Yes there are multiple alternate OS broadcast applications. I'm president of one of them, Building4Media. An associate mentioned this thread. We have about 65 of our 160 tv networks running our automation platform using the Mac platform, for example. Many of these are major networks (CNN, NFL, CSTV, BBC World Services etc.) There are other providers of non-windows systems as well.
Note that we find the Mac broadcast applications usually have some PCs around, for example doing news (ENPS/iNews etc) so cross platform operation has some advantages. For your simple schedule processing playout application, several non-windows systems can apply.
It's good to see interest in non-windows apps for broadcast. I'm president of Building4Media which has 160 TV networks on the air using our production automation and master control playout automation, with about 65 of those using the Mac side of our cross-platform application; we support both Mac and Windows and have seen a lot of interest in Mac-based broadcast applications. This includes making the Mac a broadcast video server platform with I/O via AJA Kona 3. Includes HD. Most all Mac-based broadcast installations still naturally have some windows machines (e.g. ENPS, iNews etc) in newsroom ops but its interesting to see the balance of OS platforms changing.
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Yes there are multiple alternate OS broadcast applications. I'm president of one of them, Building4Media. An associate mentioned this thread. We have about 65 of our 160 tv networks running our automation platform using the Mac platform, for example. Many of these are major networks (CNN, NFL, CSTV, BBC World Services etc.) There are other providers of non-windows systems as well. Note that we find the Mac broadcast applications usually have some PCs around, for example doing news (ENPS/iNews etc) so cross platform operation has some advantages. For your simple schedule processing playout application, several non-windows systems can apply.
It's good to see interest in non-windows apps for broadcast. I'm president of Building4Media which has 160 TV networks on the air using our production automation and master control playout automation, with about 65 of those using the Mac side of our cross-platform application; we support both Mac and Windows and have seen a lot of interest in Mac-based broadcast applications. This includes making the Mac a broadcast video server platform with I/O via AJA Kona 3. Includes HD. Most all Mac-based broadcast installations still naturally have some windows machines (e.g. ENPS, iNews etc) in newsroom ops but its interesting to see the balance of OS platforms changing.