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Symphony of quality Conference Analysis

By Carolyn Giardina Filmmaker and innovator Douglas Trumbull — the iconic VFX pioneer behind 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner — received a standing ovation at his Monday Keynote as he called on the industry to advance the theatrical experience and previewed his MAGI system that he believes can deliver a “new cinematic language.”

This vision for MAGI involves projecting movies on giant

screens in 4K 3D at 120fps — which he asserts will create a more immersive, unique experience that just can’t be reproduced on a TV or tablet.

“The technical standards [for cinema] are almost identical to the technology for TV, so there’s very little difference and people are finding the convenience of a tablet is outweighing the inconvenience of going to the theater,” he warned the audience. “There’s no one silver bullet [for improving cinema] — not just HDR, or HFR, or sound or giant screens — it’s all those things together in a symphony of increased quality.”

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To demonstrate the potential of this plan, the filmmaker created Trumbull Studios in Massachusetts, where he made an experimental short with his system, entitled UFOTOG. It was shot using Canon Cinema EOS C500 cameras on 3Ality rigs, at 4K 60fps with the two cameras shooting out of sync to capture 120 fps. It was posted using Fusion from Eyeon (acquired by Blackmagic on the opening day of IBC).

Clips from UFOTOG were screened in 2K, 3D at 120fps using dual Christie 6P laser projectors and Dolby 3D, as well as with Dolby Atmos sound.

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Trumbull acknowledged that conversations are underway with studios and filmmakers about his system, adding, “I have talked to directors who are very interested in this.”

IBC delivers on expectations

An IBC panel investigates the state of Loudness standards Page 4

IBC Content Everywhere rolls on IBC Content Everywhere covers rich media production and the devices/apps which will take advantage of it Page 10

Continued UHD growth in 2014 Douglas I Sheer examines the growth of a new generation of Ultra HD 4K Page 18

Exhibitor list and floor plan

By 18:00 on Monday, IBC had already passed last year’s total attendance, with 54,036 through the doors of IBC2014.

“IBC’s goal is to deliver an event that is relevant to the community,” said Michael Crimp, CEO of IBC. “Getting the right attendance is more important than big numbers,

but it is encouraging when we get both quality and quantity.”

The number of attendees was up across the board, reflecting the larger exhibition, growing interest in the conference and IBC Leaders’ Summit, and interest in special programmes like IBC Rising Stars.

Oracle to acquire Front Porch: Oracle has inked an agreement to acquire content storage systems developer Front Porch Digital. The deal is expected to close within 60 days; terms were not disclosed. Front Porch COO and GM Rino Petricola (pictured) said Oracle has a keen interest, in particular, in its DIVArchive long term storage systems, which are largely targeted at the broadcast industry with clients including Discovery Communications and the BBC (and also have a legacy link to Oracle’s StorageTek line). But this is a market that appears poised for massive growth. “Our products can be used to address industries such as government, defence and medical,” Petricola said. “We expect that with this acquisition we’ll be able to reach these other rich markets.”

While much is not yet determined, Petricola confirmed that plans are for Front Porch to continue to operate independently though Oracle is interested in integrating these assets into its larger business. “It is clear this world is becoming more of an IT market,” he said. “Oracle has a number of soft applications – for example a DRM app and an audience analysis app – and could bring better solutions into the broadcast market.”

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What have we learned from IBC? Conference Analysis

By Catherine Wright In a show wrap up session chaired by John Ive, the director of business development for IABM, a number of key executives took turns at pinpointing the main trends in broadcasting technology at this year’s IBC as well as outlining the outlook for the industry in the years ahead.

Among the topics discussed, the adoption of cloud technology by an increasing number of broadcasters was singled out: “The cloud is happening. The pace of change is rapid, so we have to strap in and embrace it,” said

Margaret Craig, CEO of Signiant.

Richard Friedel, executive vice president and general manager of Fox Networks, agreed: “We are using cloud technology and experimenting with different techniques — not

in live conditions yet, but that will come.”

IP-based networks remain a hot topic, although there still are a number of concerns on whether they can handle the bandwidth required for UHD or for 4K. Craig

admitted as much: “At the moment the data is winning even though the networks have more and more bandwidth.”

All the panelists agreed that IBC remained a crucial event to meet up with peers, compare notes and get a feel for where the industry was heading. But they also saw it is evolving into a media show, rather than a broadcast one. And for Lieven Vermaele, CEO and co-founder of SDN2, IBC would be very different five years or six years from now: “I am trying to be controversial but IBC could become a software only show, a sort of huge App Store in 2020.”

This session is available to view on demand at www.ibc.org/vod.

Cities Made for TV Megahertz

By David Fox Made TV, the largest licensee for city TV in the UK, has signed a systems integration contract with Megahertz that includes design and implementation of production, news and ENG for five new stations, plus centralised playout.

It opens in Bristol on 6 October, followed by Cardiff (15 October), Leeds (6 November) and Newcastle (12 November).

The Middlesbrough station is waiting for Arqiva to finish the multiplex build-out, but expected to open in the spring.

Although the most prominent city service, London Live, has had a troubled start, other city services have been more successful. “The numbers outside London are very good,” said Jamie Conway, Made TV CEO, with STV Glasgow expecting a first year profit. The best stations have been getting a lot of new-to-TV advertisers, and, with a reach of about 11

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By Michael Burns The world debut of the new RØDE Stereo VideoMic X (SVMX), has taken place in Hall 8, providing broadcast-quality audio via an acoustically matched pair of true-condenser capsules. HHB Communications said the unit, shipping globally in October 2014 and offered

Thai PBS picks OneBeam T2

Megahertz MD Jon Flay and Made TV CEO Jamie Conway at IBC

million potential viewers, Made TV is targeting these.

Each station will have a studio with three robotic cameras, with facilities for five.

They will also have ENG equipment with live contribution capability. The Leeds site also includes the playout, master control, distribution and asset management operations.

The channels will initially broadcast in SD, but with HD production to enable resale of content and allow easy future upgrades. All the sites are networked together, sharing content and facilities as required.

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On-camera audio makes global debut HHB Communications

Storage system expansion: London-based Deluxe Media Europe has installed a Quantum StorNext storage system and StorNext AEL6000 tape archive for storing and managing over five petabytes of media content. It’s using tiered storage managed via StorNext to write around 4TB daily, onto a Scalar AEL6000 archive. According to the company, the new deployment enables it to “prepare feature films and broadcast media for delivery as file packages to third-party broadcasters and VoD platforms.” To handle this workflow, Deluxe Media uses DL3, its global digital MAM system, which integrates with StorNext. The details about the content and the data itself can be accessed and retrieved for any asset stored in London by any of the Deluxe Media facilities on DL3 around the world, and vice versa. Pictured at IBC: Gabriel Chaher, VP sales and marketing EMEA for Quantum (left) and Mike Staniforth, digital product support specialist, Deluxe Media.

with a 10-year warranty, provides the highest level of performance of any stereo microphone from RØDE. Broadcasters also have the option of outputting audio with either a 3.5mm stereo output or a balanced signal via mini XLR. The company said these features ensure a broadcastgrade output for camera systems and audio recorders in any professional application.

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Enensys

In their Element: The first 4K 4Charity fun run, organised by Elemental Technologies, led by CEO Sam Blackman (arms raised), took place at IBC earlier this week to commemorate 2014 as a year of major 4K TV and Ultra HD achievements.

The run attracted 250+ participants and netted $10,000 from individual runners and corporate sponsors – including Elemental, Ericsson, Microsoft, AJA, deltatre, Dolby and Gill Craig Consulting – that will be donated to Oxfam.

Dealers flock to 4K XDCAM Sony

By Adrian Pennington Within 24 hours of its debut at IBC last Friday, Sony’s new large sensor 4K XDCAM had already caught the eye of UK dealers Visual Impact and CVP group as well as dealer in the Nordics and the Benelux.

Orders for 200 units have been taken on the stand for the Euro6000 PXW-FS7, which ships next month and is being marketed at documentary and corporate filmmakers.

Tim Sparrock, director at Visual Impact Group, said: “This is by far the most exciting new product to be announced at IBC2014 and represents a significant

milestone in the future of 4K filmmaking. The camera ticks so many boxes in terms of specifications, usability and price and as such we’ve placed a substantial order for the FS7.”

The FS7 offers internal 4K recording at 60fps and 1080p at 180fps, with a single extension unit and external recorder required to shoot 4K RAW footage. In addition to an ergonomic smart grip with customisable controls and a built-in, fourposition ND filter to enable on-the-go shooting, the FS7 also makes use dual slots for a new 128GB XQD G-series card that supports 440MB/s read and 350MB/s write speeds.

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By Will Strauss The Thai Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is using OneBeam technology within its DVB-T2 digital terrestrial TV network, it has been revealed.

Enensys’ OneBeam optimises network capacity by combining satellite DTH delivery with T2 transmitter distribution in a single feed.

The new Thai PBS DVB-T2 network has 39 main transmitter sites throughout Thailand with additional transmitters set to be commissioned over the next 18 months.

Thai PBS CTO Kantachai Srisukhon said, “Enensys has been able to meet our requirements to combine satellite delivery to our viewers with distribution to our DVB-T2 transmitters. The same technology also supports the regional Emergency Warning System that is provided by all of the digital TV network operators.”

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theibcdaily Hans Hoffmann: “HDR has dependencies and impact factors”

Resolving HDR for 4K

By George Jarrett Going out of IBC, one of the biggest issues to resolve is the one of higher dynamic range for 4K. At the SMPTE engineering meetings in Geneva next week a special session will see EBU members pressing their requirements for HDR. “It has dependencies and impact factors. Good modern cameras capture images with quite a high HDR,” said Hans Hoffmann, EBU T&I head of media fundamentals and production technology. “In the RAW domain we have a signal with a potential headroom, and broadcasters can store that for future use.

“The difficulty is what to do in terms of bringing it through an

eco chain to the consumer. The whole chain has been designed for Rec 709,” he added. “We need to reconsider all the operational practices.”

One of these will be tackling the different EOTF and OATF curves because a certain prediction on the signal quality in the home is required. This could be done with 709.

“We need to define a signal which is going through the chain, and it has to be at least 10-bit. This should be manageable,” said Hoffmann.

The big decision in the distribution environment will be the creation of backward compatibility or a completely new system. A side issue is the fact that HDR can boost HDTV just as readily.

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SMPTE has two standards on the way regarding metadata pertaining to HDR, and it has a study group charged with studying the 4K eco chain and identifying gaps. Meanwhile, the DVB is due to discuss UHD TV Phase 2, which goes beyond static resolution.

“One of the most important issues will be HDR in environments where there are screens available with very high peak luminance,” said David Wood, chair of the DVB

commercial UHD module.

“Technical additions need to be made, starting with more bits per sample. Secondly, what we used to call the gamma curve will be called the OETF (Opto Electronic Transfer Function).

“The decision will be taken very soon on whether to include this feature in the UHD DVB Phase 2 spec intended for broadcasting in 2017, when the chips with the necessary memory bandwidth are available from manufacturers,” he added.

Mediatec streamlines for production

By Chris Forrester

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Henriksen takes charge of Mediatec’s new streamlined HD18 truck at IBC

Broadcast Solutions

By David Fox

Eelco Grimm: “Projectionists don’t go into the room and listen!”

shown almost a complete lack of use of the key reference levels in cinemas. Belgium’s Flemish government in January 2014 implemented tough new rules following a tragic incident when a woman had permanent ear damage following a screening of Inception at extremely high audio levels.

But Grimm said this was not the solution. The university examined some 155 movies from last year’s Dutch Film Festival and found huge variations in audio output levels. A separate study, in Belgium, of Hollywood movies screened at a Multiplex found similar challenges in the theatres. “Movie loudness can vary by 12dB, so the obligatory setting options for the projectionist are inadequate.

Nor do the projectionists go into the room and listen! They don’t have time.”

Phabrix

By Michael Burns

Conference Analysis

IBC’s annual Loudness Breakfast heard that while considerable progress was being made in TV broadcasting in Europe and North America, much more work needed to be done in radio and especially in cinemas.

Florian Camerer, ORF’s senior engineer, told delegates that adoption of the EBU’s R128 recommendations was expanding throughout Europe.

Additionally, new amendments to R128 now included Maximum Momentary Loudness and Maximum Short-term Loudness “to help tame commercials”.

Duncan Todd, from South African audio training specialists Asikhule, outlined the progress achieved over the past year or two, not least the country’s first ‘Loudness Summit’, which attracted some 250 participants.

Dolby’s Jeff Riedmiller said the FCC’s ‘Calm Act’ (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation) introduced in December 2013 had made a huge difference in the number of viewer complaints, from almost 5,000 a year in 2012 to just 656 in 2013. But he stressed that complaints from the creative community had risen significantly, and that broadcasters were crudely “squashing everything down” in order to be compliant, but without consideration for the original source audio. “We need more training,” said Reidmiller.

The most dramatic challenge was outlined by Eelco Grimm from the University of Utrecht, who said a recent study had

T&M for all formats

Mediatec Broadcasting has taken delivery of the tenth of its 10-camera Streamline OB trucks from Broadcast Solutions, which will go from IBC to deliver its first live hockey match in the north of Sweden on Saturday. It is also taking delivery of three new 6-camera Compact Streamline vans this month, which will start doing German basketball league coverage on 2 October.

Mediatec developed the Streamline concept with Broadcast Solutions three years ago, building 10 identical trucks, and the systems integrator has now sold further Streamline OBs, which cost €2-2.5m depending on final specifications, to other broadcasters. “They have changed a little bit, due to the fact that some of the equipment we chose at the beginning has changed or been upgraded, but we’ve made a programme to upgrade earlier trucks, so they are still the same,” said Mediatec CEO,

Paul Henriksen. The commonality of equipment means that any of its staff in Scandinavia or the Germanspeaking countries, can easily operate any truck.

Besides economies of scale, and reduced staffing and diesel costs (as the trucks carry all their own equipment), not needing to spend a lot of time planning and in acceptance tests has also cut costs. When Mediatec planned its first HD 40-camera truck, “we had five people working on it for 18 months, on top of what we paid for the truck. This truck [HD18] here had a two-day acceptance test last week,” he said.

It has allowed Mediatec to compete very effectively for long-term contracts to cover football and ice hockey leagues in many countries.

“It’s all about trying to do factory TV,” said Henriksen, who believes the new Compact vans will give it the same edge for smaller productions, particularly for IPTV. The flexibility of the larger trucks has allowed them to be used for large, high profile events, such as the European Song Contest and IIHF World Championships.

OE102

The T&M company used its IBC ‘for your eyes only’ room to show a prototype technology to enable 12 Gbps eye and jitter analysis on its Rx modular rack mount series.

Paul Nicholls, Phabrix sales and marketing director, said the technology was capable of supporting all 4K and UHDTV1 formats on a dedicated platform built on its test and measurement toolsets. The technology is expected to be ready for release at NAB 2015.

“The technology we are working on and displaying at IBC is a leap ahead of anything currently available in the market,” added Nicholls. “There have been a lot of announcements about 4K, but there’s still largely a misunderstanding of the many formats and colour spaces associated with these new higher resolution and higher frame rate formats. By demonstrating the 12 Gbps eye capability and displaying the board created as one of the modules available for the Rx chassis, we have announced to the broadcast industry that we not only have an upgrade path for our technology and existing users, but also a clear understanding and roadmap for the Phabrix Rx series.”

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UHD1, or wait for UHD-2?

After 4K era must come 8K

By George Jarrett

By Chris Forrester “Should we go for UHD-1 or wait for UHD-2?” asked the EBU’s Hans Hoffmann. “When will services start? When will consumers buy new displays?

But should we wait for a more robust and satisfactory set of technical demands to be in place before we start?”

Hoffmann admitted that UHD-1 (and 2) have various subsets and standards, and immense confusion in the market not least with a plethora of ‘4K’ or ‘UltraHD’ logos and claimed standards.

“And it is getting worse as displays enter the retail chain.”

Paul Gray of DisplaySearch delivered his latest 4K display sales forecasts, which in terms of anticipated sales are impressive: 30 million in 2015 (12-15 million in China), 45 million in 2016 and 62 million in 2017.

China will be the world’s largest market for 4K displays, followed by North America and Europe. Gray said that volume sales will be at 55” and above.

Hoffmann’s expert panel also heard from the NexTV Forum’s Kaiya Motohashi. He told IBC delegates that Japan’s first 4K channel went live on 2 June showing six hours a day of drama, sports, travelogues and

natural history programming.

During early 2016 it would be broadcasting an experimental 8K channel by satellite as well as two or three channels in 4K. “By 2018 there will be several 4K channels on air as well as 8K channels, tapping into interest from the Winter Olympics, the FIFA soccer from Russia and then the 2020 Olympics from Tokyo.

As to the inevitable 4K quality/standards confusion, Sky Germany’s Stephan Heimbecher, speaking as the cochair of the FAME (Forum for Advanced Media in Europe), admitted that “UHD-1 has a momentum in Europe today.”

Andy Quested, the BBC’s head of technology for HD & 3D, said the BBC wanted to go back 30

years! “We’d like to be in a medium where natural history and drama were shot on a camera that had 16-18 stops of dynamic range. Our first transitions from film to video had everyone screaming that they couldn’t work with such a tight dynamic range.

It is only now that we are seeing cameras emerge that can get close to what film could do.”

BSkyB’s chief engineer Chris Johns, summed up the dilemma: “4K is a bit like an airline. HDTV is obviously economy class.

Everyone has it and they can fly anywhere in the world. But it’s nicer in premium economy where you can get UHD1/Phase 1. Then in first class, it’s UHD1-Phase 2. Of course, 8K then means you are in your own executive jet.”

In the replay game: Simple R, a 1R system that offers SD/HD multi-channel recording and instant replays with slow motion is drawing a lot of attention at IBC. Billed by Slomo.tv as the smallest replay machine in the world, the 4.8 kg Simple R is compact enough to be suitable for aeroplane carry-on luggage. Storage on the basic system is based on SSD, capable of recording of 60 hours in uncompressed full HD or 120 hours in broadcast quality SD video. Three versions are available. Simple R 331 simultaneously features three recording video channels, offers high-speed full-frame search on all three recorded channels and also playback of two channels with transition effects between them. It has a multiviewer interface capable of displaying three input channels and three windows for recorded video for immediate review and search. A preview window interface displays the next clip during playlist playout or the active channel during the search. During recording, a separate full HD video monitor can be attached to the system via HD SDI interface while export of recorded video for editing is carried out in 10-bit uncompressed QuickTime. Pictured: Slomo.tv product manager Sandro Glanzer at Broadcast Solutions. – Michael Burns

The NHK 8K Super Hi-VISION system has been a constant feature at IBC for many years it seems, and the Japanese launch date of services in 2020 suddenly seems so close. Test broadcasts start in 2016.

Located in the IBC Future Zone, NHK has an 8K 120-Hz display, a new 8K satellite service concept, a 60-Hz display with 22.2 channel 3D sound, and a prototype 8K studio type camera.

“I think 4K and 8K are the same technology, parts of the same direction: 8K is the ultimate form of two dimensional so after the 4K era must come 8K,” said Narichika Hamaguchi, senior manager of planning and coordination in the science and technology research labs of Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

“If 4K can become reasonable for consumers, 8K will become reasonable. We will launch a full 8K broadcast service in six years, and by that time some set makers will produce affordable sets.”

8K as we know it now is a big screen picture and sound combo with 22.2 channel 3D audio. What are the problems?

