Myanmar’s
MRTV
Selected
Grass
Valley’s
Broadcast
Infrastructure
Solutions
for
Southeast
Asian
Games
International
Broadcast
Center
March 17, 2014
Grass
Valley
supplied
Myanmar’s
MRTV
with a
robust
solution
for the
capture
and
delivery
of live
HD
coverage
of the
2013
Southeast
Asian
(SEA)
Games.
This
solution
included
a
sophisticated
broadcast
infrastructure
for
MRTV’s
International
Broadcast
Center
(IBC),
which
was
designed
to
enable
unilateral
broadcast
services
for the
Games.
MRTV
operates
Myanmar’s
state-owned
satellite
television
station
MRTV.
The
station
airs 12
local
channels
and 14
regional
channels
throughout
Myanmar,
reaching
millions
of
viewers.
For the
IBC,
Grass
Valley
provided
the
design
and
installation
of the
broadcast
infrastructure,
which
included
facility
routing,
ingest,
playout,
satellite
uplink,
fiber
transmission
and
venue
communications.
For a
streamlined
workflow,
MRTV
purchased
50 seats
of GV
STRATUS
nonlinear
media
production
tools,
which
were
used by
IBC
broadcast
staff as
the
primary
platform
for
ingest,
editing
and
content
management.
GV
STRATUS
was
additionally
used by
individual
broadcasters
to
search
content
and edit
complete
packages
for
their
own
broadcasts.
The
system
was used
in
tandem
with
EDIUS®
Pro 7
multiformat
nonlinear
editing
software
and a
Trinix
NXT
multiformat
digital
video
routing
switcher
with
multiviewer—incorporating
advanced
multiviewer
circuit
technology
and
eliminates
the need
for
secondary
external
components
and
connections.
Rounding
out
MRTV’s
IBC
solution,
Grass
Valley
partnered
with
Broadcast
Solutions,
a
Singapore-based
rental
and
production
company,
to
supply
two
Kayenne
Video
Production
Center
switchers
and 18
LDX
WorldCam
advanced
imaging
camera
systems.
Coverage
was
broadcast
live
throughout
the
region
as well
as
distributed
to
multiple
platforms
including
the
official
SEA
Games
YouTube
channel.
“We
wanted
to equip
the IBC
with
state-of-the-art
and
growth-oriented
technology,
and
Grass
Valley
was the
natural
choice
to help
us with
this,”
said U
Tint Swe,
Director
General
at MRTV.
“In an
impressive
seven
months,
Grass
Valley
not only
designed
and
built
the
IBC’s
broadcast
infrastructure,
but also
the
support
system
for
satellite
uplink
and
fiber
transmissions.
Our
broadcast
center
delivered
high-quality
coverage
of the
SEA
Games
without
a
hitch,”
U Tint
Swe
continued.
“Grass Valley was so pleased to help provide coverage of this momentous live sporting event in Myanmar,” remarked Stephen Wong, Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific, Grass Valley. “In the competitive world of live sports, it’s essential that MRTV had the requisite architecture in place to ensure top-quality HD broadcast was delivered for the SEA Games, as well as a flexible solution that can keep them on the leading edge in this ever changing broadcast environment.”