XOrbit

XOrbit, Inc.
Private
Industry Closed captioning
Delivery Verification
Founded April 10, 1996
Headquarters Columbia, MD, USA
Key people
Steven Blumenschein Founder/President
Website http://www.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]

References

  1. http://www.xorbit.com
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 31, 2008. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
  5. http://www.tvmainstream.com/default.cfm?ID=10515&type=wmhigh&clip=2
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
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