“High frame rates for 8K are still a challenging area. Motion blur is easy to recognise in UHD, so the higher frame rate (120) is important,” said Hamaguchi. “Our prototype

Narichika Hamaguchi: “8K is the ultimate form of two dimensional”

camera has three image sensors each with 33 megapixels. The camcorder is close to being a product and has one small image sensor.”

This is Beyer so 16-bit will be important. How does NHK propose to modernise the editing system they use?

“We have specially designed 8K editing equipment, but some 4K editing machines and other 4K equipment are usable. But that area is the one of least choice and it is one we have to work on,” said Hamaguchi.

“Our launch at IBC is the satellite broadcasting system for 8K. The big problem is bit rate, so we plan to use HEVC encoding. This gets us under 100Mbit/s using a satellite, and using that system we will launch a service in 2020,” he added.

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Ultra 4K toolbox supports 12G-SDI

By Carolyn Giardina Test and measurement manufacturer OmniTek is featuring its Ultra 4K Tool Box with added support for the 12G SDI standard. This feature will be available as an upgrade option to all existing customers in the near future.

The addition of support for 12G will make the Ultra 4K Tool Box able to analyse, convert, generate signals and display full 06 theibcdaily

frame-rate video across all existing and anticipated formats up to 4096x2160 and in different delivery which include Quad Link HD, Quad Link 3G Level A and 3G Level B Square Division; Quad Link 3G Level A and 3G Level B 2-Sample Interleave; and 6G and 12G. Also on display is the company’s 12G SDI physical layer support, which includes Eye pattern and Jitter for the analyser and Jitter insertion for

the generator.

The company is also demonstrating the ability of the Ultra 4K Tool Box to up/down/cross convert between all the different video standards it supports (in conjunction with its OTM and OTR waveform analysers). In particular, it is demonstrating conversion from 4K to HD output to the OTR, for colour grading for post production customers.

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Mobile virtual intercom: Trilogy Communications is demonstrating its new mobile virtual control panel for intercom management, now available for PCs, laptops, smartphones and tablets in wired or wireless configurations. The control for the virtual panel sits on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and Microsoft’s Windows. It appears on a desktop, laptop or mobile device as a normal control panel, enabling a user to continue intercom management even when away from their desk. Andy Covey, marketing manager at Trilogy (pictured), stated: “We are serving up intercom in whatever way user’s want to digest it; our virtual control panel allows users to choose how they want to access their intercom, in whatever way they see best.” He added that lever or push button panel usage will not change as a result of virtual alternatives, but that virtual control panels will simply provide more choice and flexibility for customers. – Heather McLean

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By Catherine Wright Forget about interacting with your smart TV using a remote control – that is so old hat! A few years down the road, you may be able to touch your iPad and feel the skin of the crocodile you are watching in your favourite wildlife videos on YouTube.

Japanese company Fujitsu is pioneering the technology, called haptic display. Steve Dann, the CEO of Amplified Robot, a UK company working in the augmented reality field presented many other mindboggling ways of increasing the

viewer’s engagement, a lot of them involving sensors, during ‘Interactive Entertainment: you ain’t seen nothing yet’, chaired

by Ken Blakeslee from Web Mobility Ventures.

But how can such technology bring in added revenue for broadcasters and advertisers?

The IBC Daily journalist Kate Bulkley hit the nail on the head at the start of the discussion: “There is such a lot of cool stuff out there with all this explosion of technology but broadcasters are still struggling to find the right business model, mostly because they have legacy issues.”

Alexander Mazzara, the co-founder and CEO of Joiz group, a Swiss-based company,

Stratus sphere expands Grass Valley/Aspera/ Masstech

By David Fox Grass Valley has teamed up with Aspera and Masstech to expand the ecosystem around its GV Stratus production system. It will use Aspera’s FASP transport technology to allow video files to transfer more quickly, reliably and securely between broadcasters, content owners and service providers regardless of transfer distances, file sizes or network conditions.

FASP will be integrated directly into the GV Stratus platform, and will use its RESTful web API to transport files at maximum network speeds.

“Customers can now benefit from a considerably faster file exchange with a secure delivery protocol, reducing production cycles and getting programming to air much faster,” said Mike Cronk, senior VP of strategic marketing, Grass Valley.

It will also use Masstech media management to create a seamless workflow for archiving and repurposing high-resolution assets, and Stratus users will have a complete, integral toolset, including a unique workflow for news, to efficiently archive and restore content between K2 Summit 3G media servers and storage units and archive systems managed by Masstech.

“Few things are as disruptive to workflows in the newsroom or production as having to change application environments or move to another workstation when you need to find and edit video assets,” said Joe French, CEO, Masstech, who believes that the collaboration will provide greater flexibility for users.

GV Stratus tools currently support integration with DIVArchive, SGL Flashnet and FTP archiving, and the Masstech archiving interface will be included in Stratus’ upcoming update.

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Multi-tasking conversion Decimator Design

By Will Strauss An HDMI/SDI cross converter with scaling and frame rate conversion capabilities that does the job of several devices for the price of one has been launched by Decimator Design at IBC. The MD-HX offers 14 different modes and could act as an SDI to HDMI or HDMI to SDI device or a Down, Up and Cross converter, among other things. It is being made 08 theibcdaily

available for £185.

Anthony Pidgeon, the managing director of Decimator Design’s UK and Europe distributor, Symbiosis, said: “The MD-HX is feature packed and cost effective. We think it has the potential to become the leader in this market space.”

With four 3G, HD or SD-SDI outputs, it can also be used as a 1-to-4 distribution amplifier. Control of the device is possible from a PC or Mac via a built-in USB port that also allows for firmware updates.

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In Brief Monetisation of multi-screen

which gathers ‘the big data’ from interactive content gave some clues on how to monetise it. “In the digital world, it is so easy to know who is there, to understand your viewers or users,” he indicated.

Eyetracking heatmaps are, for instance, used to gather information about how the public views online advertising.

Tre Azam, the CEO of UK

company Myndplay, presented different outlets for its interactive mind controlled video platform, whether in sport, gaming or even medical care. “Our technology is a very simple brain monitoring device, which enables us to measure the emotional response of viewers to different types of content and to some extent control it with their own mind.”

Maverick OB truck gets its game face on

Snell’s Stefan Geradts and Wolfgang Reeh of TV Skyline with Snell’s Maverick control panel

Snell

By Michael Burns Germany’s TV Skyline has been using the world’s first installation of Maverick control panels in a remote production setup for one of the world’s biggest online events. OB7, the firm’s next-generation OB van, was recently on hand to cover the live national championships of the League of Legends event in Cologne in co-operation with Riot Games. Each month more than 32 million people in nearly 150 countries play League of Legends, a virtual team-based fighting game.

The OB7 truck, with three control rooms served by a Snell Kahuna 360, is the first to feature multiple installations of the new Maverick flexible switcher control surface. “The heart of the van is the Kahuna 360,” said CEO and founder Wolfgang Reeh. “We have three Maverick panels, with the largest installed in the truck’s big control room. We have 5MEs in OB7, but the system can be configured to do up to 20 mix effects.”

“As well as League of Legends, TV Skyline covers a lot of large-scale cultural and media promotional events,” said Stefan Geradts, Snell’s sales director for Central and Eastern Europe. “Maverick is a modular concept where all the building blocks of the control panel are self-contained. It’s thus possible to reshape the control panel to many individual applications.”

“We used OB7 and 22 cameras to show two teams playing League of Legends in front of 3,000 people and streamed to a global internet audience of millions,” said Reeh. “The production concept is twofold. There is local production on site, but 21 HD-SDI signals are sent over to Los Angeles to enable remote production.”

The company has now also manufactured two flypack systems with around 30 cameras, both with Kahuna Maverick panels, Snell series 830 routers and fibre technology to handle the final tournaments in South Korea – with remote production again being run from Los Angeles.

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Kabel Deutschland, the largest cable operator in Germany, has chosen a headend monitoring solution from IneoQuest for realtime digital content monitoring and visual inspection. “We strive to deliver high quality content to our customer and IneoQuest's video service assurance solution helps us to do just that,” said Bernd Hansen, team leader, Service Management at the operator.

“Delivering high quality content starts by assuring the video at the network headend.” For IneoQuest, Raphael Burgner, senior director of Sales and head of EMEA Operations, said: “Kabel Deutschland places a high priority on service quality and we applaud the company's efforts to ensure optimum customer experience.”

“Whether you operate a cable or a mobile infrastructure you need to combine data from within the network with behavioural analytics about who is watching what, when and on what devices in order to better target new services and advertising and to achieve service assurance and network efficiency and CAPEX optimisation,” said VP corporate strategy, Stuart Newton.

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Two new versions of oratis interface Delec has presented two versions of a new oratis wireless interface, which connects wired intercom technology with Kenwood radio systems.

The wireless interface debuts this year trackside at the ADAC GT Masters German Automobile Racing Series. There the entire intercom system is enabling communication between the team leaders in the pits, posts along the track and the race organiser.

The oratis wireless interface is a combination of components from the oratis and oratis compact series, as well as Kenwood Nexedge radio systems. The result is a unique communications system that allows direct addressing of up to 63 individual calls and 189 group calls per radio device.

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IBC Content Everywhere rolls around the world IBC2014 has seen the hugely successful launch of IBC Content Everywhere, the new initiative for the rapidly changing media environment. Registered IBC Content Everywhere Europe attendees can continue to access the rich seam of information on the web portal throughout the coming year, gaining further knowledge and understanding.

While registered attendees are now handing back their Touch & Connect devices, that does not mean that they are leaving the IBC Content Everywhere community. The online portal continues to be available, and will maintain and build its stock of information and networking over coming weeks and months.

The community of interest that you have built up during IBC Content Everywhere Europe will be alive, and you can share experiences and ask for information through this very targeted network. Alongside the white papers and discussion documents from leading suppliers, you also have access to the IBC TV archive, including coverage of the key debates from this year’s event.

And while the European edition continues to bring benefits to attendees, in the coming months there are two more IBC Content Everywhere events. In January 2015 Dubai hosts the event for the MENA market; and later in the year Sao Paulo is the destination for LATAM. The global nature of IBC Content Everywhere means that it is a rare source of knowledge, experience and opinions. All of

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this will be available to the whole community, through the portal.

IBC Content Everywhere covers rich media production, and the devices and apps which will take advantage of it. Along the way we need to consider digital marketing, social media and content personalisation. The technology drivers include big data and cloud services.

Research by Cisco forecasts a compound annual growth rate in mobile data traffic of a staggering 77% in the Middle East to 2017. Online video

“IBC Content Everywhere covers rich media production, and the devices and apps which will take advantage of it”

consumption in Brazil grew 18% in 2012 – that is six times the global average of 3%.

Both will be must-attend events for the new media communities in these markets.

You can find out more about the programmes on offer, and the associated exhibition and networking events, at www.ibcCE.org, or you can click through the link from www.ibc.org.

If you develop software or systems for the new media market, then you should be

New encoder modules highlighted Appear TV

By Ian McMurray The recently released highchannel density, multiformat SD/HD and multiscreen universal transcoder and dense multiscreen/OTT encoder modules for its modular XC Series platform are being demonstrated at IBC by Appear TV. The modules expand the amount of channels that can be simultaneously processed in a single hardware platform for a multiple-network topology — centrally or at the edge. Users

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can add them to an existing Appear TV 4RU XC5000 frame as part of an upgrade to an existing setup or as options for a new system application.

The units are part of Appear TV’s modular concept, which provides users with a selection of modules to create a solution custom-tailored to their needs. Any signal input from any carrier can be captured and adapted to any other signal output, according to the company, with highly dense and powerful video processing to any format and any device.

Since Appear TV’s platform is modular, the company says

that it allows users to have multiple distribution format processes originating from one chassis, saving on hardware space and making it easy to make additions and upgrades as new formats and transmission technologies arise. In addition, all Appear TV modules can work with other third-party devices, making the integration with existing transmission equipment seamless.

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Module citizen: The XC5000 benefits from a modular approach

exhibiting at IBC Content Everywhere. The events target attendees who are shaping the new business models, and as well as providing an independent forum for debate, these attendees will want to see and experience the latest in technology. Potential exhibitors can register their interest at www.ibcCE.org.

Be a part of this dramatic change. Check the dates and plans for IBC Content Everywhere in MENA and LATAM at www.ibcCE.org.

theibcdaily On call: MXL’s MM-VE001 Mobile Videographer’s Essentials Kit with bracket mount

Quantum mechanics: The StorNext line also includes StorNext Pro Studio

Mobile Media Microphones for phones MXL Microphones

By David Fox Mobile phones and tablets are increasingly used for reporting, but for broadcastable audio, MXL Microphones, part of Marshall Electronics, has launched a Mobile Media Series.

Initially four microphones that come with a 3.5mm Y cable with a built-in headphone jack for audio playback or monitoring, each is tailored for specific recording applications to capture clearer, more targeted audio.

“As more people use mobile devices for audio and video recording, the demand for quality mics is growing,” said MXL director of sales and marketing, Perry Goldstein.

“One mic does not fit all applications. That is why MXL is

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StorNext Connect launched Quantum creating a full line of mics that plug into the 3.5mm mini jack, which makes them compatible with most phones and tablets, regardless of operating system.”

The MM-VE001 Mobile Videographer’s Essentials Kit consists of the FR-310 shotgun microphone, an impedancematching cable with 3.5mm plug, and a fully adjustable bracket mount.

The MM-110 is a boundary microphone useful for recording

meetings or interviews involving multiple people to a mobile phone or tablet.

The MM-130 Handheld Microphone is designed for oneon-one interviews. It has cardioid and omni patterns and a simple handheld design that looks professional on camera.

The MM160 is a lavalier or lapel microphone with an omni capsule. All four Mobile Media microphones are available now.

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By Carolyn Giardina StorNext Connect is a new tool to monitor and manage StorNext deployments from Quantum.

Through StorNext Connect, customers can install StorNext software, upgrade StorNext clients and servers, restart clients, check status on automated tasks, and troubleshoot performance issues through

realtime graphs.

At IBC, Quantum is additionally highlighting its StorNext cloud-enabled systems. Also, it’s presenting its StorNext Pro workflow storage systems including StorNext Pro 4K for 4K production, StorNext Pro Studio for refreshing Xsan deployments, and StorNext Pro Production for content owner workflows.

All StorNext systems are built around the StorNext 5 storage platform.

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Opinion

OTT reaches a new phase Virtualisation and live OTT emerge as key content delivery trends, explains Jacques Le Mancq, president Broadpeak The onset of OTT video delivery started two years ago but it is now reaching a new phase. Today’s consumers are demanding video content anytime, anywhere, on any device, on a variety of networks, pushing operators to look for content delivery network (CDN) solutions that are more efficient, cost-effective, scalable, and dedicated to providing a superior quality of experience (QoE).

As we near the end of 2014, several CDN trends have emerged. The first trend is virtualisation, meaning the capability of running the different components of a CDN on virtual machines.

Allowing operators to deploy a CDN in their private cloud breaks the link between appliances and applications, bringing a variety of benefits, including decreased hardware costs, resource optimisation, increased flexibility, simplified administration, more scalability, and unmatched elasticity to meet the demand.

Leveraging the cost savings that virtualisation provides, operators can

deliver the high level of performance requested by the market. Broadpeak ha always supported a softwarebased approach to video delivery, and we will continue to do so based on the massive benefits that it offers operators.

Another recent trend is the growing demand for live OTT content, especially during major sporting events, such as recent football events in Brazil. Keep in mind, demand for live OTT content is not just limited to the living room

“Today’s consumers are demanding video content anytime, anywhere” TV – consumers want it on a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, and PCs. To address this issue, operators need scalable multiscreen solutions capable of delivering popular live events, such as Broadpeak’s nanoCDN technology, which is being showcased at IBC2014. The live multiscreen application of nanoCDN enables operators to cost-effectively manage the consumption peaks of live multiscreen services for millions of simultaneous viewers using only a few megabits per second from their network. This is achieved by implementing multicast support for ABR

formats.

The third trend is related to a change in how content providers that do not own a network are delivering OTT video. In a competitive market, content providers have to use the CDN that will provide their customers with the best quality of service at the lowest cost. YouTube and Netflix have deployed their own solutions, with Google Cache and OpenConnect, respectively.

They require that operators install dedicated caching servers on their premises to improve the delivery. But most content providers aren’t prepared to deal with the complexity of deploying their own CDN. These providers have another choice to enhance their performances: use a mix of CDNs for content delivery, allocating requests to various CDNs based on specific criteria, such as geolocation, quality of service, NSPs, etc.

This approach recognises that relying on the same CDN for every content delivery situation is not optimal. Using multiple CDNs, operators can guarantee a better QoE for the end-users. At IBC2014, Broadpeak is highlighting this concept through the umbrellaCDN CDN selection tool, which allows content providers and operators to choose dynamically the ideal CDN to deliver their video content. Stop by our booth at 4.B72 for a live demonstration and to discuss trends you see in the video delivery market.

RTS gets up to date with OB ARET video and audio engineering

By David Fox ARET has recently completed an update to HD3, one of its recent OB vans, for RTS French Swiss Television.

As HD3 has been working

daily, with a hectic production schedule, it was not possible for RTS to stop it for very long, so ARET had to prepare most of the job in advance.

“This kind of upgrade is needed when customer needs

grow and the OB van becomes more complex than when it was conceived,” explained ARET VP, Alessandro Asti.

“The update was defined, scheduled and perfectly delivered in time,” he added.

ARET has delivered over 400 turnkey OB vehicles worldwide.

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By David Fox The new QBox v5 delivers a five times faster boot time, 60 times the storage, 10 times faster rundown transfer, twice as many controller connections, a wider choice of video outputs and genlock capability than Autocue’s existing QBox. The next generation QBox is a 19-inch 1U rack unit with an internal power supply and a much wider choice of video outputs, including HD-SDI, composite, component, SVideo, and HDMI, plus the ability to genlock the signal. The number of USB controller connections has increased from three to six, and serial controller connections from one to two, reducing the need for additional hardware components.

The new QBox, which will ship next month, also has increased processing power, greater RAM, a bigger SSD drive

Overhauled: Autocue’s completely updated new QBox v5 scroll engine

QBox moves promptly up to speed and Gigabit connectivity.

“We have given the QBox a complete overhaul, incorporating the very latest hardware technology, to meet customer requests,” said Rachid Anis, Autocue CTO. “The QBox

is already unique in its field, offering functionality that is a significant step ahead of any other prompting solution on the market.”

It is Linux-based and connects to Autocue’s QMaster

prompting software over IP to generates the video image of the script for the teleprompter. The QMaster application can connect several QBoxes, in any location, for control across multiple locations. The latest

rundown is continually transmitted to the QBox – if the prompting PC or newsroom system fails, it will continue scrolling the latest rundown, independently.

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Realtime tool automates captioning ENCO Systems

By Michael Burns Automated live captioning system, enCaption3, is being showcased at IBC. The realtime system for TV broadcasters does not require any voice training and features an enhanced speech recognition engine that delivers closed captions. The

company claimed enCaption3 does not require any user intervention and captions whatever is spoken, even if your talent goes off script.

ENCO offers enCaption3 in over 20 different languages.

The system is available as a monthly lease and is priced based on average hours of use.

“We are very excited to roll out enCaption3, which has been years in the making,”

said Ken Frommert, director of marketing for ENCO Systems. “enCaption3 will allow broadcasters to serve their hearing impaired audience for a fraction of the cost of traditional captioning services and is always available for live and breaking news, weather, and events.”

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Orphan checking for Avid Interplay Marquis Broadcast

By Will Strauss Interplay Orphan Crosschecking (IOC) has been added to the latest version of Marquis Broadcast’s Project Parking shared storage management software.

