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Omneon is a leading provider of media server and active storage solutions used to support the acquisition, production, management and distribution of digital media content. The company's products allow broadcasters and media production facilities to streamline their workflows and capitalize on the transition to a file-based environment.

With a proven track record of integrating IT and broadcast best practices with advanced system architectures, Omneon has established a leadership position in the market for providing customers with infrastructure solutions that are flexible, scalable, reliable and highly cost-effective.

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Omneon Intros Reflect Strategy to Stretch

by Deborah D. McAdams, May 7, 2008

Omneon’s expansion plans were revealed at the 2008 NAB Show in a nondescript room at The Palms Resort.

Omneon Strives to Ease Workflows

by Susan Ashworth, April 7, 2008

Omneon heads to the NAB Show to smooth workflows and help unscramble the sometimes-tricky world of content repurposing.

Extending the Serial ATA Interface

by Karl Paulsen, March 3, 2008

A drawback, at least for today, is that while eSATA can provide faster transfer rates than USB or FireWire, it requires its own power connector and external supply, something that is being addressed now within the standards community.

The Makeup of Digital Cinema Server Systems

by Karl Paulsen, February 6, 2008

The entire Digital Cinema System is built upon a data file-based design where all of the content is made up of data stored in files that are organized around the image frames; thus the “file” is the most basic component of the system.

Omneon Helps Launch Equity’s RTN

by Chuck Stanley,
Chuck Stanley is the chief engineer for EMHC and its proprietary network RTN. He has been with Equity since March of 2004.

Omneon Supports Streamlined Station Growth at WHSV-TV3

by Sean Harper,
Chief Engineer, WHSV-TV / WHSV-DT

TV3 Enhances with Omneon and OmniBus

by Ahmad Mahmood,
Ahmad Mahmood is Deputy Manager of TV3.

WUSA Plans Local News in HD

by Bob Kovacs,
Bob Kovacs is an engineer and singer/guitarist. He can be reached at pvreditor@yahoo.com.

A Better Way to Closed Caption Compliance

After an eight-year transition, and much industry debate, the era of television closed captioning has fully arrived. As of the beginning of 2006, due to a government mandate, most new English language broadcast programming must include text captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. It's the right thing to do.

Tackling the HD Challenge

In moving to HD, broadcasters must make myriad choices on formats, standards and bit rates before selecting new equipment for HD ingest, production and playout. U.S. broadcasters must also clear the extra hurdle of maintaining their existing standard-definition analog broadcasts while launching a new HD service, which means designing systems that can support both SD and HD operations for several years.

The Omneon ProBrowse Advantage:

The television industry is in a period of immense change. Multiple transitions--both in technology and business models--are occurring simultaneously. The emergence of HDTV, new program delivery platforms, and a file-based IT broadcast infrastructure are challenging broadcasters throughout the world.

SUCCESS STORY: Twin Cities Public Television

Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), is a St. Paul, Minn. non-commercial broadcaster that operates two PBS stations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market. They recently installed a two-terabyte Omneon Spectrum system that functions as a central production server by recording incoming local and network feeds and networking to multiple nonlinear editors. The facility is under the control of Sundance Digital's various automation, archive, and list management systems. With this installation TPT moved to a tapeless all-digital environment and now benefits from on-line non-linear editing, desktop browse and proxy review capabilities, as well as automated ingest and playout.

SUCCESS STORY: KLCS TV

Southern California's KLCS, a PBS member station known as the "Education Station," is a noncommercial educational television station licensed to the Los Angeles County School District (LAUSD). The facility has installed a 28-channel Omneon Spectrum™ media server system to support multi-channel broadcasting, high definition television, near video on demand, and datacasting services.

SUCCESS STORY: Canal 22

Televisión Metropolitana Canal 22, the official television channel of the Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts, employs an Omneon Spectrum™ media server system in its Mexico City facility for commercial, promo, network ID and program playout. In addition to providing a foundation for tapeless operations, the server system allows Canal 22 to streamline its master control workflow, synchronize essential portions of its national and international channel feeds, and improve interaction between playout and production. The modularity and Smart Scalability™ of the Omneon Spectrum media server delivers a custom fit for Canal 22's current needs and allows for future incremental expansion.