MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND BROADCAST
Founded more than ten years ago, Starfish Technologies has an excellent reputation for meeting international broadcasters’ expectations with innovative and efficient products and systems. Starfish solutions are proven in service and have been implemented by an impressive list of international customers.
Starfish have developed a wide range of in-house expertise in technologies including, Video Transcoding, Multi-platform delivery, Splicing SDI, Transport Stream splicing, Transport Stream processing, IP Delivery of media streams, Logo insertion, Opt-out encoding/decoding and Compliance recording. With this broad software expertise and systems design experience, Starfish is ideally suited to build and operate automated systems for media suppliers across a wide range of applications.
Headquartered in Reading, UK, Starfish Technologies is an ISO 9001:2015 registered company.
We are proud to be a company with a net positive Carbon Footprint. Our relatively low carbon emissions are offset by the planting of trees in the UK.
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Transport Stream Splicing
Developed by Starfish Technologies to offer frame accurate splicing with low latency. This product is used within our Regional Insertion Systems but is also available as a standalone product for other applications.
Transport Stream Processing
A range of products and technologies to process media transport streams. These functions are all software based and can be used as a standalone application or integrated within other Starfish products and systems.
Regional Insertion Systems / Ad Insertion
Increasingly, forward-thinking broadcasters are responding to the pressures on advertising revenue by regionalising content. Besides attracting new advertising business, local news and programming has proved popular with audiences and strengthens channel branding.
Starfish builds automated systems for TV Channel Regionalisation and Ad Insertion in traditional broadcast and IPTV. These systems enable broadcasters to add regional programme content and advertising with minimal changes to their existing infrastructure.
Encoding & Transcoding
We build specialist encoding and transcoding products for broadcast and media applications. Typically our systems will include additional features beyond those found in generic products – such as subtitle decoding and re-purposing. We also support automated workflow capabilities to ensure ease of operation and integration into existing workflows.
Audio Description / Video Description
Also known as Video Description or VI, Audio Description is an additional audio commentary for the visually impaired that accompanies the normal programme sound. World leaders in this arena, Starfish offer the most comprehensive product range of file-based technology encompassing authoring, processing and delivery. Our products enable the efficient and cost effective creation and delivery of this increasingly mandatory service.
Captioning & Subtitling
With flexible and proven solutions for both traditional and file-based workflows, Starfish has a range of software components for subtitle processing and delivery. The product range also includes innovative subtitle file QC, file compare and live routing systems.