The new feature, part of version 3.8, provides verification of orphan material when working with Avid Interplay.

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broadcasters and post houses all over the world. The introduction of IOC opens Project Parking up to more customers who rely on Interplay MAM operating in tandem with ISIS workspaces.”

Miles added that IOC will help to increase “user confidence” when determining orphaned media within the Interplay domain.

Project Parking analyses Avid projects and media in order to determine which elements are using up most space, allowing editors to then transfer, archive or delete them. As well as finding large projects, Project Parking also identifies unused or duplicate media that can be deleted or archived.

Tracking orphans: Version 3.8 of Project Parking includes Interplay Orphan Crosschecking

Orphan checking or crosschecking can be completed against a pre-existing orphan list and pre-existing Storage Analysis digest database.

The Interplay cross-check will use any pre-existing orphan list and correlate against the Interplay Web Services. If the orphaned material is found to be

used within the Interplay environment then this item is removed from the original orphaned media list.

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Third generation smart STBs Matthias Greve, CEO ABOX42, spies a major increase of its business with more requests from traditional operators looking at new services such as VoD and OTT With ABOX42, a supplier of third generation smart STB platforms for OTT, IPTV and DVB-payTV operators we have looked forward to IBC2014. As major trends from the operator market we see that cable and satellite pay TV operators want to deliver new services like network PVR, VoD and OTT delivery of specific channels to free up bandwidth in their traditional DVB networks.

IPTV operators who started several years ago need to upgrade their user experiences from inflexible first and second-generation STB platforms to latest third generation. This new generation platforms allow the fast development of modern user interfaces, compelling services and the integration of third party services based on HTML5.

As a further trend we recognise that Fibre-To-TheHome operators are starting to deploy unicast IPTV solutions to avoid the challenge of complex operator managed multicast networks. Last but not least we see new operators who start to deliver pay TV packages completely OTT – without owning their own network infrastructure.

With these new requirements we see a major shift in the STB market.

Traditional closed STB platforms are not any longer able to handle the complex requirements of innovative operators. The market will move from old integrated, proprietary STBs to smart STBs where the focus is moving to the software layer.

This is a similar shift to what we experienced in the

last few years with the move from traditional feature phones to modern smartphones. We’re seeing the same trend in the TV middleware segment, where operators want to move from closed proprietary systems to open solutions based on modern internet technologies and open standards.

The new smart STBs will be able to handle many different standards side by side, such as streaming

“We see new operators who start to deliver pay TV packages completely OTT” protocols, DRM and CAS systems. This new smart STB generation is HTML5 browser based and much more easy for development. A new focus will become the management of the software lifecycle and cloud services to manage the SmartSTB during the entire lifecycle, like we are all used to nowadays with, for example, the iPhone.

With our new ABOX42 smart STB line and our ABOX42 SmartSDK, operators and systems integrators are for the first time able to mix TV service delivery between DVB-C, S2,T/T2, IPTV and OTT without limitations. IBC2014 will demonstrate to operators that Smart STBs have arrived and that delivery of live HD TV channels over the internet with OTT technologies is a market-proven technology ready for mass deployment.

A new concept of OTT DVB allows not only live TV signal

delivery over the internet but also includes multiple audio tracks, classical TeleText, DVB subtitles combined with modern HbbTV application via HLS streaming.

A new generation of hardware encoders reduces the size and the cost of traditional headends by the factor 1:10 and thereby is helping to build much more costeffective business models for many operators. ABOX42 will showcase at IBC2014 a new line of third generation hybrid DVB/IP smart STBs for costeffective development and deployment of new high-end services for pay TV subscribers.

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Comigo's revenue streams for pay-TV Pay TV operators seeking new revenue streams are being encouraged to visit Comigo during IBC to demo its Future TV platform. The multiscreen

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concept, which the company says “transforms television viewing into a more personal, engaging, and social experience” is built around a

cloud-based back-end that is fully controlled by the operator and can be integrated into existing OSS and BSS systems.

Utilising Comigo’s technology,

pay TV operators can deliver services via a variety of secondary devices – including smartphones and tablets – and offer features such as

personalised viewing, social network integration and a recommendations engine.

Analytics tools as well as feature provisioning, Media Hub and Device Management capabilities are included.

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Media Assist showcased NETIA

By Ian McMurray The NETIA Media Assist software suite unites the functionality of NETIA’s radio broadcast automation and media management products with a SQL database to provide what it describes as a robust multimedia asset management system with a full complement of production tools. With this new solution, NETIA believes that users can manage all types of content, in any format, on any platform, from anywhere and at any time. The software suite is also said to make it easier for users to move media among sites.

To enable convenient use across a facility or organisation, the Media Assist software suite provides both a rich-client platform and a web-based interface that can be

displayed on a simple internet browser. Both GUIs have been designed to assure effective ergonomics, and NETIA points out that the option of working through a browser-based interface allows journalists and reporters to go fully mobile while maintaining their ability to access, search, edit, and repurpose content. NETIA has already released Media Assist modules engineered for smartphones and tablets, and the company is providing demonstrations of the modules’ functionality throughout the show.

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X3 amplifies Cantar’s advantages Aaton Digital

By David Fox Over the last decade, the Aaton Cantar X2 audio field recorder has become established on the most demanding movie sets, from Skyfall and 12 Years a Slave, to The Legend of Michael Koolhas, which recently won the French César award for Best Sound. Now it is being superseded by the Cantar X3, which combines the ergonomics of the X2 and its superior microphone preamplifiers, redesigned to improve filtering and reduce the noise level.

There are also new functions, such as optional

Audinate Dante IP networking, and additional features are accessed through an improved user interface with new display-based menu control designed by Transvideo.

Its machined aluminium housing is water and dust proof, with a durable coating.

Add in an

exceptionally long run time, and it should be a perfect portable tool for outside location work, while its extended linear faders, smooth rotary knobs and silent switches should be ideal for the concert hall.

External devices can be simultaneously linked to the Cantar X3 through standard audio and computer connectors, which should allow further new capabilities to be added, which Aaton Digital hopes will allow it to be scalable for the next 20 years.

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MOVIE test gives ClearView on quality Video Clarity

By Will Strauss A new perceptual integrity test has been added to the feature set within Video Clarity’s ClearView line of video quality analysers.

The MOVIE (Motion-based Video Integrity Evaluation) standard provides a fullreference test that Video Clarity president and founder Blake Homan said: “applies an almost-human subjective quality to automated measurement."

Although the science of predicting human perception of video quality is not 100% accurate, Video Clarity considers that the higher the correlation to subjective data sets, the better, adding that “MOVIE provides a closer correlation than most available methods because it takes into account the spatial and temporal changes from frame to frame that affect quality.”

Common subjective data sets use the recommended ITU-R BT.500 methodology for the subjective

Touchdown!: MOVIE is said to apply an almost-human subjective quality to automated measurement

assessment of the quality of television pictures.

Broadcasters and equipment manufacturers use ClearView analysers to check audio and visual accuracy and operation, for compliance and to meet SLAs. Each device uses a variety of test methods to arrive at a measurement of subjective quality that closely approximates what the average person would see and hear when watching video.

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Digital Cinematography sees continued UHD growth in 2014

By Douglas I Sheer This year saw the arrival of a new generation of Ultra High Definition 4K – and, other K -contenders in a Digital Cinematography market that may be maturing but is still seeing healthy growth and drawing more vendors. This has been reflected in this year’s edition of Digital Cinematography World 2014, published this spring, by D.I.S. Consulting Corporation of Woodstock, New York.

The study which gathered responses, worldwide, from more than 1,400 pros, covered 12 categories of hardware: Cameras, Camcorders, D-SLRs, Cinema Sound, Displays, Editing & Graphics Hardware, Lenses, Lighting, Production Switchers, Tripods, Recorders/Storage/Servers and Creative Software. The study, again, looked at four market segments: Production, Mobile/OB, Independent and Rental House, globally.

While the retirement of film has been substantially completed, thereby making it necessary for almost all films to be made using tape or hard drive recording, pushing the Hollywood community headlong into digital, the rental market continues to seek state-of-theart gear in an almost unquenchable manner to enable it to have what producers want.

Meanwhile, the adoption of Digital Cinematography equipment and techniques by the freelance independent segment and by a legion of students is what has most helped the rapid expansion that has taken place. Plainly, a combination of their sheer numbers and the relatively inexpensive and highly accessible nature of the equipment has permitted a massive expansion of equipped producers and fed the coffers of the manufacturers. This has led to even more vendors offering kit.

From the known vendors, a number of new models were seen at the NAB Show this year.

ARRI, Sony, JVC, Blackmagic and Red showed new products, some intended for the documentary making community.

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Doug Sheer: Cameras with 4K or other UHD sensors are top of the renter’s list

more interesting for customers.

AJA showed its Cion camera which was met with a good deal of excitement. Panasonic showed two models of its UHD technology.

Among the most appealing features most motivating cine camera, camcorder or D-SLR renters this year, according to the study’s rental house

Continuing role of D-SLRs Although some cooling of the heretofore D-SLR frenzy can be felt, and this is underscored by a 20% decline in consumer D-SLR purchases this year, the use of the systems remains strong among movie makers and in episodic TV producers. That is reinforced by HD quality D-SLRs role as the de facto standard

What’s sure is that virtually all movie making and episodic TV community will be using UHD soon and HD use will diminish among those users as UHD builds respondents were 1) cameras with 4K or other UHD sensors, 2) ability to use prime lenses, 3) a small footprint compatible with handheld shooting and 4) continued ability to shoot HDTV (or be switchable to that).

Higher and variable frame rates are also beginning to attract more attention.

among students and independent professionals.

Growing sales, however, are seen coming from demand for UHD grade (ostensibly all 4K) DSLRs, as they are seen more and more as what is needed if you are to shoot directly for motion picture uses. One drawback of D-SLRs is their

relatively short segment recording capacity. But, that is largely overcome by the common use of outboard thirdparty recording and storage devices.

Countering that trend is a strong interest in mirror-less SLR systems that while allowing for interchangeable lens use, do away with the mirror shutter common to D-SLRs. That these systems are also priced lower does not go unnoticed by customers. It is possible that these competing features may find themselves blended in future generations of D-SLR design.

3D getting sidelined, even in movies While it is true that there continue to be 3D productions occurring in Hollywood and abroad, the excitement has been greatly reduced and just as in previous generations of the use of the technique, and there have been more than a dozen before,

the enthusiasm for it has waned.

Instead, the use of and focus on UHD is rapidly increasing.

What 3D equipment vendors were hoping for was a take up of the technology for episodic TV, sports specials and to spice up live events. That dream was rudely interrupted by networks cancelling specialist 3D channels and lacklustre consumer demand for that programming or for the TV sets themselves. This has also called into question most hopes for a 3D aftermarket.

While the greatest activity seems to be within the ranks of camera or D-SLR vendors, there are many components that go into what makes a UHD production. And, all of those component vendors are seeing benefits from the continuing revolution in cinematic production.

Seeing a good deal of activity is a range of storage devices for recording and maintaining footage from raw to compressed levels and through the post workflow. Among the leaders there are AJA and Blackmagic.

But, additionally, servers have seen a bounce from cinematic post production use. A variety of brands of pro audio see active use in recording sound in the field, editing it or sweetening it in post. Cinematic lighting continues to see changes as LED dominates that segment, even in truck-carried and studio uses and lower light capable imaging has scaled back the need for the intensity that previously characterised movie lighting. As cameras have been getting so much lighter and more compact and D-SLRs have proliferated the tripods and other support gear have followed becoming smaller, lighter and less costly.

Where vendors had hoped for UHD excitement to expand into broadcast TV and general video production, that has remained slow to happen so far. But, what is sure is that virtually all of the movie making and episodic TV community will be using UHD soon and HD use will be diminishing among those users, as UHD builds.

Douglas I Sheer is CEO and chief analyst of D.I.S. Consulting Corporation and can be reached at dougsheer@gmail.com.

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Q&A Kyungkook Lee, chief executive officer, TVLogic Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? Yes, it’s a very crucial opportunity for us to know the world’s broadcasting trends and it helps us to find a right direction for next year’s new product development since the IBC show is held in September.

Especially we can meet many potential customers and broadcasters from many countries who look for innovative products so we can listen to their opinions and feedback through IBC. What do you think are the key developments in, or threats to, your market sector at the current time?

Ultra HD is the hottest issue

in the broadcast industry.

But, I think it will take some time for 4K/UHD to be widely accepted as the mainstream.

Of course, I don’t think it will follow the same path of 3D that only bloomed for a short period of time. And, I believe that 4K/UHD will be influencing a lot the broadcast and cinema industry by both content and technology. TVLogic is one of the leading suppliers of 4K/UHD monitors, and is also introducing one of the world's first 4K multi-viewer systems at IBC2014, which will contribute to the 4K/UHD industry. But, we are focusing not only on the new technology, but also on a better way to improve the HD production which will still

Audience awareness in the cloud Q’ligent

By Michael Burns A cloud-based system for comprehensive quality analysis for linear TV aims to offer a closer insight into signal integrity and performance.

Q’ligent claimed its Vision system offers a full understanding of the TV viewing experience for overthe-air, cable, satellite, and IPTV delivery, without the costs or complexity associated with bandwidthheavy backhaul and platformspecific monitoring.

The software allows users to centrally visualise information collected over IP from a series of softwaredefined probes. Probes can be deployed anywhere across a network or delivery architecture of any scope or size, without geographical limitations. Users can monitor and collect information from multiple transport streams and signal paths to intelligently test, measure, troubleshoot and verify signal integrity.

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remain as the mainstream for the next several years.

Why should delegates visit your stand at IBC? TVLogic is one of the leading manufacturers which provides the full line-up for broadcast monitors. At IBC2014, TVLogic has introduced 10 new models – three rack monitors, three studio wall monitors, two high-luminance field monitors, a new version of 9inch FHD monitor and additional 24.5-inch OLED monitor. A 4K multi-viewer has been added to brandnew products for IBC. The message to our customers at IBC2014 is 'Upgrade your Vision' through TVLogic.

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Multiscreen streaming, analytics and monetisation Ooyala Probing questions: Vision monitors viewer data collected over IP from a network of probes

operators are spread increasingly thin as they manage an exponentially growing number of headends and delivery platforms,” said Q’ligent COO, Ted Korte. “They simply do not have enough resources to allocate across divergent systems, and need to get to the root of system issues faster. We’re giving our customers an intuitive and limitless service that centralises all critical media quality analysis of their channel distribution, across multiple delivery platforms, onto a single user interface.”

Q’ligent said Vision’s architecture extends beyond centralised monitoring of current performance to predictive analytics and performance trends over time, helping users to recognise potential issues that could affect signal integrity and the consumer experience before they happen.

The company also said its users would be able to gradually transition to Q’ligent Vision’s cloud-based monitoring approach.

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By Monica Heck Ooyala is showing a full set of offerings, from live streaming and mobile video to social integration and monetisation tools. The solutions are aimed at broadcasters and operators who need to deliver premium, protected content across all screens and who want to offer viewer personalisation, content discovery, while monetising their content.

Over the past year Ooyala has more than doubled its sales, engineering and operations team across Europe, with focused business development efforts in the German, Austrian, Swiss, Benelux and Nordic regions.

New clients in these regions include Ziggo, the largest Dutch cable operator and the Vienna State Opera.

Other new clients in the UK include the British Film Institute with the launch of the BFI Player and children’s iPad app, Hopster.

The company is also releasing a special IBC edition of its quarterly Global Video Index.

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Over arching: Archimedia Enterprise Media Player offers “convenience and efficiency”

A media player for all Archimedia Technology

By Carolyn Giardina The Archimedia Enterprise Player, which comes free with an active support agreement, is designed for all stakeholders — expert or not — who must be able to view professional video in order to do their jobs.

Users therefore might be editors, colourists, and compressionists, or those in roles such as project managers, sales people or producers. Said Mark Gray, Archimedia president and CEO: "Archimedia's new Enterprise Player is intended to find its way into the office of every producer and executive — and the offices of their staff. In the past, people used VTRs when they needed to view video.

Now that type of convenience and efficiency is available with the Archimedia Enterprise Player

on any desktop or laptop."

The Enterprise Player was created to serve a dual purpose: replace the VTR and videotapes while augmenting its professional Archimedia Master Player.

The main difference between the two players is in the formats they support. The Enterprise Player plays all professional and consumer video and audio formats except for JPEG 2000, DPX, and 4K/UHD. Like the Master Player, the Enterprise Player can play captions and subtitles in roughly 80 external formats and 50 embedded formats, and all video can play to a normal TV over HDMI. The player is also designed to delivers accurate audio in all modes — fast forward, rewind, slow, and scrub.

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New wireless bridges, STBs announced AirTies

By Ian McMurray Unveiling its latest generation of wireless video bridges and settop boxes at IBC2014 is AirTies.

Making its global debut is AirTies’ wireless STB, the Air 7405, which the company says is one of the first STBs to meet the new HEVC/H.265 video decoding standards. The Air 7405 utilises the latest Broadcom 7250 chipset, and has the capability for users to access IPTV services via the STB while simultaneously launching applications such as online video streaming alongside it. The Air 7405 features built-in 2x2 802.11ac wireless connectivity, operating at 2.4 or 5.0GHz frequencies, together with AirTies’ Mesh Technology, allowing consumer self-service installation and extending wireless coverage.

AirTies is also demonstrating its latest wireless video solutions. The Air 4820 is claimed to be the world’s fastest wireless bridge using a single chipset, the Quantenna 4x4 802.11ac with beamforming, which increases delivery speeds

from 600Mbps to 1.7Gbps, allowing simultaneous streaming of up to 10 HD videos to multiple devices around the home, the company says.

The Air 4920, designed to be the world’s smallest 11ac

1.6Gbps dual-band concurrent wireless booster device, features the Broadcom 3X3 802.11ac with beamforming silicon.

Alongside the 2X2 802.11n technology, it is said to support high performance video on the

latest 5.0GHz tablets while optimising video performance on 2.4GHz devices.

A new cloud application that allows consumers to view the topology of their home network and the traffic

flows therein is also being shown.

Via its interactive user interface, the cloud application is planned to assist users or operators in troubleshooting any problems with the performance, speed and coverage experience in the home.

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Combined UHD/ Mobile TX demo TeamCast

By Will Strauss A live demo showing Ultra HD and mobile TV transmitted over a single broadcast channel is on show at the TeamCast stand.

The experiment uses T2-Base for fixed reception and T2-Lite for mobile transmission to simultaneously provide HEVC encoded 4K TV pictures and an AVC encoded SD stream for mobile.These capabilities form part of the DVB-T2 standard and are being used on redundant Dual-Drive Twister Exciters with receivers from Sony.

Another live transmission demo on its stand is showcasing DVB-S2X compliant 64 APSK modulation with its recently upgraded Vyper satellite modulators.

New products at IBC include the Twister 4232, a dual mode PAL/DVB-T2 rack exciter designed for analogue to digital switchover, and the TWISTER4000 system. The latter combines two Twister digital exciters and a RF switch unit to provide redundant operation for transmitters, in Dual-Drive mode.

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New entry-level STB Albis Technologies

By Monica Heck

Tablet tales: New OTT solution ‘will offer a full telco grade broadcasting experience’

OTT cloud solution makes debut SatLink Communications

By Ian McMurray Debuting its latest end-toend OTT cloud solution, which is designed to enable broadcasters to offer subscribers the best of TV with immediate access to personalised content anytime, anywhere and on any device, is SatLink Communications.

