Pebble has upgraded its installation at TV Novo Tempo to provide a complete an update for the channel. The new system is designed to try to allow broadcaster to move from a traditional discrete architecture to a compact software infrastructure, migrate from SDI to IP, and add new functionality while retaining operational familiarity, as the company has claimed in a statement.

Novo Tempo, based in São Paulo, Brazil, creates and delivers radio and television, and is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The television channels are broadcast 24 hours a day on cable and satellite, and on DTH in some regions, providing programming in Spanish and Portuguese.

The hardware infrastructure was life-expired, and Novo Tempo took the opportunity for a complete refresh, looking forward to improving operational flexibility, quality and reliability, and sustainability.

The new system uses the latest version of Pebble Automation, and the legacy hardware is now replaced by Pebble Integrated Channel playout engines. These software appliances include graphics and visual effects.

The new architecture is primarily based on SMPTE ST2110 IP standards. For operational flexibility preview outputs use NDI.

“What we have achieved is to bring our multi-channel operations into one point of contact, simplify our engineering, add important new tools like SCTE signalling as well as live graphics, and do it all in a very small footprint”, explained Wendel Percia, CTO at TV Novo Tempo. “Our new system is compact, with a very low power demand and carbon footprint, but at the same time we retain the familiar Pebble automation user interface, so we have no complications in the transition”.

The system was designed and implemented by Videodata, a Brazilian systems integrator and Pebble’s distribution partner in Brazil. “We have worked with Novo Tempo for a long time”, added Rosalvo Carvalho, General Director at Videodata. “They worked with us on their ideas for updating and augmenting their playout operations”.

“They view Pebble very much as a trusted supplier, and we showed how the latest technology brought all the tools they needed in a single box”, he continued. “The familiarity with their existing operations was another powerful benefit, and we showed that we could integrate with the rest of the operations simply and securely, meeting all their goals”.