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Pixelmetrix

Pixelmetrix is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pixelmetrix rather than just read about it. In short: Pixelmetrix Corporation is a company that develops preventive monitoring products for terrestrial, satellite, cable, and IPTV networks. The company is known for its DVStation product, and also provides equipment and network intelligence systems to television broadcasters for the management and monitoring of quality of service and quality of experience.

Key takeaways

Pixelmetrix belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Pixelmetrix to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Pixelmetrix from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Pixelmetrix Corporation is a company that develops preventive monitoring products for terrestrial, satellite, cable, and IPTV networks. The company is known for its DVStation product, and also provides equipment and network intelligence systems to television broadcasters for the management and monitoring of quality of service and quality of experience. Pixelmetrix is headquartered in Singapore, and also has offices in the United States and Europe. Following a liquidation exercise starting in 2014, the Pixelmetrix legal entity was dissolved in 2017. From 2014, full hardware and software support for all Pixelmetrix product lines has been provided by Torque Video Systems.

Corporate history In 1999, Danny Wilson and Ben Lim founded Pixelmetrix Corporation in Singapore as a privately held limited company, recruiting Tom Orlowski and Hideki Takahashi to complete the start-up team. The name “Pixelmetrix“ was derived from the combination of the words "pixel" and "metrics", loosely suggesting that the company "measures pixels". Pixelmetrix released its first product, DVStation, in 2000. DVStation is a modular multi-player system that can simultaneously monitor up to 21 ports and multiple layers of the video transmission chain.

In 2002, Japan Telecom and Korea Telecom selected DVStation for end-to-end signal quality monitoring during the FIFA World Cup Football games in Japan and Korea. In 2004 the DVStor and DVShift Compliance Recording product lines were introduced to target disaster recovery. With the emergence of IPTV, Pixelmetrix launched DVStation-IP3 in 2006 for IPTV test and monitoring. The following year, it brought on the Electronic Couch Potato and Consolidator to monitor true customer viewing to ensure "Quality of Experience". By October 2001, Pixelmetrix had opened an office in Switzerland and established a sales office in Florida. The company added a support office in Barcelona, Spain in 2010.

Finance The company has pursued external funding and today is backed by several private, venture capital and institutional investors including OWW Capital Partners, UOB Ventures, Enspire Capital and Singapore Economic Development Board Technopreneur Investment Fund. Revenues have grown year on year and the company has been profitable throughout the years.

Awards Pixelmetrix has been conferred the TV Technology STAR Awards (Superior Technology Award Recipient) 2012, 2009, 2007, 2004 and 2000, Cable & Satellite International Highly Commended Product of the Year Award 2010, Frost & Sullivan Industrial Technologies Award (2009), C+T Technology Development Award 2009, Cable & Satellite International Product of the Year Award 2008, Engineering & Technology Emmy Award (2007), Broadcast Engineering publication Pick Hit Awards 2008 and 2005, BIRTV Product of the Year Award 2006, Cable-Satellite/Mediacast Product of the Year Awards 2004 and 2003, as well as the IABM Peter Wayne Award for Best Design and Innovation (2000).

Product lines Pixelmetrix has five major product lines:

DVStation Monitoring Platforms DVStor - Compliance Recording, Disaster Recovery, House of Worship Solution DVStation-IP3 - IPTV Monitoring Platform Electronic Couch Potato (ECP) Consolidator - Network Management System OTT Media Grinder (OMG) - Validation System for Over-The-Top Delivery Infrastructure Pelican Video Encoders

References

External links Official website New York Times Article on Pixelmetrix

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pixelmetrix

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pixelmetrix claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pixelmetrix before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pixelmetrix ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pixelmetrix

In research: Pixelmetrix appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pixelmetrix in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pixelmetrix is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1999 establishments in Singapore, Electronic test equipment manufacturers, Singaporean brands, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pixelmetrix outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Pixelmetrix in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Pixelmetrix means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Pixelmetrix out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Pixelmetrix in simple terms?

Why does Pixelmetrix matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pixelmetrix?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Pixelmetrix.