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M-CON is a VDCP based master control room automation for larger facilities and is a must for heavy applications. M-CON is guaranteed to automate and control any piece of equipment in the workflow, including cart machines and massive routers as well as V-SERVER and a full range of third-party VDCP controlled video servers. Since its introduction in 1988, M-CON has evolved through many versions and its redundancy management ranks as one of the best on the market. M-CON is currently sold as a standalone product.

M-CON will synchronize, control and supervise all device control operations in the ingest / playout workflow with single frame accuracy and facilitate balanced and unified running of the facility, regardless of system complexity.

M-CON is robust and intuitive to operate and has gained a reputation for providing the level of security that premium 24X7 channels require with real emphasis on the detection of possible incidents, alarm and redundancy control. Operational transparency means you can view and control the whole master control room concept by concept, input by input and device by device.

All automation functions are based around simple drag & drop operations and these include fully automated 24X7 control of all kinds of devices and other scheduled tasks. The operator can also interact with the playlist on the fly, as well as control equipment manually using individual device control panels.

Applications

• Digital TV Multi-channel broadcast 24x7
• Generic TV channels, transmission from tapes, servers and live events
• Synchronisation for regional switching of TV channels
• Planned ingest of live and recorded events
• Programmable backup copies
• Equipment control, multi-cassette robots and video
  servers from multiple vendors
• Redundancy control

Benefits

• Modular solution that can be configured to fit specific needs
• Individual versions can be adapted to particular requirements
• Simplified scalability to increase features, controlled devices and number of channels
• Integration with news systems, scheduling programs and media asset management
• Interfaces with business systems to output as run logs and processing information
• Improved operational costs - offers an economical and proven solution