In Broadcast - October 2015 - 10

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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 10 | October 2015

InNews
Czech TV Adopts
Sony Sonaps
CZE / GBR: Czech TV has chosen
Sony's Sonaps solution to update
its SD news production operation
and workflows.
Sonaps offers a fully managed
environment for planning, ingest,
production and publishing of A/V
content.
The system will integrate with an
Octopus newsroom system, an
Aveco playout system, and share
content with broadcasting sites in
Prague, Brno and Ostrava.
Installation of the first Sonaps
system began in September with
all three sites due to completed by
April 2016.

DutchView Infostrada
Selects Grass Valley
NED / CAN: DutchView Infostrada
has purchased 12 LDX 86 WorldCam
cameras that use the IP solution
from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand.
The cameras will be used by
NEP's newly acquired DutchView
Infostrada businesses, part of the
purchase of Consolidated Media
Industries.
By using the cameras connected
to the IP solution, DutchView
Infostrada will benefit from a
'cloud production' workflow for live
remote production where cameras
are connected to an IP network.

SIBC Chooses
Sonifex Gear
GBR: The Shetland Islands
Broadcasting Company (SIBC)
has purchased two Sonifex S2
broadcast mixers along with two
Sonifex distribution amplifiers.
As part of an in-house upgrade the
station's new production desk went
on-air in May.
The Sonifex S2 Radio Broadcast
Mixer is a small format, modular
digital I/O analogue mixer which
offers digital audio quality with
analogue reliability.
SIBC, which broadcasts to all of
Shetland and parts of Orkney,
also streams programmes via the
internet.

Telson Selects Ateme
Titan Stream Solution
T

elson has deployed Ateme's Titan
stream processing solution to
power its OTT multi-screen service for
service providers in Spain.
"We strive to enhance our service
offering," said Agapito Otero, Telson
TV Channels Manager. "OTT delivery
enables our clients to propose
an additional experience to their
users, thus improve their customer
retention, and increase both ARPU and
subscriber base."
"The hardware agnostic, true
software solution - ATEME Titan, eases
the deployment of new services"
said Emmanuel Boureau VP Sales at
ATEME." In addition, ATEME pay-as-

you grow licenses mechanism,
enables immolate service
enhancements,
both
in
terms of new features and
channels."
Telson's playout customers
include:
Turner,
Disney
Channel, NBC Universal and
Viacom.
Ateme's Titan is a high video quality,
high-density software compression
solution, designed for Cable, DTH, and
OTT.
Offering a virtualised software
based solution, running on any
OS - Linux, Windows and VM - Titan
delivers high video quality at minimum

Ateme's Titan
stream processor

bitrates addressing main screens and
multiscreen applications, from mobile
resolutions up to UHDp60.
Telson, belonging to Tres60 Grupo,
is a European leader in media capture,
management and distribution services.

Thomson Powers Ivory Coast's
Transition To DTT
T

homson Video Networks solutions
are driving the transition to DTT in
the Republic of Ivory Coast.
French transmitter manufacturer
Thomson Broadcast, part of the Arelis
Group, has deployed the Thomson
Video Networks solutions as the
foundation for a pilot DTT video
headend for CNM-TNT, the national
Ivory Coast committee heading the
transition.
The headend pilot, a joint project
of Thomson Broadcast and French

DTT technology providers Sagemcom
and HTTV, is a major step toward
completing the changeover.
The headend from Thomson Video
Networks consists of ViBE EM4000
encoders, NetProcessor 9030/40
multiplexers/video processors with
DVB-T2 gateway, and an Amethyst
redundancy switch.
"For this transition to be a success,
we need to be able to give our
viewers perfect, premium satellitequality video; advanced services;

Thomson Video Networks - NetProcessor 9030/40 SpliceRater Multiplexer

and numerous and appealing TV
channels," said Pascal Veillat, CEO of
Thomson Broadcast and Arelis."Thanks
to our extensive expertise in the
deployment of complete systems,
including headend transmitters, and
the equipment from Thomson Video
Networks, we know we can achieve
these goals."
"Ivory Coast is among the first
countries in West Africa to start the
digital terrestrial migration, and this
pilot includes advanced services that
go beyond basic DTT. That makes our
solution ideal for this project," said
Christophe Delahousse, President,
Thomson Video Networks.
Installed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's
largest city, the Thomson Video
Networks solutions will enable the
government to test and evaluate the
DTT service.
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