Brazil’s Record TV helps spur ATG to fiscal-year growth
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Michelle Clancy
| 22 November 2018

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ATG Danmon said that it has seen continuing growth in demand for systems integration services throughout the broadcast industry in 2018, including one big customer in Brazil.

"2018 saw ATG Danmon successfully completing a large number of projects," said ATG MD Russell Peirson-Hagger (left). "Our year's activities started with the fulfilment of the latest in a series of technical upgrades for the London-based UK studios of Brazilian free-to-air commercial television broadcaster Record TV Network.”

Record TV broadcasts to over 150 countries on five continents including about 80% of the European population. According to Peirson-Hagger, the project included the redesign and wiring of the Record TV studio facility plus the installation of video routers and signal converters. Also integrated into the Record TV production system was audio to PC interfacing, enabling high quality audio communication via Skype TX for Radio.

Other significant projects for the year include the modernisation of a television gallery at BBC Scotland in Glasgow; a contract to design, assemble and integrate two mobile video production systems for “one of Europe's longest established parliamentary television channels”; a media asset management and archive system for one of London's leading theatres; an SD-to-HD upgrade for a global television network; and others.

"2018 was forecast to be the year SDI buckled under pressure from IP,” the Peirson-Hagger continued. “The reality is that IP has simply become another way to get signals from content from one location to another, with obvious attractions for new-builds but less so for the established SD-SDI and HD-SDI broadcasters and supporting service-providers. The industry's eyes should now be on the integration of 4K and potentially 8K into the HD production environment with all the potential that offers for lossless HD cut-out from higher resolution sources. It will be interesting to see if the introduction of regular 8K broadcasting in Japan from December 1 proves a sufficient spur for manufacturers to introduce sensibly priced 8K cameras, production equipment and displays."