02 Jun 2008
Pebble Beach Systems and Blue Order prove perfect match for Plazamedia
Pebble Beach Systems, a leader in automation and media management solutions, today announces that Plazamedia, the German Sports and Media Production group, has chosen Neptune to automate its batch ingest facilities.
Plazamedia is one of the leading full-service TV providers in Germany and the largest German sports TV producer. Their eCenter, based in Munich, provides various archiving and tapeless production services to customers, using Media Archive from Blue Order. Customers with large volumes of tapes require Plazamedia to provide mass ingest services which are able to handle hundreds of cassettes and deliver encoding, cataloguing and quality control in an efficient workflow. Working in conjunction with Media Archive, Neptune provides the automated control of VTRs, Sony cart machines and video servers.
Neptune's installation at the eCenter will be the second successful collaboration between Pebble Beach Systems and Blue Order, the first being at YLE in Finland. Neptune offers 3rd party systems a wide range of flexible open protocols to enable the exchange of information for device control, metadata exchange, job lists and status reporting. The eCenter project will see Neptune and Media Archive exploit these protocols to deliver the end-to-end integrated workflow required by Plazamedia.
Plazamedia foresees customer demand for these services increasing in future and the scaleable nature of Neptune will allow them to easily expand the system to increase capacity. Neptune's broadcast pedigree - providing on-air levels of reliability, will also allow Plazamedia to rely on access to the system and prevent backlogs being created.
