The award-winning Polycom Accordent Capture Station (Polycom ACS) is an easy-touse, room-based appliance that enables virtually anyone to Webcast and record high-value presentations that take place every day in the world's meeting rooms, classrooms and boardrooms. The Polycom Accordent Capture Station - HD Edition enables customers to take full advantage of HD resolution video, images, and projection devices for live or on-demand Webcasts. It enables customers to capture, encode, and play out HD video or HD-projected visuals in the 16:9 resolution to HD LCDs or plasma screens, and can capture HD video directly from HD cameras and visuals shown on HD-enabled projectors. Leveraging Polycom's Accordent award-winning rich media creation software, the system seamlessly records and synchronizes audio, video and data output from any presentation device and instantly creates an online multimedia presentation. Presenters simply plug any VGA-enabled device (including laptops, projectors, electronic white boards and document cameras) into the Polycom ACS and click "Start" and the system does the rest.
- Live and On-Demand Webcasting
- Reach the broadest possible audiences via live presentations, and post-event archives
- Fully Customizable Interface
- Customize branding, video and graphic windows. Add or delete a range of player side features
- Presentation Editing
- Refine, refresh raw presentations
- Re-publish in new interfaces
- Re-publish for multi-device playback (CD, DVD, iPod)
- Non-Proprietary Hardware/Software
- Replay presentations from standard media servers
- Use Polycom turnkey models, or install our software on your hardware
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Content Distribution Capabilities :
Live and On-Demand Streaming
Up to 25 simultaneous unicast streams
Multicast distribution
Automatic file upload to file servers / other locations
Content delivery through a firewall via FTP/SFTP
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Content Viewing / Playback Interface :
Browser playback interface supported for Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7 or higher, Firefox 3 or higher, Safari 3 and 4
External players include Microsoft Windows® XP or higher, Mac OS® 10.4 and 10.5, Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 or higher, Silverlight Player 2 or higher, Adobe® Flash® Media Player 10 or higher
Playback interface customization (branding, colors, layout, functions)
Auto-detect viewer capabilities (speed, player type, format)
DVR-like functionality (pause, stop, ff, rewind, jump)
Search / jump to slides or chapters
Interactivity features: moderated Q&A
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Signal Pre-Processing / Mixing :
Provides video / audio Input signal preview
Cropping/deinterlacing/Brightness/ Saturation/Contrast/Hue/ColorGain/ ColorBalance/Gamma/Noise Reduction
Simultaneous capture / encoding of video, audio, PC signals
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Supported Resolutions - Video Encoding :
16:9 video resolutions and frame rates up to 1080i @30 fps
4:3 video resolutions and frame rates up to 720x480 / 576 @ 30 fps
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Supported Resolutions - Content Encoding :
16:9 PC / VGA / content resolutions 4:3 PC / VGA / content resolutions up to 1600 x 1200
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Metadata and Content Editing :
Ability to customize metatag fields (create, edit, delete)
Automated metadata capture, including closed caption, text from slides/notes, slide transitions
Supports manual metadata entry during capture (e.g., chaptering)
Post capture: titling, clipping, adding/ replacing PPT slides, multi-format reskinning (WM, Flash, Silverlight) e-mail- a question, polling, surveys
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Hardware Specifications :
HP Z800 Workstation
2 x Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5160 3.0 GHz 4MB L2 cache 1333 MHz front size bus
4GB RAM
300GB Hard Drive 7200 RPM
DVD RW
Additional 500 GB HD w/SATA, minimum of 7500 rpm
HD Video Card
Video: SDI (BNCx1)
Audio: Embedded SD Capture Card
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Depth :
8 in
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Height :
20.70 in
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Width :
17.50 in
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Product Weight :
46 lbs
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Depth :
203.20 mm
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Height :
525.78 mm
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Width :
444.50 mm
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Product Weight :
20.87 kg