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.
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. 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. 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).
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
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for "the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, edu ...
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.
In 2015, XOrbit earned another
Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its low latency video captioning encoder.
[{{cite web, url=https://news.yahoo.com/photos/steve-blumenschein-xorbit-poses-backstage-emmy-low-latency-photo-082551103.html , title=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 , access-date=February 9, 2015 , url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209140547/http://news.yahoo.com/photos/steve-blumenschein-xorbit-poses-backstage-emmy-low-latency-photo-082551103.html , archive-date=February 9, 2015 ]
External links
Official Website of XOrbit, Inc.
References
Companies established in 1996
Privately held companies based in Maryland
Companies based in Columbia, Maryland