1. PLAYOUT SPECIFICATIONS
   1.1. PLAYOUT PHYSICAL SUPPORT
   The physical support must be delivered to the Playout ready for on air transmission, without
   manual intervention.

   Technical standards that inspired this document are exhaustively described and detailed in the
   international reference documents:

     · EBU Tech 3299-E (Systems 2 & 3) “High Definition (HD) Image Formats for Television
     Production”;
     · SMPTE 274 2008 “Television - 1920 x 1080 Image Sample Structure, Digital
     Representation and Digital Timing Reference Sequences for Multiple Picture Rates”
     (Revision of SMPTE 274M-2005);
     · ITU-R BT.709-5 e ITU-R BT.709-5 Part 2 “Parameter values for the HDTV standards for
     production and international programme exchange”;
     · SMPTE 292-1 2012 1.5Gb/s Signal/Data Serial Interface Amendment.
Unless otherwise agree between the societies, the media should provide an HD Signal with the
standard resolution 1920 x 1080, 25 fps, 50 Mbps encapsulated MXF, interlaced frames, with
synchronized embedded audio.

The origin should provide for the generation of audio and video test, including those relating the
aspect ratio, the identification of left and right channel for stereo signal and the identification for
each single channel when the audio is in multichannel or in surround mode.
Each pre-recorded content or live-to-live inserted into the flow, must maintain the same
resolution and aspect ratio of the main content.

The Playout is totally and only in HD format. For distribution platform of signal in SD
format, is made to an operation of downscaling in real time, during the emission phase.
For all the recorded contents that are aired, format for the file is the XD-Cam HD, 4:2:2,
with a bit rate of 50 Mbps, in MXF.