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Events ........................... 2

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Support ......................... 4

Customer Spotlight .... 5

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ISSUE 01: APRIL 2012

With the end of the college bas-ketball season and the NBA season in the homestretch, XOS Digital would like to recognize all success-ful XOS Thunder basketball teams.

Typically, top 25 standings and NCAA tournament performance serve as benchmarks to measure success in college basketball. On the men’s side, the University of Kentucky and Syracuse University battled atop the standings, finishing first and second respectively at the end of the regular season.

In addition to Kentucky and Syra-cuse, Temple University stood atop their conference at the end of the regular season and were select-ed to partake in March Madness. Florida State University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Colorado all won

their conference tournaments to receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. Other XOS Thunder customers that made it to the “Big Dance” were Indiana University, Iowa State University, Purdue University, the University of Alabama, University of Florida, University of Nevada Las Vegas and the University of Wisconsin. XOS partner Xavier University was also a part of the field of 68.

In regard to XOS Thunder, Indiana’s head coach Tom Crean attributed it as a staple resource throughout the season. “We were able to get so much more done with our play-ers without needing more time,” Crean said. “The efficiency and edit quality is at a really high level. As coaches, we had so many edits at our fingertips in meetings that we were able to be productive and

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XOS Events NABC and WBCA Recap

NABC and WBCA RecapLast week XOS showcased its latest basketball technol-

ogies at the National Association of Basketball Coaches Convention and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Convention.

XOS demonstrated Thunder Bas-ketball HD, Thunder Courtside Coach HD, and HD Replay and Re-view at both shows. This was the first year that XOS exhibited a fully piloted HD solution – a system that provides more detailed analysis. In addition, the ability to stream live content from a remote camera to an iPad, as well as the debut of a revamped XOS Courtside Coach, atrracted a lot of attention because

efficient. We use XOS to prepare ourselves as much as we use it to prepare for games.”

XOS Thunder basketball teams in the Women’s NCAA tournament included Iowa State University, Louisiana State University, Purdue University, University of Arkansas, University of Florida, University of Iowa, University of Kentucky and the University of South Carolina.

In the NBA, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers appear to

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be headed into the playoffs in the Western Conference. In the East-ern Conference, the Indiana Pacers and the Orlando Magic continue to pave their way into the playoffs.

The Indiana Pacers have become one of the biggest champions for XOS Thunder Basketball in the past year.

The team eagerly awaited the tran-sition from the legacy XOS Direc-tor platform to XOS Thunder, and even decided to sign the agreement prior to the NBA lockout ending.

In addition to XOS Thunder, the Pac-ers added XOS Lightning into the team’s daily preparation. XOS Light-ning enables video coaches to dis-tribute video to the rest of the coach-ing staff and players for review from their home computers and iPads.

Lastly, XOS Digital would also like to extend a special “congratulations” to the Turkish Airline Euroleagues teams that have made it through to the semifinals.

- Written by Chris Taylor, Marketing Coordinator

of the great interest coaches have in technologies that enbable in-stantaneous corrective instruction. Lastly, HD Replay and Review had an extremely strong showing as they maintain status as the most intuitive instant replay solutions on the market.

XOS also helped current video co-ordinators and future coaches at both shows. At NABC, XOS contin-ued its sponsorship of Rising Coach-es Elite, an organization whose goal is to foster a close-knit commu-nity among college men’s basket-ball coaches, while helping them to grow, improve and advance in the profession. At WBCA, XOS partici-pated in two educational sessions

for video coordinators to network and share expert insight regarding film exchange and editing systems.For more information on XOS Bas-ketball products, click here.

Upcoming Shows:

April 14-19 : NAB Show (Las Vegas)

May 14-18: CSVA (Indianapolis)

June 6-7: CSVS (Atlanta)

June 25-28: NACDA (Dallas)

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Facilities

April 2012

Industry Insider

This has been an exciting time for many XOS partner teams as they have made

great strides to update and outfit their facilities with the latest digital video technologies. For XOS staff members, the opportunity to de-velop new technologies and solu-tions that meet the unique goals of the company’s partners brings great satisfaction along with it every day.

XOS recently completed a hand-ful of A/V integration projects in practice facilities that include Purdue, Temple, Virginia Como-nwealth, Southern Methodist University and the Golden State Warriors. Systems included new video rooms, team meeting rooms,

coaches’ offices and locker rooms, among other key team areas.

XOS and Purdue University teamed up to provide an extensive digital facelift to the Mackey Arena and its coaching facilities.

The arena’s entrance has been transformed from just a thorough-fare to an interactive digital Hall of Fame that features the history of Purdue basketball as well as a current look at each of Purdue’s athletic teams. Upon entering the arena, donors now receive and iPad on game days. With the new custom XOS Purdue replay app installed on the iPad, donors can watch slow-motion instant replays

General News

Many XOS partner teams are starting to look at their remaining budgets before

the end of the fiscal year. If you are interested in any XOS solutions, or are looking to upgrade exist-ing technologies and equipment, please feel free to let us know how

we can assist you. We are always available to work with our valued partner teams to determine the best solutions to accommodate their technology and billing needs. If this applies to you, please con-tact your XOS account manager at any time to facilitate the process.

sent directly from the production control room. XOS also integrated an indoor remote camera system and two video editing rooms for men’s and women’s basketball. The project was driven by Purdue’s video coordinator Nick Terruso.

