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ISSUE 01: APRIL 2012

Spring ball is underway for the more than 80 college football teams that currently use XOS

Thunder. However, a significant dif-ference exists for more than half of them regarding their practices when compared to those of last year.

Last spring, four development part-ners (Florida State University, Loui-siana State University, University of Colorado and the University of Ne-braska) were the first to shoot in high definition and use XOS Thunder HD.

“XOS Thunder HD has exceeded my expectations,” said Jamie Guy, Univer-sity of Colorado video coordinator. “The workflow and quality have been out of this world. In just three past spring practices I have reduced the time to breakdown and edit practice by about 40 minutes, if not more.”

After XOS Digital tested the product

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and workflow, it released the final system to all XOS Thunder users with HD transition goals. This in-cluded more than 40 teams during the 2011-2012 seasons.

In a text message dated September 27, Louisiana Lafayette’s video co-ordinator, Darren Walker, provided feedback on his experience lever-aging a true digital workflow. After using XOS Thunder and new Pana-sonic HD cameras, Walker texted, “Today was the greatest day in the history of the Ragin’ Cajuns video department. Extremely efficient. I was done with practice just minutes after it was over … Can’t wait for Saturday night!” The Huskers staff expressed simi-lar feedback. “The first time we sat down as a staff this spring to grade practice, we were blown away by the high-definition video,” said Bo

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XOS Events

NAB: April 14-19

The National Association of Broadcast-ers Show connects media and entertain-ment professionals following the ever-changing industry trends in content creation, management, commerce, dis-tribution and delivery, and consumption. XOS will showcase Hurricane HD Re-play in its suite at the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

CSVA: May 14-18

The Annual Collegiate Sports Video Association Conference is the premier event for networking with the top video coordinators in the industry, keeping up to speed with the latest trends and tech-nologies, and for sharing ideas.

XOS will demo a variety of products including XOS Thunder HD, the Thun-der Remote Camera Systems and XOS

PlayerOnDemand. Also, XOS will con-tinue to support CSVA through spon-sorship.

CSVS: June 6-7

The fourth annual College Sports Video Summit aims to take the col-lege video marketplace to the next level. XOS will showcase Hurricane HD Replay and the Thunder Remote Camera System as well as its Smart-TV, Tablet and Mobile apps.

NACDA: June 25-28

The National Association of Col-legiate Directors of Athletics Con-vention is the annual staple where members of collegiate departments gather to educate, discuss ideas and socialize. As NACDA sponsors, XOS will present and demo an array of the latest technologies.

Pelini, head coach, University of Ne-braska. “The quality is phenomenal. We could see so much more detail in practice situations than ever be-fore, and this technology will really benefit our coaching staff not only in grading film, but also in teaching the young men in our program.”

Since then, XOS HD capture and editing technologies have played piv-otal roles during several conference championships, bowl games (includ-ing the National Championship), post-season activities (including the Senior Bowl) and in the Super Bowl.

XOS also introduced similar solu-tions in basketball and hockey. “XOS Thunder HD is a fantastic product,” said Craig Campanozzi, Florida State director of video services. “It com-bines the consistency that video co-ordinators need with the tools the coaches want – all in high definition. We use it for baseball, softball, vol-leyball and, of course, football.”

XOS Digital welcomes all the new teams using XOS Thunder HD, and estimates that by this upcoming football season more than 70 teams will shoot using an HD format.

For questions on how to upgrade to HD, e-mail xos@xosdigital.com.

- Written by Chris Taylor,Marketing Coordinator

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Industry Insider

Product News

XOS would like to congratulate the New York Giants, Uni-versity of Alabama and the

University of North Dakota on win-ning their respective championships.

Additional congratulations go out to Clemson, Cincinnati, Oklahoma

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. We are pleased to announce the in-stallation of the XOS Thunder Re-mote Camera System in the indoor and outdoor practice facilities at both the University of Notre Dame and Baylor University. Both teams are using XOS Thunder HD, which integrates seamlessly with the XOS Thunder Remote Camera System. Most recently, Indiana State had an

RCS installed in its facility.

