Ideas Unlimited - Factsheet - compliance recording

Status: IdeasUnlimited.tv is a dynamic well established venture and the only company specialising in automated verification and broadcast content monitoring.

Founded: 2003.

Publicly Traded: No.

Vision: To reduce costs for broadcasters by automating the business-critical functions of real-time signal verification and monitoring.

Key Products and Services: Sale of hardware and software video logger solutions for low-cost automated compliance recording, verification and monitoring of all broadcast video and audio signals. Systems use industry-standard protocols, work anywhere with internet access and are all backed-up with IdeasUnlimited.tv’s support services.

Central to the company’s flagship ContentProbe family are:

FaultTracker: Monitors video and audio signal in real time and detects problems such as frozen video, no video or audio input, audio tone;
Verification: Builds on FaultTracker to provide real-time comparison of source signal with any number of destination sources. While allowing for transmission delays, it verifies correct video, audio and aspect ratio and generates configurable reports;
Compliance: Linking dynamically with FaultTracker and Verification, Compliance produces a searchable Windows Media 9 proxy of the signal with a time-code index. It creates daily PDF reports with mini-pics and eliminates the need for banks of bulky VHS machines.

Key Markets: Broadcasters of all sizes, particularly those with geographically remote facilities, who need reliable content compliance to adhere to regulatory requirements.

Corporate: IdeasUnlimited.tv licenses its patented Media FingerPrinting technology to Snell & Wilcox.

Offices: Headquarters in Surrey, UK.

Web Address: www.ideasunlimited.tv

Key Personnel: Glyn Powell-Evans is managing director and co-founding shareholder. A film sound recordist by background, Powell-Evans turned entrepreneur early and achieved major success founding P.A.G. Limited, a leader in film sound recorders, camera battery and battery-charging technology. After this he co-founded G2 Systems, which manufactures innovative computer-based products for the video and television industries. He also founded and was chairman of OmniBus Systems until he left to start IdeasUnlimited.tv.

As Managing Director of IdeasUnlimited.tv, Powell-Evans is responsible for company strategy and development and is a key spokesperson.

Ian Bradbury took on leadership of the IdeasUnlimited.tv research team in 2008 and played a key role in development of the Media FingerPrinting technology that is now the core offering of IdeasUnlimited.tv. His responsibilities include overseeing all R&D operations and further developing the technical innovations on which the company is based.

Cathy Ayres is Sales Director and is also a co-founding shareholder. She recently completed an MBA and was previously a Director and co-founder of Omnibus Systems responsible for partner relations.

Literature, Information and Photographs: If you would like to obtain further information about IdeasUnlimited.tv, to source photographs or other images or to arrange an interview or visit, please contact Suzanne Griffiths or Nicola Taylor at The Whiteoaks Consultancy or visit http://www.ideasunlimited.tv