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The tech centre is chilled down to 5°<br />
Celsius. This is where all channel processing<br />
modules (left) for the 16 S band and<br />
IPTV channels are installed. To the right<br />
you can see the <strong>satellite</strong> receivers which<br />
are connected to each other via Ethernet<br />
and can be remotely controlled by PC.<br />
While the ship is anchored in harbour,<br />
the IT team installs dishes and uses<br />
them to record the live stream of Fashion<br />
TV in order to play back the program<br />
while the ship is at sea. Here you can<br />
see Jon Clarke, the owner of JSAT.TV in<br />
Bangkok, next to the two C band antennas.<br />
One is aligned to ASIASAT 3 at 100.5°<br />
East and the other one to INTELSAT 7,10<br />
at 68.5° East.<br />
We visited the Fashion TV ship in Bangkok. The vessel<br />
was originally equipped and converted in Greece, “but<br />
the technology was a huge mess and didn’t work at all,“<br />
according to Jon of JSAT.TV, a Bangkok company specialising<br />
in <strong>satellite</strong> technology. “We had to exchange the entire<br />
TV system on the ship and partially converted it to IPTV,“<br />
he continues.<br />
Bogdan is responsible for the on-board video technology<br />
and explains that “almost 500 TVs are connected to the<br />
system, and apart from a couple of monitors all are 16:9<br />
flat screens.“<br />
So the Fashion TV ship features more TVs than most<br />
hotels. All cabins and each meeting and conference<br />
area, all stairways, bars and dance floors of the ship are<br />
equipped with flat screen TVs. In total, 16 channels are<br />
distributed on the S band, all of which are received by a<br />
self-tracking Ku band antenna.<br />
“In addition, a total of 24 cameras are installed,”<br />
explains Oleg, the IT manager on board the Fashion TV<br />
ship. “These are used as surveillance cameras on the one<br />
hand, but also for the Fashion TV reality show on the other<br />
hand.” IPTV is being used to transmit the signals from the<br />
ship. A 1.2 m antenna maintains an IP connection to the<br />
Fashion TV broadcast centre and the same connection<br />
is also used to provide Internet access to the guests on<br />
board.<br />
A powerful WLAN network capable of broadcasting<br />
through thick steel doors and walls inside the ship is available<br />
for guests to log onto the Internet. What a relief that<br />
the technical equipment required for this system is readily<br />
available in the Bangkok “Future Center”, one of the huge<br />
shopping malls for tech-products. Components you’d be<br />
hard pressed to source in Europe are on offer here for very<br />
competitive prices.<br />
Thanks to its technicians the Fashion TV<br />
ship features innovative <strong>satellite</strong> technology<br />
on board.<br />
Bogdan takes care of video technology<br />
on the Fashion TV ship. Here he is<br />
next to the radom for the 60 cm antenna<br />
with automatic tracking.<br />
www.<strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>satellite</strong>.com — 10-11/2008 — <strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>satellite</strong> & Broadband<br />
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