Revolutionizing Broadcast Master Control
A New Generation of Master Control Innovations
- Full integration of IT and DTV technologies
- Modular design makes customization easy
- File-based interoperability with edge servers
- Powerful IT servers that store media and, with on-board automation, provide playout with creative graphic branding for up to four HD/SD channels per server
- Station automation functionalities never before possible
- Huge reduction in equipment, reducing capital expenditures and operating expense
- Unique hardware and software design extends life beyond the 3-year IT life cycle
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The Future of Television Facility Operations
Traditional master control equipment is a complex array of hardware, specialized software, and miles of wiring. It takes too many resources to install, maintain, upgrade, and scale this complicated stack. WO Master Control is the first product of its kind to fully integrate IT and DTV hardware and software into a single-rack solution. Through a radically streamlined architecture, WO Master Control can feed and control up to four channels per server of HD/SD including master control switching, graphics, and automation per server including content storage.
Each server has automation and content storage on-board along with live MC switching, picture-in-picture and branding graphics. WO Master Control uses low-cost, off-the-shelf servers, and provides direct-to-storage file transfer from edge severs with no transcoding required, plus any content from mainstream creative tools such as Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Adobe® Creative Suite. As many as four servers with up to 16 HD channels can reside in the rack, which not only eliminates a substantial amount of equipment and wiring, but also significantly reduces power consumption and heat generation in your operation.
WO Master Control Key Features
- Designed with standard, off-the-shelf IT hardware and operating systems plus the mainstream creative tools Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Adobe® Creative Suite
- Scales easily from single-station operations to large, centralized multicast facilities
- Enables “content flow” transparently without manual work flow
- Features on-board automation and content storage for each server with live MC switching, including PIP and graphic branding
- Interlaced and Progressive HD and SD content scaling from storage during playout
- Enables operation with minimum metadata through auto-sensing technologies
- Incorporates unique content life management and storage optimization capabilities for DAS storage
- Allows real-time interactive program scheduling through tight integration with WO Traffic
- Eliminates countless single points of failure for high reliability and maintainability
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- Scalable Architecture for any Application
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- Offers station multicasting virtual channels in one server
- Functions as an edge server for content insertion on network feeds
- Duopoly stations can have one server provide four virtual channels or two servers can provide eight virtual channels
- City central operations can have three DTV stations with three virtual channels in a rack including ingest
- Supports mobile DTV content channels
- Supports group centralized content distribution with backup edge server at spoke stations
- Allows group centralized remote control from anywhere
- Supports multimedia applications
- Supports broadband delivery
- Distinctive Playout Control
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- Incorporates individual channel GPS off-set clocks for DTV latency and operations across time zones
- Enables multiple HD/SD playout channel formats from multiple formats on storage
- Features on-air live switching to eliminate MC switcher
- Enables on-air graphics presentation via WO Traffic
- Offers new solutions for content timings, live and recorded
- Enables operators to supervise and trigger station breaks over DSL or T1
- Offers many playout functions never before possible
- Distinctive Ingest Control
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- Enables file transfer direct to storage with no transcoding required (Pathfire, DG FastChannel, PitchBlueTM, Javelin®)
- Apple® Final Cut Pro®, and Adobe® Premiere® Editor interoperability and file transfer
- Distinctive Facility Control—Facility Manager
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- Automates facility management and operations
- Provides local or remote control
- Scheduling and acquisition of program and spot content from networks, satellite, edge servers, or FTP sites with integration to CompuSat
- Includes PMCP generator module to generate real-time, accurate and emergency message PSIP
- Controls server and router to automate recordings
- Schedules assignment of server ports and operational modes
- Controls and changes operational modes of master control system
- Offers SNMP monitoring and alarms for broadcast and IT equipment
- Reconfigures system to restore operations after failures
- Green Technology
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- Delivers substantial power savings from enormous reduction in racks of equipment
- Requires only two circuits (vs. one or more power panels for traditional approaches)
- Integrates third-party software applications
- Supports sustainable certifications such as LEED, WEEE, MSRC, and RoHS for remodeled or new facilities
- Installation and Training
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- Includes free training using concepts and software familiar to users of WO Traffic
- Utilizes standardized scalable equipment layouts to eliminate customization
- Doesn’t require third-party systems integrators with custom CAD
- Installs quickly and easily with the help of the WideOrbit Team
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