The practice facility of the San Fran-cisco 49ers also received upgrades to its video-capture equipment. This includes complete A/V integration

in the coaches’ offices and position meeting rooms. The project was driven by former XOS employee Mike Christianson, who is now the coordinator of football technology for the 49ers.

State, Wisconsin, Oregon, LSU, Ar-kansas State, Stony Brook, Harvard and Georgia Southern on winning their respective conferences.

XOS would like thank the Philadel-phia Eagles and the Oakland Raiders for their continued loyalty to the

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 existing 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 fit their technology and billing needs. If this applies to you, please contact your XOS account man-ager to facilitate the process today.

company’s products as they both upgrade to XOS Thunder Football.

XOS would also like to welcome the football programs of Liberty University and Old Dominion Uni-versity after purchasing XOS Thun-der Football.

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Support

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 its users to the Eagle Eye Dashboard monitoring sys-

tem. Eagle Eye monitors different aspects of your network to allow XOS Support to proactively alert and prevent problems. The soft-ware identifies three status levels: “All OK,” “Warning” and “Error.” In the cases of “Warning” or “Error” an e-mail is automatically sent out to both the video staff and XOS support. Eagle Eye monitors hard-ware (temperature, drive space and 3 Ware alerts), systems (online/of-fline status, computer model, RAM, last reboot, client and hemi versions installed), sync (sync status and sync scheduler) and surge (moni-tors and manages all surge sets).

The University of Arkansas used Eagle 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 Support to inform him that his server’s temperature was high. So, Wagner sent his assistant to check on the situation. They had discovered that the air conditioner

had gone out in the entire building and, as a result of Eagle Eye moni-toring, were aware of the situation before anyone in the Maintenance 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

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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 Nebraska Football

With the world of sports revolving around a fast paced, competitive en-

vironment, teams must constantly evolve their training and opera-tional technologies to stay ahead. According to University of Nebras-ka video coordinator Mike Nobler, the school’s football program con-siders itself a true technological pioneer. XOS Digital agrees, and selected the team for its Q2 Client Spotlight. Read on to learn more.

After establishing a partnership in 2000, XOS has provided a variety of digital media technologies to help Nebraska’s football opera-tions gain a competitive edge. For example, XOS conducted a com-plete technological redesign of the university’s football rooms, in-cluding coaches’ offices and team meeting rooms, to provide a more interactive environment for staff, players, and most importantly, visi-tors.

When the industry need for higher quality video recording hit its peak, Nebraska was one of the first uni-versities to make the transition from film to VHS, and then from VHS to a digital video network. The school was also the first to enable its coaches to watch video in HD with XOS Thunder.

For Nobler, the use of XOS Thunder, in particular, is an operational novel-

ty. “Thunder has taken a lot of guess work out of the equation,” he said.

With XOS Thunder, the coaches and players now have the ability to gather in the video room at any time to review game film without needing a video specialist pres-ent. It has also simplified the video editing process for the team by combining all data under one roof. Coaches can access video, statis-tics, player metrics, and pull re-ports all from one program.

XOS Thunder also enables the players to fit game review into their personal schedules much eas-ier because the team has learned how to access the system and can review plays at any time.“It really fosters independence within the players and coaches,” Nobler said. For more than a decade, Nebraska has seen firsthand how using qual-

ity digital media technologies con-tribute to overall success, but the Huskers have also experienced how a true partnership enhances team operations.

Nobler said that, in his experience, he has not seen many vendors ca-pable of responding to requests 24 hours a day, let alone via phone ac-cess to a live expert. Yet XOS Digital has consistently done so throughout the years.

“XOS Support really separates the company from its competition,” No-bler said.

XOS Digital has been honored to work with the Huskers during the past 12 years, and looks forward to future endeavors together.

-Written by Chrysta Bayliss,Affiliate Network Coordinator