(Tokyo, Japan) – Sony Corporation announced that Fuji Television Network, Inc. (Fuji TV) has selected Sony’s Networked News Production System for use as the company’s new “News VTR System”.

             The system Sony will supply to Fuji TV is a Networked News Production System based on “XDCAM HD” and it integrates the news production process from planning to playout. Sony will provide a total content management system that incorporates both the content server and playout systems to seamlessly manage program information. 

             This news production system is based on Fuji TV’s “File Based Workflow” concept. Sony’s Networked News Production System, which is based on the MPEG HD422 codec (50Mb/s・MPEG-2 422P@HL/ MXF-OP1a) used in its “XDCAM HD422” series, is a networked server system enabling file-based operation from planning, acquisition and editing to playout.

1. Offers seamless metadata flow, as well as a total solution that integrates every aspect of the news production process-from planning, acquisition and editing to playout, and archive.
2. Provides high-quality recording at a low bit rate based on the MPEG HD422 compression technology used in “XDCAM HD422.”
3. The MXF file format used throughout the production process - from planning, acquisition and editing to playout - delivers a fast and high quality server-based news production system. 
4. The latest proxy recording system “Proxy AV data” featured in “XDCAM” products enables effective Networked News Production Systems to be established.