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15/09/2014

Sky Upgrades Mistika Client Suites

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Sky has made significant upgrades and enhancements to its 4k-capable Mistika client suites to boost its colour grading and finishing services.

Mistika, which has already been placed at the heart of Sky's creative pipeline, plays a vital role to meet quality and time-sensitive stringent requirements. At the centre of Sky's high-end programming, the powered-up Mistika systems boast increased speed storage capacity, based around SGO's SAN.
Following the upgrade, Sky now has additional capacity to host multiple client platforms from their Mistika systems which have their own localised storage for real time 4K playback, but also integrate directly with their large near-line storage infrastructure, supported by several render nodes that work in the background, for maximum efficiency and delivery.
Cara Cheeseman, Senior Manager of Operations for Entertainment, Creative & R&D commented: "With an already well-established and long-standing alliance with SGO, and the fact that they have been very much involved in the future of broadcasting right from the start, it makes sense for us to continue with significant investment in their technology.
"With the newly built designated client area, we have consolidated and upgraded our systems, which also include the addition of 4K grading monitors from Canon. Our Mistika systems serve as our client-focused colour grading and finishing suites. Mistika's open integration, compatibility with other systems and its flexibility, facilitates the process enormously."
Chris Johns, Chief Engineer at BSkyB confirmsed: "Mistika is such a well-respected and powerful solution and it lets clients know we are serious about our work. It forms the core of all our workflows and continues to impress us with its speed, real-time immediacy, highly developed functionality and much more. The Mistika continues to play a part in the innovation by which that Sky strives to deliver ongoing improvements to the customer experience."

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