Appear’s X5 platform has been selected to support live contribution workflows for DP World Tour golf events.
In what the company said is its first international deployment, the processing platform will be used by Cingularity, IMG’s broadcast fibre service provider, to contribute HEVC video from DP World Tour tournaments to its Stockley Park studio for onward distribution.
Designed to meet the needs of high-value, smaller-scale live productions, the X5 provides the core strengths of Appear’s X Platform in a portable form factor, for deployments where space and power draw are critical, such as regional backhaul, remote workflows, flypacks, OB trucks and mobile rigs, delivering ultra-low latency contribution, high-quality compression and resilient media transport. Integrating into SDI and IP-based infrastructure, the platform supports broadcast-grade resilience features such as SMPTE 2022-7, SRT and IP-FEC, also providing encode/decode in multiple codecs.
Commenting, Carolina Minhoto Santos, director of sales engineering at Cingularity, said, “Appear has been much more than a technology provider to us; it has also been a strong technical partner throughout the implementation process. Its close collaboration with our team made deployment straightforward, and the X Platform has helped us standardise our workflows, simplify operations and reduce complexity by reducing the need to work with multiple vendors. Just as importantly, Appear enables us to deliver excellent picture quality and low latency at low bitrates, helping us to maximise limited connectivity and do more with less.”
Andy McClelland, senior vice president EMEA & GM UK&I at Appear, added, “Cingularity’s deployment highlights how live production is evolving: becoming more distributed and agile, while delivering the same premium results broadcasters rely on from high-density solutions such as our X10 and X20 solutions, so that operators like Cingularity can deploy broadcast-grade contribution in flight cases and space-constrained environments without limiting functionality or changing how they operate.”
