Re: How will the US local area stations commerate the end of System-M?

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Dennis Majewicz <dennis.majewicz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

| Changing the EIT entries manually can be achieved, I think, but it's a
| clumsy process in some cases (I'm going by the system we use). You
| have to understand that TV stations don't operate like they have in
| the past. Staffing has been cut and in cases such as ours, we don't
| even have a master control operator on site. We are fed from a "hub"
| in a distant city and during some hours of the day there are no
| operators around. Hiring someone to enter PSIP data is out of the
| question so we have to rely on an automated system to handle it.

The PSIP data should come from the "hub".  It should come from whoever
is changing the programming.


| Originally the EIT was to be a static table - it did not change. Two
| years ago it was ordered that a dynamic PSIP be implemented that would
| show a minimun of 9 hours ahead and ideally 3 days or so of correct
| program info. This is the system we use now. Every night the editor
| goes out and collects the Tribune xml file and updates the PSIP
| generator. It's automated and works fine. Now this has to change and
| I'm not sure there's anything out there that will work seamlessly with
| our current system.

Can you send me the DTD for that XML file?  Then I might be able to
comment
on just how complicated the update can be.


| But it's not just changing the times. The mandated "accurate
| information" will have to include titles in the case of breaking news
| or other specials. And consider sliding a whole evening's schedule
| because s****ts ran long. Newscasts are sometimes collapsed or
| eliminated. It can really pile up and get to be a chore. Information
| from the playback server's automation is the key but is still under
| development.

So the problem is that tying it to the playback server has NOT been done,
and it was really just a reflection of the original traffic schedule?

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