[SBE] updated PEG channel playout to cable company

[David Baker]

That's been my experience as well.  I will contact them to see if they
can suggest an overall workflow.  Thanks all for the input!

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> On Jul 4, 2014, at 3:15 PM, "Taylor, William W." <taylorww at cityofgainesville.org> wrote:
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> I have been using Tightrope Media systems since 2005 and the support has been phenomenal. Check it out. http://www.trms.com/broadcast/cablecast
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> From: SBE [sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Henry Seiden [info at techworkspro.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 9:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SBE] updated PEG channel playout to cable company
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> I’m doing an educational install using a couple of pieces that sound ike they would be right up your alley. Have a look at the Tightrope Media Systems products. There are a variety of combinations of playout servers that you might want to use. There is a bulletin board server device that you can output to your cable connections (again SD or HD modulator channel).
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> Let your rep for these products guide you to the correct support people at Tightrope to help interface your legacy products.
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> Henry
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> On Jul 2, 2014, at 17:26, David Baker <DBaker at addison-il.org<mailto:DBaker at addison-il.org>> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> I need to come up with a plan to update our signal transmission to Comcast / AT&T, and make an equipment list for budgeting.  Can someone provide some guidance as to the most efficient way to upgrade our playout at this stage of technology?  We have one channel dedicated to 24/7 programming and another channel reserved for a digital bulletin board (both analog signals).  I also need to expect not much more than $50,000 per year to spend for the next few years.
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> Currently, our playout involves sending composite A/V from an aging Leightronix PRO-16 router to even older Sci. Atl. modulators, and from there it hits a transmitter feeding a fiber link to Comcast.  The same A/V from playout is going to a pair of AT&T's encoders.
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> My hope was to create SD digital 16:9 channels, but maybe it's time to skip right to HD.  I'm not sure Comcast will allow us an HD channel at this time, and not sure what AT&T could provide us through UVerse.  I also have to be concerned with the handling of different aspect ratios since we show content from many different taxing bodies at various levels of production sophistication.  Our in-house production can acquisition and edit in HD, as well as route and switch HD video.  Studio cams are SD-SDI - Sony D55's.
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> Is it imperative at this stage to update to an SDI playout system first?  I realize I'll need to worry about scaling all content into a 16:9 space, converting to some type of transport, and then linking that transport to the fiber node.  Does AFD also need to figure in anywhere here?  I'm very concerned the viewer should get an optimized picture no matter what aspect we are sending.
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> My initial thought was to not upgrade the Leightronix yet, due to both the relatively large extra cost and the fact that we get a lot of content from providers on DVD that gets played out analog, so it would all have to be converted to digital on playback - more cost.  I'm also not sure how fast we can get many of the providers to get us digital files of their programming instead.  So I thought to start with the analog playout and invest in A/D for that and process from there.
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> I know there is a lot I'm asking here, but if anyone can provide a general starting approach to this issue, I'd appreciate it very much!
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