Kuwait’s Alrai TV replaces monitor stacks

Kuwaiti broadcaster Alrai TV has replaced its monitor stacks in control rooms and playout with a multiviewer system from Apantac. The station has also added a multiviewer in the MCR and its dubbing rooms for video monitoring. The ten year old screens were replaced by multiple 60” LEDs at the broadcaster’s headquarters in Kuwait City.

The new multiviewers combine video and audio sources that provide critical monitoring core for all of Alrai TV’s video signals. These multiviewers are used to monitor a combination of autosense analogue, SD and HD video source inputs. The sources are fed into displays and support HDMI /DVI /VGA outputs at resolutions up to 2048×1080.

“Our engineering staff found that Apantac’s TAHOMA multiviewers are an extremely flexible and modular solution that fits their technical requirements,” commented Eng. Tarek Majdalani, Director of Engineering & Operation at Alrai TV.

“TAHOMA Multiviewers give us high quality monitoring of multiple input sources at an excellent price/performance ratio and have allowed us to centralise our monitoring requirements.  The installation and replacement of the old system was done in-house by Alrai’s engineering team, added Majdalani.

The TAHOMA series is a 3G family of multiviewers that auto-detects video inputs (HD/SD-SDI/Composite), supports DVI, HDMI and VGA outputs up to 2048×1080 (incl. 1080P), and includes built-in video and audio alarm detection. It incorporates a built-in CATx extender, which allows digital 1080P signals to be extended up to 115 feet. The unique combination of a Multiviewer and built-in CATx extender in a single solution helps reduce overall equipment costs and eliminates any equipment compatibility issues that may arise.