NewTek TalkShow VS 4000 User Manual

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Chapter 2 INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing this NewTek™ product. As a company, NewTek is extremely
proud of its record of innovation and commitments to excellence in design,
manufacture, and superb product support. You will find both NewTek VS 4000™ and
VS 100 systems exceptionally powerful and versatile. This chapter provides a quick
tour of TalkShow’s components and features.
SECTION 2.1 MEET TALKSHOW
®
For decades, NewTek innovations have repeatedly redefined live video production, providing new
creative possibilities and revolutionary value propositions. In particular, NewTek has led the
charge of integrated devices that provide a complete and powerful set of tools for program creation
and broadcast, along with web streaming, social media support, and more.
NewTek TalkShow
®
is a perfect example of this innovation.
Whether used in a NewTek live production environment or not, it will
provide your productions with profound extensibility, delivering conversations that span the entire
planet to your viewing audience.
The Skype™ video messaging platform has been embraced worldwide and, along with Skype for
Business (formerly Lync), provides a unified communications system that allows you to integrate
up to the minute audio and video sources from almost anywhere to be integrated into your show.
NewTek VS 4000 and VS 100 systems with Skype TX™ technology provide a level of interactivity
previously only dreamed of by the world’s foremost broadcasters.
SECTION 2.2 OVERVIEW
TalkShow is an authorized Skype TX platform, and as such provides unique capabilities designed
for the broadcast market, including the ability to input and output full frame video HD-SDI formats
with broadcast friendly audio. Skype TX products include both software and hardware.
For this reason, and also as an aspect of its scalable architecture, TalkShow VS 4000 and VS 100
consist of several primary components as described below:
 TalkShow hardware provides the platform without which none of this would be possible.
This provides the all-important connections to and from your studio to remote Skype callers.

NewTek TalkShow VS 4000 Specifications

General

Brand	NewTek
Model	TalkShow VS 4000
Category	Touch terminals
Language	English