True Visions, a leading cable and satellite operator in Thailand, has extended its Imagine Communications playout solution to broadcast this year's worldwide football championships in 4K Ultra HD. This is the first Ultra HD channel in South East Asia, and it was designed, built, tested, proven and put on air in just four weeks.
Playout Solution Extension
The enhanced playout solution features Imagine's Nexio+ AMP software-defined media servers providing six HD ingest channels in both a main and a hot standby installation. Imagine's microservices-based Versio integrated playout platform upconverts the HD clip for UHD playout, while redundant Versio IOX systems support the high-bandwidth storage needs of the UHD workflow.
Rounding out the Imagine system, True Visions' existing Platinum VX router is used to switch to the live UHD feed, and D-Series playout automation provides frame-accurate control of the high-capacity media environment.