According to the company, the new end-toend OTT solution, which is designed for broadcasters and operators, will offer a full telco grade broadcasting experience from the creation of new feeds through to the transcoding, live content streaming and management tools, for a simple, friendly and fun user experience across all devices.

Maximising Satlink's access to content and aggregation capabilities through a pay-per-service model, the new E2E OTT cloud solution was developed to meet growing customer demands and generate new revenue streams for broadcasters.

The solution will enable broadcasters, such as sports, movies, lifestyle or ethnic content owners, to offer live and VoD content to their subscribers via what SatLink believes is a costeffective and interactive cloud-based service

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platform.

With the ability to launch a managed service via the cloud within days, SatLink says that subscribers will be able to receive personalised content via both an application and STBs based on their preferences with interactive content options, endless ‘TV-alike’ features and new monetisation capabilities.

The company is also exhibiting its capabilities to provide end-to-end broadcasting solutions and support for all global live, linear and nonlinear digital media requirements including satellite uplink, downlink, turnaround and multi feeds aggregation for pay TV operators; sports and news occasional use delivery; playout; content management, digital archival and TV channels localisation; productions, realtime news monitoring and satellite engineering solutions.

During the show, SatLink is offering special promotions on its new Hotbird DVB-S2 platform, in co-operation with Sky Italia, and AsiaSat 5 DVB-S2 satellite platform to aid international broadcasters looking to expand their reach into new television markets in Europe and Asia.

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A range of customisable HD IPTV solutions designed to support a variety of traditional and value-added services is on show at the Albis Technologies stand.

Service providers can boost their revenue stream by using the company’s SceneGate STBs and SDK to deliver a strong television experience to subscribers.

Key technology demos at the stand include the launch of a new entry-level STB that delivers video content in 1080p HD display quality. The new STB has a more compact footprint than the company’s previous solutions and will be on display running a browserbased middleware application.

Albis Technologies will also demonstrate its SceneGate 8083 STB with middleware applications. Attendees will see a full-entertainment demo of the SceneGate SDK, which has been integrated with NetTV

Plus to enable television viewing, radio listening, realtime news updates and more.

The SceneGate 9090 HD IPTV STB will also be on show, capable of delivering linear TV, VoD, OTT, and PVR services from a compact design. Recent upgrades include additional memory, processing power and a dedicated graphics GPU. The SceneGate 9090 allows end users to connect accessories to the STB such as wireless dongles, keyboards,and storage devices.

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Advancing media asset management Axle Video

By Carolyn Giardina With a re-architected platform, Axle Media Management “promises to increase scalability more than 3-fold, beyond 1 million media assets,” the company said. “This addresses a common requirement for broadcasters as well as larger post, corporate, and education customers. The architecture supports multiple coordinated

servers, and the system expands incrementally along with customer needs.”

Axle’s other IBC news includes a new, optional iPad-based module for rough-cut editing and live chat, letting producers, assistants, editors, and other stakeholders access footage and engage in realtime dialogue.

The company also reported that its user interface is refined to help users work faster and with a cleaner layout. Also new is a

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API. “It’s hard to believe that Axle Video got its start just two years ago at IBC,” said CEO, Sam Bogoch, “and the overwhelming acceptance surprised even us, showing that there’s a big unmet need in the market for a simpler, yet highly capable media management system.

With the new version…we know we’ll be speaking with many prospects who could not have considered Axle before.”

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Hosted and managed B2B TV Zattoo TV Solutions

By Monica Heck A range of fully hosted and managed B2B TV solutions is on show at the stand of European IPTV and web-TV company Zattoo.

Aimed at network operators, ISPs and broadcasters, the solutions include multiscreen IPTV services, either through an IP STB for first screen viewing or on an iOS, Android or Windows 8 platform for mobile or web TV access.

Zattoo already provides a white label fully hosted and managed ‘TV-as-a-service’ solution to existing customers, some of which are German and Swiss network operators. The services and applications are branded and customised for each B2B customer and the functional scope of the service includes live-TV, catch-up TV, cloud-based and local recording as well as VoD. The company explained that this solution offers great advantages to network operators, internet service providers and FTTx providers

launching IPTV offerings, as it allows them to source and distribute a high-quality TV as a service without having to invest in their own hardware, software, or in-house team of experts.

The user interface design of the Zattoo solution can be adapted to the network operator's individual requirements. The company also says its B2B partners benefit from the use of technologies and experience from Zattoo's own consumer business, which shortens development lead times.

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Market for small pitch LED Powerful applications and opportunities are opened up by small pitch LED screens says Ben Hu, overseas sales manager, RGB Link Science & Technology From the beginning of its business application, the LED screen opened a new market for display that traditional technologies could not target, particularly in outdoor applications like stadiums and out of home advertising.

The indoor business application is still dominated by traditional display materials, such as the LCD video wall and projector.

However, the small pitch LED screen will soon challenge

the traditional market as the resolution is already much higher and is set to get higher still.

RGBlink sees great opportunities for the small pitch LED screen, but also a big challenge. As the traditional display market is mostly used for video presentation, integration is the basic requirement. There are some key points for this kind of application – better image quality; 4K x 2K

resolution; multiple display windows and seamless presentation; and the remote control requirement.

At IBC2014 visitors have the chance to experience clear, refined, close-distance displays. RGBlink can meet all our guests and show them new products, while visitors are able to communicate with the world's top LED display system manufacturers and distributors to understand the needs of the cutting-edge

“As the traditional display market is mostly used for video presentation, integration is the basic requirement” LED industry. All of which will help keep visitors at the forefront of the technology, but also promotes the

development of the LED industry's rapid updates and upgrades.

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A head for remote control Cartoni

By David Fox

Flood tide: The PhotonBeam 80 uses remote phosphor technology for high-quality output

PhotonBeam releases LED flood Photon Beard

By David Fox The PhotonBeam 80, the latest LED floodlight from Photon Beard, uses remote phosphor technology that has been adapted to enable it to provide near full spectrum, high CRI lighting.

It is available in daylight 5600K or tungsten 3000K colour temperature versions, and is well suited to work alongside Photon Beard’s Square One fluorescent panel. Power can be supplied from 90-260v AC mains or via

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standard V- or Gold-mount 11-17v DC camera batteries.

Also making its IBC debut is Photon Beard’s Platinum Blonde, a highly energy-efficient 1200W HMI linear lamp, which is provided in an open face format specifically designed for raw output applications.

It can be used as a bounce light or for punching through diffusion for a soft, yet powerful daylight source. Because it draws so little power, the Platinum Blonde can be powered from any domestic supply with no need for ancillary power.

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E-Rem 25 is a new remote control head from Cartoni that is suitable for cameras up to 25kg. It is claimed to be extremely smooth, reliable and silent, and is suitable for use in TV studios on pedestals, tripods or under-slung from cranes.

The 14kg remote head is equipped with simple modular electronics and advanced gear mechanics. A variety of remote command options are available, including joystick, hand wheels and fluid pan bar (with optional zoom and focus implemented on the console).

It offers a pan/tilt speed of up to 120rpm (720° per second) down to a minimum

of 0.05rpm (0.3° per second), and a pan/tilt resolution of 800,000 count/turn.

Cartoni’s new 100mm Half Bowl Adapter allows PTZ flat base cameras, such as the Panasonic AW-HE120 or other small remote control heads, to be used with bowl mounting tripods. The adapter comes with reversible mounting 3/8inch and 1/4-inch pin options.

Candy Bar is an add-on accessory holder for camera heads with two robust treads (3/8-inch and 1/4-inch) that can accommodate various accessories, including LED lights, monitors, viewfinders, and magic arms. Candy Bar can be fixed, orientable or rotating 360°. There are two versions with rosette attachments for the Smart Pro and Focus HD fluid heads, as well as ENG Heads such as

Home monitoring over STB Amino Communications

By Monica Heck A new cloud-based home monitoring and control system is on show at the Amino stand during IBC this year. Amino’s solution enables operators to go the extra mile by offering value-add in the form of ‘peace of mind’ services as part of their consumer offering.

Called Amino Home Reach, the new carrier-grade solution enables operators to offer subscribers a range of home monitoring and control services. Fully integrated with Amino’s STBs and a USB dongle, the complete service includes a cloud platform, customisable mobile apps and a web portal, admin tools for

Moving on: Cartoni’s new E-Rem 25 remote control head

Cartoni’s Laser, Gamma and Delta. They can also be used on many third-party heads.

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subscriber support and a range of connected devices.

Where subscribers only take broadband and phone services, Amino has also developed the standalone Amino Hub, which allows operators to target their entire subscriber base.

Customer trials have received positive feedback from operators and end users.

Initially, Amino will offer a package that includes Wi-Fi cameras, window and door sensors and motion detectors.

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Sentech chooses HbbTV solution HTTV

By Ian McMurray Looking to deliver HbbTV services on its Digital Content Distribution Platform in South Africa, Sentech has chosen HTTV to provide its head end flagship product httvStream.

The solution also includes the OnScreen Publisher authoring tool from OnScreen that will help Sentech design and develop HbbTV services. httvStream is a DVB data streamer and realtime multiplexer for HbbTV applications.

Besides HbbTV, it is said to support all types of DVB datacasting such as STB software updates, EIT, PushVOD and more.

“HTTV is proud to have been selected by Sentech for this initial HbbTV deployment in Africa,” said Régis Saint Girons, HTTV’s CEO. “Sentech is now able to respond to the demand of broadcasters willing to reach out to their audience asking for more broadband and connected TV services, such as enhanced TV, catch up, Video on Demand, news, education and so on.”

“We are delighted to work with HTTV to provide to Sentech our app creation platform and to support the introduction of HbbTV services in South Africa,” said Gordon Maynar, On Screen CEO. “We are sure that OnScreen Publisher's ability to create a full range of applications quickly and easily will encourage the launch of many exciting apps which will benefit both broadcasters and viewers.”

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Swedish political debates in 4K Sony

By Adrian Pennington The Almedalen Week is one of the most important weeks in Swedish politics, with tens of thousands of attendees gathering in the city of Visby to attend seminars, forums, and hear representatives of the major political parties give speeches.

During the 2014 Almedalen Week at the end of June, Swedish national broadcaster TV4 produced every speech given by the political parties’ leaders in 4K Ultra HD. This formed part of the ongoing work to modernise and futureproof the production formats of TV4 and TV4 Play.

At the heart of the production lies Sony’s 4K live camera system, consisting of

the PMW-F55 Super 35mm 4K CMOS sensor camera, the CA-4000 4K transmission fibre adapter, the BPU-4000 4K base band processor unit and the HDCU-2000 camera control unit.

“We’re continually working to develop TV4 and TV4 Play for the television experience of the future. 4K resolution will only become more and more popular, and we want to test the new opportunities this format can offer us and our viewers,” said Cecilia BeckFriis, EVP and Technology Manager at TV4-Gruppen.

Every party leader’s speech in Almedalen was filmed using the Sony PMW-F55, with the speeches broadcast live on a 85-inch Bravia. The 4K signal was transported from the Almedalen Park to TV4’s studio via a fibreoptic connection.

Said TV4’s digital project manager, Jonathan Nordin; “We don’t have any official information yet on when Swedish TV broadcasters might start offering 4K broadcasts to their regular

Ultra politics: TV4 Play in 4K

consumers. The Almedalen production was mainly an opportunity for visitors who were on site to see and experience the new 4K format.”

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Mediaflex integration demos available TransMedia Dynamics

By Will Strauss Demos showing the Mediaflex suite of media management applications controlling technology from Spectra Logic,

Telestream and FileCatalyst are available at IBC. Spectra Logic’s BlackPearl Deep Storage Appliance, Telestream’s Lightspeed Server for transcoding and FileCatalyst’s File Transfer Acceleration are all being shown, integrated with Mediaflex, on the TransMedia

Dynamics (TMD) stand.

Integration with Amazon S3 and Encoding.com is also showcased.

TMD chief product officer Carlton Smith said: “Adding cloud and SaaS solutions and multi-platform capabilities gives customers the most effective and comprehensive system

available. TMD’s extensive list of integrated partners allows broadcasters, media and archive organisations to make their own decisions about the technology that is controlled by Mediaflex.”

Mediaflex software applications can manage film, video tape and digital content.

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HD/2K mini camera upgrade

Heavy weather: MITEQ’s UPC2 can control up to 10 uplink channels

IO Industries

By David Fox

UPC2 adapts to weather MITEQ

By Ian McMurray New for IBC2014 is the UPC2 Uplink Power Control Unit from MITEQ. A rack-mountable unit, designed to adjust the strength of uplink signals to compensate for varying weather conditions, the UPC2 can control up to 10 uplink channels. The attenuator channels are available for L-Band or 70/140 MHz IF frequencies, with the UPC2 able to adjust up to 30dB of uplink power correction for each channel.

The UPC2 can be set up completely from the front panel or over a remote bus via a host computer; all monitor and control functions are accessible at the front panel and via the remote bus.

Its protocol set is backwardcompatible with the MITEQ UPC-A and UPC-L products. As an option, MITEQ offers the UPC2 with Remote Site Diversity Switching supporting applications that employ geographically separated redundant uplink systems, such that uplink signals will be transmitted from the site experiencing the most favourable weather conditions.

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The new Flare 2KSDI-ENR is a major upgrade for IO Industries’ existing HD/2K mini camera, and offers significant improvement in image quality over the original 2KSDI as well as some additional output formats.

The compact camera, which is typically used for PoV or in-car applications, weighs just 310g, takes a variety of different lens mounts, and can output full 2K Raw for digital cinema or 422 for live broadcast. It also gains new RGB 4:4:4 output

modes in 1080p and 2K. Other improvements include: lower noise from CFPN, RFPN, and PRNU; complete removal of a ‘black sun’ artefact, which caused the centre of a bright light or the sun to appear black; a higher range of analogue gain adjustment; and automatic black clamp on each frame.

The 2KSDI-ENR kit includes a Power/Control Cable (with control Lemo, and power tap) an AC adaptor (with power tap connector), a handheld remote, and a USB Control Cable (for camera control and to update the firmware and look up tables from a PC).

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Roto Racks get sound revamp SKB Cases

By David Fox SKB has re-designed its Roto Racks to accommodate the needs of professional audio engineers. They are made of moulded Linear Medium Density Polyethylene for increased strength and durability, with a new exterior size bar design to signify rack size with interlocking capabilities.

The new Roto Racks are shipping in 2U through 12U sizes with gasketed front and rear covers instead of rear panels for easy access. They also feature recessed steel, military-spec black twist latches and new heavy-duty flush handles.

The Roto Racks have a 44cm rack depth with front and rear rack rails and rack-mount hardware for secure mounting of gear. They will also stack securely with SKB’s new Shallow Racks and can be mounted to the new 1SKBRCC Roto Caster Board for manoeuvring a full stack of racks.

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Nice rack: A selection of all the different sizes of Roto Racks mounted on a Roto Caster Board

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theibcdaily 10EaZy - SG Audio ..................8.D70 24i ............................................14.L05 25-Seven Systems ...................8.D47 27m Group................................1.A44 2WCOM Systems.....................8.E78 3D Storm...................................7.K21 42 Consulting............................3.A18 4EVER.......................................8.F12 4HM.........................................10.A30 4Mod Technology ...................14.F11 A AADYN Tech...........................11.G73 Aaton-Digital ...........................11.F31 ABC Products ........................11.G34 ABE Elettronica.........................8.D23 ABONAIR LTD ........................3.B20c ABOX42...................................14.J13 ABS ................................2.A30/MS23 Academy of Broadcasting Science of SARFT.....................8.F05 Accedo....................................14.E14 ACCESS .................................14.D14 Accusys ....................................6.C10 Ace Marketing Inc. ........3.B37/5.A41 ...........................6.A29/9.B10/11.B51 Acebil.......................................11.E69 Acetel Co. Ltd...........................2.C11 Acorde.......................................5.C49 Acousta Engineering GmbH ....8.A34 Actia Sodielec...........................4.C77 Active Circle ............................2.A36a Active Storage ..........................7.J31 ActiveVideo ...............................3.A27 Actus Digital ..............................7.F07 AD VALEM TECHNOLOGIE ..OE118 Adam Audio..............................8.D70 ADB Lighting Technologies....11.B10 Adder Technology ....................7.C30 Adobe Systems Inc..................7.G27 Adtec Digital .............................1.D01 Advanced Digital Broadcast SA............................5.B48 Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA)...............9.A40a Advantech.................................9.C22 Advantech Wireless..................1.A74 Advantek International, Inc......8.E92 AEQ...........................................8.C55 Agama Technologies................4.A75 AheadTek ..................................8.D02 AIC.............................................8.A24 Airbus Defence and Space .....2.C23 AirTies Wireless Networks .......5.B33 AJA Video Systems ..................7.F11 Ajimi ..........................................2.A36i Akamai Technologies ...............6.A15 AKFA Teknology........................8.E16 AKG Acoustics.........................8.D60 Aladdin.co.,ltd.........................11.E65 AlanDick Broadcast Ltd. ..........8.B99 Albiral Display Solutions/ Pixtron Broadcast...................10.A42 Albis Technologies ....14.C04/14.C15 Albrecht Elektronik..................10.A40 ALC NetworX GmbH ................8.F57 Alcatel-Lucent ...............MS40/MS41 Ali Corporation..........................4.C71 Allegro DVT ...............................1.F34 Alpermann+Velte GmbH........10.B48 Alpha Networks SA ..................3.C31 Alphatron Broadcast Electronics ..............................11.C36 AltaSens Inc. ..........................11.F41 Altech Multimedia.....................1.D40 Altera Europe LTD..........1.F13/MS39 Alticast Corp..............................1.F36 Amagi Media Labs ...................3.C35 Amazon Web Services ............3.B16 Ambient Recording GmbH ....8.C73a AMD ..........................................7.H35 AMIMON Ltd. .........................11.B71 Amino Communications.........14.J20 Amos - Spacecom ...................1.C65

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Ampegon ..................................8.D35 Amplidata..................................7.A15 Amptec .....................................8.D70 AnaCom, Inc.............................1.C97 Anevia .......................................4.B66 Anhui Sun Create Electronics Co. Ltd. ................5.A41e ANNOVA Systems GmbH........3.A33 ANT Group SRL .......................8.C64 Antik Technology....................14.C08 Anton Bauer............................11.E55 Anvato.....................................14.C02 ANYWARE VIDEO ..................8.B36c AO Technologies ......................5.C19 Apace Systems Corp. ..............7.K27 APANTAC ..................................8.E37 Appear TV.................................1.C61 Applicaster..............................3.B20k Aputure Imaging Industries Co. Ltd.....................9.D12 AQ Broadcast Limited...........9.B14ci AQS ...........................................2.A22 ArabSat .....................................1.B38 Arbor Media BV .......................7.H05 Arcadyan Technology Corporation...............................4.C88 Archimedia Technology............7.D14 Archiware GmbH......................7.G03 Archwave Technologies ...........8.A03 Arctic Palm Inc........................5.B46a AREPLUS...............................2.B39d ARET video and audio engineering ...................OE103 Argosy.....................................10.C51 Arion Technology Inc................4.A81 Ariston BTS SA.........................8.C19 arqiva.........................................1.B61 ARRI ........................................11.F21 ARRIS........................................1.D31 Arrow OCS & Artesyn ............14.G17 Artec Technologies AG ............7.C28 Artel Video Systems Inc. ..........2.A20 arvato Systems.........................3.B26 ASC Signal Corp ......................1.C51 Askey Computer Corp .............1.A40 ASPERA, an IBM company.....7.G30 Associated Press/AP ENPS.....7.D30 Astec Solutions.......................4.A61g Astro Strobel Kommunikationssysteme GmbH ...... ...................................................3.C41 ATCI...........................................4.C65 ATEME ......................................1.D71 ATG Danmon Ltd....................8.B51a Atlanta DTH, Inc......................10.F38 Atomos......................................9.D25 ATTO Technology Inc................7.F41 ATX Networks.........................14.G16 Audible Magic.........................14.K03 Audio Ltd ..................................8.C97 Audio Network..........................7.H09 Audio Wireless Ltd....................8.E98 Audio-Technica.........................8.D78 Audisi ........................................8.C94 Autocue Group LTD................11.F45 Autodesk...................................7.D25 Autoscript................................11.E55 Avanti Communications ...........1.A50 Avateq Corp. ..........................5.B46d Aveco ........................................3.B67 Avere Systems .........................7.G41 Avid ............................................7.J20 AVIION Media..........................14.J16 Avitech International Corporation .............................10.F26 Aviwest......................................2.A49 AVL Technologies .....................5.A49 AVT Audio Video Technologies GmbH.................8.E76 AWOX........................................2.A27 Axel Technology SRL ...............8.B81 Axia Audio.................................8.D47 Axinom....................................14.G04 Axle ...........................................7.D07

