Hungarian Broadcaster Selects Miranda

Miranda Technologies has announced that Magyar Televizio (MTV), Hungary's state broadcaster has installed Miranda's infrastructure, monitoring and branding equipment at its new state-of-the-art television headquarters in Obuda, on the outskirts of Budapest.
The new facility consists of six studios, editorial premises and offices across 55,000 square metres of land. This consolidates all of MTV's divisions, which were previously located at 20 different sites across Budapest.
At the heart of MTV's new broadcast operation is Miranda's Densite signal processing equipment. Ten Densite frames house 200 signal processing modules altogether, including a large number of up/down/cross converters, digital amplifiers and change-overs. This signal processing infrastructure was installed by Rex Films, Miranda's Hungarian distributor.
Gabor Pusztai, Head of Video Engineering at MTV, said: "In the past we used a mix of modular interface solutions from different vendors. By moving to Miranda's Densite range, we have streamlined our operations significantly and gained so much more flexibility."
Four Miranda Kaleido-X multi-viewers are used to monitor MTV's four television channels, namely m1, m1 HD, m2 and m2 HD, using eight 46" LCD screens. The multi-viewer system provides sophisticated alarm capabilities, including video, audio and metadata (including Dolby E) alarms.
A further eight Kaleido-X16 multi-viewers are used to drive 28 monitoring displays across multiple rooms, including the newsroom, transcription and archive areas, as well as a virtual studio. The ultra-quiet, 1RU Kaleido-X16 multi-viewer features 16 video inputs, two multi-viewer outputs and an integrated 16x2 router. It offers the same unmatched picture quality, extreme layout flexibility and ease of use as the larger Kaleido-X processors.
Channel branding for MTV's four channels is performed by four Imagestore 750 HD/SD master control and channel branding processors, which offer four keying layers, dual DVEs and advanced audio processing.
The processors are controlled via automation and manually, using the PresStation master control panel. A further Imagestore 750 is used by MTV news studio operators for live events, such as the 2010 Winter Olympics.
(KMcA/GK)