Keen to keep rights holders happy, Go Malta has upgraded its playout infrastructure for the sake of its eight live sports channels. Imagine Communications is the new suiter, knocking Bulgaria’s Playbox out of the contract with its highly scalable Versio playout platform and the ADC automation technology. With Go’s old playout system from Playbox reaching the end of its lifecycle, the operator was looking for a more flexible, scalable alternative. While the Imagine system offers no radical change for end users, Martin Abela, Senior Manager of Video Operations at Go Malta tells Faultline that Go’s backend has undergone a complete makeover. The old Playbox system required Go to have a separate workstation for each channel, with operatives having to manually…