WGBY Picks Leitch AgileVision for Digital Conversion

Springfield, Mass.-based public television station WGBY-TV selected Leitch's AgileVision MPEG processing platform as a component of its ongoing conversion from analog to digital broadcasting. The AGV-1000 is a DTV playout system featuring integrated MPEG-2 master control, two SD ATSC real-time encoders and an HD/SD vid

Author:: TVTechnology
Updated:: Feb 23, 2018
Original:: Mar 10, 2004

Springfield, Mass.-based public television station WGBY-TV selected Leitch's AgileVision MPEG processing platform as a component of its ongoing conversion from analog to digital broadcasting. The AGV-1000 is a DTV playout system featuring integrated MPEG-2 master control, two SD ATSC real-time encoders and an HD/SD video server in a rackmounted unit.

Leitch customized WGBY's system to include the capability to output one HD signal and two SD signals simultaneously in the 19.39 Mb/s ATSC multiplex stream. Additionally, the system's Trickle Down feature enables WGBY to switch from a larger number of programs to fewer programs while keeping low bit-rate streams in place for operation of downstream equipment in cable headends or ATSC consumer set top boxes.

As configured for the public station, the AgileVision system will output one HD signal and two SD signals simultaneously in the 19.39 Mb/s ATSC multiplex stream.

Leitch Technology Corp. has acquired the assets of AgileVision LLC, a joint venture of Mercury Computer Systems Inc. and Sarnoff Corp. AgileVision was created in 1999 to integrate Mercury's computing platform with Sarnoff's software for use in DTV. AgileVision works in software-based manipulation of compressed video a

Jacksonville, Fla.-based WJCT and Tallahassee, Fla.-based WFSU recently installed Leitch Technology Corp.'s AgileVision MPEG processing systems. Leitch touts AgileVision's simplicity, cost-effectiveness and quick "time to air" capabilities. Features include HD and SD splicing, logo overlays and rate control, all in th

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The AgileVision system provides integrated MPEG-2 real-time encoders and high-capacity, redundant storage all in the same rackmounted unit.

Key AgileVision features include HD and SD splicing, logo overlays and rate control.

New York-based WMHT, a public broadcaster serving eastern N.Y. and western New England, is the latest PBS member station to choose Leitch's AgileVision platform for its digital broadcast system. WMHT joins Kans.-based Smoky Hills Public TV, KTWU and WCNY in N.Y., South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Penn.-based WLVT, Ida

Amarillo, Texas-based PBS member station KACV has chosen Leitch's AgileVision system to upgrade its digital broadcasting infrastructure. KACV is the ninth PBS station to choose AgileVision for its digital transition. "Leitch's AgileVision was a good choice for us because the system handles EAS better than any other pr

The Leitch DTP uses MPEG-2 compression to handle multicast DTV transmission to the home.