Mediahouse choose generationQ system

Mediahouse, the facilities arm of TWI, the UK’s largest independent supplier of sports programming, are to install a Quantel generationQ system for the production of their SNTV (Sports News Television) service.
SNTV is a joint venture between TWI and the Associated Press (AP), and counts CNN and TVNZ among its many clients. The service operates in a particularly challenging production environment, producing six bulletins a day organised to meet broadcasters' crucial production deadlines.
The mediahouse system is centred on a Quantel sQServer, configured with eight ports and 100 hours of MPEG2 25 Mbit storage. Most of the SNTV journalists are already capable video editors, and the entire production team will have access to all material held on the server via six Quantel QCut packages and four QView browse applications.
The QEdit Pro workstations will be used for TWI and third party effects-led craft editing. The sQServer is also being equipped with Quantel’s ISA (Integrated Server Automation) to cover future expansion of the server storage, and to enable the incorporation of browse quality material alongside the MPEG2 on the server. Playout automation will be via pharos communications automation using a CORBA interface to the sQServer (announced at IBC), with backup provided by a Quantel sQEffects playout panel.
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