The expansion of MTVNI Amsterdam, which is located in Amsterdam's Media Wharf and shares playout of the MTV and Nickelodeon channels with MTVNI London, will allow playout of up to 75 channels as of July 2010.

The two Kaleido-X multi-viewers, each configured 96x4, will feed multiple 70" cube displays in the facility's two new master control rooms. The NVISION 8576 router, populated as 306x612, will sit at the heart of MTVNI Amsterdam's playout operations. Operated by an NVISION 9000 router controller, it will feed the facility's signal processing and transportation to the different regions.

MTVNI Amsterdam plans to integrate its existing Miranda iControl facility monitoring system with the new Kaleido-X multi-viewers. The iControl system will display streaming video with audio level meters and closed-captioning text from control probes across the system. The facility already uses other Miranda gear, including a number of Imagestore750 master control/channel branding processors.

"We have relied upon Miranda's equipment for a number of years, and it has been a key part of our successful operations," says Erik Walrecht, broadcast solutions architect at MTVNI Amsterdam. "With this expanded playout system, we can achieve a significantly lower cost per channel."

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