wTVision, Unitecnic Power DirecTV Latin America's New Playout Automation
wTVision and Unitecnic partnered to deliver a complete playout automation workflow for two new DirecTV Latin America TV channels. This involved customizing wTVision's ChannelMaker to integrate with various broadcast technologies, including Grass Valley, Miranda Imagestore, Snell Cygnus, and ForeTV systems. The solution aimed to establish new architectural structures for an SD and an HD channel, including redundancy for the ChannelMaker Playout.
Key Takeaways
- The project delivered an end-to-end playout automation solution for DirecTV Latin America's OnDirecTV HD (Showcase) and OnDirecTV SD (999) channels.
- wTVision's ChannelMaker was customized to integrate with Grass Valley video servers, Miranda Imagestore Master Control Mixer, Snell Cygnus Video Router, and ForeTV Traffic System.
- The architecture includes full redundancy for the ChannelMaker Playout on both SD and HD channels.
- Unitecnic and wTVision collaborated through Imagina US to provide the solution.
Why It Matters
This collaboration provides DirecTV Latin America with an integrated and redundant playout solution for its new channels, enhancing operational efficiency and reliability in content delivery. For vendors like wTVision and Unitecnic, it demonstrates their capability to deploy complex, multi-vendor broadcast infrastructures. The key signal to watch is how widely such customized, integrated automation solutions are adopted across the region for new channel rollouts.
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