Scripps Taps Snell & Wilcox for HD Channel Ingest

Scripps Networks has standardized on Snell & Wilcox Memphis encoders for ingesting all HDTV content at Scripps' new HGTV high-definition service. Two Memphis systems have been installed at Scripp's Knoxville, Tenn. broadcast operations center as part of the infrastructure supporting HGTV and the Food Network in HD,

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Oct 12, 2006

Scripps Networks has standardized on Snell & Wilcox Memphis encoders for ingesting all HDTV content at Scripps' new HGTV high-definition service.

Two Memphis systems have been installed at Scripp's Knoxville, Tenn. broadcast operations center as part of the infrastructure supporting HGTV and the Food Network in HD, which was launched in June of this year.

"Picture quality is paramount for an HDTV service, so in the early planning stages of our HDTV service, we conducted comparison tests among encoding solutions in order to make sure we would make the best choice," said Jerry Nantz, chief engineer at Scripps Networks. "Integration of the MEMPHIS was easy, and Snell & Wilcox was helpful in recommending the right configurations for our operations."

HGTV HD began operations on April 10, 2006. Ascent Media was selected as systems integrator for both HGTV and the Scripps operations center.

Scripps’ HGTV HD channel ingests with S&W Memphis promo image

Memphis will be used to encode all HGTV program material shot on HD cameras, as well as HD commercials and promos.

Scripps Networks has installed an OmniBus automation system at its Knoxville, Tenn. broadcast headquarters. The new automation system will support Scripps Networks' standard networks including Great American Country, as well as two new services -- HGTV HD and Food Network HD -- being launched this spring. "Our new

Scripps Networks has taken its HGTV HD, Great American Country (a country music network), and Food Network HD channels live on its new OmniBus Systems Colossus automation package. The OmniBus automation system, recently installed at Scripps broadcast headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., controls a video server syste

Scripps Networks is using Omneon Spectrum media server systems to launch its Food Network HD and HGTV HD networks, as well as its Great American Country (GAC) SD network. The Omneon systems, which support ingest and play-out, allow Scripps to intermix SD and HD content. Scripps is using one 24-TB Spectrum system t

Snell & Wilcox recently announced a collaborative partnership with Omneon Video Networks . The deal will pair the Snell and Wilcox Memphis HD encoder with Omneon's server product. Omneon will resell the encoder along with their servers. Simon Derry, Snell & Wilcox CEO said, "The deployment of our Memphis HD encode

Scripps Networks has taken its Great American Country (GAC), HGTV HD, and Food Network HD channels live on its new OmniBus Systems Colossus automation package, which was recently installed at the network's Knoxville, Tenn., broadcast headquarters. Scripps launched HGTV HD in April, GAC in the middle of June, and Food N

Scripps Networks is doubling up on an earlier commitment to provide a HD channel in the home, food and lifestyle categories (which it helped popularize in the analog realm by introducing HD versions of its HGTV home and garden programming in January 2006, and the Food Network in the second quarter of next year.) S

Gannett-owned NBC affiliate WXIA-TV in Atlanta, has selected a Snell & Wilcox Memphis encoder to ingest uncompressed HD content and enable file-based storage and delivery over its SD and HD broadcast channels. The Memphis encoder incorporates Snell & Wilcox Ph.C phase correlation motion estimation technology and