Triveni Digital and Scout Information Services Help Public Television Stations Go Digital
Combined Technologies Combine PBS Traffic Data and PSIP Information For DTV
Princeton Junction, NJ - March 27, 2001
Triveni Digital, the leading solutions provider for the management of enhanced data and metadata in digital broadcast streams, and Scout Information Services have combined technologies to provide Public Television Stations with Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) and data bandwidth management services for their transition to digital television. Scout Information Services is a net sourced solution provider with Scout's Affinity Group producing traffic and revenue generation software for the PBS market. Scout's Programs Plus traffic software, with available PSIP data exporting and channel bandwidth assignment and exporting, is installed at 22 PBS stations nationwide. Programs Plus transports PSIP information to Triveni Digital's GuideBuilder PSIP Generation System, enabling Public Television Stations to use locally branded program guides and schedule information for their Electronic Program Guides (EPGs).
In the world of digital television, stations manage data streams instead of channels. They have replaced manual systems with fully digital systems for total automation from traffic scheduling through management and broadcast of digital streams to post broadcast reconciliation.
"Triveni Digital's PSIP GuideBuilder Pro is currently integrated with Scout's traffic system at Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) and has been field tested in the PBS station environment," said Nandhu Nandhakumar, Vice President, Engineering for Triveni Digital. "The Scout traffic system feeds GuideBuilder with TV schedule and program information which we insert as PSIP data into the DTV transport stream. This allows the station to automatically repurpose their traffic system data for driving the EPGs on viewers' DTV receivers and set-top boxes."
TPT in St. Paul, a pioneer station in digital broadcasting, was an early tester of Triveni Digital and Scout Information Services' PSIP products. "TPT wanted to try out PSIP technology on-site," Said Don Heppelmann, Senior Engineering Specialist for Twin Cities Public Television. "Triveni Digital and Scout Information Services came to a our station as a team and linked Triveni Digital's PSIP generator with Scout's traffic software and gave us a PSIP display taken directly from our own internal traffic software database."
For Scout's perspective, partnering with Triveni Digital was effortless. "I can't say enough about how easy partnering with Triveni Digital is. Their staff are professional, friendly, and they understand where the TV broadcast market is heading in the digital age," said Daryll R. Mackereth, Traffic Software Product Manager for Scout Information Services.
About Triveni Digital:
Triveni Digital, Inc., a subsidiary of LG Electronics, develops Digital Television systems, focusing on equipment for management of enhanced data and meta-data in digital broadcast streams. Triveni's products for ATSC PSIP, data broadcasting, stream analysis and monitoring are renowned for their ease of use and innovative features. Triveni's Custom Solutions business enables the rapid deployment of solutions for data broadcast applications. Working with leading industry partners, Triveni Digital employs an open and standards-compliant approach to the digital television market. For more Information, please contact us.
About Scout Information Services:
Scout Information Services, Inc. is a net sourced solution provider with core competencies in the architecture, integration, hosting, administration, operation, and on-going management of IT-intensive business processes including applications, infrastructure and value-added services. Scout's Affinity Group produces traffic and revenue generatingsoftware for the PBS market. Scout wants to give terrestrial broadcasters the ability to strengthen their relationship with viewers by using their own locally branded program and schedule information. Scout also seeks to enable TV stations, from the early stages of digital technology, to schedule and manage data stream bandwidth including excess capacity. In addition to its Affinity Solutions, Publishing Solutions, Direct Marketing, and Enterprise Solutions Groups, Scout has also successfully launched and incubated several companies including Universal Publishing, DiversityOnLine.com, ReturnRite, Interelate, and Metafarms.com. Scout Information Services, Inc is headquartered in Eagan, MN. Information on Scout is available by emailing daryllm@scoutis.com.
