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Geoff Stedman
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Distributing content to an ever-growing list of platforms is key goal for Omneon, which will showcase gear that allows
broadcasters to better distribute content across different media
distribution outlets.
New solutions from Omneon for this year’s convention
include the MediaDeck GX channel playout solution
that combines video server playout, graphics and audio
processing. A companion system, the ProDrive GX, is a
basic channel management application that controls server
ingest and playout as well as graphics events.
On the storage front, Omneon is
showcasing the MediaGrid active storage
system. Integrated with a production server,
the MediaGrid enables users to quickly
access incoming media during live and nearlive
broadcast productions, the company said.
The system can simultaneously support
production tools from Adobe, Apple, Avid
and EVS. On the show floor, Omneon is
showing how the MediaGrid can be used to
provide processing power for the Omneon
ProXchange to repackage edited content for
delivery to other media distribution outlets.
The company’s technologies have been
architected to support a wide range of
current and future digital media formats
and workflows, said Geoff Stedman,
senior vice president of marketing and
business development for Omneon.
“This forward-looking approach
has given us a platform that is already
capable of supporting 3D television,”
said Stedman.
From a video server perspective, he
said, Omneon technologies are able to
play back synchronized left and right eye
streams to the type of 3D display monitor
used in a 3D production environment or
to downstream signal processing devices
for transmission, he said.
The company is at the convention to
show how the Omneon Spectrum server
can be used for real-time 3D playback. A
scalable server platform for multichannel
playout, news, sports highlights and studio
production workflows, the Spectrum is
being shown with new server components
designed to expand the system’s capability
to support bandwidth-intensive broadcast
environments.
—Susan Ashworth