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Be On A Satellite In Five Minutes
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a te l l i te p r o d u c t d e s i g n
specialist SIS LIVE and wireless
technologies expert Broadcast
Sports, Inc. (BSI) collaborated on
the cutting edge VSAT product,
ManPak100.
The innovative tripod-style satellite
terminal, integrated with BSI's market
leading Real Freedom COFDM
platform, allows ManPak100 units
to capture live video feeds from a
camera transmitter from a radius
of approximately 1.5km via a small
COFDM transmitter mounted on a
camera and integral receiver located
within the ManPak100 terminal. This
source can then be transmitted via
a Ka or Ku band satellite of choice
back to base.
The integrated COFDM receiver
means that no cabling is required
to connect to a camera, giving
users the Real Freedom to capture

images from mobile sources which
could include everything from HD
broadcast cameras, miniature
body-worn cameras, to airborne
drone EO/IR cameras. The
integration of these two cuttingedge technologies provides all
the necessary connectivity in one
rugged, waterproof package, with
no decoding/recoding required from
camera through to destination.
"The technology of our Real
Freedom system has allowed us
to collaborate closely and partner
with SIS LIVE," explains BSI (UK)
Managing Director, Lee Norton. "We
have worked together to provide
one of the most innovative and
easy-to-use products of its kind in
the market with connectivity for all
remote situations."
The ManPak100 leads the way
in the next generation of satellite

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ManPak 100 Interface and Controls

terminals. This 1m
and 1.2m antenna
comes with a
revolutionary control
case which makes
the acquisition of
satellites simple,
even for nontechnical users,
through the use
of two simple
wheels controlling
the azimuth and
elevation, and an
award winning
GUI. ManPak100
also features a
connection and
ManPak 100 System
integrated housing
for a high-grade encryption device.
broadcast or prosumer cameras.
ManPak100 is low-cost, incredibly
The Real Freedom Receiver's
quick to deploy, and can be on a
intelligent design makes system
satellite in less than five minutes.
conﬁguration and overall operation
The BSI Real Freedom Camera
fast and easy. The receiver's front
Back Transmitter is a compact,
panel ﬁve-inch colour monitor can
wireless transmitter equipped with
display all formats of received video
a full range of customisable settings
and is equipped with an intuitive,
that can be easily adjusted through
user-friendly interface.
a user-friendly interface. With a
ManPak100 is lightweight, IATA
ﬁrst in class, 3G 1080p encoder,
compliant and packs into two robust
the transmitter is capable of full
cases which lock together, making
10-bit, 4:2:2 sampling throughout
one hostess style trolley case for
all resolutions and frame rates. It
easy transportation. The completely
consistently delivers low latency,
waterproof and rugged design
high quality images and mounts
allows for operation in even the
easily on the back of most hand-held
most challenging of conditions.

Content Preservation At RTV Slovenia
By Martin Zvelc
Head of RTV Slovenia's mediaTeka
TV Slovenia (Radiotelevizija
Slovenija), the country's national
broadcaster is a public non-proﬁt
broadcasting organisation that
operates both radio and television
stations serving the populace,
including the countr y's two
indigenous linguistic minorities.
Like other national broadcasters,
RTV Slovenia has an important role
to play in the preservation of the
country's cultural heritage, so our
content archive is a priority. We
have a dual purpose: to preserve the
content in perpetuity for historical
documentation, and to make the
content readily available for use
by production teams. These two
functions might appear more or
less similar, but in practice there
are some quite major differences
in approach between archiving for
posterity, and for production. In
the past, some organisations have

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developed parallel content archiving
operations to meet these differing
requirements, but that is not efficient.
Therefore in choosing the
technology, we've been careful
to specify systems that can
accommodate both functions and
the workﬂows they imply. NOA's
suite of tools has allowed us to
meet our goals in a very ﬂexible
way, integrating archiving operations
into our workﬂows the way we want
to, and satisfying the requirements
of both the archive team and the
production departments.
We've had long experience
with NOA's mediARC system,
and recently we've extended our
installation to include two dualchannel NOA Framelector systems,
a VidCheck VideoFileAnalyser, and
MediaButler for Video. These
additions give us the capacity
to accelerate the digitisation

throughput of a library of 80,000
are performed on a large volume
betacam tapes, creating lossless
of material in a repetitive way, the
master copies and employing more
system design is critical to the
advanced and detailed approach to
efﬁciency of the team and its work.
quality control.
Ideally, a system should provide
We have also benefited from
a high degree of automated
the new installation by developing
assistance with tasks such as quality
new workﬂows for the production
control and content analysis, while
teams, with streamlined supply of
helping operators remain vigilant
production copies in a range of
even in a rapid workﬂow. The NOA
resolutions from the lossless master.
system helps us to do all that, with
The NOA system's use of
features such as QC of analogue
mathematically lossless open
video transfers with ISR and RF
source formats based upon FFv1
read-outs, and complete content
is a vital feature, guaranteeing the
analysis of ingested SD material.
preservation of
the archive at the
highest quality.
From this master
format, we can
be sure of retranscoding the
content in the
future for use
in any kind of
new production
system
or
required format.
Naturally
i n a rc h i v i n g ,
where a range RTV Slovenia utilises NOA Audio tools for
of operations archiving operations

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