M2M

Manage your Resources

How much money do you have invested in VTRs?  $200,000? $500,000? Over a million?  How much would it be worth to get substantially more value out of that investment?  Sony M2M maintains the complete history and setup of each machine, so you can swap underused VTRs with the machines that are getting heavy use, balancing the load and maximizing the assets.  It's even easy to swap the VTR setups when you swap machines.

Cut maintenance costs

Not only does Sony M2M help you stay on top of VTR cleaning and head drum replacement; we also help you do it at the lowest possible cost. Sony M2M makes it easy to schedule routine service calls well in advance, combining jobs to reduce your overall cost.

Minimize costly failures

There's no reason to let a machine go out of service when it's so easy to see the warning signs well in advance. Sony M2M automatically monitors, logs and graphs head drum hours and channel condition. So you can anticipate service issues long before they become emergencies.

Reduce Operational Staff Costs and minimize On Air faults

By monitoring video and audio quality in real time while recording new material into On Air servers operators are freed up for other tasks.  A channel condition during ingest can be responded to and corrected before the material goes to air reducing costly make goods.

Minimize dead air

For broadcasters, the most costly of all operational failures is dead air. Sony M2M is your best ally in the battle for reliability. With Sony M2M, you've got the most comprehensive knowledge of the state of your physical plant.

Slash administrative costs

It costs money to send techs into the machine room with clipboards to record head drum hours. It's expensive to manually enter the service intervals of machines into spreadsheets. It's tedious to keep a paper record of VTR setups. These manual processes are better off automated. Sony M2M can get you there.