EtherGuide Systems Consulting Services

John M. Willkie, the developer of EtherGuide Emissary and EtherGuide Prophecy, is available for consulting on:

• Acquisition of program schedules from one or more sources within a TV plant
• Generating, transmitting and receiving of MPEG-2 Program Specific Information (PSI), ATSC Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) and Advanced Common Application Protocol (ATSC ACAP), Open Common Application Protocol (SCTE OCAP) and Globally Executable Media Home Platform (DVB GEM) signaling (metadata)
• Integration of PSIP generators into a broadcast or cable plant
• Transport Stream conformance with the ATSC suite of protocol specifications (A/52, A/53, A/65, A/70, A/80, A/81, A/101
• Use and deployment of Programming Metadata Communications Protocol (ATSC PMCP) interfaces and data exchange
• Integration of legacy automation, traffic and program management into digital plants
• Interfacing transport stream processing and transmission systems with disparate protocols
• Conformance with Digital TV requirements of the Federal Communications Commission for ATSC protocols, PSIP and captioning information.

Consulting services can include the development of source or object code that will be the sole property of the client, but will not contemplate or include the disclosure or licensing of EtherGuide System source or object code, application software or systems.

One recent consulting client hired EtherGuide Systems to develop a metadata specification for including in MPEG-2 transport streams what we can only call a "new model of digital video."

Consulting services are available in San Diego, California at the rate of $225.00 per hour, with a two hour minimum, or at a venue outside the City of San Diego at a daily rate of $1,250.00 per day, plus travel and lodging expenses, with the rate calculated on a portal-to-portal to and from San Diego, California.

The day rate contemplates a work day that is no longer than 9 hours of work, excluding meal breaks.

For more information and a discussion of terms, call EtherGuide Systems on +1 619-770-5760, or send an email to jwillkie@EtherGuideSystems.com