Playout247™ has over 18 years experience in broadcasting. Its own broadcast management and automation solution, TV-Centre™, provides improved workflow and reduced costs for deployment and running of broadcast TV channels for all types of signal distribution worldwide.
Playout247™ provides complete range of broadcast services from its new all-digital Studios and Playout Centre located in the heart of London next door to BT Tower.

FULLY AUTOMATED END-TO-END

From programme ingest and scheduling, through fully automated playout, to archiving and as-run reporting for all types of live and pre-recorded transmissions, getting your channels to air is easy with Playout247™.

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NOTHING COULD BE FASTER

Programmes are batch captured into the networked storage system, by Playout247s' operators, and stored on-line, ready for immediate playout or archived to DVD-R for future use.

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QUALITY AND RELIABILITY 24/7

The Playout Centre's highly experienced broadcasting professionals monitor every stage of the playout process 24 hours a day to ensure the quality of service is second to none.

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PRESENTATIONS STUDIO

Playout247™ Centre has three fully equipped, all-digital, 3-camera studios with blue-screen, auto-cue, editing, make-up and green room facilities, suitable for live broadcasts or recording.

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WORKFLOW SIMPLICITY

You simply create your programme schedules using the easy to use TV-Centre™ scheduling software. This is provided free of charge along with training. You can prepare schedules remotely from your own offices or you can use scheduling facility room at the Playout247 Centre. You can easily make last minute changes to the schedules and just e-mail updated playlists to the Playout MCR.

Multiple graphic overlays can be scheduled for each event, along with logos, clocks, animations, titles, crawls and captions. 'As-run' logs can be downloaded from the Playout247 FTP site for easy confirmation of programme transmission details.

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PLAYOUT247 PROVIDES:

Playlist Scheduling from clients’ EPG plan
Media Ingest
Playout with Logo, Clock, Graphics and Text insertion
Dedicated signal delivery lines to BT Tower and Uplink providers
1TB (or more) of hard drive storage
Live Studio and Satellite Feed Insertion and Recording
24-hour Playout and Off-air Satellite return Monitoring
BSkyB EPG preparation and insertion
Webcasting and Video on Demand Streaming
Redundant systems for emergency backup (Mirrored or n+1 redundancy available)
Scheduling software provided with training and technical support
Tape Dubbing and Standards Conversion
Media Asset Management
Media Time Booking
DVD Archiving
As-run and Commercials billing Reports
Turn-around re-broadcasting with Time delay
Post Production
Live phone-in, SMS and other Interactive-TV facilities