Japanese Broadcaster Upgrades Newsroom To HD Production

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Jan 20, 2012 4:01 PM

Asahi Broadcasting Aomori (ABA), an All-Nippon News Network trickery owned by TV Asahi, portion the Aomori prefecture of Japan, is upgrading its digital headlines prolongation operations to an HD, file-based network from Grass Valley.

The ascent is amid the initial such end-to-end digital headlines prolongation network from Grass Valley commissioned by a local Japanese broadcaster. The new equipment, that includes Grass Valley EDIUS modifying systems and K2 Summit media servers configured as a storage area network (SAN) environment, will help the station's headlines staff conspire and emanate headlines calm faster and more efficiently. It is scheduled to be entirely functional and on-air by June 2012.

ABA is right away implementing a next-generation headlines prolongation network formed on the Grass Valley K2 SAN and a Grass Valley STRATUS program design horizon is to ingest, group and archiving of every day calm with substitute data.

Attached to this network will be a array of Grass Valley HDWS 3G Elite, HDWS 3G and REXCEED 750V warden NLE systems that underline the ultimate 64-bit Windows 7 OS, and Grass Valley's EDIUS 6.3 announce program to encouragement ABA's common storage HD modifying workflow processes.

The whole headlines prolongation system, written and implemented by local Grass Valley engineers, will work with a third-party newsroom P.C. network from Nishinihon Computer, a leading newsroom P.C. producer in Japan. This network will moreover manage programmed headlines calm playout schedules.

The Grass Valley STRATUS collaborative prolongation horizon uses the ultimate chronicle of the Grass Valley K2 Summit (v. 8.0) server stage as the substructure for media clips to be stored, common and distributed. The K2 Summit media server creates substitute files existing to probably everybody on a network with correct authorization, around this specialized program layer, whilst moreover providing the bidirectional bandwidth vital to pierce considerable HD files around a prolongation facility.