Quantel has introduced News to Go a brand new concept based on a brand new product – Newsbox. Newsbox is a range of seriously affordable, pre-packaged integrated news production systems.
Never before has such a potent combination of capability, power and efficiency been available off-the-shelf to broadcasters. The pre-packaged approach of Newsbox ensures that server-based production need no longer be regarded as a major systems purchase. Now with Newsbox, every broadcaster can match the look and speed to air of even the largest stations.
Newsbox is a convenient, self-contained unit that comes with all that is needed to ingest material, view rushes, choose shots, edit stories, review finished pieces and play them out to air. Its common progressive user interface and toolset are exactly the same as all the sQ systems from Quantel that are powering the news operations of some of the worlds greatest broadcasters.
New ingest and playout automation from Quantel completes the Newsbox package, making it in effect the worlds first self-automating server. The Newsbox difference comes in the packaging of the server, which has been re-engineered to bring a new level of compactness and affordability a complete and very powerful, one-stop news shop from just $199K. Now every broadcaster, no matter what their market size, can benefit from the magic of the Quantel news workflow.
News to Go has a second meaning and a second application for Newsbox too; Newsbox can literally take news on the road. A complete Newsbox system can fit into two 24 inch flightcases and can be up and running on location in a couple of minutes.
Since Newsbox comes completely pre-configured with standard cables, computers, a switch and the server itself, it can remove the risk of stepping into the world of server based news production systems. In fact, we would aim to have a customer up and running in a matter of hours, says Joe Torelli, Quantel Director of Broadcast Applications. And while the system may be pre-packaged, what it can do for the look of news output is anything but off-the-shelf; Newsbox puts every broadcaster on the same playing field as the majors.