Visionary Solutions’ PackeTV® Wins 2014 NAB ‘Best of Show’ Award

Award honors new products based on several key criteria

Visionary Solutions, Inc. today announced that  PackeTV®, its modular end-to-end IPTV solution received the 2014 NAB “Best of Show” award from TV Technology magazine, one of the industry's leading publications for technology news and reviews. Judged by a panel of engineers and industry experts, the awards contest honors new products based on several key criteria including innovation, feature set, cost efficiency, and performance. Visionary Solutions’ PackeTV® is an IP video network and asset management solution that enables secure scheduled or on-demand delivery of live and recorded video.

“It’s gratifying to be the recipient of this prestigious industry award,” said VSI President Jordan Christoff. “PackeTV was created with a vision in mind: to provide the industry with a single, end-to-end IP video network solution that would greatly simplify and reduce the cost of distributing high-quality video content to any screen. Winning this award symbolizes that achievement.”

PackeTV® was selected to receive the “Best of Show” Award from among hundreds of new products in the competition. After winning the award, Visionary Solutions was presented with an honorary plaque at the 2014 NAB Show and will be featured in TV Technology magazine.

Using PackeTV®, organizations can easily and cost-effectively deliver high-quality HD and SD, MPEG-2/H.264 video content to TVs, set-top boxes (STBs), PCs, tablets, smartphones, and other IP-connected devices across a wide range of networks, including LAN, WAN, WiFi, cellular, and the public Internet. The open-standard solution is compatible with a wide range of equipment, including VSI encoders and decoders and features the same modular architecture as the encoder and decoder product lines, allowing customers to upgrade as their budget permits. This modular flexibility lowers the base price of the equipment by allowing the customer to purchase only the features they need at the moment and upgrading the software as requirements change.

The PackeTV® platform can quickly and easily be deployed in virtually any IT environment, including the broadcast, enterprise, entertainment, education, healthcare, and house of worship markets to support a variety of applications from corporate communication to video monitoring, training and distance learning, and legacy cable system replacement with TV over IP.

PackeTV® begins shipping this month. More information about PackeTV® and Visionary Solutions’ other products is available at www.vsicam.com.

About Visionary Solutions, Inc.
Visionary Solutions, Inc. (VSI) develops and manufactures open-standard solutions that harness the power and flexibility of IP networks to deliver real-time video and audio. With a passion for innovation and customer service, VSI provides outstanding products recognized for their value, performance, versatility, and quality. VSI products support the industry’s latest technology standards, including H.264, making the company a trusted partner for solutions in the enterprise, education, government, house of worship, entertainment, healthcare, and broadcast markets. VSI sets the industry standard for high-quality video transport over IP networks.

Enright Company's Six City Road Show Tour Is a Wrap!

The Enright Company, www.enrightcompany.com, manufacturers’ representatives serving commercial AV/IT integrators and consultants in CA, AZ, NV and HI since 1985, just completed their six-city road show tour.  Entitled the Enright Company Sojourn Road Shows, top manufacturers showed new technology at these very successful expos and luncheons.

Manufacturers include: Vaddio, Polycom, Liberty AV Solutions, Brightline, Casio, RGB Spectrum, Hall Research, RTI, Orion Images, Visionary Solutions, Tightrope Media, Forbes AV, and Conen exhibited their products at these invitational expos and luncheons.  Venues included: LA/Orange County, San Diego, Sacramento, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Phoenix.

“These events are the absolute best way to get our manufacturers in front of our dealers” said Logan Enright, principal of The Enright Company. All events, held in area hotels, were open to all Enright Company dealers and consultants and over 400 individuals attended the events.
 
For further information go to www.enrightcompany.com.

Visionary Solutions, Inc - IPTV Encoders Appoints Enright Company

Visionary Solutions, Inc., www.vsicam.com, with US headquarters in Santa Barbara and founded in 1995, has appointed The Enright Company as their manufacturers’ reps. VSI manufactures video over IP technology, including high definition (HD) h.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC) encoders, and standard definition MPEG-2 and h.264 encoders. This allows one to turn almost any video source (Composite, SVideo, Component, HDMI, or SDI) into full-screen, full resolution, Internet Protocol digital video in real time.

VSI encoders provide HD and SD audio/video quality that rivals competitive broadcast equipment costing up to five times more. Depending on the product, our encoders can provide from 100 kilobits per second (kbps) to 20 megabits per second (Mbps) total stream bit rates, accommodating everything from Internet transmissions to the highest quality HD demands.

Visionary Solutions Hardware and software solutions are sold in the following markets: Professional AV (University, K12, Corporate Campus, Government), PCO (Private Cable Operator), Television/Broadcast (feeds, backhaul, monitoring), Telecommunications (ISPs, Telcos, Cable Co.) and High-End Video Surveillance.

VSI customers are using our products for broadcast and cable television feeds, building-wide TV distribution systems, conference center AV, university or special event webcasts, multicasts and podcasts, digital signage networks, educational and corporate TV, security, videoconferencing and telemedicine.

The latest encoder from VSI is the AVN441HD. It encodes high definition video in an h.264 stream (MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC) and is housed in a Media Processing Platform (MPP), a high density rack mount system. Plug a video source directly into the blade, plug into the network via the RJ-45 connection and stream real-time high definition video over your LAN or WAN. The MPP, with AVN441HD blades, is suitable for all applications requiring cost-effective, low bit rate, high definition video distribution over IP networks.

Superior Audio/Video Quality
h.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC) hardware compression and Visionary Solutions’ optimized transmission technology provides a high definition, full frame rate IP video stream. The stream can be viewed by an unlimited number of clients on a LAN or WAN, provided that bandwidth is available. Image resolutions are configurable to 720p or 1080i at 50 or 60 frames per second (fps) or 1080p at 24 fps. The video bit rate can be configured from 4 to 18 Mbps. The audio compression is either AAC (128 to 512 kbps audio encoding) or MPEG-1 Layer 2 (64 to 384 kbps audio encoding) with up to 48 kHz sample rate.

VSI (www.vsicam.com) works hard to provide superior value and is proud of the “cost to performance” return of its IPTV solutions.