RTV Slovenia chooses Enterprise sQ for news and sports production

Slovenian state broadcaster selects Quantel solution for its speed to air and ease of use.

RTV Slovenia has chosen the technology Quantel sQ in your production center to handle all your news, magazines, studio clips and sports. The system, selected following a rigorous bidding process, has been ordered through Quantel partner O-Video, a solutions distributor and systems integrator.

The RTV system will be built around four Quantel sQ servers, with a total of more than 3,000 hours of media storage using HD MPEG4 AVCI compression. The system supports more than 120 journalist and producer positions with sQ Cut desktop editors, along with 19 Qube and sQ Edit editors. Quantel's Mission will be in charge of media management and ingest while playout will be in the hands of sQ Play.

The system will also incorporate Quantel's revolutionary QTube solution that allows you to establish a workflow anywhere in the world, allowing field production teams to edit their parts with their own material and with that hosted in headquarters through a standard Internet connection.

Matjaz Fajdiga, technical director of RTV Slovenia, is delighted to "award this contract to O-Video to deploy the entire Quantel Enterprise sQ infrastructure. The fast and powerful performance offered by Quantel's exclusive video single frame-based sQ server technology, combined with the elegant and easy-to-use editing interface will significantly improve our ability to quickly create and efficiently air broadcast news and sports content."

Ovi Preda, CEO of O-Video, commented: "It has been a pleasure to work with the Quantel team on this offering. Their professional and consultative approach makes me confident that they will provide RTV Slovenia with a powerful solution that will meet their current and future needs."

Martin Mulligan, sales director at Quantel, said: "This sale represents the further growth of our installed base of sQ systems in Central Europe. We look forward to working with RTV Slovenia and am confident that it will be a quick and smooth installation."