Miranda HD System Selected For HDTV Trial On A Terrestrial Platform

Miranda Technologies has announced that MediaCorp TV (MCS), Singapore's largest terrestrial broadcaster, has installed a Miranda HD system for its new Channel 38, which is South East Asia's first HDTV trial on a terrestrial platform.
The Miranda HD installation includes interfacing, master control and channel branding equipment, as well as signal and facility monitoring. The new channel will air to over a thousand Singapore households, community clubs, libraries and retail outlets during a six month trial. Currently, the new channel is providing an average of 14 hours of HD content per week during primetime hours.
As part of the Media Development Authority's initiative to speed up the adoption of HD technology in the region, MCS developed the system to determine the viability of HDTV over this free-to-air platform. The HD system includes Miranda's Imagestore HDTV master control and branding processor, the Kaleido-K2 multi-image display processor, the iControl facility monitoring system, and a range of interfacing products.
"We heard about a large number of major broadcasters and networks, in the US, Europe and in other parts of Asia, who have transitioned to HD with Miranda's support, and we liked the company's approach to managing aspect ratio during SD and HD conversion using AFD," said Mr. Yeo Kim Pow, Senior Vice President of MediaCorp Technologies Pte Ltd.
"We wanted one man operation for the HDTV channel, and the Miranda system has achieved this. A single operator can control and monitor the playout of one or more HD channels."
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