XOS is also pleased to announce the launch of XOS Thunder HD Courtside Coach! The XOS team made some major enhancements to the original XOS Courtside Coach. Now as a fully HD product, XOS Courtside Coach integrates with XOS Thunder Basketball and has the capability to export data and video clips. Please contact Mar-laine Hudgins at xos@xosdigital.com for more information.

XOS Thunder

Product News

XOS Digital would like to ac-knowledge its customers us-ing XOS Thunder for the first

time during the 2011-2012 season:

• Indiana Pacers• LA Clippers• Charlotte Bobcats• University of Minnesota• U.S. Air Force Academy• University of Miami• Florida State University• University of Tulsa• Boise State University• Boston University• Charleston Southern University• Clemson Women’s Basketball• North Dakota State University• Temple University

Support

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Changes to DIRECTV Software

Recently, DIRECTV released a new menu system for all its re-ceivers. Unfortunately, this also

caused some issues when attempt-ing to record games through XOS Scheduler. Specifically, DIRECTV’s Guide shows the same channel num-

XOS Digital plans to upgrade all XOS Thunder users to the Eagle Eye Dashboard

monitoring system. Eagle Eye moni-tors different network aspects to allow XOS Support to proactively send alerts and prevent problems.

The software identifies three sta-tus levels: “All OK,” “Warning” and “Error.” In the cases of “Warning” or “Error” an e-mail is automatical-ly sent out to both the video staff and XOS support. Eagle Eye moni-tors hardware (temperature, drive space and 3 Ware alerts), systems (online/offline status, computer model, RAM, last reboot, client and hemi versions installed), sync (sync status and sync scheduler)

and surge (monitors and manages all surge sets).

The University of Arkansas used Ea-gle Eye in the past through its XOS Lightning subscription. One summer day, Andy Wagner, director of sports video, received an e-mail from Eagle Eye and a phone call from XOS Sup-port to inform him that his server’s temperature was high. Wagner sent his assistant to check on the situ-

ation. They discovered that the air conditioner went out in the entire building and, as a result of Eagle Eye monitoring, were aware of the situ-ation before anyone in the Mainte-nance department.

Eagle Eye is just one way XOS will expand its 24/7/365 support cov-erage. Customers will receive a call from XOS Support to upgrade shortly.

XOS Thunder

Facilities

1. Press the “Menu” button on the DIRECTV remote or on your AMX touchpanel

2. Scroll down to “Settings & Help” and choose “Settings”

3. From the “Settings” menu, choose “Display”

4. Select “Preferences”

5. In the “Preferences” menu, scroll down to the “Guide HD Channels” option (It is currently set to “Show all channels”)

6. Change to “Hide HD channels” or “Hide SD channels” depending on the desired recording preference

Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact XOS Support (hyperlinked from the newsletter cover).

ber for the HD and SD versions of a channel. For example, ESPN shows up twice in the DIRECTV Guide as channel 206. One of these channels is the HD broadcast, while the other is the SD broadcast, but they both appear as channel 206. So, when us-

ing XOS Scheduler to record chan-nel 206, it might record the SD version instead of the HD version.However, there is a way to turn off the duplicate channels in the DIRECTV menu. Please follow the steps below to do so:

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April 2012

Customer SpotlightUniversity of Kentucky Basketball

University of Kentucky’s video coordinator, Tim Asher, re-members the day in 2005

when XOS acquired Pinnacle Team Sports (PTS). UK had been a PTS client at the time, but Asher recalls that XOS transitioned smoothly and established a strong founda-tion of communication and col-laborative partnership. Since then, UK has worked very closely with XOS to secure a wide variety of necessary digital media resources to keep its operations cutting edge.

Kentucky’s basketball program has traditionally earned great success due to its plethora of talent. How-ever, Asher also attributes a large portion of this success to the daily operations that take place behind the scenes. By combining top-notch talent with advanced train-ing and facility technologies, UK has experienced countless suc-cesses for years.

UK deploys a comprehensive ap-proach to its operational technolo-gies. For instance, XOS Digital re-designed the university’s practice facility with a new technology infrastructure which included new cameras, a control room and XOS Thunder integration.

Asher defines XOS Thunder as the “true backbone” to the operation. Both the men’s and women’s basket-ball teams use XOS Thunder to en-

hance the video editing process. The coaches rely on this technology for the most efficient use of highlights and cut ups during player meetings. Quality video is essential as they re-view plays and evaluate opponent teams’ strengths and weaknesses. XOS Thunder also helps to compile and categorize player highlights when composing scouting profiles.

XOS Digital also provides a wide variety of technology products for other Kentucky sports including its football program. Kentucky Football currently uses XOS Thunder Foot-ball, Hurricane Replay, and had a new control room and video boards in-stalled last year.

“We really consider XOS to be a trusted technology partner,” Asher said. He recalls a time when XOS came through for a lens purchase. Due to international shipping issues, the lenses did not arrive by their deadline. While the onus fell upon the shipping service, the XOS team wanted to ensure that UK had an

immediate solution, so it improvised and rented lenses for UK’s in-venue video boards. It was just one of sev-eral instances when XOS demon-strated its integrity and how much it valued the partnership with UK.

Asher and the rest of the athletic department have turned to XOS frequently during the past several years for everything from technical inquiries to exploration of innova-tive concepts to collaborating on new ways to reach out to its cur-rent and emerging fan base. Cur-rently UK is piloting XOS Thunder HD 2012.

“HD is a general reality now, and thanks to XOS it is right at our doorstep for basketball operations,” Asher said.

XOS appreciates the privilege of working with UK Athletics and looks forward to its continued rela-tionship in the upcoming years.

- Written by Chrysta Bayliss,Affiliate Network Coordinator