TITAN Live HD is a cutting-edge broadcasting tool designed to offer high-quality video streaming and encoding solutions for professionals seeking advanced media delivery systems.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| TITAN Live HD | 3.8% |
| Mux | 10.0% |
| Vimeo OTT | 10.0% |
| Other | 76.2% |
Known for its reliability and performance, TITAN Live HD provides adaptive streaming, ensuring seamless broadcasts across multiple platforms. It caters to industries demanding efficient and scalable media workflows, offering compatibility with various video formats and integration capabilities. Users can expect reduced latency and enhanced streaming quality, making it a preferred choice for broadcasters.
What are its most important features?TITAN Live HD is particularly valued in media and entertainment industries where high-definition streaming and quick adaptation to audience demands are critical. Broadcasting companies implement TITAN Live HD to ensure smooth content delivery, whether for live events, streaming services, or televised broadcasts, meeting industry-specific challenges with reliable technology.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
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| Senior streaming and broadcast engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.5 | I found TITAN Live HD very user-friendly, stable, and scalable for both OTT and DTH encoding, with good video quality. However, its high price and slow customer support during the POC were significant drawbacks. |
| Advertising E2E integration lead at Liberty Global | 5.0 | As a happy TITAN Live HD user, I find it a robust and scalable product that delivers on its promises, especially for ad insertion and SCTE processing. Support is good, though I wish for better GPU-based transcoding to handle more channels per instance. |
| Senior Broadcast Engineer at Globecast Asia Pte Ltd | 4.0 | I rely on TITAN Live HD for stable, multi-purpose IP streaming, valuing its easy UI and reliability. I would, however, appreciate more affordable licensing and integrated troubleshooting tools like ping/traceroute for improved efficiency. |
I used TITAN Live HD for encoding for both the DTH as well as the OTT domain. The main aim was to do preprocessing for MPEG-DASH and HLS and MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 encoding.
Basically, we are using one of the encoders provided by ATEME, which is TITAN Edge. After that, we are using TITAN Live HD on the cloud. From there, we are streaming RTMP for YouTube, and we are streaming HLS for one of our CDNs, which was Fastly, and there was another service on Akamai.
It was a very simplified version of the preprocessor. You can use a single workflow for both OTT and DTH. It was very easy to use. Even a fresher can use this device. It is a very user-friendly device and stable as well.
The interface was very user-friendly. If you have a little knowledge of the field, you can encode a service for OTT and DTH on both platforms. The stability is amazing.
There is no need to provide any power and any on-premises space because we are using this on the cloud. It features zone-wise redundancy on the cloud, and you can scale the environment whenever you require. It is a very good device. There was a better picture output. If you go with the compression and match it with your baseband, it delivers acceptable video quality.
You can scale according to your needs because you can deploy it anywhere over the cloud, on-premises, or anywhere. If you are going with on-premises, you can deploy multiple servers to scale the devices. If you are going onto the cloud, you can go with another container.
There is a pricing concern. They could be a little softer in terms of pricing. Although it was very stable, the price is very high.
Another area is the support, specifically support during the POC. Although we did not go into production with this device, we observed during the support phase of the POC that the support is not very attentive. Whenever you raise any concern or any support request, they reply after 48 hours or something similar. However, when you are conducting the POC and you have multiple solutions available, you cannot wait that long for any concern or response.
You definitely need to improve the support during the POC because if you are very swift in your response during the POC, the organization will definitely go with you.
It was more than two months.
I did not notice any instability with the device.
It was very stable. I used it for more than two months. I did not notice any vulnerabilities within the device or any output issues.
ATEME solution is stable. Even on-premises solutions were stable.
The support experience was not very swift. They took too much delay in providing answers during the POC. Customer support was not very swift. Whenever we raised any concern and dropped an email, we were receiving the reply in 48 hours or after three days.
Before this, we were using on-premises solutions, specifically MediaKind and Harmonic.
We conducted the POC with different solutions including Harmonic VOS 360 over the cloud and AWS solutions including AWS MediaLive over the cloud.
We did not pay any setup cost because we conducted the POC. However, the final solution cost was high compared to other solutions available in the market with the same features and specifications.
If there is no concern about the cost and you are looking for stability and a more user-friendly device, go for it. I gave this product a rating of 8 out of 10.
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.
