XOrbit
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (March 2009) |
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Closed captioning Delivery Verification |
| Founded | April 10, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Columbia, MD, USA |
Key people | Steven Blumenschein Founder/President |
| Website | xorbit.com |
XOrbit, Inc., a privately held organization, claims to strive toward improving the quality of closed caption technologies for the hearing impaired, a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirement for broadcasters.[1]
XOrbit develops and promotes products that purportedly eases the improvement and quality of closed captioning services for broadcast and cable television channels at a lower cost than traditional techniques.[2] For example, they provide a product that prevents broadcasters from having to re-encode line21 captioning information into media whenever a change to the captioning is made.[3] They also provide a product that allows stenographers to send captioning for a live event without requiring a satellite feed for the audio/video content (using TCP/IP technologies).[4]
In 2003, Turner Entertainment gained a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for XOrbit's closed caption server technology. In 2009, XOrbit was awarded a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for Real-Time Delivery Confirmation Systems, a service to ensure that content (such as television commercials contracted by a network, or regular network programming) reaches the end viewer as transmitted.[5] In 2015, XOrbit earned another Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its low latency video captioning encoder.[6]
External links
References
- ^ "Home". xorbit.com. Archived from the original on 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
- ^ "Product Information - Ultracast". Archived from the original on December 31, 2008. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
- ^ "XOrbit :: Products". Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
- ^ "XOrbit :: Products". Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
- ^ "Welcome to TV Mainstream". Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
- ^ "Steve Blumenschein of Xorbit poses backstage with the Emmy for Low Latency Video Streaming Live Captioning Systems at the 66th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards, held Thursday, January 8, 2015 at the Bellagio Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images) | View photo - Yahoo News". Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
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