TouchStream

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TouchStream

• Portable Live Encoding and Streaming Appliance

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TouchStream

• Bringing live video to wider audiences has never
  been easier

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TouchStream

• Digital Rapids renowned live streaming quality
  in a fully self-contained, portable appliance
• Intuitive touch-screen interface with integrated
  video monitoring for unparalleled ease-of-use
• Ideal for
• Live event coverage (sports,concerts, news,
  etc.)
• Worship services
• Courtroom proceedings
• PEG (public, education andgovernment)
  applications
• Corporate communications
• and more

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TouchStream

• TouchStream Benefits
• Exceptional ease of use
• Superior quality
• Self-contained portability
• Format flexibility
• Live and file-based output
• Flexible professional features
• Comprehensive input choices
• Quiet operation
• Easy upgradability
• Remarkably affordable

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TouchStream

• Unprecedented Ease of Use
• Intuitive touch-screen interface has even novice
  users streaming quickly
• All operations from basic start and stop to
  project selection and output configuration
  controllable through the touch screen
• Password-protected interface customization limits
  functions available to basic operators to as
  little as desired even just start and stop
• Simple on-site deployment
• Connect power, network and video source
• If changing settings from previous usage select
  new project file (encoding parameters), input
  source and/or output destination
• Start encoding

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TouchStream

• Superior Quality
• Same exceptional output quality that has made our
  rack-mount encoders the preferred choice of
  leading studios, networks and facilities
  worldwide
• Advanced video pre-processing technology delivers
  superior visual quality while making most
  efficient use of bandwidth in resulting output
• Motion adaptive de-interlacing analyzes each
  pixel and varies the algorithm applied to each
  area to maximize quality and avoid visual
  artifacts such as trails and motion blur
• Video noise reductionminimizes impact of
  noise-creating issues such as lowlighting that
  can greatlyaffect compression quality
• Top-quality scaling, filteringand more

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TouchStream

• Self-Contained Portability
• Touch-screen interface and integrated video/audio
  monitoring eliminate the need for laptops,
  keyboards, mice or monitors
• No laptop/computer needed even for switching
  project (parameter) files
• On-screen video display provides confidence
  monitoring directly on appliance and enables
  interactive adjustments to video

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TouchStream

• Format Flexibility
• Available in a range of application-tailored
  models supporting all popular viewing platforms
• Web
• Mobile phones
• IPTV set-top boxes
• TouchStream Web modelssupport both H.264 (for
  AdobeFlash or QuickTime) and WindowsMedia/VC-1
  (Silverlight) in the same unit
• Encoding to multiple compression formats,
  resolutions and bit rates simultaneously lets you
  optimally reach broadest possible audience
• All models can be expanded with additional
  formats through field-upgradable optional modules

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TouchStream

• Format Flexibility
• Format options
• On2 VP6 for Adobe Flash
• MPEG-2 / MPEG-1 (archiving for on-demand use,
  DVD etc.)

TouchStream Model Included Formats
LE models Microsoft Silverlight / Windows Media / VC-1
Web models Microsoft Silverlight / Windows Media / VC-1 Adobe Flash (H.264/AVC over RTMP) H.264/AVC over RTP/RTSP (e.g. to Darwin Server for QuickTime) AAC, MP3 audio
Mobile models 3GPP (H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 Part 2 AAC and AMR audio)
TS models H.264/AVC in Transport Stream MPEG-2 in Transport Stream AAC audio
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TouchStream

• Live and File-Based Output
• Output live streams, archive to files (on
  external or optional internal storage), or do
  both simultaneously
• Concurrent live streams and files can be
  different frame sizes/bit rates
• Can also be differentcompression formats
  onmulti-format models (e.g.H.264 live stream
  for Flashwith MPEG-2 archive for DVD)

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TouchStream

• Flexible Features
• Customizable graphic overlay withconfigurable
  fade in/out
• Video and audio adjustments

• Scheduling
• GPI triggers
• No-click automatic streaming on power-up (if
  desired)

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TouchStream

• Comprehensive Input Choices
• TouchStream models are available with analog,
  SDI or HD-SDI inputs
• HDi models support 1080i, 1080p, 720p and SD
  video inputs
• for HD sources, on-board down-conversion to
  smaller frame sizes or lower frame rates may
  be required (dependent on chosen codec format)

Model Inputs
Analog models Composite (RCA) and Y/C (S-video) videoBalanced (XLR) and unbalanced (RCA) audio
SDI models Standard SDI video with embedded SDI audio With optional breakout cable or breakout boxComposite (BNC), Y/C (S-video) and component analog videoBalanced (XLR) and unbalanced (RCA) analog audioAES/EBU (XLR) digital audio
HDi models Standard HD/SD SDI video with embedded SDI audioWith optional breakout box AES/EBU (XLR) digital audio
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TouchStream

• Comprehensive Input Choices

HDi Models
Analog Models
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TouchStream

• Extremely Quiet Operation
• Allows unobtrusive use in noise-sensitive
  environments
• Field Upgradable
• Additional format options
• New or enhanced functionality
• Affordable
• Despite its unmatched capabilities, TouchStream
  is surprisingly affordable and very competitively
  priced

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TouchStream

• Options
• 500GB internal hard drive storage for archive
  files
• Professional carry case
• Rack-mountable video/audio breakout boxes
• Additional codec (format) modules

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• Accolades
• TouchStream has earned accolades from experts
  around the globe

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