With expertise in playout, integrated channel and workflow automation, Pebble is showing customers’ playout deployments, including a recent IP video project at Taiwan’s Videoland.
With expertise in broadcast playout, integrated channel and workflow automation, Pebble is exhibiting at Broadcast Asia 2026, coming to Singapore Expo, 20-22 May 2026. The show will be an opportunity to explore Pebble’s work on a number of playout deployments, including a recent project with Taiwanese broadcaster Videoland.
Videoland Television Network, a cable TV network provider and one of Taiwan's main satellite television program providers, broadcasts seven channels of programming.
Delivered in collaborating with systems integrator Ideal Systems (Taiwan) Media Technology, Pebble Automation and Integrated Channel technology became the centre of a 10-channel ST 2110 primary playout operation, delivering tightly synchronised, high-performance playout across 10 primary and 10 disaster recovery sites.
Automated HTML5 Graphics
Graphics workflows combine RT Software graphics plugins with Pebble's HTML5 graphics engine. Pebble's Automatic Promotion feature populates dynamic on-air graphics directly from live playlist data – reducing manual intervention and improving on-air accuracy.
Pebble Automation can schedule graphic events, including live HTML5 overlays and animated HTML5 graphics, rendered in real-time within Pebble Integrated Channel. Dynamic text and image fields within the graphics can be controlled through automation and defined in the playlist.
Live graphics created by a third party – such as RT Software – can be scheduled in automation, rendering a pre-defined graphic URL on top of active video. The third-party application can then control the active URL and trigger positioning and display of graphical elements.
Remote Access and Monitoring
Remote access and monitoring is handled via Pebble Remote, a web-based monitoring and control tool. Remote enables users to monitor, manage and control channels securely from inside or outside the normal transmission environment. Its web-based dashboards are configurable to achieve the specific functionality the organisation needs.
Typical monitoring applications – for all channels from any location – include identifying playlist and system errors by exception across single or multiple Pebble Automation systems, and monitoring low latency outputs from Integrated Channel devices.
Content management, which works across multiple sites and systems, streams video from storage, review clips and segment metadata. Ingest ports are capable of allocating ingest dynamically and automatically resolving ingest scheduling conflicts.
Ultimately, users gain considerable control over channel playout operations through real-time playlist manipulation, control and media-aware multi-channel monitoring. They can also configure dedicated buttons and alerts for tailored functionality.
Two Independent Systems
The deployment is engineered in a triple-redundant configuration across two independent systems, with a geographically separated disaster recovery site ensuring continuous service delivery. Its hybrid approach – ST 2110 IP at the primary site, SDI at the recovery site – allows Videoland to deploy modern IP infrastructure without compromising the resilience that operations like this demand.
“Broadcasters across Asia-Pacific are moving toward IP, but they can’t afford to take risks with reliability – that tension is something we understand well. The Videoland project is a great example of how you can do both, and it’s exactly the kind of work we’re looking forward to talking about in Singapore,” said Samir Isbaih, VP Sales, Middle East and APAC, Pebble. www.pebble.tv
