France Télévisions has taken delivery of 12 Kaleido KIP-X240 IP Multiviewers from Grass Valley as it moves from an SDI to SMPTE ST 2110 workflow.
The public service broadcaster is in the process of moving to a UHD workflow across its France 2 and France 3 channels in time for the Summer Games. France 2 is already broadcasting the French Open from Roland Garros in UHD.
According to Grass Valley, France TV anticipates acquiring more units over the course of their three-year contract to eventually replace its SDI-based Grass Valley Kaleido-X and Kaleido-MX multiviewers The new KIP-X240 IP Multiviewers will be configured with Mellanox 2110 cards that enable ST 2110 UHD and HD/3G video monitoring, added Grass Valley.
“The French broadcast TV market is moving rapidly to ST 2110 for its exceptional quality and operational efficiency,” said Yannick Olivier, solution architect 2110 for France Télévisions.
“Our ST 2110 transition is intended to lay the groundwork for higher quality live UHD-HDR and 3GHD production, particularly for premiere sporting events, such as the major international competitions this summer. We know that the KIP-X240s will integrate seamlessly within our control rooms while preserving the X-Edit functionality we’ve come to rely on with our SDI-based Kaleidos.”
X-Edit enables operators to design the layout and configuration of multiple live video images on a single large display, said Grass Valley. The open standards-based platform is also NMOS-compliant.
You can read more about France Télévisions’ move to IP in the May/June 2024 issue of TVBEurope.
