SVBC TV

Sri Venkateswara Bhakti Channel is a 24 hour religious channel broadcast and the pioneer
Bhakthi channel of TTD (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams) - one of the richest and most revered Temples in India. Its main content is Hindu devotional programs and it is transmitted on
three different channels in the different regional languages. They have the capacity to transmit up to 4 channels from their Teleport.
Before we considered the problems and requests of the client, we checked the available facilities at the time of engagement. SVBC's playout was through an Omneon Playout Server. They
had 15 edit suites consisting predominantly of FCP machines. The live programs were transmitted from the temple and their content was previously resident on tape. The programs
which were available on tape where digitised on a daily basis based on the playlist with the
format being DV50.

The objective was to present the way forward in choosing an architecture for implementing the MAM. Over the years, SVBC had acquired about 10,000 hours footige on Tape. At a bit rate of 50MB per second 1000 hours of tape will be about 22.5 TB of Storage. The initial requirement was to convert 5000 hours material on tape into digital storage (about 100 TB of usable storage). This 100TB requirement of storage was split into Online storage – storage which is accessible instantly and used on daily basis and Near-line storage – storage which is not instantly available but which can be retrieved without any manual intervention. The general plan was: about 40 TB of storage as online storage and the rest on a tape library. The tape library could be easily augmented as storage accumulates with time.