Miranda Technologies In Beijing

A top firm that develops, manufactures and markets high-performance hardware and software for the television broadcast industry, Miranda Technologies has announced that Chinese Central Television (CCTV) has installed 50 Kaleido multi-image display processors for monitoring two channels dedicated to the Beijing Olympics.
During the Beijing Olympics, CCTV-HD will broadcast as the ‘Olympic HD Channel’, and offer live coverage of all the events.
At present, eight cities in China can receive HD programmes, namely Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.
At CCTV’s International Broadcast Centre, two Kaleido-X processors and 17 smaller Kaleido-Alto-HD and Kaleido-Quad multi-viewers have been installed for master control monitoring.
Additionally, 25 Kaleido multi-image processors have been used across the Olympic Stadiums for production monitoring.
CCTV’s new Television Cultural Centre, located in Beijing’s Central Business District, has also installed two Kaleido-X processors, which can display up to 160 feeds across eight plasma displays in the master control room.
These multi-image outputs are also displayed across 32 monitors in four studios.
Two new HD OB trucks operated by CCTV have also been equipped with multiple Kaleido multi-viewers.
One of the trucks is amongst the largest in Asia, at 14.6 meters in length, and is fitted with 20 cameras.
The Kaleido monitoring systems will monitor external signals from Beijing Olympic Broadcasting (BOB), the official broadcaster for the Olympics, which will provide International Television and Radio (ITVR) signals for broadcasters around the world.
The multi-image processors allow easy monitoring of multi-channel audio, with extraction of six channels of audio from embedded signals during the Beijing Olympics.
The international live signal will be broadcast entirely in high definition for the first time in Olympic history, with an estimated 4,000 hours of live television.
(BMcC/KMcA)