Sky News Australia Selects Omnitek For digital video signal monitoring
Quinto Communications has announced that award winning News Channel provider Sky News Australia has selected and installed Omnitek video and audio test and measurement equipment for its Sydney based multi-channel TV News and Weather Broadcast facility.
Both the Omnitek OTM-1000 portable digital video and digital audio analysis system and the Omnitek OTR-1001 rack mounted digital video analysis system have been installed at the Sky News networks live production facility.
The Omnitek analysers can be optioned to provide a comprehensive set of measurements to ensure compliance of broadcast video and digital audio signals with industry specifications and standards, plus to allow signal trouble-shooting.
Facilities of the units include picture monitoring, audio monitoring, waveform monitor, vectorscope, video gamut monitoring, audio level and audio loudness metering and compliance logging (in accordance with local Australian Operational Practices), and local subtitle decoding, display, and logging, all for both standard definition and high definition video sources.
For trouble shooting the units can also perform comprehensive digital video signal eye pattern and jitter analysis plus Omnitek unique in service video and audio sync analysis allows for the measurement of video and audio delays, and hence of any introduced lip sync errors, through a broadcast chain whilst it is live on-air.
Any combination of the available test and measurement instruments can be viewed simultaneously in any custom instrument layout created by the operator.
The OTR-1001 system, which is capable of driving high resolution external monitoring displays, and of being operated using keyboard and mouse as well as from the units local front panel, is therefore ideal as a digital video and audio analysis system that can be connected to a keyboard mouse and monitor (KVM) switching system so that a single unit can be accessed and shared by multiple operator positions within a facility.