Storage
Building A Tapeless Workflow04.08.2009
As we planned our shift to tapeless IT-based operations, the first such transition in Germany for a company like ours, we elected to build our central distribution platform on Omneon’s MediaGrid active storage system.
More... Omneon Helps Launch Equity’s RTN01.11.2008
The system effectively replaces local station master control and manages accounting, spot inventory, promotion and production functions. It sends out complete streams that can be fed directly to a transmitter.
More... view all text items in this section...A Better Way to Closed Caption Compliance05.23.2006
After an eight-year transition, and much industry debate, the era of television closed captioning has fully arrived. As of the beginning of 2006, due to a government mandate, most new English language broadcast programming must
More... Tackling the HD Challenge05.23.2006
In moving to HD, broadcasters must make myriad choices on formats, standards and bit rates before selecting new equipment for HD ingest, production and playout. U.S. broadcasters must also clear the extra hurdle of maintaining
More... The Omneon ProBrowse Advantage:05.23.2006
The television industry is in a period of immense change. Multiple transitions--both in technology and business models--are occurring simultaneously. The emergence of HDTV, new program delivery platforms, and a file-based IT
More... view all text items in this section...SUCCESS STORY: Canal 2205.30.2006
Televisión Metropolitana Canal 22, the official television channel of the Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts, employs an Omneon Spectrum™ media server system in its Mexico City facility for commercial, promo,
More... SUCCESS STORY: KLCS TV05.30.2006
Southern California's KLCS, a PBS member station known as the "Education Station," is a noncommercial educational television station licensed to the Los Angeles County School District (LAUSD). The facility has installed a
More... SUCCESS STORY: Twin Cities Public Television05.30.2006
Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), is a St. Paul, Minn. non-commercial broadcaster that operates two PBS stations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market. They recently installed a two-terabyte Omneon Spectrum system that functions
More... view all text items in this section...Predicting Disk Drive Failures02.23.2009
Hard drives are mechanical devices and as such will eventually fail. But what constitutes the "failure" of a hard disk drive? When should you replace a drive?
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