Pinnacle Systems has announced that Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) Hong Kong, one of the largest producers of Chinese language programming in the world, has made a significant installation of Pinnacle Systems broadcast equipment in its new broadcast center at TVB City.

An official release informs that inter-operability between these systems has enabled TVB to streamline its editing, graphics and playout operations. Around 19 FX Deko II systems are delivering multi-channel effects along with 22 Pinnacle Deko2200 2D character generators and 11 DVEXCEL systems. 20 DekoCast graphics control systems are being used to provide fully automated on air information by extracting live data and live index from the server. In addition, 30 Lightning 1000 image management systems and one unit of Thunder LT are in use.

TVB will be using the seven MediaStream 1600 server for playout of programmes and commercials utilising a completely redundant server configuration. Pinnacle Systems ConnectPlus 1000 units will be used to transfer material from a remote location to the Central Playout Center utilising a WAN infrastructure.

TVB which celebrated its 35th anniversary last November operates two local free-to-air programme channels in Hong Kong. TVB Jade and TVB Pearl offer 14,000 hours of programming to 2.1 million homes in Hong Kong. TVB also operates TVBI, which licences and distributes Chinese programmes to more than 30 countries through its overseas pay-TV platforms.

Pinnacle Systems provides broadcasters, consumers with cutting-edge digital media creation, storage, and play-back solutions for use at home, in the studio and on the air.