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BCE offers numerous custom-made playout solutions, from highly sophisticated broadcasting for Generalist TVs to basic playout for low-budget thematic Channels.

Whatever the level of sophistication required, BCE always uses full digital server-based solutions, enabling the re-use of digital video contents as many times as needed without any additional processing.

For Generalist TV Channels, the complete package includes play-list management, logistics for handling the media, digitizing and filing, live-feed reception, MPEG-2 server-based play-out, final control of broadcasts with logo or character insertions, digital storage of content, signal quality monitoring, signal delivery to uplink points or to cable networks.

Many additional services are offered “à la carte”: press bulletin preparation, production of trailers, quality control of delivered material, supply of archive material, teletext services, authors’ rights declarations, as run log monitoring, program grid design, etc...

Flexible playout solutions for thematic Channels: thematic niche channels often have a high number of repeated programmes. They can thus fully benefit from BCE's video-server based infrastructure to rapidly set up the new TV program and play over and over selected sequences of content, with the same perfect quality. Play list management can be kept extremely simple thanks to the use of in-house developed software tools. Signals produced are in strict compliance with the DVB standards. They can be encoded at the bit-rate of your choice, either free-to-air or scrambled, and be delivered directly to the main satellite or cable operators (SES Astra main uplink centre in Betzdorf or to EutelSat Hot Bird facilities in Luxemburg,...).