Used NewTek TalkShow VS-100 Video Calling System open box

Control every call with complete confidence.
With the most comprehensive set of integrated production capabilities available in any Skype TX single-caller video calling system, TalkShow VS 100 gives you total control of your video interviews before, during, and after the show.

Reach 300 million monthly Skype users with:
• 1-in, 1-out HD-SDI connections
• Industry-standard XLR and SDI-embedded audio
• Professional audio tools, auto color, and proc amp controls
• Space-saving 1RU rack mount

Enhance every video interview. Deliver great conversations.
Operate all aspects of a live Skype video call from the control room like any other video source-free of audio/visual distractions such as secondary call notifications and advertisements.

• Independent call management and production control interfaces
• Advanced color configuration and video controls
• Integrated professional audio toolset

IP Networking
Receive video calls over IP anywhere on your network. Built-in NewTek NDI technology allows routing of Skype video calls to any compatible NDI receiving device (including TriCaster and 3Play) while enabling selection of any NDI video source for return to caller over the network.

Advanced Audio
Deliver conversations that sound more professional. Independently adjust incoming and outgoing audio signals for the highest-quality sound, with the only single-channel video calling system that offers built-in gain control, graphic equalizer, and compressor/limiter.

Pristine Live Video
Ensure your guests look as good as they sound, with enhanced real-time image processing and fully configurable color correction tools, including proc amp controls, auto color setting, and white balance-and clean, deinterlaced return video to caller.

Real-Time Call Monitoring
Conduct every call with complete confidence, by utilizing high-quality, full-motion video previews, accurate on-screen audio VU metering, and full-color, built-in video screen with tally.

Features

Go live to the field or to anyone in the world you can reach online, immediately-with the facility-class video calling solution for delivering live, production-ready Skype video calls for both SDI and IP live production workflows.

Essentials

Broadcast-Style Video from Regular Skype Calls
With automatic aspect ratio conversions and balanced audio, and without requiring a scan converter.

Optimized On-Air Video
NewTek's proprietary, real-time video processing engine incorporates superb scaling, format conversion, aspect, and color correction routines; limit return video resolution in order to prioritize the quality of incoming call video.

Built-In Video Quality Checks
Failover to a custom, still image when unforeseen bandwidth constraints occur below operator-defined preset value.

SDI I/O
Output a live video call to any SDI production switcher or router, and accept any SDI input source to send a return signal back to the remote caller over Skype.

Access to Anyone with a Skype Account
To anyone else who downloads and installs the Skype app on their device, and signs up for an account.

Looking at other Skype TX solutions? Look no further. Only TalkShow gives you complete control of the entire video calling workflow-before, during, and even after the show.

TalkShow Exclusive Advantage
Other video calling production systems just pass a studio-grade Skype call through to a switcher. With TalkShow, you can make every call higher quality, more efficient, and more like network TV along the way-and it will continue to work harder for you, even when the show is over. Because only TalkShow allows complete control of the entire video calling workflow-before, during, and after the call.

Setup

Video Over IP
Integrate TalkShow into IP video workflows via NDI, NewTek's innovative Network Device Interface technology, which allows TalkShow to send Skype video calls across a standard network to TriCaster and other NDI-enabled systems and devices, and receive NDI video sources over IP for return to caller. TriCaster will also send a tally notification downstream to TalkShow to indicate when a Skype call is on air.

Small and Simple
Why take up precious space? Each TalkShow system occupies only 1RU of your rack-integrating easily into any facility, control room, or production environment, whether in single or multi-unit installations.

Better Return Sound
With TalkShow's exclusive support for multi-channel audio on input for signals coming into the system over the network or SDI, operators can have multiple, selectable audio feeds-such as mix-minus-available for use as the return audio back to the caller.

Audio Over IP
You heard right. TalkShow includes integrated support for Audio over IP via NDI. In addition to sending and receiving audio over the network, and versatile audio source selection, TalkShow supports extensive management of network audio signals, including gain, equalization, compression, metering, and more.

System Restore
TalkShow has a comprehensive restore function that allows the operator to undo system changes by returning to the factory default settings at any time.

On-Air

Talk Back
Communicate off-air with Skype callers directly, with a headset and the click of a button-or an external GPI trigger. With TalkShow's Talk Back function, operators, producers, or directors can speak with callers as easily as they do with in-studio talent and crew, enabling them to prepare callers, provide instructions, and relay additional information before they go to air.

Color Correction
Outside the controlled studio environment, when lighting conditions or color characteristics are less than ideal, easily compensate with TalkShow. It's the only solution to include NewTek's fully configurable proc amp settings and auto color correction, so picture characteristics can be optimized dynamically in real-time-without requiring monitoring. Remote callers' video can be all over the place, but you can make sure your viewers see a professional presentation.

Preview Monitoring
The promise of full-motion Skype calls should pay off with full-motion previews, so operators know exactly how the call is proceeding. Where other solutions may make you rely on video previews with a frame rate of approximately 5 frames per second, TalkShow supports full-motion, high-quality video previews for real-time monitoring of input and output signals.

Tally Support
Always know who's talking. TalkShow is the only Skype TX solution to support a tally overlay visual for return to callers, indicating when they are on air. The tally overlay is customizable, allowing for a show logo or graphic of choice-not only to let callers know when their conversation is live, but to provide additional branding opportunities for your program as well.

Built-In Video Screen with Tally
TalkShow VS 100 operators can view a full-color preview via the video screen built into the faceplate for instant recognition of the caller currently connected to that system, with tally support to indicate whether the caller is live or on standby-quick and easy verification of which TalkShow system is on air in a multi-system installation.

Professional Audio Tools
Incoming and outgoing audio signals are fully configurable, with gain control, compressor/limiter, and 7-band equalizer on inputs and outputs to enhance sound quality, adjust levels for consistency, and prevent clipping or overdriving. TalkShow also includes VU meter displays that are configurable in all common professional audio scales, including dBFS, dBU, and dBVU, for accurate, real-time audio monitoring.

Minimal Latency
TalkShow is optimized to provide the lowest latency when integrated into and genlocked within broadcast environments.

Post Show

Record and Re-Use
TalkShow VS 100 enables full-bandwidth recording of any call onto external USB 3.0 or SAN storage with the click of a button-so you can capture the call while it's happening, and use it in a later broadcast or a whole new program. And both models are compatible with the NewTek IsoCorder Pro and NDI IsoCorder for remote recording over the network via NDI. Calls are saved as distinct QuickTime files that work with every major non-linear editor and all other NewTek systems for archive, post-production, and playback.