According to Manny Coelho, manager of Broadcast Facilities at SABC, the installation of Colossus comes "as part of our planned program of upgrades designed to future-proof our facility."

Crawford Communications’ Colossus HD installation provides fully redundant primary and backup channels with file transfer to and from video servers and archive storage.

V3.5 of Colossus adds extended feature with regional breakouts and multilanguage support

Chellomedia’s Digital Media Centre in the Netherlands has added eight new SD Colossus channels to accommodate playout requirements for National Geographic TV.

Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) has gone on the air with an OmniBus Systems Colossus playout automation system.

The added capabilities available in Colossus include support for new video servers from Omneon, Quantel, Harris and Thomson/GVG; feature-rich support for such master control systems and protocols as Pro-Bel 520, Miranda Presmaster, GVG Maestro and Nvision; regional breakouts for multiregional broadcasting; enhanced vision mixer control with complex lead/lag audio control; plus scheduled multilanguage play-out from a single channel with track-stacking.

The system provides ingest capabilities and high scalability to three new HD channels