In today’s complex media environment, TV broadcasters and operators must support ever-larger channel lineups, including regional or international variants of existing channels, new thematic linear programs, and over-the-top (OTT) versions of established channels. The Harmonic FUZE-1™ playout system addresses this challenge with integrated playout, encoding and rendering, as well as high scalability and availability. With FUZE-1’s innovative IT-based design, operators can define flexible playout workflows in either the compressed or the uncompressed domain.<br>The FUZE-1 defines a new breed of IT-based playout solution tailored for SD/HD channel origination, manipulation and delivery. It offers a complete array of channel-in-a-box (CiaB) features to control and deliver new channels — and to meet broadcasters’ requirements for easy-to-deploy, easy-to-operate and easy-to-monitor facilities. It’s the perfect solution for originating broadcast and multiscreen channels, and for cost-effectively regionalizing downstream programs (with ad replacement and branding).