Turnkey Business Creating Local Attractions Channel for Area Hotels

West Pond has made it easy to create your own TV channel from a collection of recorded files. Any video you can record or capture to a file can be played back as a channel. Collect files from DVDs, mobile phones, video editing tools, power point, or any video capture device and then use the West Pond FlexStream Cloud transcoding service to convert the files to a TV compatible format and manage the new channel using FlexStream Cloud’s remote access capabilities. This suite of products is perfect for publishing promotional media or local chamber of commerce videos as TV channels. If you have multiple properties, FlexStream Cloud will manage the new TV channels on all properties as a single group.

The video wrapper will scale the video and wrap the remaining screen area with one of our templates to create a signage channel with information your guest will appreciate. Display weather, airport information, specials, amenities, hotel events and announcements with live TV. You can use one of our pre-built templates, or work with West Pond’s creative services design team to make the perfect layout for you.

Feed select content onto your house cable TV network using the HDMI, component, or composite video capture port on the HY. Note: Composite, Component, and HDMI (without HDCP) connection required.

Any input source can be recorded for playback at any time. Broadcast and record your live events via video capture and IPTV camera sources. Play them back at any time for future enjoyment. The integrated DVR will record any input source, store it digitally, and play it back at specified time or in a loop with other stored media.

Create terrestrial TV channels as a backup for satellite rain fade, or as your primary source of local TV with the HY’s built in quad ATSC tuner. Use this feature to add dozens of channels to your in-house cable TV lineup. You can use all of the broadcast channels, or cherry pick from the lineup to remove infomercial channels and others with content not appropriate for your audience.

WiFi and LAN cameras are inexpensive devices that can be mounted in indoor or outdoor public areas and accessed by any connected device. You can place IP cameras where they show guests the lobby, ski lift lines, pool crowds, current weather, beach views, and nearby vistas and then map them to a TV channel using one of the FlexStream MX products.

Create TV channels for broadcast over in-house cable TV networks using the HY’s integrated DTV modulator.

Tune common area and in room TVs to dedicated signage channels to create digital signage without any additional hardware.

The HY IPTV outputs are Com1000/Com2000 compatible. Use the IPTV output feature to feed a Technicolor Com1000 or Com2000 Pro:Idiom HD headend with ancillary channels or simultaneously transmit IPTV with RF. If you are using RF output now, but find later you have new buildings that are wired for IPTV, the HY can support both simultaneously.

FlexStream Cloud remote management gives you access to the FlexStream HY smart headend system from anywhere and from any internet connected device. Just login to FlexDM.net and select your device. Check the status or remotely access for full control. With FlexStream Cloud, anything that can be done locally can be done remotely.

Installation and remote management are a breeze when you have access to this tool. Use this tool to monitor the in-house RF to find the best place for your new channels, then watch the channels remotely on a mobile phone or other connected device to ensure everything is running perfectly.

Monitor any video as it enters the HY using the QVGA full motion video front panel.

FlexStream Cloud transcoding service simply and easily converts any video file into one suitable for a TV channel.

Access the built in Web based user interface from any browser to view channels, modify content, or control displays.