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SuperFlex Pro Audio Series
Overview
Offering live IP audio decoding plus audio file playout for advanced radio networks, the SuperFlex® Pro Audio™ Series are professional DVB-S/S2 audio receivers with IDC’s Datacast XD™ client integrated.
Audio Flexibility
The SuperFlex Pro Audio Series features two models: SuperFlex Pro Audio with two audio decoders and SuperFlex Pro Audio XTR with four audio decoders. All the decoders have associated relays sufficient for an AM/FM co-location or AM/FM transmitter pair. Each audio decoder is independent of the other allowing maximum flexibility in data rates, codecs and sample rates: MPEG Layer II for existing DVB compatibility or MPEG Layer III or new High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE‐AAC) for the best audio performance at the lowest bit rate.
Commercial/Program Insertion
The SuperFlex Pro Audio Series is specially designed to allow commercial/program insertion on any channel. Datacast XD client is used to download advertisement files or programs into the receiver via satellite. Copy Split permits real-time triggering of commercials/programming overlays on a receiver by receiver basis and can be done in an event or time scheduled manner.
Enhanced Monitoring and Control
A browser-based status and control GUI allows satellite carrier frequency, data rates, port authorization, audio configuration and other operating functions to be set locally or remotely. Receivers can also be remotely controlled using IDC’s Net Manager™ and/or IDC’s Production Manager™ via the satellite network, either individually, in groups or globally.
Integrated Hard Drive
A hard drive comes built-in to each receiver. It provides for store-and-forward data storage plus enables the addition of a full suite of standard software modules as well as customer-specific applications.
Headend Management
The SuperFlex Pro Audio Series can be managed at the headend by various IDC products: Production Manager for content management, Datacast XD Server for file transmission, Event Manager™ for synchronized trigger insertion, and Net Manager for network management.
Features
- DVB-S or DVB-S2
- IP and PES audio decoding
- Audio file playback
- Two or Four built-in high quality stereo audio decoders
- MPEG-1 Layer II and III
- MPEC-2 AAC
- MPEG-4 AAC (HE and LC)
- HDD for local storage of audio
- Time scheduled programming
- Event scheduled programming
- Playlist support
- 4 Form-C relays/decoder
- 1 AES outputs/decoder
- 1 PAD/ASYNC output/decoder
- Remotely manageable over satellite and/or terrestrial networks
- Production Manager support
- Datacast XD Server support
- Event Manager support
- Net Manager support
- IP cues for automation systems
Options
- Record and Playback - Professional Media Recorder (PMR)
- Livewire by Axia digital output
- Time shifting
- FlexKey decryption*
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Applications
- Broadcast Radio
- Audio Distribution
- Live audio broadcasting (IP and PES)
- Copy split programming
- On-demand broadcast
- Program and commercial insertion
IDC offers a diverse portfolio of products and solutions for the world’s premiere broadcasters in radio, video, digital cinema and data networks. As industry innovators, our product evolution has involved the acquisition of key technologies previously marketed under the Tiernan, PROfline and Logic Innovation brands. Looking ahead, we will continue to innovate and to serve our key broadcast markets as a single worldwide brand, International Datacasting Corporation (IDC). Information for all IDC products can be found under these applications:
Broadcast Radio
As the pioneers of audio delivery via DVB satellite networks, IDC has over 20 years of experience distributing radio content with an installed base of over 25,000 sites. IDC is proud to include some of the world’s largest broadcasters as long-time clients.
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Broadcast Video
Responsible for the first ever HD network broadcast in the United States, IDC has 15 years of experience in delivering professional video encoding platforms with over 5,000 installations worldwide. Major television broadcasters count on IDC.
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Digital Cinema
With nearly a decade of experience in digital cinema, IDC is the leader in digital cinema content distribution worldwide, with over 4,000 installations. We offer state-of-the art products and solutions covering 2D and 3D content, DCP delivery via satellite, and high frame rate capabilities.
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Broadcast Data
With more than 150 broadcast data networks deployed worldwide, IDC has been a pioneer in DVB datacasting technologies for over 15 years. Customers rely on IDC for timely and secure delivery of their high bandwidth data for large networks.
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