XOrbit

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XOrbit, Inc.
Type Private
Industry Closed captioning
Delivery Verification
FoundedApril 10, 1996
Headquarters Columbia, MD, USA
Key people
Steven Blumenschein Founder/President
Website 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]

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References

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  5. "Welcome to TV Mainstream". Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  6. "Steve Blumenschein of Xorbit poses backstage with the Emmy for Low Latency Video Streaming Live Captioning Systems at the 66th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards, held Thursday, January 8, 2015 at the Bellagio Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images) | View photo - Yahoo News". Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2015.