Manager or via a scripting interface, allowing fast integration into existing environments.

The ClearView Venue Player supports up to eight HD-SDI outputs, two quad-SDI UHD outputs, or four HD outputs and a single UHD output from a single 1-RU package. The compact unit is available with up to 12 terabytes of storage, allowing hours of playout of uncompressed YCbCr, 10-bit video and 16 channels of embedded audio per each program output.

Blake Homan, president and Founder, Video Clarity, said: "Users in entertainment environments need an easy, reliable way to coordinate their video programs to play out on the right screens at exactly the right times. Video Clarity has a long history of building reliable content analysis, recording, and playback systems, and now we're applying that expertise to help entertainment venues automate the highly choreographed multiscreen video-playback process. What's more, customers will get more storage and more outputs than most people would expect from such a small device. In the end, they'll have greater confidence in their video programming while also saving space and time."

The ClearView Venue Player will be available in November.

www.videoclarity.com

(JP/LM)