Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - Clear Water Bay playout and uplink centre (now owned by Jacky Chan)
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - Clear Water Bay playout and uplink centre (now owned by Jacky Chan)
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - DMV/NDS/NTL 12RU MPEG Encoders built into a 10+2 system to supply a single 36MHz transpoder - This was the first operational DVB-S system on the planet
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - racks and racks of MPEG encoder systems - mostly 12RU with some DMV System 3000 6RU systems
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - DMV System3000 system 6RU encoders built into a 6+2 system
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - DMV System3000 system 6RU encoders built into a 6+2 system
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
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Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - DMV Series 3000 MPEG 2 encoder systems
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - DMV/NDS/NTL 12RU MPEG 2 Encoder Systems that incorporated the first attempts at statistical multiplexing - the display shows the statmux status
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - DMV/NDS/NTL 12RU MPEG Encoders built into a 10+2 system to supply a single 36MHz transpoder - This was the first operational DVB-S system on the planet
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
NDS "Papa Bear" CA System installed in STARTV Hong Kong circa 1996. The servers are HPUX systems.
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
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Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - STAR operated six Sony LMS machines
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
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Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - Dubbing
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - LMS dub-in operations
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - early IP networking
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - a row of HPUX servers
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - a row of HPUX servers
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - MIS computer room - note the HPUX machines
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
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Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - MIS operations room
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - channel playout shite used for live event integrations and complex channels
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - channel playout shite used for live event integrations and complex channels
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - Channel [V] playout suite produced three [V] channels
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - Channel [V] playout suite produced three [V] channels - note the Sony FlexiCarts
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - playout mini-suite used for channels that were more complex that could be accommodated in a POD
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - playout mini-suite used for channels that were more complex that could be accommodated in a POD
Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
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Andrew and Kathy Robertson:
STAR TV Hong Kong - PODs in operation
