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Play-Out Centre

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On September 1st, 2007 Levira launched a state-of-the-art fully automated play-out centre in Tallinn capable to play-out simultaneously a number of different TV-channels both in SD and in HD formats. Today we are playing out 11 channels: 1 HD, 7 SD and 3 content/ad-insertion channels for Baltics, Scandinavian and African markets. We are offering reliable, 24/7 monitored and controlled play-out services.


POC in general

• Planned capacity: up to 40 HD/SD channels

• General Entertainment and Thematic channels

• Full support of SD and HD, up- & down-conversion

• Scalable redundancy (n+1, n+n etc.)

• Open, teletext or DVB subtitling

• Up to 16 audio tracks per service, Dolby E & Dolby Digital support

• Branding, animation

• Content- & ad-insertion


Multichannel HD/SD play-out services

Basic play-out service includes:

• HD or SD play-out

• Logging

• Automatically created on-screen menus, according to playlist metadata

• On-screen graphic/texts/crawls etc.

• One audio track, open or teletext (one language) subtitles

• Compliance recording

• Storage capacity

• Live news feeds from XML/RSS feeds

• 24/7 monitoring

• Audio processing


Additional services

• Simultaneous HD and SD play-out

• Additional audio tracks and languages for teletext subtitles

• DVB subtitles

• Compliance recording from networks

• Live broadcasts (from SAT or fibre), control and monitoring

• Different service levels from 99,5% to 99,99%

• Playlist compilation for the channels

 INGEST
o Capability today: 300 hours per week in both SD as well as in HD

o Registration of content

o Capturing the files from tape, HDD, DVD, FTP, Smartjog

o Quality control

o Storage


For Further Information:

Mr. Maksim Butsenko
Play-Out Centre Technical Manager

Tel + 372 5680 4016