Broadcast & Multimedia

Channel One is a Bengali language satellite television channel from Bangladesh which started broadcasting from Dhaka on 24 January 2006. O’Connor’s was the preferred solutions partner for the setup of Channel One’s Dhaka TV facility. This unique solution used many diverse components:

• Broadcasting and television transmission equipment
• Ingest facility
• Fully equipped news and production studio
• Automated playout facility
• Graphics and post-production facility
• Content preview room
• Earth station equipment

Infinite Frameworks has built a dedicated 3D animation pipeline studio for long form animation and TV content. O’Connor’s supplied and installed this studio which was the first animation studio in South-East Asia.

MediaCorp TV, the largest terrestrial broadcaster in Singapore producing entertainment, news and information programmes, has been O’Connor’s customer ever since broadcasting was established in Singapore. We have equipped and installed more than 50 digital non-linear editing, compositing and finishing systems both on Mac and Windows XP platform which supports HD, SD and DV formats. TVMobile, MediaCorp’s first outdoor digital television channel, currently uses the hardware-independent video editing solution which was set up by O’Connor’s.

The National Library Drama Centre adds to Singapore's pool of world-class purpose built performing arts spaces with its 615-seat proscenium theatre. O’Connor’s equipped the theatre with state-of-the-art lighting, rigging and sound systems, and an orchestra pit on a lift that can also form a front stage extension. This was the first theatre in Singapore to use ETCNet2 as the infrastructure for transmitting DMX signals from the consoles to the receiver, for example, for dimmers, moving lights, and colour changers. More complex work was completed whereby two venues were linked together so that they can be operated from the control room of either venue.

Singapore Zoological Gardens – Night Safari Amphitheatre. In 2003, O’Connor’s was invited to work with a Lighting consultant from the UK, Mr Simon Corder, to complete an indoor and outdoor lighting project. Strand dimmers and power patch panels for the armor cable were deployed in the indoor installation system and laid from seven outdoor lighting poles. The Night Safari was particular concerned about lightning strikes and the system which was set up had to ensure safety and meet the customer’s stringent requirements in this area.