Harris Corporation has announced that MediaCorp, the largest broadcaster in Singapore, has deployed the Harris H-Class D-Series Playout Automation application to control the terrestrial platform for Southeast Asia’s first high-definition (HD) trial channel.
The D-Series Playout Automation application, with its flexible, scalable design, provides a solid base for MediaCorp’s current HD trial channel and any future broadcast environment.
“As part of the Media Development Authority’s initiatives to speed up the deployment and adoption of HD technology, MediaCorp decided to launch the terrestrial HD trial channel to offer better quality and a wider choice of services to viewers while exploring viable business opportunities harnessing digital technology,” said Mr. Chang Long Jong, MediaCorp Deputy Group CEO (Television). “The main purpose of the trial is to gauge the television audience’s level of interest in HDTV programming. A secondary objective is to test the performance of the latest MPEG 4 AVC/H.264 encoding technology employed for the trial. The data obtained will help us at MediaCorp crystallize our HDTV migration strategy.”
“Redundancy, reliability and flexibility were key factors in the decision to deploy D-Series Playout Automation application for this high-profile project,” said Mr. Joe Khodeir, president of Harris Software Systems, Asia Pacific. “From ingest to transmission, D-Series provides MediaCorp with a solid HD automation solution for the future.”