Axon...........................10.A21/10.B21 Ayecka Communication Systems Ltd..............................4.A74 Azden Corporation ...................8.A08 Azercosmos .............................5.B06 B B & H Photo, Video, Pro Audio ................................10.A01 BABO .....................................10.D10 Band Pro Munich GmbH .......11.D21 Barco Silex............................10.D31a Barnfind Technologies..............2.A42 Barrowa.....................................1.A32 Bazhou HongXingJieTu studio Lighting Equipment Co. Ltd...11.C61 BB Consulting ........................2.B39g BBC Academy ........................10.F35 BBC Research & Development .........................8.F18 BBright ....................................2.B39a BCE - Broadcasting Center Europe ..........................7.D12 Beamr .....................................3.B20b Beamshare............................8.B38dii Beenius ...................................14.E26 Beijing Cycle Century Digital Technology Co. Ltd. .................5.B10 Beijing Feiyashi Technology Development Co. Ltd...........11.B51d Beijing Fxlion Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. ...............11.A14 Beijing Hua Yuan Film Equipment Co. Ltd .................9.B10h Beijing KXWELL Technology Co. Ltd ..............11.B51c Beijing Liming Tianwei Opto-electronics co., Ltd.....11.B51a Beijing Novel-Super Digital TV Technology Co. Ltd ..................4.B51 Beijing Realmagic Technology Co. Ltd. .................2.C17 Beijing United Victory Co. Ltd .......................11.G87 Beijing Wan Jiaxiang and Technology Co. Ltd.........5.C16c BEiKS BiK Machulski Sp.J. ...11.D63 Beillen Battery - JIADE Energy Technology.................11.B52 Belco SRL.................................8.D65 Belden ......................................1.D11 Belgium Satellite Services s.a. .1.F61 Benchmark Broadcast Systems (S) Pte Ltd......................................7.C01 Benel BV / Falcon Eyes..........11.A64 Berlin Partner GMBH ...............8.D16 BES .........................................10.D57 Bexel........................................11.E55 BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH...........3.A63 BHV Broadcast Ltd. ...............11.A12 BIRTV ........................................6.A04 Black Box Network Services ...8.E20 Blackcam Systems ................11.F41 Blackmagic Design ..................7.H20 BLANKOM ................................1.F45 BLT ............................................8.B94 Blue Lucy Media.......................7.A04 Bluebell Opticom Ltd..............10.F24 Bluefish444................................7.J07 Blueshape ...............................11.A20 BMS Broadcast Microwave Services Europe ....1.A10 Bon Electronics ......................10.D20 Booxmedia .............................14.G06 Boris FX ....................................7.G43 Boxx TV Ltd............................10.C49 Bradley Engineering................11.F41 Brainstorm Multimedia.............2.B59 Brexel Inc. .................................7.B01 Bridge Technologies.................1.A30 Brightcove.................................5.B20 Bristol Vfx................................11.D43 British Kinematograph Sound &

Television Society (BKSTS) .....6.B01 Broadcast Bionics ....................8.D71 Broadcast Electronics /Commotion..............................8.C91 Broadcast Manufactur GmbH .8.C60 Broadcast Partners ..................8.C81 Broadcast Pix ...........................7.B21 Broadcast RF............................9.A51 Broadcast Solutions GmbH............... ......................................8.A84/OE102 Broadcast Sports...................11.G72 Broadcast Traffic Systems.......2.C18 Broadcom Corporation............2.C25 Broadpeak ................................4.B72 BroadStream Solutions............8.B29 BroadView Software...............4.A65d Bryant Unlimited.....................10.D15 BTESA (Broad Telecom S.A)....8.B19 Burli Software Inc. ...................8.B01 BW Broadcast...........................8.E74 C Cache-A Corporation ...............7.F05 Calrec Audio .............................8.C58 Cambridge Imaging Systems ..........................6.C23/MS2 Camera Corps Ltd..................11.E55 Camerobot Systems GmbH ....8.A19 Camgear Inc. .........................11.D72 Canara Lighting Industries Pvt. Limited............11.A54 CANARE .................................11.A50 Canford .....................................9.C01 Canon Europe Ltd ..................11.E50 Capella Systems.......................8.E83 Carl Zeiss AG ..........................11.F50 Cartoni.....................................11.E30 castLabs GmbH .....................14.K02 CASTWIN (HoseoTelecom Co. Ltd)...........2.A29 Cataneo GmbH ........................3.B35 Cavena Image Products AB ....2.C32 CB Electronics ..........................7.F06 CCBN2015................................6.A03 CCI Paris Ile-de-France...................... .....2.A36/2.B39/8.B36/8.D82/11.E40 ....................................../MS40/MS41 C-Com Satellite Systems Inc ...4.C55 CCPIT Electronics & Information Industry Sub-Council ...............5.C16 Cedar Audio Ltd .......................8.C98 CEITON Workflow & Scheduling.............................3.A60 Celeno.....................................3.B20g Christie......................................9.D15 Christy Media Solutions - Broadcast Recruitment Specialists ...........6.C29 Chromatec Video Products .....3.B55 CHYRO ...................................2.A36c ChyronHego .............................7.D11 Cine 60 ...................................11.G41 Cinedeck {Cine Design Group LLC}.. ...................................................7.J07 Cinegy ............................7.A30/7.A41 Cinela ......................................8.C73a Cineroid ..................................11.G27 Cires21....................................14.K06 Cisco .........................................1.A71 Cisco - Connected Life ...........8.G11 Civolution ..................................2.B41 ClassX SRL ...............................8.A74 CLD Distribution .....................10.A08 Clear-Com ..............................10.D29 Clearleap ................................14.G10 Cmotion GmbH......................11.G42 COAX Connectors LTD ..........11.F73 Cobalt Digital Inc. ...................10.B44 Cobham.....................................1.F41 Codex Digital ..........................11.C71 Cogent Technologies .............6.C28a Collabora Limited ...................8.B38c Comigo .....................................3.B61 Communications Specialties Inc.........................10.F37

Compunicate Technologies Inc.1.F29 Computenext..........................14.K18 Comrex Corporation.................3.A48 Comtech EF Data .....................1.F80 COM-TECH Italia SpA .............8.C18 Comtech Telecommunications 1.F80 Comtech Xicom Technology....1.F80 Conax........................................1.D69 Concurrent Computer Corporation...............................2.B31 ContentWise ...........................14.K05 Convergent Design.................10.A24 Cooke Optics..........................11.D10 Coolech Technology Co. Ltd .5.A41d Coolux GmbH.........................11.F53 Copperlan .................................8.A03 Corning .....................................5.C45 Coship Electronics Co. Ltd. .....1.F50 Cosmolight .............................11.C30 Coveloz ...................................5.B40c CP Cases Ltd..........................10.A44 CPI International Inc.................1.B41 Craltech Electronica, S.L. ........9.C02 CreateCtrl Ag ..............................MS1 Creative Network Design..........7.F06 Crenova Multimedia Co. Ltd....4.C98 Cryptography Research Inc...14.C17 Cryptoguard AB .......................3.C61 Crystal Vision ............................2.B11 CSG Media, LLC ....................14.H01 CSTB Russia ............................6.B06 CTM Solutions..........................7.B11 CTP Systems............................8.A68 Cube-Tec International GmbH 5.C41 Cubiware...................................5.B30 Cuescript.................................11.A57 Custom Consoles Ltd ..............8.A20 CV Support Limited................11.D72 CW Sonderoptic ....................11.D21 Cymatic Audio ..........................8.A03 CYTAGlobal ..............................3.C44 D d'accord broadcasting solutions gmbh.........................8.C21 Dalet Digital Media Systems....8.B77 an Dugan Sound Design .......8.C95 Da Danmon Systems Group A/S ...............................8.B51c DataDirect Networks................6.C18 Datavideo Technologies Europe B.V. ...............................7.D39 Davicom..................................8.B38h DAVID Project............................8.F22 DAVID Systems GmbH ............3.A31 Dayang Technology Development Inc. .....................7.B35 dB Broadcast..........................10.A28 DB Elettronica Telecomunicazioni....................8.C74 DCC LABS ..............................14.L14 Decimator Design.....................7.B40 Dedo Weigert Film GmbH......11.E31 Dega Broadcast Systems Ltd .7.G07 Dejero......................................11.C21 DekTec ......................................2.B40 Delec Audio und Videotechnik GmbH...............10.D30 Delta Meccanica s.r.l.................8.E39 DELTACAST...............................7.J14 DELTACAST.TV .........................7.J14 Deltron Italia SRL ......................8.E17 DENZ ......................................11.C88 DeSisti - ILT Italy S.r.L. ...........11.B45 Deutsche Telekom - Business Development and Innovation 14.G15 DEV Systemtechnik GmbH & Co. KG.......................1.B31 DEVA Broadcast Ltd. ...............8.D79 devolo AG ...............................14.K17 Dexin Digital Technology (Chengdu) Co. Ltd..................3.B37e DGQoS SRL ...........................8.D37d DHD...........................................8.A50

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Envivio, Inc................................1.D73 Equinix ......................................3.B21 ERECA ......................................9.C47 Ericsson ....................................1.D61 ERLAB ....................................14.D02 ERSTREAM .............................14.J04 Es'hailSat ..................................4.B74 Espial.........................................5.A07 ETC - Electronic Theatre Controls .....................11.A62 Etere ..........................................8.B89 Etilux .....................................10.D31b ETL Systems.............................1.A33 ETRI ..........................................8.G08 Etribez .....................................14.D30 Euro Light System ..................11.E38 Euro Media Group .......8.D11/OE110 Eurotek S.R.L............................8.A59 Eutelsat SA ...............................1.D59 Evertz ........................................8.B40 EVS.................................8.A96/8.B90 Excitem.....................................8.E91 Exir Broadcasting AB ...............8.D28 Exterity ....................................14.H13 Extron Electronics ....................9.C30 Eyeheight Limited.....................8.B97 eyevis GmbH ............................9.B24 F F&V Europe B.V. .....................11.G50 F.A.Bernhardt GmbH, FAB .......2.A21 Fabrix Systems Ltd..................3.B20l Facilis Technology Inc. .............7.E08 Factum Electronics AB ..........8.D90d Fairlight .....................................7.H17 Fal Systems Ltd ......................OE117 farmerswife ...............................9.C25 Farseeing Co. Ltd...................11.D65 Fast Forward Video ................10.D20 Fiberfox...................................11.G59 FileCatalyst ...............................7.H40 Film and Digital Times ............11.F31 Fiilmgear ..................................11.A61 Filmlight .....................................7.F31 FIREFLY CINEMA.................11.E40b Fis Blue .....................................5.C23 Fischer Connectors ................11.F32 Flanders Scientific, Inc. ..........10.A12 Flanders/ Belgium...................10.F42 Floatcam ...................................9.B51 Flowcine..................................5.B22a FocalPoint Server ...................7.K01a FOR-A .......................................2.A51 Forbidden Technologies plc...8.B38e FORTIS......................................4.B82 Fortium Technologies LTD......14.J06 Fraunhofer Digital Cinema Alliance........................8.B80 Fraunhofer FOKUS...................8.B80 Fraunhofer Gesellschaft...........8.B80 Fraunhofer HHI .........................8.B80 Fraunhofer IDMT ......................8.B80 Fraunhofer IIS ...........................8.B80 Freefly Systems .......................9.B23 Freesun (Beijing) Technology Co.,Ltd. ................9.B10f Friend Mts...............................14.B30 Front Porch Digital....................7.D14 FTV project of MPEG................8.F45 Fujian Newland Communication Science technology Co.Ltd .....1.C91 FUJIFILM Europe - Recording Media .................11.C20 Fujifilm Europe GmbH............11.C20 Funke Digital TV .......................3.C60 Furukawa................................11.G25 G G. L Optics..............................11.A68 GatesAir ....................................8.B10 Gazprom Space Systems........4.B71 GB Labs ..................................7.J15b Gear Cam ...............................11.B65 Gearhouse Broadcast10.B39/10.E50

Gefen.........................................7.B30 Genelec.....................................8.D61 General Dynamics Mediaware.1.A06 General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies.............................1.A41 Genius Digital and GFK..........14.F37 Geolink Satellite Services / CETel......................2.A36b Geritel Giomar...........................8.E33 Ghielmetti AG ...........................8.C77 GIGABYTE Technology ..........14.J02 Gigatronix Ltd ...........................9.A06 GkWare e.k. ..............................2.C51 Glensound Electronics Ltd.......8.E72 Global Distribution ....................7.J31 Global VSAT Forum..................6.B05 Globecast..................................1.A29 Glookast Technology................7.D03 Gold Best Limited.....................4.C74 GoMax Electronics Inc.............2.C41 Good Mind Industries...............5.A20 GoPro........................................9.C40 Gorgy Timing ..........................8.D82c GOSPELL Digital Technology Co. Ltd. .................3.A61 Gotech International Technology Ltd.......................3.B37b Gracenote .................14.G13/14.H20 Grass Valley ...................1.D11/1.E02 GraVue Co., Ltd ........................8.A25 GREAT Britain Pavilion ..4.A61/8.B38 GreenPeak Technologies .........1.C90 GRUS........................................2.C29 Gsertel.......................................8.A11 GT - SAT International..............5.B18 Gulfsat Communications Company ..................................4.B70 Guntermann & Drunck GmbH .4.B60 Guramex .................................10.B31 H Hamlet.......................................9.D10 Harmonic Inc ............................1.B20 Harris Broadcast......................7.G20 HDMI Licensing, LLC...............5.C25 HEXAGLOBE ..........................14.L19 HGST ........................................7.G15 HHB Communications Ltd ......8.D56 Hi Tech Systems Ltd ................8.C92 Hibox Systems........................14.L12 HidashHi....................................3.A16 Highlands Technologies Solutions .................................10.B20 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. ...5.C11 HilKOM Digital GmbH...............1.F45 Hillrigs......................................11.A75 Hiltron GmbH............................4.B89 Hisilicon Technologies co. Ltd.2.C30 Hispasat ....................................1.A46 Hitachi Data Systems...............7.K31 Hitachi Kokusai Electric Europe GmbH ........................11.D39 Hitachi Kokusai Electric Turkey, Inc. ................................4.A71 Hive Streaming ..........................MS2 HK Sunrise Technology Development Co. Ltd...............9.B02 HMS GmbH..............................8.C21 Homecast Co., LTD ..................1.A27 Horizon Teleports......................5.B15 HP ................................14.H02/MS21 HTTV .........................................4.B77 Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd..5.B17 Huaxin Antenna........................1.C95 Hubee .....................................14.H17 Humax Co. Ltd .........................1.C27 HwaCom...................................4.C50 Hybrid TV..................................9.C33 Hybris Software - An SAP Company ................................................14.D10 I IABM ..................8.F51a/8.F52/8.F54 IB/E OPTICS Eckerl GmbH ...11.D21

IBAS - Italian Broadcasting Advanced Solutions .................8.D41 IBM............................................MS22 IdeasUnlimited.TV ....................8.A54 IDX Technology ......................11.C21 IEC Telecom.............................3.B29 IEEE Broadcast Technology Society ....................................8.F51b IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology.......................8.F51c iFootage International (HK) Limited ............................9.B10c IGP b.v. .........................1.F58/OE107 IHSE GmbH...............................7.F33 Ikegami Electronics (Europe) GmbH..11.A31 Ilionx ..........................................3.A22 Image Engineering GmbH & co. KG......................11.E16 Image Matters ......................10.D31c Imagine Communications........7.G20 Imagine Products Inc ...............9.D14 Imagineer Systems...................7.K29 I-MOVIX...................................11.E43 INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel..............................6.A20 Indiecam GmbH .....................11.E75 IneoQuest .................................MS38 Inetsat........................................3.A24 Infivision ....................................6.B07 Infomir GmbH .........................14.L09 Inmarsat ....................................2.B19 Innowave Technologies..........14.K14 InstaDigital...............................14.E05 INSIDE Secure ...........................MS2 INSIDE Secure.........................MS25 Institut f端r Rundfunktechnik (IRT) ............10.F51 Integra PDU ............................8.B38g Integrated Design Tools Inc. ....9.A02 Intek Digital, Inc........................5.A05i Intel Corporation..........14.L20/MS42 Intellicore Services..................14.L16 INTELLIQUE............................2.A36h Intelsat Corporation..................1.C71 International Datacasting Corporation...............................1.C29 Interra Systems.........................7.B13 Interxion ...................14.GM7/14.H18 intoPIX SA.............................10.D31d Inventos ..................................14.D01 Inview......................................14.H08 IO Industries Inc. ....................11.D67 IPE Products .............................9.A31 IPV Limited................................8.A33 Irdeto .........................................1.D51 IRIS GATEWAY SATELLITE SERVICES LTD.........................3.C44 Irom Tech inc..........................5.A05d ISOVISION ..............................2.A36e Itelsis..........................................8.E19 ITS Electronics........................4.A65b Ittiam Systems ..........................1.F27 IWEDIA S.A...............................5.B01 J J&W TECHNOLOGY LTD......3.B37d JBL Professional......................8.D60 J.L. Fisher ...............................11.C40 Jampro Antennas, Inc. .............8.B96 Japan Radio............................OE116 JK Audio .................................11.G11 JLCooper Electronics ...............7.J43 JoeCo Limited...........................8.E97 Junger Audio ..........................10.A49 Jutel...........................................8.A26 JVC Professional Europe Ltd.11.G30 K K5600 Lighting........................11.E28 Kaltura ........................3.B20m/3.C67 Kantar Media - Audiences........1.F75 KAONMEDIA ............................1.B16 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology...............................1.D61

