Compix Media (Booth SL5105 + SL4805)

Compix Media provides powerful and cost effective character generator (CG) systems and applications for the television, video, production, sports, and IPTV markets. The Company’s SD and HD CG products are on the air in more than 17,000 locations in more than 80 countries. These installations include broadcast television, cable, post-production, educational, military, worship, government, and corporate multimedia. At NAB, expect to see…

• The new CYNERG HD is a broadcast-quality, dual-channel HD CG with unrivalled price/performance for the broadcast, sports, professional, educational, and government markets. Capable of simultaneously outputting graphics in either SD-SDI or HD-SDI, Compix Media’s new dual-channel CYNERG HD packs a powerful punch into a conveniently sized 4-RU chassis. The CYNERG HD has the inherent advantage of branding multiple video streams with different overlay material from a single chassis and one easy-to-use interface. Rather than invest in two separate CG systems, users can apply the CYNERG HD to two different functions at once, saving both time and money. Additionally, because the data required to create and playback graphics can be used between CYNERG HD’s two internal systems, users need only maintain one set of graphics data. Dedicated logo insertion, EAS message generation, and automated template-based sports-score generation are also features supported by the CYNERG HD.


• The new 1-RU Channel Brander is a full-featured, stand-alone CG supporting automated template-based graphic generation and real-time graphics overlay of live video in SD or HD productions. With its compact footprint and rugged chassis construction, the cost- effective Channel Brander is ideal for sports venues, EAS, remote and outside broadcast, SNG/ENG, and digital subchannels. This latest CG offering was created specifically for channel branding, dedicated logo insertion, EAS message generation, and automated template-based sports-score generation. Channel Brander accepts static graphic/logo import of TGA, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIF files, automatically converting images to and from different video resolutions as needed. Compix Media’s easy-to-use GenCG software, featuring an elegant and user-friendly GUI, is integrated into Channel Brander, and offers 4000 True Type fonts and 300,000 premium quality images — included at no extra cost. Compix Media offers the Channel Brander in three models: analog (SMPTE 170M-compliant), digital SD-SDI (SMPTE 259M compliant), and HD (SMPTE 292M compliant with 720p/1080i support). The system passes all required closed-captioning, VBI, HANC, VANC, and embedded audio systems requirements.

Compix Media is also expanding its HD product offerings with a powerful new line of single- and dual-channel HD ready CGs. Leveraging the performance and quality of Compix Media’s flagship resolution-independent software and SD-SDI hardware, the new HD- ready models provide the immediate SD functionality required by many digital broadcasters while supporting a smooth transition to HD. A simple keycode purchase is all that is required to upgrade the HD ready systems from SD-SDI to HD. Available in single- and dual-channel configurations, the new HD ready CGs leverage all of the same great functionality and hardware/software feature sets offered by the company’s current CG offerings, while incorporating the on-board CPU and memory required to handle the pixel and data volumes demanded by HD.

Also, just released by the Company is their new CYNERG HD, a broadcast-quality, dual-channel HD CG for the broadcast, sports, professional, educational, and government markets. Capable of simultaneously outputting graphics in either SD-SDI or HD-SDI, Compix Media’s new dual-channel CYNERG HD packs a powerful punch into a conveniently sized 4-RU chassis. The CYNERG HD has the inherent advantage of branding multiple video streams with different overlay material from a single chassis and one easy-to-use interface. Rather than invest in two separate CG systems, users can apply the CYNERG HD to two different functions at once, saving time and money. Additionally, as the data required to create and playback graphics can be used between CYNERG HD’s shared data storage, users need only maintain one set of graphics data. Dedicated logo insertion, EAS message generation, and automated template-based sports-score generation are some of the optional features supported by the CYNERG HD. Logo generation is offered via Compix Media’s NewsScroll, an application that creates up to two independent crawls, manually updated or automatically updated from text files or RSS feeds. NewsScroll also incorporates static and animated logos, a real-time clock, and automatic weather updates. CYNERG HD is compatible with all previous Compix Media CG systems and operates with other optional Compix Media applications including AutoCast. The CYNERG HD is SMPTE 292M compliant with 720p/1080i support. The system passes all required closed-captioning, VBI, HANC, VANC, and embedded audio systems requirements. CYNERG HD accepts static graphic/logo import of TGA, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIF files. Compix Media’s easy-to-use GenCG HD software, featuring an elegant and user-friendly GUI, is integrated into CYNERG HD, and offers 4,000 TrueType® fonts and 300,000 premium quality images included at no extra cost.