OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive automation and content management solutions to the broadcast industry, announced that Ascent Media Network Services Asia (AMNSA) has installed OmniBus Colossus systems within its Singapore facility to provide reliable, efficient automation for transmission of more than 30 channels — broadcast in more than a dozen languages — to viewers in Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and Asia.
“OmniBus automation controls all of our equipment in an efficient multi-channel broadcast network, starting from ingest and including playout of video, audio language selection, graphics, subtitling, and cue tones,” said Tan Yee Tiang, vice president of operations and engineering, AMNSA. “Particularly important to our operations is the system’s ability to manage multi-language playout in accordance with our traffic schedule. OmniBus also worked with us to customize automation control to meet our unique specifications.”
A unique timeline-based, multi-channel, multi-delivery automation and control system, Colossus is highly scalable and easily accommodates increases in channel output, with tools for ingest, quality assurance, content management, and interfacing with archive systems. The Colossus system is capable of segregating content and managing multiple language files. It is integrated with an Omneon Spectrum media server system to provide language-stacking functionality that significantly simplifies multilingual playout. As a result, operators managing AMNSA broadcasts can match video files to corresponding audio in any number of languages. AMNSA has deployed independent OmniBus automation systems for two major brands the company services. One system handles 19 channels and is expandable to 30 channels, and a second system currently supports 13 channels and is expandable to 20.
OmniBus Systems also announced that the company has appointed Dagang Teknik as distributor of OmniBus solutions to the Malaysian market. Dagang Teknik will serve as the local link between Malaysian customers and OmniBus Systems, working to secure sales, assist in project implementation, and support after-sales service.