Thai digital terrestrial TV channel Amarin TV 34HD has installed a new HD playout system from Imagine Communications at its headquarters in Bangkok.
Built on Imagine’s ADC automaton and Nexio+ AMP media server, the installation enables the Thai broadcaster to achieve real operational efficiency gains and high reliability, while integrating the new playout and asset management system with their current server and distribution architecture to respect existing capital investment.
Cheewapat Nathalang, CTO of Amarin TV, explained, “We had a clear idea of what we needed to achieve with our new playout automation network — both for our operations today, as we develop our workflows, and as a building block towards a more file-based future.”
Amarin TV’s new playout system enjoys Imagine’s ADC automation software integrated with the Nexio+ AMP channel playout servers and Nexio Motion asset management software. Motion provides a dynamic link between the Nexio on-air network and Amarin TV’s existing shared storage. The new workflow reconciles all incoming SDI feeds ingested using the ADC Media Client before being handled as files and transferred to the intermediate and long-term storage as appropriate.
The close integration of ADC, Nexio and Motion means that routine operations are highly automated. Transfers between Imagine’s IOX SAN storage pools are via watch folders, and ADC can check the system for missing material based on playlists and purge content based on business rules.
As all content is handled as files within the playout and asset management system, transfers are swift and secure and can be prioritised for urgent demands.
Mathias Eckert, SVP & GM EMEA/APAC for Imagine Communications, added, “Thailand is a very buoyant media market where customers continue to build out facilities based on SDI infrastructure.
“Amarin TV wanted a highly resilient, highly automated playout infrastructure that would seamlessly integrate into their existing SDI environment, and our well-established and proven ADC and Nexio products fitted the bill precisely.”