KATHREIN TechnoTrend GmbH .................1.A58 KATHREIN-Werke KG ..............8.C29 KenCast, Inc .............................2.C39 Kino Flo/Cirro Lite (Europe) Ltd.............................11.E33 Kintronic Laboratories, Inc. ......8.E41 Kizil Electronics ......................14.H07 KOBES.Co.Ltd........................11.E65 Konka Group Co. Ltd...............3.B39 KONOVA KOREA. Co. Ltd.....11.E65 Konvision ..................................9.B19 Korea Pavilion................4.B78/5.A05 Kratos Integral Systems Europe .......................1.A01 Krensel Industries UG ............8.D16a Kupo Grip Ltd.........................11.G69 Kvant-Efir...................................8.E75 KWS-Electronic GmbH............3.C41 L Lacie..........................................7.G17 L'AIGLE Stabilizers.................11.A40 Lambda Antenna Technologies.............................8.C81 Lanparte..................................11.A34 LAON Technology...................10.F22 Lasergraphics, Inc.....................7.F01 LATTO .....................................3.B20q LAWO AG .................................8.B50 LEADER INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION......................11.A38 Lectrosonics, Inc....................8.C73b Ledgo Co., LTD ......................11.C75 LEMO Connectors .................11.D42 Levels Beyond..........................MS44 Leyard Opto-Electronics Co. Ltd ......................................5.C09 LG Electronics...........................2.A41 LGZ Broadcasting Tech .......11.E40a Libec........................................11.A53 Liberty Global plc. ....................1.D39 Lightcraft Technology ...............7.J01 Lightequip GmbH + Co.KG....11.F71 Lightstar (Beijing) Electronic Co. ltd ....................11.E67 Limecraft .................................10.F42 Limelight Networks...................3.B15 Linear Acoustic.........................8.D47 LinkedTV ...................................8.F42 Litepanels................................11.E55 Lith Technology Co. LTD ..........9.A14 LiveU .............................3.B20j/3.B62 Livewire Digital Ltd ...................4.C83 LMP Lux Media Plan ..............10.F21 LockCircle...............................11.G35 Loft London Solutions .............8.B38i LogicKeyboard - BSP...............7.F49 Longway Broadcast Technology USA, INC...............2.A14 LS telcom ..................................8.E43 LSB Broadcast Technologies GmbH.................8.B35 LSI Projects Ltd ......................11.E35 LTO Program ............................9.B25 LUCI - Technica Del Arte BV....7.A33 Luma Tech ..............................11.B65 Lumantek ..................................3.B51 Lund Halsey (Console Systems) Ltd.............2.B30 Lupo Light SRL .......................11.F59 Lupo Lux SRL.........................11.A65 Luso Electronic Products Ltd. .5.C19 Lynx Technik AG.......................8.C70 M Magma ......................................7.F06 make.tv // SMT - Streaming Media Technologies GmbH.................3.B40 Mandozzi...................................8.A48 Mariner ....................................14.L02 Mark Roberts Motion Control Ltd ..............................11.F11 Marquis Broadcast Limited......2.A58

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Multidyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems........................10.D46 Murraypro Electronics ............10.F23 Muxlab......................................8.E44 MW Video Systems Ltd ...........2.A32 MWA Nova GmbH....................7.E30 Mware Solutions ....................14.C30 N nablet GmbH............................7.G05 NAB Show................................6.A09 nac Image Technology Inc.....11.G75 NAGRA .....................................1.C81 Nagra Audio ..............................8.E96 nangu.TV .................................14.L18 Nanguang Photographic Equipment Co. Ltd. ................11.E10 Nanjing Dynacore Technology Co. Ltd ................11.D62 Nanuk By Plasticase ................9.A47 Narda Test Solutions ................8.E35 Nativ........................................7.K01b Nautel........................................8.C49 Nautilus Studio.........................7.G05 ncam..........................................7.F31 ND SatCom ..............................5.C31 NEC Corporation......................8.B37 Neotion......................................4.B53 NET INSIGHT............................1.B40 Net Mobile AG...........14.H09/14.H11 Netgear....................................14.F10 Netgem .....................................5.B45 NETIA .......................................1.A29 NETIA (Globecast Group) ......8.D82d Netrange .................................14.E13 Netris.........................................5.C21 Netsweeper ............................5.B46b NetUP ......................................14.J18 Network Innovations ................4.C83 Neutrik AG ................................8.C90 never.no.....................................7.A09 Nevion .......................................1.B71 New Japan Radio Co. Ltd .......4.C73 NewFace TV Ltd.....................5.B40b Newphoria ..............................14.J17 Newtec ......................................1.A49 NewTek .....................................7.K11 Nexeven..................................5.B22b Nexidia ......................................3.A54 Nexstreaming ...........................5.C03 NEXTO DI ...............................11.G37 NEXTO DI UK LTD .................11.G37 NHK ..........................................8.G21 Nikon Europe B.V....................11.A69 Nila LED Lighting ....................11.E38 Nimbus, Inc.............................11.E65 Nine Tiles ...............................8.B38di Ningbo Eimage Studio Equipment Co. Ltd.................11.C51 Ningbo Jie Yang Television Equipment Co. Ltd.................9.B10b NINSIGHT .................................7.B11 NKK Switches...........................8.A70 NOA Audio Solutions ...............8.D91 NOBLURWAY.........................2.B39h Nordija A/S ..............................14.L06 Norigin Media .........................14.H16 North Telecom ..........................4.B79 Norwia.......................................9.C19 Novella SatComs Ltd................1.F58 NovelSat...........................2.A10/MS3 Novotronik GmbH ....................1.A54 NPTV............................5.B19/14.G07 NSM Initiatives LLC..................3.A30 NTP Technology A/S..............8.B51b NTT Electronics Corporation ...3.C11 NTT Group................................2.C50 NTT Network Innovation Labs .8.F25 NUGEN Audio...........................8.A76 Numedia....................................3.B55 NVIDIA Ltd.................................7.J39 NyeTec Limited.........................2.C31

O Object Matrix Ltd ...................6.C28b Ocean Blue Software .............4.A61b Ocilion IPTV Technologies GmbH ................4.C61 OConnor..................................11.E55 OCTOPUS Newsroom Trading Limited.........................7.G11 Omnia Audio.............................8.D47 Omnitek.....................................6.A18 ONE CONNXT ...............1.F31/MS44 One For All................................1.C41 Onetastic SRL ..........................8.C20 Ontario, Canada..4.A65,5.B40,5.B46 OOYALA ..................................14.F32 Open Broadcast Systems Limited.....................4.A61h Opentech Inc............................5.C34 OpenTelly.................................10.F42 Opera Software.......................14.E20 OPERATORSKIE TECHNOLOGII .......................11.B69 Optical Cable Corporation .....10.E59 Optocore GmbH.......................8.C60 Optoway Technology Inc..........8.E25 Oracle........................................9.C17 Orad Hi-Tec Systems ...............7.B27 Orban Europe GmbH ...............8.D93 ORCA......................................11.D21 OSEE.......................................10.D59 Osprey by Vario Systems.........3.A26 Oticom.....................................11.E65 OVERLINE - Systems...............8.E94 Ovide Smart Assist.................11.A73 P P+S Technik ...........................11.G35 Pace plc ....................................1.B19 Packet Ship Technologies......4.A61e Pals Electronics Co. Ltd. ........OE101 Panaccess Systems.................3.C20 Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH ...............9.C45/9.D40 Panodic Electric (Shenzhen) Limited...................3.A40 Panther GmbH........................11.E20 Paradigm Communications .....1.F33 PARALINX LLC.........................9.D18 PayWizard ..............................14.G14 PBI.............................................3.A52 PCCW Global.........................14.E07 Peak Communications Ltd. .....1.C33 Pebble Beach Systems............8.C71 Perceptiva - Labs ...................2.A36d Percon .....................................10.E51 Perfect Memory......................8.B36b Pesa ..........................................8.C03 Phabrix ......................................8.E40 Philips Home Control ...............1.A81 Philips uWand................5.B02/MS45 Phoenix7 Ltd ............................3.C21 Phonak Communications AG ..8.E95 Photon Beard Ltd...................11.D43 Piksel.........................................1.C30 Pixel Power LTD........................7.A31 Pixellot Ltd ...............................3.B20f Plaber S.r.l. - HPRC Cases ......9.B43 PLAYBOX Technology Ltd. (Sofia).................................8.C30 Plisch GMBH ............................8.E10 Plura ..........................................8.B73 Pluxbox .....................................8.A12 Polecam..................................10.C49 Pomfort GmbH .......................10.F39 Popyoular ...............................14.C01 Portabrace ..............................11.B65 Portaprompt Ltd .......................8.A90 Postium Korea Co. Ltd. .........10.D20 Prime Focus Technologies .......7.J16 Primestream .............................7.D21 Prism Sound .............................8.E34 Prismahub.................................8.B01 Prismcube.................................5.B09 ProConsultant Informatique.....2.B21

Prodys .......................................1.A39 Professional Sound Corp.........8.C96 PROFITT Ltd.............................7.A07 Progira Radio Communication 8.D44 PROJECTBUILDERS..............OE110 ProMAX...................................7.K01a Promise Technology.................6.C11 Pronology................................10.A26 ProSup/Casu ..........................11.E73 ProTelevision Technologies AS.......................8.C48 Providius Corp. .......................4.A65e Provys .......................................2.B49 PRO-X CO., Ltd ......................11.E42 Prysmian Group (Draka Comteq Germany)......11.C31 PSI Audio .................................8.E96 Portabrace ..............................11.B65 PTEK .........................................6.B04 Q Qbit GmbH................................8.E49 Q'ligent......................................8.D03 Qt by Digia..............................14.H05 Quadrille..................................2.B39b Quadrus Technology ................7.K25 Qualifyle.....................................8.E04 Quantel......................................7.A20 Quantenna Communications............. ........................................2.A08/MS36 Quantum 5X Systems Inc......5.B40d Quantum Corporation ..............7.B26 Qube Cinema............................7.F45 Quicklink ...................................3.B29 Quintech Electronics /DEV Systemtechnik ................1.B31 Qvest Media Dubai...................3.B40 Qvest Media Singapore ...........3.B40 R R.V.R Elettronica .......................8.E30 Rabbit Labs...............................3.A44 Radica Broadcast Systems Ltd............................8.B38h Radio Frequency Systems.......8.B28 Radioscape.............................8.D90a RAIDIX.......................................2.C27 RaLex Solutions .......................8.D73 RAMI .......................................8.B36a Rapid I&C...............................5.A05b Rascular Technology Limited ....................................8.B38a Red Digital Cinema.................10.A10 Reelway Gmbh .........................3.A28 RelayTV....................................14.J14 Remote Solution Co. Ltd.......5.A05h Research Concepts Inc............1.F58 RF-Design .................................1.F49 Riedel Communications GmbH & Co.KG......................10.A31 RIZ - Transmitters Co. ..............8.B02 RJS Electronics Ltd ...............6.C28d RME/Audio AG .........................8.E05 RO.VE.R Laboratories S.P.A ....8.B67 Rockwell Collins .......................1.A11 Rohde & Schwarz.....................7.E25 Roland Systems Group ............7.J38 Root6 Technology.....................7.E21 ROSCO...................................11.G21 Rosenberger - OSI GmbH + Co - OHG.............................11.E39 Ross Video Ltd...9.B08/9.C10/9.C23 Rotolight..................................11.D69 Rovi Europe Limited .................5.A31 RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. .............................1.B24 RSG Media Systems...............6.C22 RT Software Ltd........................6.A21 RT-RK Computer Based Systems ........................5.B32 RTS .........................................10.D25 RTS (Royal Television Society)8.F51d RTW GmbH & Co. KG .............8.D92 Ruige China ............................11.D47

Russian Satellite Communications Company.....4.B84 Ruwido ......................................1.F68 RYMSA RF................................8.C65 S S&T (Strategy & Technology) ...1.B22 S3 Group...................................3.B18 S3 Satcom Ltd..........................1.B91 Sachtler ...................................11.E55 SAF Tehnika..............................9.B06 Saffron Digital .........................14.C11 Sagemcom ...............................1.D41 SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP .........................8.C80 Sam Woo Electronics Co. Ltd....................................11.G29 Samim Rayaneh Co. ................5.C15 Samjin......................................5.A05j Samsung...................................1.D35 SanDisk...................................11.C65 Sanken Microphone co. LTD ...8.C93 Sans Digital ...............................7.F04 SAPEC.......................................1.F90 Sat-Comm Broadcast LTD ................ ......................................1.A95/OE105 Satlink Communications ..........5.A17 Satmission....................1.A91/OE106 SatService GmbH.....................1.F47 Savas Live Subtitling..............14.H06 SCALITY....................................8.A98 ScheduALL ...............................1.D30 Schill GmbH & Co. KG ...........11.E41 Schneider Kreuznach.............11.A41 Schoeps Mikrofone ..................8.E90 Schulze-Brakel Schaumstoffverarbeitungs GmbH .......................................8.D75 SCISYS Deutschland GmbH...8.B61 Scottish Development International ............................9.B14a Screen Subtitling Systems.......1.C49 SCTE .......................................8.F51e SDNsquare..............................10.F42 SeaChange................................1.F70 SED Systems............................1.A52 SELEVISION ...........................2.A36g Sematron...................................1.A78 Semtech Corporation .............10.F46 Sencore .....................................1.F56 Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co. KG.......................8.D50 Servicevision...........................11.C45 SES............................................1.B51 SGL..........................................7.J15a SGO...........................................6.A11 SGT ...........................................8.B22 Shaanxi Tianyi Antenna Co. Ltd .....................5.A41b SHANGYU HENGFENG OPTIC-ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY CO. LTD ..............5.C16b Shape ......................................11.F61 Shenzhen (China) C&D Electronics Co. Ltd...................1.C93 Shenzhen Anycon Electronics Tech. Co.LTD.......3.B37c Shenzhen Aoto Electronics Co. Ltd...................9.B29 Shenzhen BestView Electronic Co. Ltd...................9.B10d Shenzhen Createled Electronics Co. Ltd ...................9.A01 SHENZHEN DONGZHOUJUN TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD........6.A29e ShenZhen Geniatech INC,LTD...................................5.A41a Shenzhen Justek Technology Co. Ltd.................14.J01 Shenzhen Mele Digital Technology Ltd...........5.C16e Shenzhen New Glee Technology Co. Ltd. .................2.C45

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Stereo Tool / Audisi ..................8.C94 STiNO eyevis GmbH ...............9.B24 Stirlitz Media ............................8.C91 STMicroelectronics ...................1.F40 Stoneroos..................................2.A46 StorageDNA..............................7.B42 STORDIS GmbH.......................7.E10 STP SA System Technology Partner ......................................8.C85 Stream Group..........................14.L15 Stream Labs .............................7.G47 Streambox, Inc. ........................7.D01 STRYME GmbH ........................7.J03 Studer by Harman....................8.D60 Studio Network Solutions.........7.J05 Studiotech.................................8.A28 Stypegrip ................................11.B68 Suitcase TV Ltd.............2.C10/2.C15 Suman Satellite Technology Company ................................5.A41c Sumavision Technologies Co. Ltd ...............1.B10 SumoLight ..............................11.A77 Surface Heating Systems.........1.F59 Suzhou Duozheng Electronics Co. Ltd.................5.C16a SVP Broadcast Microwave......2.C55 SVS Telekom端nikasyon Hizmetleri San. Ve Tic. Ltd........................5.C01 Sweden at IBC..........................5.B22 SWE-DISH by Rockwell Collins1.A11 Swedish Microwave AB ...........1.F71 swissaudec .............................10.F45 SWIT Electronics Co. Ltd.......11.A39 Switchcraft, Inc.........................9.C49 Synapse TV..............................1.B22 Synaptop .................................5.B46f System House Business Partners ..................14.C20 Systembase Ltd........................8.E93 T Tac Systems..............................7.F06 TAG V.S......................................1.F94 TAKTIK SA ............................10.D31e Talia Limited............................4.A61d Tandberg Data GmbH ..............9.A04 Tango Wave ..............................4.C87 Tata Communications...1.B20/MS24 Tata Elxsi Limited......................3.A32 Tatung Technology Inc ...........14.B24 TC Electronic ...........................8.D56 TDF............................................1.B79 Teamcast...................................2.B51 TECH4HOME ...........................3.C46 Techbid Auctions....................10.A05 Technicolor.........................MS5/MS7 Technocrane S.R.O ................11.D36 Techwave, Inc. ........................11.E65 Tecsys Video Networks Ltd. ..3.B20a Tedial .........................................8.B41 Tektronix Inc............................10.D41 TELECAST TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD .................................6.A29b Teleidea.....................................4.C80 Telekom Austria Group ..........14.C16 elemetrics Inc. ......................11.D35 Te Telenor Satellite Broadcasting .1.A59 TelergyHD & Mware solutions14.C30 Telesat.......................................1.C39 Telespazio .................................4.A70 Teleste .......................................4.B61 Telestream.................................7.C12 Television Research Institute ...5.C43 TELIKOU TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD...................................11.A10 Telmaco S.A. .............................8.E47 Telos ..........................................8.D47 Telos Systems...........................8.D47 Telsat Srl .................................8.D37b Telstra......................................14.B01 TEM ...........................................8.E45 Teracue eyevis GmbH IPTV & IP Video Systems..........................9.B24

Teradek....................................11.E55 Terrasat Communications, Inc. 1.F81 Thales Angenieux ...................11.F34 The Good Life Co. Ltd..............9.B04 The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute................3.B20 The Pixel Farm Ltd ...................6.C19 The Video Point........................3.B20i The Weather Company.............7.F39 The Wireless Works..................9.A51 TheLight ..................................11.A48 thePlatform .............................14.H15 ThinkAnalytics Ltd ....................1.D92 thinklogical..............................14.B36 Thomson Broadcast................8.C35 Thomson Video Networks .....14.A10 Thum+Mahr GmbH ..................8.A50 Thuraya Telecommunications Company ..................................2.C23 TIANCHANG LIMING ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. ......5.C16d Tieline The Codec Company ...8.E73 Tiffen International Limited ....10.C49 Tiffen MPTV Filters .................11.D21 Tiger Technology ......................7.C10 Tight Video................................4.C78 Tilta Technology Co., LTD ......11.A71 Timecode Systems Ltd..........9.B14b TiVo Inc....................................14.L03 TIXEL .........................................8.A97 TMD Ltd....................................2.C58 TMG.........................................14.F11 Toner Cable Equipment UK Ltd....................4.B91 ToolsOnAir Broadcast Engineering GmbH...................7.G45 Top Format ...............................8.C81 TQ - Systems GmbH................8.E11 TRACT.......................................8.D74 TRANSRADIO SenderSysteme Berlin AG...................................8.D35 Transvideo...............................11.F31 TRedess ....................................8.A11 Triada-TV...................................8.D32 Trilogy Communications Ltd..10.A29 Trimaran Georacing................14.G02 TriVis Weather Graphix .............3.A58 True Lens Services.................11.G65 Truen co. ltd ...........................5.A05g TSF.be SA...............................10.d31f TSL..........................................10.B41 TTI .............................................4.C69 Turbosight (TBS) Technology Co.Ltd ...................4.C81 TV Skyline GmbH...................11.C50 TVC (TELEVIZIJOS IR RYSIO SISTEMOS, UAB) ...................OE109 TVLogic Co. Ltd .....................10.D26 TVStorm ....................................4.A91 TVU Networks ..........................2.B28 TW Electronics (Newbury) Ltd .4.B63 Twist Cluster .........................10.D31h U Ubertweek GmbH ..................8.D16c Ultimatte Corporation...............7.C27 Ultra Electronics GigaSat.........1.C57 Uniclass Technology Co. Ltd. ..2.A24 Unidis co. ltd ..........................5.A05a Unified Streaming ...................14.F33 Unique Broadband Systems Ltd..............................8.A40 UNITRON ................................10.F42 Universal Electronics bv...........1.C41 UPnP Forum ...........................14.L17 Utah Scientific...........................2.B20 Utelisys ...................................14.E09 UXP Systems Inc....................4.A65a V VANGUARD VIDEO .........1.F90/MS4 Varavon...................................11.C11 VariZoom ................................11.G54 VBOX COMMUNICATIONS ..3.B20p

