XOrbit

{{Short description|American closed captioning company}}

{{One source|date=March 2009}}

{{Infobox company

| name = XOrbit, Inc.|

| logo = Image:XOrbit.png|

| type = Private|

| foundation = April 10, 1996 |

| location = Columbia, MD, USA||

| key_people = Steven Blumenschein Founder/President|

| industry = Closed captioning
Delivery Verification|

| homepage = [http://www.xorbit.com xorbit.com]

}}

XOrbit, Inc., a privately held organization, claims to strive toward improving the quality of closed caption technologies for the hearing impaired, a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirement for broadcasters.{{cite web |url=http://www.xorbit.com/ |title=Home |website=xorbit.com| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112175600/http://xorbit.com/|archive-date=2016-01-12|access-date=2023-09-07}}

XOrbit develops and promotes products that purportedly eases the improvement and quality of closed captioning services for broadcast and cable television channels at a lower cost than traditional techniques.{{cite web|url=http://www.xorbit.com/xo08_dl.aspx?ID%3D40 |title=Product Information - Ultracast |access-date=February 17, 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231093346/http://xorbit.com/xo08_dl.aspx?ID=40 |archive-date=December 31, 2008 }} For example, they provide a product that prevents broadcasters from having to re-encode line21 captioning information into media whenever a change to the captioning is made.{{cite web|url=http://www.xorbit.com/xo08_products.aspx?1%3DdivProductUltraCast |title=XOrbit :: Products |access-date=February 17, 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302031635/http://www.xorbit.com/xo08_products.aspx?1=divProductUltraCast |archive-date=March 2, 2009 }} They also provide a product that allows stenographers to send captioning for a live event without requiring a satellite feed for the audio/video content (using TCP/IP technologies).{{cite web|url=http://www.xorbit.com/xo08_products.aspx?1%3DdivProductRTX |title=XOrbit :: Products |access-date=February 17, 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302031631/http://www.xorbit.com/xo08_products.aspx?1=divProductRTX |archive-date=March 2, 2009 }}

In 2003, Turner Entertainment gained a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for XOrbit's closed caption server technology.

In 2009, XOrbit was awarded a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for Real-Time Delivery Confirmation Systems, a service to ensure that content (such as television commercials contracted by a network, or regular network programming) reaches the end viewer as transmitted.{{cite web| url=http://www.tvmainstream.com/default.cfm?ID=10515&type=wmhigh&clip=2|title= Welcome to TV Mainstream |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310042449/http://www.tvmainstream.com/default.cfm?ID=10515&type=wmhigh&clip=2|archive-date=2012-03-10|access-date=2023-09-07}}

In 2015, XOrbit earned another Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its low latency video captioning encoder.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/photos/steve-blumenschein-xorbit-poses-backstage-emmy-low-latency-photo-082551103.html |title=Steve Blumenschein of Xorbit poses backstage with the Emmy for Low Latency Video Streaming Live Captioning Systems at the 66th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards, held Thursday, January 8, 2015 at the Bellagio Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images) | View photo - Yahoo News |access-date=February 9, 2015 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209140547/http://news.yahoo.com/photos/steve-blumenschein-xorbit-poses-backstage-emmy-low-latency-photo-082551103.html |archive-date=February 9, 2015 }}