D-Series DSX™

Content delivery is instrumental in your success or failure to gain audience share. Regardless of your market segment or your delivery targets, playout efficiency and quality can help to capture viewers — or push them away. D-Series DSX helps grab and hold your audience by assuring playout quality to all media environments.

Broadcast Television — D‑Series DSX provides central control of local content insertion, with the ability for local program origination to integrate with network feeds. The system supports growth through the efficient management of digital operations, the ability to seamlessly add channels and increased operator productivity.

Satellite/Cable TV and Radio — Multiplatform media companies face a growing number of delivery challenges — broadband, VOD, IPTV and mobile, to name a few. The stakes are raised even higher when local content and advertising needs to be inserted into programming. The D‑Series DSX solution’s flexible delivery capabilities and structural efficiency lay the groundwork on which to build any media delivery operation.

IP Distribution — With the ability to ingest, manage and play out digital file-based media content in a fully online operation, D-Series DSX offers substantial benefits for telecommunications organizations, Internet service providers and any company that delivers content to wired or wireless devices over IP networks. D‑Series DSX simplifies the process of converting content to diverse formats by seamlessly integrating with Harris digital asset management systems to automate content repurposing and redistribution. The result is enterprise flexibility — a necessary trait for tackling new media revenue opportunities.

Ingest Operations
Comprehensive ingest capabilities — from single spot operation to large-scale batch ingest — with quality-control features allow D‑Series DSX to function as a standalone automation solution or to be integrated with Harris Invenio or third-party digital asset management systems. Additional ingest capabilities include:

• Traffic System Interoperability
  D‑Series DSX performs ingest and material-management operations based on work orders — such as record lists, cache lists, copy lists, delete lists and purge lists — produced by supported traffic systems. For late-arriving or unscheduled ingest orders, manual entry is quick and easy.
  
• Confidence Checking
  If supported by the video server, a file can begin playout while recording is still in progress — a feature that can be used to verify the integrity of encoded material during ingest.
  
• Quality Safeguards
  During ingest, files are recorded with a temporary file name to prevent the material from going to air or being transferred to other locations before its integrity is verified. At the end of recording, you can review the file within the D‑Series DSX system to clear it for use. On release, the file name is changed to the proper one; if rejected, the file is deleted to allow the operation to be repeated.
  
• Point Trimming
  During the review process, the start and end of a program can be trimmed. Point trimming is particularly useful when recording live feeds; the original material remains in the server so that it can be retrimmed again, if required. The system database holds the new timing information.