Vcodes ....................................3.B20e VdB Audio ................................8.C93 VDL..........................................8.D90c VDL Deutschland ...................8.D90b Vector 3.....................................7.C01 VECTRACOM.........................8.D82b Venera Technologies ................7.C03 Verimatrix ..................................4.A55 Verizon ....................................14.G08 Versatile ...................................11.F41 Veset..........................................8.A14 Vestel.......................................14.A20 VEYGO..................................11.E41b Viaccess ....................................1.A51 ViaLite Communications ..........1.A21 Vianeos....................................2.A36g Viblast ....................................14.G01 VidCheck...................................8.A30 Videlio - Preview.......................8.C61 Video Clarity..............................2.C57 VIDEO STITCH.....................11.E40c VIDEO-FLOW .........................3.B20d Videolicious.............................14.K16 Videomenthe............................2.A36f Videoplaza ..............................5.B22c VideoPropulsion........................6.A05 Videosolutions Group...............7.A06 Videssence .............................11.B12 VidiGo B.V. ................................7.H30 VidMind LTD. .............3.B20o/14.K20 Viewz ......................................5.A05e Vigiglobe.................................14.G03 Vigintos Elektronika ..................8.E27 Vimmi Communications Ltd. .3.B20h Vimond Media Solutions......................14.H04/MS34 Vimsoft ......................................9.A38 Vinten.......................................11.E55 Vinten Radamec .....................11.E55 Visio Light Inc. ........................11.G45 Vision Research......................11.B42 Vision247 ................................14.H12 Visiware...................................2.B39e VISLINK.....................................1.A69 Visual Research Inc..................7.D05 Visual Unity..............................14.F34 Vitec ..........................................7.G16 Vitec Videocom.......................11.E55 VIXS Systems Inc. ....................3.A12 Vizrt............................................7.A10 VJU iTV Development GmbH ..8.E83 Vocas.......................................11.E34 Vodience .................................3.B20n Voice Technology ...................8.C73a VoiceInteraction....................14.H06a Volicon ......................................7.G23 Vonetize ..................................14.C19 Vortex Communications Ltd..11.G11 VOWOS Ltd..............................3.C30 VRT ............................................8.F02 VSN (VIDEO STREAM NETWORKS, S.L.)....................7.C21 VT3 ...........................................2.B39f VTQ Videotronik GmbH............1.F11 VTX Technology Ltd...............11.G11 VuTV .........................................1.B22 W W.B. Walton Enterprises Inc.....1.A62 Walimex Pro ...........................11.G68 Wallonia Export-Investment Agency (AWEX).......................10.D31 WASP3D ...................................7.K30 Wave Science Technology.......8.A44 WeatherOne..............................7.D11 Well Buying Industrial Co. Ltd..8.A64 WellAV Technologies Ltd..........5.B47 Wellen+Noethen .......................3.B40 West Media Systems ...............2.C32 Wheatstone Corporation..........8.A86 Whisper Power........................OE115 Wide Orbit.................................8.D71 Wildmoka .................................2.B39i WINEGARD COMPANY...........4.A60

WINJAY S.R.L. ........................10.F41 Winmax Industry Co. Ltd.......9.B10g Winmedia................................8.B36d Wisi Communications GmbH & Co. KG.......................4.B50 Wisycom SRL...........................8.D89 Witbe.........................................4.B81 Wiztivi ......................................14.L01 WNM SA...............................10.D31g Wohler Technologies, Inc. ......10.B10 Wonderlamp Industries GmbH .....................................8.D16d Wooden Camera.....................11.E71 Work Microwave GmbH ..........4.C60 World DMB ...............................9.D30 WorldCast Systems..................8.B60 Wowza Media Systems............3.B17 WTS Broadcast Systems.......OE114 wTVision....................................7.A45 Wyberry Technologies............5.B22d Wyplay.......................................5.A11 X XCRYPT, INC. ........................5.A05c x - dream - media .....................8.E83 XenData ....................................7.H47 XeusMedia Technology............4.C59 Xiamen Came Photographic Equipment Co. Ltd. ................9.B10a Xiamen RGBlink Science & Technology Co. Ltd ..................7.K40 Xilinx Inc. ...................................6.A18 X-SQUARE TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD ..................................6.A29d Xstream ...................................14.F15 Xylostream Technology Ltd......2.A48 Xytech Systems........................6.C22 Y Yamaha Commercial Audio .....8.D15 Yangaroo.................................4.A65c Yegrin Liteworks.....................11.G77 Yellowtec ...................................8.A51 Yospace...................................14.E10 Yuan High-Tech Development Co. LTD ..............8.E15 YUYAO LISHUAI FILM & TELEVISION EQUIPMENT CO. LTD. ...............................11.B51e Yuyao Sinor International Trading Co. LTD. .......................9.A34 Z Zacuto.....................................11.G64 Zappware..................................1.A81 Zattoo TV Solutions ................14.J05 Zaxcom Inc.............................8.C73a ZebraOTT..................................5.C35 Zenterio.....................................4.C56 Zentrick....................................10.F42 Zeticon.....................................10.F42 ZHANGZHOU LILLIPUT ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD ................................11.B51b ZHANGZHOU SEETEC PHOTOELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY CO.LTD .......9.B10e Zhengzhou Generalink Lighting Equipment Co. Ltd. ................11.A66 Zhengzhou Taiying Video Equipment Co. Ltd ...................9.B49 Zhuhai Jili Development Co. Ltd. .....................................9.B41 Zixi...........................................14.C05 Zlense........................................8.E02 Zoo Digital PLC ......................9.B14d ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH ..............8.D16g Zylight......................................11.E38

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Delivering the ultimate content experience Viaccess-Orca

By Ian McMurray How broadcasters and content service providers can deliver the ultimate content experience to viewers on multiple devices is the focus for Viaccess-Orca at IBC2014.

Live demonstrations are highlighting its solutions, which, according to the company, major content service providers around the world are currently using to provide an engaging experience for viewers.

Based on the recent deployment of ViaccessOrca’s end-to-end multiscreen TV Everywhere solution, visitors to the company’s stand can see Orange Spain’s Gravity of the situation: How Orange Spain has deployed TV Everywhere is being demonstrated at IBC

DPP compliance for Medway Marquis Broadcast

By Will Strauss The ability to work with DPP (Digital Production Partnership) compliant AS-11 files has been added to Marquis Broadcast’s Medway.

The enhancement to the media integration technology coincides with the decision by UK broadcasters to adopt filebased TV programme delivery based around the DPP’s agreed standards, a move due to take effect from 1 October 2014.

Marquis Broadcast business development manager Ben Miles said: “The new DPP functionality allows Medway to transfer media and provide conversion services between Avid environments by rewrapping and/or transcoding as a background process in a single data transfer stream.

At the same time, asset quality is maintained and it is straightforward to keep track of them at each step in the process. “ 2.A58

Nano features ARM processor Geniatech

By Ian McMurray ARM processors have long been favoured by the mobile phone

industry for their combination of high performance and low power consumption. However, mobile phones are not the only platforms that can leverage such characteristics: for example, the Geniatech ATV585 Enjoy TV

Quad Core Nano.

The ATV586 features a Cortex A5 CPU in tandem with a quad core Mali 450MP4 GPU and supports Android 4.4 as its operating system. With 1GB of main memory, 8GB of NAND

premium OTT multiscreen service on five screens: a smartphone, an Android tablet, an iPad, a PC, and a TV with STB. In addition, Viaccess-Orca’s TV Everywhere solution is being shown powering Boxer TV’s multiscreen service in Sweden.

The multiscreen solution comprises content protection DRM including a secure player, unified service delivery, content discovery and recommendation, and companion device applications. Using the solution, the company says that operators can securely deliver live, VoD, and catch-up TV content on any network via any screen in order to expand their service offerings, monetise multiscreen TV services, quickly respond to market demands, and increase subscriber loyalty.

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Flash, it features hardware decoding of H.265/HEVC at up to 1920 x 1080p at 60fps. With Wi-Fi support and a wired RJ45 Ethernet interface, support for Google Chrome and two USB interfaces that allow the connection of a mouse, keyboard or hard disk drive, the ATV585 is, to all intents and purposes, a home PC. 5.A41a

A versatile virtual studio image Datavideo

By Carolyn Giardina A new virtual studio system is on show from Datavideo.

The backdrops are CG images, with support for numerous background images and for downstream keyers like character generators and title overlays.

The TVS-1000 is trackless, so it will not adapt to the movement of the camera. In the software, it is possible to zoom and pan into three phases, in order to suggest that the virtual camera is moving.

The TVS-1000 software supports up to six layers, including a UV map, so it is possible to place a virtual desk or sofa on the virtual set. There is also support for

Virtually yours: The TVS-1000 interface

background images, like a logo on the floor or a TV in the background.

Datavideo reported that there’s no need for a

separate recorder, as the TVS-1000 has a hard drive recorder built in. It also has a streaming encoder built in.

Lastly, the TVS-1000 will

have support for virtual studio sets that can be selected and downloaded from the Datavideo website.

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Voting platform for the second screen eTribez

By Monica Heck

Atomic corps: The ATOM 65 is said to be simple and robust for fast operation in tough environments

To address the needs of TV production companies and broadcasters, eTribez has announced the availability of its new Voting Platform which will be demonstrated during the show.

The Voting Platform is a part of the eTribez Engage audience engagement platform, which focuses on engaging viewers from the second screen during and increasing their activity between show episodes. The platform now facilitates voting while shows are on air or between episodes, polling,

crowd casting activities and Twitter hashtag voting.

The company, which provides digital solutions for the entertainment industry, says its solution not only offers advanced voting and interactive capabilities, but also gives producers and broadcasters other sources of revenue through advertising, sponsorship and gamification methods.

The platform can be accessed from the broadcaster’s or show’s website, mini-site and Facebook fan page. It also supports the interaction of users with each other and with show contestants and the viewing and sharing of content on mobile, tablet or desktop.

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Lightweight ATOM Auto caption for tough environments retiming offered Skyware Technologies

by Ian McMurray Described as lightweight, rugged and quick to deploy, the new ATOM 65 Ka Flyaway Terminal from German company Skyware Technologies is said to be simple and robust for fast operation in tough environments. The dual-offset antenna is claimed to provide maximum efficiency and best possible radiation characteristics for improved

data throughput and availability. It employs a 4piece segmented, carbon fibre reflector that deploys quickly and accurately with no tools.

When integrated with the DRC36500 5-watt transceiver, Skyware says that the ATOM 65 offers truly global operation with flexible polarisation and full Ka-Band transmit coverage from 29 to 31GHz. Configurations are available with out-of-the-box compatibility with Inmarsat’s Global Xpress commercial (2930GHz) Ka-Band network.

The integrated Ka

transceiver houses a BUC, PLL LNB and all associated waveguide components in an IP-sealed compact unit that requires no cooling fans. The manual mount provides a means to adjust the antenna pointing angle and interfaces to the tripod by way of a quick-release catch.

Options include a telescopic tripod; tripod feet/anchoring options; hard carrying cases; electronic switchable polarisation; and electronic band switching (commercial to military Ka-Band).

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New video cards unwrapped Bluefish444

By Carolyn Giardina A new range of video cards from Bluefish444 is being introduced at IBC: Epoch | Neutron and Epoch | 4K Neutron.

Both have a low profile, half height form factor that allows them to be installed into low profile servers, small form factor computers, and low profile expansion

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chassis. Full height shields allow for integration in more traditional workstation computers.

Epoch | 4K Neutron and Epoch | Neutron are fitted with 3x industry standard BNC connectors enabling two streams of 2K/HD/SD including video fill+key operations. Each SDI connector is programmable as input or output with Epoch | Neutron supporting 1.5G SDI and the Epoch | 4K Neutron extending to 3G SDI

allowing 4K I/O. An HDMI 1.4a mini connector provides a 4K HDMI monitoring preview.

Both Epoch Neutron video cards are integrated into the Bluefish444 SDK, which is available across Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX and supports content creation tools such as Adobe CC 2014, Avid Media Composer, Assimilate Scratch v8, and Bluefish444’s Ingestore and Symmetry.

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Nexidia

By Will Strauss Caption retiming, subtitle text language verification and dialect verification are among the features in version 2.3 of QC, Nexidia’s automated filebased quality control app.

The audio and video search company’s software, on show at IBC, automatically checks components of media using proprietary technology, performing a number of tests that were previously performed manually.

Among its tests is a verification check that ensures that closed captions are present and that they include the correct content, are complete and appear at the correct time.

Other new features in v2.3 include support for STL, EBU-IT and ITT caption formats and a language ID technology update with expanded language support.

At the same time Nexidia is also showing version 1.6 of Dialogue Search, the software tool designed to search media libraries for spoken words or phrases, independent of metadata.

Among the new features

Raising the bar: QC automatically identifies and corrects caption timing errors via a verification check

are: RESTful API to provide Nexidia search capabilities within any application, including metadata filtering and search; integration with the Dalet Media Life MAM; and better integration with Square Box's CatDV. Nexidia Media and Entertainment Division senior vice president Drew Lanham said: “As the speed of production gets faster, automated tools like Dialogue Search and QC are helping broadcasters and creatives work better and more efficiently."

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UHD, 3D and interactive screens Vestel

By Monica Heck Visitors can test the latest Vestel interactive flatpanel display designed to enhance the education process by helping instructors to create an engaging and responsive learning environment for their students.

Offering LED touchscreen technology, end users can write on the board with a pen or even their fingers. Documents, presentations, videos and websites can also be navigated and scrolled through, simply by touching the screen. A versatile product solution, the white board can save notes, graphs, text and audio files, enabling end users to print, email or share them instantly or at a later time.

Also on show is the Vestel UHD Curved LED TV aimed at delivering a lifelike experience through wider viewing angles and an integrated sound system.

The company’s 3D smart LED TV with Dual View display is also

on show, displaying two video sources on one screen at the same time. The sound coming from one of the sources is provided via the TV speakers.

The audio from the other source is provided via headphone.

Wireless headphones and 3D glasses can be purchased separately from Vestel retailers.

Each glass is set to view only one source. Both images are displayed in full screen mode and numerous users can watch the same source at the same time using the proper glasses.

Only content from a HDMI

source via HDMI input and analogue or digital broadcast sources via an antenna input are supported by the Dual View Display technology. This feature is available if a HDMI device is connected and any analogue or digital channels are stored in the TV. 14.A20

Speech recognition for automated annotation VRT

By Adrian Pennington The project AARON deals with automatic annotation tools for media archives through speech recognition, a face detector, keyword spotting and speaker clustering. Begun in 2013 by Belgium's VRT research institute, it resulted in a prototype that offers a more effective way to perform search enquiries in archives without the usually labour intensive manual annotation.

VRT is exploring ways to make use of these extraction tools from the start of the production chain and to offer a personalised experience to end users. It also aims to make a smooth navigation of a collection of media material possible by tying up content visually and semantically.

“Based on the prototype we concluded that speech technology can be very effective in making archives accessible in a fast and adequate manner,” said VRT's Evelien Van Malderen.

“At our booth we are demonstrating the latest version of the prototype for radio news archive content.”

It is also exploring new ways to translate traditional documentaries online. At IBC it aims to simulate a documentary experience by setting up online platforms “in a tactile manner”.

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Tower of switching power Evertz

By Michael Burns Featuring up to 46Tbps of switching capacity, the EXE Video/Data Switch Fabric platform is being showcased at IBC2014. Supporting 2304 10GE ports per single chassis, the 40RU EXE can switch 13,800 video services.

EXE forms the core of the Evertz 10GE SDVN (Software Defined Video Networking) solution. The company has also released the IPX series with 320Gbps up to 1.2Tbps switch capacity in compact modular form factor.

The AmimonPRO wireless units can work at distances from 100m up to 2km

Evertz said EXE and IPX had been designed to handle the demands of live UltraHD 4K and 8K video, and make the switching of video over ethernet as reliable as a traditional SDI router.

Intelligent use of extreme bandwidth switching with the EXE Platform will allow service operators to unleash the potential of a 10GE /100GE IPethernet network, claimed Evertz, adding that its SDVN solution with EXE provides scalability, highly efficient workflows, and a reduction in capital and operational costs.

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Infinity and beyond Brainstorm Multimedia

By Will Strauss

Zero latency wireless links Amimon

By David Fox The new AmimonPRO wireless links can transmit signals up to 2,000m with no latency, a level of performance that the company claims “was previously available only from wireless systems that sell for 10 times as much.”

Amimon’s CEO, Ram Ofir, commented: “This innovative transmission technology moves far beyond the parameters of conventional wireless video by delivering uncompressed HD video with no delay in image, audio or control signal transmission.”

Its longest-range system is SkyLink, ideal for use with drones, which allows a

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camera operator with a handheld monitor to be up to 2km from the camera, viewing HD video and controlling the camera with no delay, while a second operator controls the mobile device’s movement.

Amimon’s LiveLink is a very small compact unit with an operating range of 200m and bi-directional connectivity, while StudioLink, for studio productions, delivers realtime wireless HD transmission and control to multiple cameras without interference at distances up to 100m. This allows manned and robotic cameras to be positioned in difficult-to-access locations to capture unique angles while reducing infrastructure costs.

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A virtual set technology that can be used in both tracking and trackless camera modes is being shown by Brainstorm at IBC. Infinity Set features Brainstorm’s TrackFree, a new camera-tracking independent technology that combines in a single virtual camera the ability to operate

as a complex camera tracking system with the ease-of-use of a trackless system like EasySet 3D. TrackFree can use both internal chroma keying software and external chroma key hardware in the same production.

Brainstorm chief executive, Ricardo Montesa, said: “Infinity Set is the culmination of 20 years of

innovation in Virtual Studio technology and realtime 3D graphics. It combines the raw power of the eStudio engine and the simplicity of use of EasySet to create a new environment for next-generation crossmedia broadcast requirements.”

Brainstorm is also showing eStudio, EasySet 3D, BrainNews and the latest version of Aston 3D at IBC. 2.B59

MultiTrack measurement aims for remote horizon Transvideo

By David Fox CineMultiTrack is a new distance measurement system that can measure multiple objects, in association with Transvideo’s existing LensReader. The system can measure simultaneously the position of several tags and provides the data to the focus puller on the scale of the lens reader. The system can also deliver the information to Preston FI+Z lens controls to help focus in difficult

conditions.

Also new is the VirtualHorizon3, which is claimed to be ‘the first wireless digital leveller with motion compensation and shock filtering’ – for remote heads. It is essentially a remote electronic ‘bubble level’ with a Bluetooth link, and works with Transvideo’s CineMonitorHD family. It could be used attached to the post of a user’s body rig, the top of a Steadicam, or on top of a remote camera.

Horizon and level are displayed on the CineMonitorHD. Power comes from an internal

battery, and there’s also a small connector for external power.

There are also enhancements for the CineMonitorHD multiformat field monitor, including a new release of LensReader, which displays graphic data (focus with depth of field and hyperfocal point, iris, zoom) in realtime from intelligent lenses – Arri/Zeiss LDS Master Prime, Ultra Prime and Master Anamorphic, Arri/Fujinon Alura Lightweight zooms, Angenieux /i zooms, Cooke and Fujinon Cabrio lenses.

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The Kyrion CM5000 decoder is described as ‘a unique platform’

RTB upgrades with Kyrion CM5000 encoder from ATEME. It has provided a 24/7 satellite uplink service since 2006, with RTB4 International delivered over Asia via the Asiasat 5 satellite. In order to facilitate the transmission of the daily RTB International

Ateme

By Ian McMurray To support the upgrade of its digital transmission system, Radio Television Brunei (RTB) has selected the Kyrion

programme, RTB selected the Kyrion CM5000 encoder to upgrade the new configuration of its existing system.

