TVBEurope looks at the advances in the tapeless playout and branding concept termed Channel in a Box TV, which integrates video, graphics, audio, automation, newsroom, MAM and more at low price points.

An overview of the Channel in a Box concept by Fergal Ringrose.

By Don Ash, sales director, PlayBox Technology.

Channel-in-a-box has become a popular Holy Grail solution, but real-world implementation is more difficult than what the channel-in-a-box marketing mythologies frequently claim. By Brian App, senior business development manager, Harris Corporation Broadcast Communications.

Should you entrust your income to a PC with a video card, asks Ed Casaccia, Grass Valley.

Simon Orme, BT Wholesale’s general manager of content services, explores the ‘Channel-in-a-Box’ and ‘Channel-in-a-Cloud’ concepts and their role in satisfying TV stations, content providers, communications providers and end users’ requirements in an efficient, sustainable and innovative way.

Daniel Keller talks to ToolsOnAir VP Sales & Marketing, Gilbert Leb.

By Phil Wilton, product manager, Snell.

Whether live news or infomercial, the content has to come from somewhere. By Howard Twine, product manager, SGL.

By Harold Vermeulen, founder and MD, PubliTronic.

The advent of channel-in-a-box technologies – though it’s still early days – is part of the wider move to IT-centric infrastructure across the broadcast industry, says James Gilbert, Joint MD, Pixel Power.

Fergal Ringrose talks to Pebble Beach MD, Peter Hajittofi.

By Ian Fletcher, CTO, OmniBus Systems.

By Mark Cousins, product line manager media servers, Omneon.

By Mark Errington, chief executive officer, OASYS.

Recent advances include more mature server functionality and more tightly integrated ingest, writes Boromy Ung, product manager workflow & playout, Miranda Technologies.