Playout facility
CROATEL company signed a contract with HDWIN that includes exclusive technical broadcast service of Arena Sport programs on both T-HT (Croatian Telecom) IPTV and DTH platforms.
Starting January 1st 2011, four HD channels are broadcasted and downconverted for SD channels (Arena Sport 1, 2, 3, 4 HD and Arena Sport 1, 2, 3, 4 SD with different HD/SD logos).
All four Arena Sport channels are broadcasted from CROATEL's new technical facility (TV studio) in Zagreb, Croatia. CROATEL playout system was purchased from Pebble Beach Neptune Automation Playout System and Grass Valley - K2 Server and Ingest System.
Arena Sport covers UEFA Champions League, Spanish Primera football league, Italian Serie A football, NFL, NHL, CEV volleyball and EHF handball championship, athletics, boxing matches etc.
System contains:
- Pebble Beach systems automation Neptune which is a fully featured automation system designed to automate the acquisition, media management and playout of TV channels
- Grass Valley Aurora Ingest and Aurora Browse platform which supports 8 HD ingest channels K2 Summit and 2 ingest channels HD/SD K2 Solo
- Grass Valley SAN storage with capacity of 32 TB
- 3 Grass Valley K2 playout servers, 4 channels per server
- 6 Junger Audio mixers
- 6 commentary booths equipped with Prospect commentary boxes
- Yamaha DM1000 audio mixer
- Miranda provides video monitoring of playout channels using Kaleido X16 multiviewer
- System also uses Miranda’s LGK and XVP modules:
- LGK-3901 channel branding processor with still/animated 3D graphics
- XVP-3901 up/down/cross conversion, compressor, limiter, expander, frame sync and delay
- 5 non-linear editing rooms equipped with Edius 6, GVG video card STORM 3G installed on HP Z800 Workstation with optical connection to SAN storage
- Graphic Workstation HP Z800 with Adobe CS5 Production Premium package and Power Mac G5 with Finalcut Studio package
- 9 satellite receivers/decoders Tandberg RX1290
- 5 satellite receivers/decoders Tandberg TT1260
- 6 satellite receivers/decoders Ericsson 8200
- 12 satellite antennas of 2,4m diameter, plus one 1,8m motorized antenna
- 550 square meters of playout facility, including 200 square meters of studio with two different positions, chroma key and stand up position with Lite Panels lightning and three studio HD cameras
- 8 journalist workstations with Aurora Browse
