Canal Overseas Goes HD With Omneon

Canal Overseas opted for the two 10 Terabyte Spectrum servers due to their support for World Standard Teletext (WST) data.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: May 6, 2008

French broadcast services provider Canal Overseas has invested in Omneon's Spectrum HD media server as part of a transition to an all HD workflow.

Canal Overseas opted for the two 10 Terabyte Spectrum servers due to their support for World Standard Teletext (WST) data. The new equipment provides the organisation with eight channels of ingest along with 20 channels of dual-output HD and downconverted SD for preview and playout.

The investment is part of a facility makeover from SD to HD and includes DBOS automation from SGT, and Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive middleware integrated with a Sun Microsystems StorageTek library for content storage management. The system was installed in late 2007, and went on the air in January

Canal Overseas provides 24/7 satellite distribution of France's Canal+ programming to 500,000 subscribers in Africa, the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and the South Pacific.

Canal Overseas, which provides 24/7 satellite distribution of France’s Canal+ programming to subscribers in Africa, the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and the South Pacific

Canal Overseas streamlines SD/HD facility with innovative closed-captioning technology promo image

Category New studio technology — network Submitted by Wohler Technologies Design Team Canal Overseas: Gino Ma Paw Youn, tech. broadcast dir. Whypi: Yves Pinon, consultant Wohler: Kim Templeman-Holmes, VP sales and marketing; ...

Hayward, Calif. — May 14, 2008 — PANORAMAdtv, the video products division of Wohler Technologies Inc., today announced that Canal Overseas, a division of leading French broadcast group Canal+, is using the HDCC-200A HD/SD-SDI closed-captioning bridge to ...

The Wohler closed-captioning encoder/decoder offers efficiency in handling and storing teletext subtitle data in an SD/HD playout environment.

The new card avoids the need for a separate ingest and playout set up for subtitles since it carries out subtitle encoding within an HD ingest workflow.

Canal Overseas uses Wohler closed-caption encoder/decoder promo image

This division of France’s Canal+ is using multiple units to embed data in the HD-SDI signal during the ingest process.

The new server system allows Canal 22 to streamline its master control timing workflow

Austin, Texas public TV station KLRU is using Omneon's Spectrum media server to transition to a tapeless workflow for its multichannel broadcast operations. The Omneon system is used to broadcast an exclusive 24/7 channel for local Time Warner cable system, and four channels on the facility's digital spectrum. The spe