Harris announced that Media General, a leading provider of news, information and entertainment with 18 network-affiliated TV stations, has launched Harris MPH ATSC Mobile DTV systems at its stations in Columbus, Ohio (WCMH-DT), and Tampa, Florida (WFLA-DT).
Media General is now broadcasting two ATSC Mobile DTV channels for each of these stations, featuring the main and supplementary terrestrial channels viewed locally over the air. Media General plans to standardize on Harris equipment for all Media General TV stations launching ATSC Mobile DTV services in the future.
“Most of our terrestrial transmission properties are Harris, and we like the fact that Harris has been involved in the process of defining the standards and technology since the beginning,” said W. Ardell Hill, president of broadcast services for Media General. “Their experience in mobile and track record as more
British Sky Broadcasting Enhances Its View with Actus Global Media Monitoring Solutions
United Kingdom’s largest broadcaster expands the size of its Actus installation; distributed Actus architecture provides scalability for fast and simple expansion
Tel-Aviv, Israel – November 2, 2010 – Actus Digital, a provider of web-based media monitoring and management solutions for broadcasters, government agencies and content producers, today announced that British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has expanded its existing Actus View installation. Powered by the enterprise Actus 4 platform, Actus View provides BSkyB with multi-channel transmission ingest, content detection and monitoring for proactively managing the quality of BSkyB transmissions. An Actus customer since 2010, BSkyB recently scaled the Actus View installation to monitor 72-channels in total. “The Actus architecture leverages the very latest in web technologies, providing a flexible platform for managing large-scale media monitoring and analysis workflows like BSkyB. Customers can implement Actus as an individual more
Crystal Vision’s new dual link to single link converters are the most space-saving solution for interfacing between 3Gb/s dual link and single link equipment and for providing convenient transport of 3D signals on a single wire.
The Dual 3G-DL is a single link to dual link converter. It takes a single 3Gb/s signal and separates it into two 1.5Gb/s signals which can either be a dual link 1080p signal, or alternatively two separate co-timed HD streams. The Dual DL-3G is a dual link to single link converter which takes either two 1.5Gb/s dual link signals or two separate co-timed HD streams and combines them into a single 3Gb/s signal.
Both products are optimized for use with Level B 3Gb/s signals and offer independent dual channels meaning two conversions can be performed on each board, while the outputs are all equalized and more
“To be a preferred company and product by Streaming Media readers is a wonderful result of why we come to work every day,” said Michael Kornet, chief marketing officer, NewTek. “TriCaster enables everyone from individual artists, MTV, city halls and the Dept. of Homeland Security, to high school teams and professional sports organizations like the NBA D-league, NHL and the NY Giants to attract a larger audience, deepen relationships with fans and deliver network-quality, live streaming content that can’t be found anywhere else.”
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