ASIA-PACIFIC BROADCASTING

With the help of Magna Systems and Engineering, Australia’s Network Ten recently upgraded its new Sydney HD news studio with multiple Miranda HMP-1801 single-card, solid-state media servers.

Network Ten engineer Leo Blanda elaborated: “We needed a device that could store and recall multiple animating seamless loops to integrate into the rebuild of our HD news studio. After consulting with the Magna Systems team, we purchased four Densité HMP-1801 single-card, solid-state media servers, two for our studio rebuild and two more to supplement production from our existing HD studio.”

The Densité HMP-1801 is a single-card, solid-state media server that is able to capture and play back HD and SD video sequences — and is “ideal” for playback of clips that are used repeatedly.

Network Ten technical director Ben Thomas added: “Our initial requirement of having looping background material was the justification for the Densité HMP-1801 as having a key channel was not necessary.”

At Network Ten, the Densité HMP-1801 is used for the playback of multiple animating loops that feed the plasma screen behind Sydney Ten’s news broadcasts and in studio-based multi-cam live-to-air broadcasts.

“Once clips are correctly trimmed, the playback from the unit has so far been faultless. The features of the Densité HMP-1801 are perfect for our needs — instant clip recall, large capacity, embedded audio and, so far, the unit has been very stable. Magna Systems was very helpful throughout the entire assessment process and was even able to provide us with a test unit that allowed us to evaluate the kit with our operations staff months prior to our build,” concluded Thomas.

 

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