TITAN Live HD Reviews

My main use case for TITAN Live HD involves integration labs where we get our source stream from the DCM, CINEMEDIA DCM, and bring them into TITAN Live, which produces the ABR output for our setup boxes and OTT platform. Since we were doing ad insertion, it was crucial that, first, the SCTE PID was processed correctly. Second, TITAN Live HD for the SCTE track interfaces with the POIS, placement opportunity insertion service, so that the incoming SCTE-35 message would be translated, changed, and then reinserted with the changed version on TITAN Live HD.

Regarding my main use case and experience with TITAN Live HD in those integration labs, I find it as a product that delivers what it promises, and I am a happy user.

In my opinion, the best features that TITAN Live HD offers include delivering promised actions or features, being fairly robust, and not having any big issues that I can remember. Even if we had some issues, I recall we could get quick support.

What makes TITAN Live HD feel robust to me is that we never had unexpected crashes or unexplained situations. If something went wrong, there was a good explanation, whether it was a misconfiguration or a genuine bug in the system, which was rare, making me consider TITAN Live HD a robust product.

While not unique, TITAN Live HD allows you to configure access types, meaning some people can be read-only, while others would have full admin control.

TITAN Live HD positively impacts my organization by being a product that delivers what it promises, integrating easily with our in-house developed POIS server without having big issues.

Regarding how TITAN Live HD can be improved, what I find limiting is that we run it on blade servers, each housing a TITAN Live HD instance that cannot handle too many channels; sometimes we are limited to four channels per blade per instance, and I understand that transcoding, especially ABR transcoding, is hard to achieve.

On the topic of needed improvements around scalability or hardware compatibility, if we had our own servers and could implement some GPUs specifically for video processing and transcoding, it would be beneficial. Even on my laptop with an NVIDIA card, I can transcode videos much faster. Having TITAN Live HD in a custom server with GPUs would allow for much faster transcoding, which is my first wish.

TITAN Live HD is stable.

I find working with TITAN Live HD for ad insertion and SCTE message handling enjoyable as the web interface is intuitive and feels natural to find what I am looking for. Overall, I have a good experience.

TITAN Live HD's scalability is noteworthy as it can run redundant with two encoders and two TITAN Live HD instances working in sync to provide a master backup configuration. I know it works since we had far too many instances, so I know it is scalable.

Regarding customer support, I would say it is good since we got quick turnarounds for our issues.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate customer support an eight since I did not directly get in touch with TITAN Live HD support right away, but I know we always had good outcomes.

To others looking into using TITAN Live HD, my advice would be to either get a good guide to explain the features or read proper documentation to fully understand the exact feature set.

I have expressed all my additional thoughts about TITAN Live HD.

I find the interview fine, but it seemed as though some questions are repetitive. Other than that, it is a good interview.

I would rate this review a ten out of ten.

We are sending HLS output and UDP output for IP distribution or IP streaming. We are feeding SDI input or IP input, and we're using TITAN Live HD to encode the signal to either RTMP or UDP to our client for IP streaming.

We've been using TITAN Live HD extensively, and normally we have a redundancy server which is main and backup, so we have more reliable streaming or distribution.

TITAN Live HD is a multi-purpose solution; I can stream, encode SDI output or IP output, and even RTMP output with ease, and the UI is quite friendly for us.

The UI is easy to navigate and easy to understand, even for operational level staff. I think people can be easily maneuvered to the UI itself and easily understand it.

TITAN Live HD has good and stable features for us. In broadcasting service, we need a stable stream or device. As a broadcaster or service provider, we need stable solutions, especially for IP distribution output, so TITAN Live HD offers the best results for us.

In terms of IP or streaming distribution, TITAN Live HD offers more stability compared to other systems or servers. We could reduce our overhead or resources, meaning fewer engineers need to manage TITAN Live HD platform.

In terms of licensing, you could offer a much cheaper option. For example, for SRT streaming, we need cost-effective solutions.

If you could add some IP networking tools, for example in the UI option, you could provide ping tools or traceroute tools, it could be better. For engineering case use for technical support, it could be easier if TITAN Live HD provides ping tools or traceroute tools from the UI itself for troubleshooting purposes.

TITAN Live HD is a reliable and efficient solution, and it can be better if you add more troubleshooting parts, such as ping tools and traceroute tools for us to easily troubleshoot.

I've been using TITAN Live HD for at least ten years.

TITAN Live HD is stable and provides a stable solution.

TITAN Live HD can handle increased workload.

I receive great customer support from at least the Singapore region.

We are still using Net Insight VA 414 for our IP distribution, and we'll be using it side by side with TITAN Live HD. We are also using Net Insight Nimbra as a solution.

I only know about the licensing, but the pricing and setup cost is mostly handled by our pre-sales engineer.

Regarding security, I couldn't provide much feedback because we have never used AI for TITAN Live HD in a real life, live or active environment. Overall, I found the comprehensive questions helpful. I would rate this review as eight out of ten.