In broadcast facilities and television studios, a central apparatus room (CAR, pronounced "C-A-R"), central machine room, or central equipment room (CER), or central technical area (CTA), or rack room is where shared equipment common to all technical areas is located. Some broadcast facilities have several of these rooms. It should be air-conditioned, however low-noise specifications such as acoustical treatments are optional.[1] Equipment is connected either directly with an attached foldout monitor, keyboard and mouse or remotely via KVM switch, ssh, VNC, RS-232 or remote desktop.
They contain broadcast and monitoring equipment, through which all the operations are monitored by the transmission engineer, without disturbing the studio recordings. CER may also house analog and digital TV transmission systems, satellite up-link systems, digital processing synchronizers, video patch panels, and audio patch panels, including video monitors.[2][3]
^Clyde Broadcast – The CTA (Central Technical Area) July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^Faculty of Communication – Confluence – The Ravensbourne Wiki – Central Apparatus Room (CAR) September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^Bob Zelin U N L E A S H E D Series – Why do you want Central Machine Room? September 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
January 06, 2023
central, apparatus, room, broadcast, facilities, television, studios, central, apparatus, room, pronounced, central, machine, room, central, equipment, room, central, technical, area, rack, room, where, shared, equipment, common, technical, areas, located, som. In broadcast facilities and television studios a central apparatus room CAR pronounced C A R central machine room or central equipment room CER or central technical area CTA or rack room is where shared equipment common to all technical areas is located Some broadcast facilities have several of these rooms It should be air conditioned however low noise specifications such as acoustical treatments are optional 1 Equipment is connected either directly with an attached foldout monitor keyboard and mouse or remotely via KVM switch ssh VNC RS 232 or remote desktop WREX TV tech core or CAR Contents 1 Equipment 1 1 Common equipment 2 See also 3 ReferencesEquipment Edit 19 inch racks of VTR and Professional Disc decks at Fuji TV These rooms contain broadcast and broadcast IT mission critical gear necessary to broadcast and television operations CARs usually house audio routers video routers video servers compressors and multiplexers that utilize broadcast automation systems with broadcast programming applications to playout television programs They contain broadcast and monitoring equipment through which all the operations are monitored by the transmission engineer without disturbing the studio recordings CER may also house analog and digital TV transmission systems satellite up link systems digital processing synchronizers video patch panels and audio patch panels including video monitors 2 3 Common equipment Edit 19 inch racks Antenna tracking system Audio router Broadcast delay Camera control units CCUs Conditional access system Character generator subtitling systems Distribution frame Digital TV encoder Fiber optic transceiver Frame synchronizers GPS receivers High power amplifiers for transmission television transmitter Integrated receiver decoder IRD IF distribution Media storage Multiplexer Network switch Audio monitoring tools Radio frequency devices Router Serial digital interface SDI audio de embedder Talkback recording Transport stream analyzer VTRs and or VCRs formerly replaced with video servers Video router Video server also called playout server Video switcher frame or main unit video monitoring tools Video monitor Vectorscope Waveform monitorSee also EditBroadcast engineering Data center Master control room MCR Network operations center NOC Production control room PCR Server room Server farm Transmission control room TCR References Edit Clyde Broadcast The CTA Central Technical Area Archived July 8 2011 at the Wayback Machine Faculty of Communication Confluence The Ravensbourne Wiki Central Apparatus Room CAR Archived September 27 2007 at the Wayback Machine Bob Zelin U N L E A S H E D Series Why do you want Central Machine Room Archived September 2 2007 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Central apparatus room amp oldid 1091640014, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
