Playout Automation
wTVision and Unitecnic collaborate to provide a complete Playout Automation workflow to DirecTVMarch 11, 2013

Working for Imagina US, wTVision, and Unitecnic provided an end-to-end solution for two new DirecTV Latin America TV channels (OnDirecTV HD - Showcase and OnDirecTV SD - 999).

wTVision customized its modular product ChannelMaker to integrate with several other broadcast technologies with the main goal of developing a new architectural structure for two channels, one in SD and one in HD.

The structure of this project included the ChannelMaker’s integration with:

  • Grass Valley video server

  • Miranda Imagestore Master Control Mixer

  • Snell Cygnus Video Router

  • ForeTV Traffic System

This architecture includes redundancy of the ChannelMaker Playout for both SD and HD channels.

ChannelMaker easily manages complex channel architectures ranging from simple main/backup configurations to multi-channel, multi-station, multi-vendor, and multi-location solutions.

DirecTV is one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services, reaching more than 32 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America.