Radiobox

Radiobox and Radiobox Pro

In France, the company Broadcast Associes takes Exstreamer-100 and Instreamer-100 products and resells these under the name "Radiobox". These are standard Barix products, branded with the "Radiobox" name by Broadcast Associes.

At IBC2008, Barix invited Broadcast Associes to the Barix booth, because they claimed they will use the Exstreamer 1000 PCB as the basis for a new product, "Radiobox Pro". A prototype has been shown at IBC 2008 at the Barix booth and Broadcast Associes was at the Barix booth, being introduced to prospects. Subsequently, Barix did a press release with Broadcast Associes about the "Radiobox Pro" product, which Broadcast Associes told Barix will be finished after a couple of months.

The Exstreamer 1000, Barix' broadcast "pro" model, is designed using a space saving 1/2 width 19 case, which can easily be rack mounted. The Broadcast Associes Radiobox Pro approach was taking the PCB of the Exstreamer 1000, mounting it in a full size 19 box, adding a compact flash reader (interfacing to the Exstreamer 1000's USB port), an internal power supply, and XLR connectors instead of the standard space-saving DB9 connectors used by Barix. Other than that, the Radiobox Pro device was based on the standard Barix Exstreamer 1000 with a modified UI (and a significantly higher price).

Unfortunately, the Radiobox Pro device never made it to the market. Barix still gets enquiries from the press releases done in 2008 for the product - fortunately, the Exstreamer 1000 is shipping and well received in the market for STL, brodcast and pro audio solutions.

Radiobox (=Barix re-branded Barix standard products) continue to be available by Broadcast Associes in France, and of course, the standard Barix Exstreamer 100 and Instreamer 100 devices can also be ordered through the Barix Distributor Sphinx France.

Barix will be more careful in the future in doing press releases about non-finished OEM products like Broadcast Associe's Radiobox Pro.