Make your TV content analysis more efficient

Search TV and stream directly to lecture halls at your university

Save your researchers thousands of hours of manual labor—the time they currently spend recording, watching, and coding video—simply by switching your school from VCR to digital technology. The powerful SnapStream Server combines a DVR and TV search-engine technology to help your faculty record, search, and archive thousands of hours of television.

The SnapStream Server puts TV at professors’ fingertips, allowing multiple users to schedule, search, and identify relevant video from the PC on their desks. It not only streamlines the process, but also eliminates any wait times associated with, say, outsourcing the task to IT staff or teaching assistants (who they may have relied on to set up machines or help cull through piles of VHS tapes).

One SnapStream Server can record up to 10 TV broadcasts simultaneously and store up to 17,000 hours of video. Professors can search recordings by keyword or topic, then make video clips that they can download, burn to DVD, email, or stream directly to the classroom.

Our technology also revolutionizes how academic research is done, enabling colleges and universities of all sizes to conduct the in-depth, comprehensive TV research that, in the past, only large institutions with unconstrained resources could do. With simple configuration and minimal upkeep, the SnapStream Server enables universities to save time, money, and brainpower—and help their research teams stay competitive.

Benefits of the SnapStream Server for higher education:

  • Facilitates mass media research and content analysis

    SnapStream’s powerful TV search-engine technology allows users to research thousands of hours of recorded TV within seconds. Using our closed-caption search, researchers can analyze what is said on TV without watching hours of television. Additionally, they can view and download the full-text transcripts of shows they are researching, for annotation or comparison.

  • Streams TV directly to lecture halls

    The SnapStream Server helps with in-class instruction by serving multiple users, classrooms, and lecture halls with on-demand recordings and live TV streaming over the school’s LAN. This eliminates the need for cable drops and DVRs in every classroom. By resembling the familiar interface of a home DVR, users can schedule, search, and clip recordings using our client software with little or no training.

  • Creates a digital archive

    The SnapStream Server allows for the creation of an electronic library to digitally store and access recordings, replacing VHS and DVD libraries. Our client-server architecture allows schools to have one centralized library of recordings and clips, making the content readily accessible to faculty and students.

  • Sends email alerts

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    Receive automatic email alerts from the SnapStream Server when mentions of your keyword(s) occur in TV recordings.

  • Provides tiered access

    Administrators can control who accesses the server and what features they have access to. The server integrates with Active Directory, allowing users to keep their existing credentials for authentication and letting administrators manage permissions based on user groups.

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Higher education customers

Customer quotes

“It takes seconds and minutes now to do what took weeks or months.”

– Paul Fucito, Director of Communications at the George Washington University

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