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DigiCaster
Broadcast Automation
Product
Benefits
System
Benefits
Product
Devices
Multiple
Applications Sharing a Pool of Devices
Multi-channel
User Interface
Schedule
Creation
Schedule
Playback
Two
Models of Server-based Broadcast Playback
ASI
Option
DVB/ATSC
Interfacing for Subtitling, EPG, PSIP, Conditional Access
Web
Streaming
Redundant
System Options
Product
Benefits
Multiple
applications on one operating system sharing a pool of media
devices
- Reduces system
operating cost
- Reduces equipment
requirements
- One operator
can manage multiple channels
- Provides for
on-line backup equipment
Effective
and efficient multi-channel user interface
- Improved on-air
look, quality control, and reduction of operator errors
- Virtual on-screen
device control panels allows quick manual intervention
Distributed
time-code synchronized device control
- Reduce equipment
cost by pooling devices
- Maintain video
frame accuracy while controlling many devices
- Buffers schedule
events in case of primary server dropout
- User-bit data
on tape recognition
Various
System Benefits
Single
or multiple channel schedule processing
- Schedule creation,
editing, and execution
- Automated
traffic log importing and exporting
- Program origination
schedules
- Ad insertion
"break group" scheduling
- NVOD movie
playback scheduling
- MPEG encoder
and video tape recorder scheduling
Client-server
software with multi-user workstations
- Allows large
scale system expansion
- Permits remote
or local control
- Microsoft
Windows NT client-server architecture
Fully
integrated video server control
- Manage server
media files
- Play out analog
and digital on same server
Fully
implemented routing switcher control
- Salvo-switching
control
- Multiple router
tie line management
- Multiple router
type control Analog, SDI, ASI, RS422
DVB
ASI multiple transport stream from video server to MPEG multiplexer
- Reduce MPEG
encoder costs
- Maintain video
quality by eliminating the need for re-encoding
Support
analog, DVC-Pro, SDI, DVB single and multiple transport stream
- Compatible
with many different plants
- Provides upgrade
paths for system expansion
Product
Devices
Optional
automated backup archive library
- Archive an
analog video library on digital tape
- Control robotic
digital tape library. Automated MPEG encoding
Fully
redundant solutions
- Redundant
computer servers with standby recovery switching
- Redundant
video servers and VTR’s
Multiple
Applications Sharing a Pool of Devices
The DigiCaster was designed to allow you
to manage multiple channels without adding manpower. From one
computer workstation you can
manage program origination, ad insertion, movie playback and
automated recording.
The system controls
video servers, video tape machines, archive switchers, character
generators, logo inserters, etc. There are many
specific device interfaces available to control all components
of a major broadcast system. On screen mimicking emulates
the actual control
panels of installed devices under control.
Multi-channel
User Interface
Monitor any and
all channels with on-air status assurance and instant intervention.
Schedule
Creation
You can import
traffic logs in the conventional way or use DigiCaster’s schedule
generation tools to create program, break, and record schedules.
This is especially helpful for those channels that may not
warrant full Traffic System support.
Schedule
Playback
Select from a
host of playback event modes: time-of-day/date; triggered
receipt of network commands; chained to the previous event;
layered; in a
conditional window of time; by operator command; by web-server
Ethernet request. Layered master control dramatically decreases
promo editing
time by live layering topical components – e.g. one promo
file used with day/time layered: Tues. at 9, Tomorrow at 9,
Tonight at 9.
The system provides
multi-channel packetization on the server, allowing multi-channel
transport streams to be sent ASI directly to a Multiplexer.
This avoids the need to assign transport stream encoders to
each channel, along with associated routing, patching, etc.
This approach reduces
costs, while increasing quality as video is encoded only once
not concatenated 4:2:2 then 4:2:0.
Two
Models of Server-based Broadcast Playback
Program Stream
to Analog to Transport Stream is used when a program from
a video server is going to be re-encoded, its data rate must
be much
higher (3 to 5 times) than the program delivery payload. This
is because the process of re-encoding significantly reduces
video quality. Thus while
the cost increases the video quality is reduced.
This older method
of videotape playback is considerably more expensive and more
technically vulnerable than either MPEG storage approach,
less
versatile, and it produces equal quality video.
ASI
Option
The DigiCaster
system packetizes the movie and program channels into a multiple
program transport stream, ready for delivery to the multiplexer
directly on thru DS3 or ATM. In the mux conditional access
is added. The number of ASI circuits to handle. Thus the size
of the ASI router, and all
associated terminal gear such as patch panels, wiring, etc.,
is much less.
The simplicity
and integration of this approach and its improved video quality
at any selected transmission data rate, coupled with its substantial
cost savings makes this architecture applicable for many transmission
systems.
DVB/ATSC
Interfacing for Subtitling, EPG, PSIP, Conditional Access
Master Control
is no longer an island of on-air operations. By integrating
schedule sharing and event-change notification with other
components of
a modern DTV plant, a new level of operations efficiency is
provided. In some applications, MPEG2 can be stored, played
and directly multiplexed
into output transport format directly on the server. This
reduces costs while improving video quality. It also allows
easy integration of multi-language
subtitles that are stored in the MPEG2 stream and played from
the server.
Web
Streaming
DigiCaster provides
a pathway for integrating Web Streaming with on-air Master
Control automation. When controlling a server capable of web
streaming, the DigiCaster can be used to manage media and
control play-out schedules.
Redundant
System Options
Fully redundant
Windows NT server computers can be purchased configured with
a "heartbeat" connection between the units for continual
status
monitoring. If the primary server fails the secondary server
takes over. Multiple video servers and VTR's can be configured
for redundancy.
Questions?
Call (949)
367-1700
or email us: sales@d-co.com
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