Customer: Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR), Geneva, Switzerland

The SeaChange Solution: SeaChange’s MediaLibrary/MediaClient architecture is transforming production and post-production workflow at TSR through universal shared storage for any device and any media file type in the capture, edit and playout chain. The platform is making more than 2,500 hours @IMX50-MXF of online storage available, enabling more cost-efficient and centralized storage without transcoding.
What they said: “The MediaLibrary/ MediaClient architecture is the core of our new tapeless environment and delivers tremendous workflow gains by increasing interoperability between broadcast applications. We have been able to ensure that the exceptional performance of the storage server is extended to the overall solution through the high bandwidth transfer rates possible between the BML and EVS servers. We’re finally capturing efficiencies and new capabilities that were unimaginable working with tape, while gaining a fully HD-ready infrastructure.”
—Claude Mex, Associate Director of Production, TSR

Customer: VTM, Vilvoorde, Belgium

The SeaChange Solution: Thanks to SeaChange’s Broadcast MediaLibrary/MediaClient (BML/MCL) play-to-air platform, VTM, Belgium’s largest commercial broadcast operation, has launched a tapeless workflow in which content is easily and effectively moved among play-to-air, online and offline archives. The BML/MCL platform is integrated with VTM’s production storage and delivers the broadcaster’s news, sports and entertaining programming in HD to cable viewers in Belgium.
What they said: “We required a high-performance workflow that met our high standards of quality and reliability for play to air requirements along with the strong demands of an intensive production environment. SeaChange developed a unique solution that has dramatically improved the efficiency and reliability of our workflow at VTM.”
—Jozef Mertens, Director of Engineering, VTM

Customer: Soldiers Media Center, U.S. Armed Forces, Germany, Italy, United States

The SeaChange Solution: SeaChange Broadcast MediaCluster (BMC) video server technology is at the heart of Soldiers Media Center’s worldwide broadcast network, which delivers programming to U.S. armed forces personnel station around the world. SeaChange managed the entire three-site installation and worked in conjunction with AFN engineering to integrate, install and commission the hardware and operational software systems while concurrently training Soldiers Media Center technical and operational staff based in California, Germany and Italy.
What they said: “For the first time in military broadcasting history, Army programming can be sent instantaneously from one point to a central hub enabling the Army and the Department of Defense to inform our internal audiences faster than ever before. Strategically, the Soldiers Media Center can pass information from forward broadcasting organizations overseas in a timely manner, enabling the Army Public Affairs leadership to communicate more effectively and efficiently to Army senior commanders on stories and issues impacting their Soldiers and families stationed around the world. It is a fantastic communications capability for the Army.”
—Col. Richard H. Breen, Jr., Commander, Soldiers Media Center

Customer: Future TV, Beirut, Lebanon

The SeaChange Solution: As part of a major infrastructure upgrade, Future TV has deployed a new production and playout workflow built around the SeaChange Broadcast MediaLibrary/MediaClient nearline storage and play-to-air server solution. The system is improving the efficiency of Future TV’s workflow thanks to the centralized access it is able to deliver to all of the operation’s news content.

Customer: TV Extremadura, Mérida, Spain

The SeaChange Solution: TV Extremadura has deployed is employing SeaChange’s Broadcast MediaLibrary/MediaClient play-to-air platform to broadcast its independent and regionally-focused television programming throughout the Extremadura region in western Spain. The BML/MCL platform meets TV Extremadura’s existing workflow requirements while providing a basis for easy expansion as the operation grows.