The Kyrion CM5000 provides satellite distribution with what Ateme claims is a unique platform, providing

iNetVu gets Eutelsat type approval C-COM Satellite Systems

By Ian McMurray Eutelsat has given type approval to C-COM’s iNetVu FLY-75V Kaband antenna system for use on

its KA-SAT Tooway service “We are very pleased with this type approval as this is the first of a series of iNetVu flyaway antennas which will be

undergoing the approval process with Eutelsat,” said Bilal Awada, CTO of C-COM Satellite Systems. “The Fly-75V system has passed all mechanical, optical, and RF performance tests with high level of pointing accuracy and repeatability, as

single or dual channel capabilities, built-in modulation and support for all MPEG-2/MPEG-4 video compression standards and profiles. It is said to be fully upgradeable and futureproof, allowing broadcasters to benefit from the state-ofthe-art in video compression technology with low latency and operational efficiency.

“A broadcasting

required by the Autopointing Verification Test per Eutelsat ESOG-1 Module 260 requirements.”

“This highly portable, lightweight system can be assembled by one person without any tools in less than 10 minutes,” said Leslie Klein, president and CEO of C-COM Satellite Systems. “It is aimed for broadcasters and first

organisation is defined by its engineering department,” said Pg Ismail Kifli, supervisory engineer for transmission and satellite section, Radio Television Brunei. “Our overall commitment to providing the highest-quality TV to our viewers was a driving force in our selection of the Kyrion CM5000.”

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responders who require high speed broadband connectivity coupled with a quick field setup.”

A number of iNetVu FLY-75V mobile antenna systems have already been delivered to North American customers and they are now available to resellers in Europe, North Africa and the Mediterranean basin.

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Opinion

Facing the challenges of DTT Cost effective and smart op low power transmitters and gap fillers are the key to DTT success says Luis Grela, international sales manager, TRedess In the last decade, many countries have finalised their digital switchover or are about to do it, moving from the analogue past into a digital future of new entertainment experiences and global events in HD and Ultra HD. A number of countries are putting their foot down to complete the transition by 2015, but likely the years after 2015 will be intense for some countries in Europe and many more in Asia, America and Africa in terms of DTT deployments.

What are the lessons to learn for these countries from the DTT pioneers? Definitely they will benefit from the maturation and evolution of technology, and many of them have chosen DVB-T2 instead of DVB-T. Also, energy consumption is now clearly identified as a key factor for the long-term sustainability of infrastructure and Doherty technology has become a de facto standard for DTT Transmitters.

At the same time, these DTT operators face the challenges of consumers demanding more and more content with high picture

quality and available to the entire population (implying hundreds of low power sites throughout a country, many of them placed in very remote locations). And all this is happening at a time when the broadcast industry is just emerging from the doldrums of the global economic crisis, forcing limited budgets for DTT infrastructures.

In this scenario, the relevance and need for costs reduction, compactness, robustness and ease of

“DTT operators face consumers demanding more content with high picture quality” operation and maintenance of low and medium power DTT transmitting equipment becomes visible and critical.

Since TRedess was born in 2003, as a DTT equipment manufacturer specialised in low power, we have been working day by day with customers to help them reach their goals of full coverage. Making use of TRedess' experience in DTT

deployment projects worldwide – with more than 14.000 low power transmitters and gap filler in the field, and responding to those demands on the market – we have developed the TRedess Fourth Series, our new family of standalone UHF transmitters and gap fillers up to 350W. Fourth Series, which we are presenting at IBC, keeps the symbols of identity of TRedess products: (70W in 1U, 150W in 2U, 350W in 3U including IP and SAT input and integrated GPS), flexibility and cutting-edge technology, which means DVB-T2 multiple PLP, SFN regenerative transposers, SFN gap-fillers with our Doppler Enhanced Echo Canceller (best echo canceller in the market) and Doherty amplifiers.

On top of that, Fourth Series includes features designed to increase system robustness and reliability such as built-in 1+1 redundancy and self-routing capability (no need of routing device), and also to make operation and maintenance smart by changing and optimising channel and

The case for camera sliders Porta-Brace

By David Fox The new DSLR Camera Slider Cases from Porta-Brace are made of 1000-denier Cordura with padded interiors, and can carry sliders up to 104cm in length, plus a tripod plate and slider accessories.

They have wide mouth openings for easy access Let’s go offroad!: Porta-Brace’s new slider, tripod and light cases can have offroad wheels

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to the equipment, and the case interiors have reinforcing bars for maximum protection. Most sliders can remain assembled within the case allowing for quick setup and use.

The 104cm version is available with off-road removable wheels, as are the latest versions of Porta-Brace’s Quick Tripod/Light Cases (TLQB-41XTOR and TLQB46OR). The wheels will roll smoothly over almost any surface, and have a durable solid steel axle, ball-bearing wheels, off-road solid rubber tires, with quick-release axle pins that allow the wheels to be quickly removed for shipping and air travel.

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Both DTT network operators starting to build their infrastructure and those entering into extensions of coverage phases should have these aspects and TRedess

solutions in mind, so we encourage them to come see the Fourth Series demo at our booth and experience its high performance and innovative features.

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Tvinci purchase bears fruit Kaltura

By Will Strauss A multiscreen pay OTT TV service is the first new offering from Kaltura following its acquisition of Tvinci.

Open source video platform Kaltura acquired the Israeli pay OTT platform in May having raised $47 million in venture capital to accelerate growth and expand development.

The new customisable service features advanced personalisation, monetisation and social functionality “available in a wide range of deployment options.”

Kaltura CEO Ron Yekutiel said: “Kaltura’s services and solutions make it easy for

service providers and media companies to launch innovative multiscreen OTT TV services quickly and costeffectively. Our expertise in smart OTT monetisation combined with our marketleading tools to boost viewer engagement means that our customers are able to build strong revenue streams from these new services.”

Kaltura is showing a Smart Video Monetisation Suite that features in-player advertising - using both native players and server-side stitching – along with OTT monetisation, ads, subscription billing and transaction management.

A Video Marketing Solution Suite and a video discovery tool called REACH are also on display.

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Dual waveform rack-mount display Marshall Electronics

By David Fox Waveform monitoring and multiple inputs are key features of Marshall’s new M-Lynx-702W dual 7-inch highresolution rack-mount display. It offers both analogue and digital inputs to suit multiple broadcast environments, plus user-friendly feature luminance and exposure waveform features.

“The M-Lynx702, our original Lynx dual 7-inch display, filled a need in the broadcast industry for multiple inputs and intuitive design.

Building on consumer feedback, we’ve developed the M-Lynx-702W with waveform to offer professionals more control over the image. The M-Lynx-702W provides the functionality of a go-to utility monitor and the advanced features of a high end reference monitor in

one economical unit,” said Marshall director of sales and marketing, Devan Cress.

It has both HDMI and 3G-SDI (auto selects HD-SDI/SDI) loopthrough inputs, while analogue inputs include component and composite, also with loop-through.

There is direct access to all functions through professional front panel controls, while standard power and tally connections plus a logical menu structure make it suitable for custom system designs.

It has two 7inch 16:9 monitors, 3RU high, each 1280 x 800 and a viewing angle of 150º.

Features include: audio deembedding and monitoring via front panel headphone jacks; built-in LED tally indicators; waveform; vector; selectable markers; 1:1 pixel mapping, and remote operation via an RJ-45 Ethernet port.

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Identify, pinpoint, prioritise, resolve, prevent Agama Technologies

By Ian McMurray Showcasing the upcoming Version 4.7 of the company’s DTV Monitoring Solution, Agama Technologies says that enhancements have been made across its complete product suite which is said to include powerful head-end and network probes, as well as embedded monitoring for STBs, gateways and media players.

Top-level end-to-end views in the central management systems make it possible to follow the QoE and QoS for services all the way from creation in the head-end to consumption for each individual viewer, as well as for groups of viewers. This, according to Agama, allows operators to quickly identify, pinpoint, prioritise, resolve and prevent disturbances affecting the customers' experience, satisfaction and loyalty.

When operators integrate the Agama

Clear vision: Clarity is installed in SABC’s OB trucks

SABC takes Clarity on the road Pixel Power

By Carolyn Giardina Four Clarity graphics systems were recently delivered by Pixel Power to South African national broadcaster SABC, which is using them in outside broadcast trucks—matching the capabilities to its studios in Johannesburg which already have eight Clarity installations.

The common platform allows staff to “move freely between studios and remote operations, making operations more flexible and increasing opportunities for operators and artists to work on a wider range of programmes.”

The new Clarity units were installed in

the OB trucks in time for coverage of the South African elections last May, allowing the broadcaster to use common templates across the whole of the output.

The contract, negotiated by Pixel Power’s South African distributor, Zimele Broadcasting Solutions, included integration, training and development services alongside the supply of hardware and software.

“Clarity gives us creative freedom, but also simple and secure operation which is critical on a live outside broadcast,” said Mervin Buthelezi, technical manager for outside broadcasts at SABC. “We got fed up with borrowing a Clarity from the studios when we needed one, so we bought one for each of our big trucks.”

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solution into their operational processes, the company believes that it naturally becomes a cornerstone in ensuring technical transparency, customer understanding and operational efficiency, making efficient management and high accessibility of the Agama solution itself crucial. In version 4.7, Agama is releasing what it describes as an enhanced replication and redundancy mechanism in the Enterprise Server EX, which among others supports faster data replication. Should a server fail in a redundant cluster, this improvement is claimed to shorten the time it takes to bring a new server into the cluster.

Other new features and improvements in version 4.7 include support for saving Analyzer recordings in PCAP format for offline analysis in tools such as Wireshark, and support for 3GPP VOD using Helix streaming servers in the Active RTSP Analyzer add-on for proactive monitoring of RTSP ondemand services.

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Failure is not an option DAVID

By Adrian Pennington German film restoration specialist HS-ART Digital is demonstrating what it calls a semi-automatic video field issues repair tool for the first time as part of the wider damage prevention initiative DAVID. HS-ART Digital's new Noise repair filter, integrated into its

DIAMANT-Film Restoration Software will also be shown.

This filter works for native digital media as well as with digitised content.

Meanwhile the IT Innovation Centre from the University of Southampton, another participant in DAVID (Digital AV MedIa Damage Prevention and Repair), is demonstrating how, using risk-enhanced business process modelling, it is able to identify where significant risks arise in preservation

workflows.

This knowledge, it says, will enable decision-makers to target and justify investment in effective risk management strategies. It is also showing for the first time a development version of this new simulationbased planning GUI. The DAVID project studies how to keep digital audiovisual content usable in the face of adversity: obsolescence, media degradation, and failures in the very people, processes and systems designed to keep digital content safe.

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From Cage to Rig Walimex Pro

By David Fox

Duopoly disruptor: Delivering lowcost TV OTT service to Israel

Low-cost Israeli OTTTV Vonetize

By Monica Heck A low-cost OTT TV service taking direct aim at existing Israeli cable and satellite offerings has emerged from a partnership between Vonetize and Rami Levi, Israel’s third largest retailer and low-cost mobile carrier.

The service, based on a hybrid STB, combines free-to-air channels, IP linear channels and an extensive VoD catalogue which includes content from major Hollywood studios and from local providers.

The service offers over 4,000 hours of premium full HD content, international TV series from the likes of Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony, Fox as well as local TV broadcasters. Content also includes hundreds of movies, kids content, sports, lifestyle, nature and science, music, Bollywood, telenovelas and more.

As the first ever OTT service in Israel, Vonetize is aiming to disrupt the existing duopoly of Israel’s cable and satellite offering by presenting a lowcost, high-quality, internet-based service at 20% of the average Israeli household pay-TV subscription price.

Rami Levi was the first player to disrupt the mobile telephony field by offering a low-cost mobile service, a play which eventually reduced the average mobile plan cost in Israel by more than 50%.

“OTT is all about disruption and offering better and cheaper content to the consumer in every corner of the world,” commented Noam Josephides, CEO of Vonetize. “Vonetize’s technology, content rights and operational capabilities have made this service happen, in a fraction of the price and time it takes to normally establish a new TV service offering”.

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First CanalPlay app for kids Hubee

By Monica Heck The Canal + Group has chosen Hall 14 exhibitor Hubee to develop the first CanalPlay Kids application on mobile, tablets and TV. Dedicated to children, the

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app provides enriched interactive services over connected platforms, via the Hubee technology.

Hubee, a French specialist in on-demand TV and video hyper-distribution, developed and integrated the entire application with the aim of offering children appropriate programmes and easy

navigation in a secure environment. A top benefit is the age-appropriate content and ease of use, which gives parents the peace of mind to let their child navigate the app independently.

A timer function can also be used to set a time limit to the viewing session.

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Walimex Pro has introduced a height-adjustable, universal version of its Aptaris camera cage and rig system that can be used with most DSLR cameras, plus tailor-made versions for the Blackmagic Pocket camera, Olympus OMD E-M5 and GoPro Hero 2 and 3 (the latter allowing the camera to be removed from the GoPro housing without having to dismount the cage system).

The units can be easily converted from a camera cage into a shoulder rig, and back, as its modular design allows the fitting of a wide range of accessories, and come with a handle that can be fastened to any side, for near ground level filming.

The universal cage is adjustable in height, making it suitable for a wide range of cameras, such as the Panasonic GH 3 and 4, Canon’s 5D Mark III, Sony’s A 7R, or FS 100/700 and the Nikon D 800. In combination with the Aptaris Universal XXL adapter, the cage can also fit larger cameras, such as the Canon C100 or C300.

The flexible system comes with numerous 1⁄4-inch threads on all sides, for fitting such accessories as a LED or microphone, and can be extended to become a shoulder rig with just three modules. The 15mm LWS industrial standard rod module supports follow focus or matte boxes and is also the basis for the handle and shoulder module, which are both fastened with 250mm-long rods.

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Thaicom deploys M6100 modulators Newtec

By Ian McMurray In order to enable its satellite to provide TV broadcasting services in both C-band and Ku-band, Asian satellite operator Thaicom has installed Newtec M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulators on its Thaicom-6 platform.

More than 30 of the modulators are installed on Thaicom-6, along with Newtec’s Automated Equalink technology, which is said to allow Thaicom to either save money on space capacity, lower the programming cost or increase service

availability. Broadcasters can gain an increase of up to 10% in throughput without changing any system parameters or set-top boxes, according to Newtec, making it possible to upgrade some SD programmes to HD or to add content.

Newtec’s equipment also includes Clean Channel Technology. This combination of improved roll-offs for DVB-S2 and advanced filtering technologies is claimed to allow optimal bandwidth utilisation, resulting in even higher efficiency and a significant improvement in performance by 1.2dB. 1.A49

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LED modules solve Remote access to mobile devices demanding tasks Bridge Technologies

By Ian McMurray

eyevis

By Heather McLean eyevis is presenting high resolution LED modules with pixel pitches of only 1.5mm, 2mm and 2.5mm here at IBC. The LED modules by eyevis use high quality image processing and precise mechanical concepts that allow for smooth set up and accurate, gapless adjustment.

These LED modules are perfectly suitable for permanent installations as commercial displays or large scale information walls in showrooms, train stations, airports or sports arenas, eyevis claimed.

Through uncomplicated adjustment of colour temperature, the LEDs are also suited to become videowalls in TV studios.

With their high flexibility as a

modular system, the LED modules can also be arranged in mobile videowalls in the event and presentation sector.

Due to the modular design, the LED modules are servicefriendly, having front and rear access. In this way all electronic components can be changed and maintained without disassembling the module or the entire video wall, reducing downtime.

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New features and capabilities for Bridge Technologies’ microAnalytics System are being demonstrated at IBC. These are said to allow operators to remotely access realtime data from set-top boxes, connected TVs, iPads, iPhones and other mobile devices, making accurate and comprehensive end-to-end multiservice/OTT and home network monitoring a reality.

The microAnalytics System can identify service-affecting problems arising at the ingress

point of the service, or in the interactions within the home network. New features allow operators to see how different combinations of technologies and distribution methods affect distribution success. The microAnalytics System can store all data from millions of devices into databases that can be queried in realtime, and can slice the data to display combinations of providers with certain technologies, or groups of services and how well they work. The system has the ability to correlate this data with programme guide use and other realtime information that Bridge says gives a valuable understanding of customer

behaviour.

Also on show is its second generation OTT Engine, which makes MPEG-DASH support a core part of the user’s OTT monitoring capability, is compatible with all Bridge Technologies 1G and 10G probes, and part of the iOS and Android PocketProbe mobile monitoring apps. To ensure the widest possible compatibility with future, current and legacy OTT operations, Bridge Technologies’ new OTT Engine extends its HLS, HDS, Smoothstream and MPEGDASH capability by adding support for RTMP, https and subtitle tracks.

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Router increases bandwidth, reliability SatService

By Ian McMurray As well as showcasing its newly-announced sat-nms SMU Signal Management

Unit, SatService is also demonstrating mobile internet access via the Router 510 from partner Viprinet. The Viprinet Router 510 aggregates multiple bandwidths of different wide area network connections in

order to increase transmission capacity as well as reliability. The demonstration sees SatService remotely dialling in to its sat-nms NMS Network.

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Prompting software that has iT On balance: Zacuto’s new VCT Baseplate should gel with today’s camera users

CueScript

By David Fox

Baseplate built for comfort Zacuto

By David Fox Camera accessories specialist Zacuto has updated its VCT Baseplate for a new generation of cameras and users. The new, more

comfortable gel polymer shoulder pad and universal baseplate combination uses a sliding dovetail that offers balance for any camera setup and should make it simpler to adjust the balance when you change a lens or other accessory.

Two 16cm quick-release

Thai expansion for CTH Inview

By Monica Heck Thai service provider CTH Public Company Limited recently partnered with Inview and Irdeto (stand 1.D51) around the development of an OTT and hybrid version of CTH’s cable service, to provide its

customers with services beyond its existing cable networks.

CTH brings together cable operators and is a major pay TV operator in Thailand, with a digital platform providing OTT and hybrid services to the country. It offers its customers over 140 channels, of which 30 are HD, including premium content such as Barclays

threaded rods extend from the front of the plate and are claimed to offer more open accessory rod space than any other VCT-style baseplate. The rod mount is set back 7.5cm further than rival baseplates, to cater for large sensor frontheavy rigs.

Rods can also be fitted at

English Premier League (EPL) soccer matches.

Inview’s software platform delivers all the services an operator needs to provide either a pure OTT, or a hybrid broadcast and OTT offering, in a seamless user interface. The company’s Liberator middleware delivers a user experience supporting a wide range of OTT services. It also enables the channels to efficiently promote content and generate new revenue streams from advertising and other

Lightweight carbon fibre tripod Shotoku’s new two-stage TTH1502C carbon fibre tripod offers users a lightweight (5.9kg), yet sturdy tripod that is ideal for EFP or documentary production. It has a 150mm bowl base and stands over 1615mm tall at its maximum height.

It is available with a ground spreader or a mid-level spreader, and can be matched with Shotoku’s SX300 pan/tilt head. The mid-weight EFP fluid head can carry up to 38kg and supports a wide array of cameras, lenses and

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accessories.

For higher capacity shooting, Shotoku also has the SG900 head, for OB and studio production with prompters or box type lenses, as it can support up to 90kg. It offers single knob balance adjustment.

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services.

With this new OTT/hybrid project, Irdeto extends its cooperation with CTH from media protection on cable settop boxes (STBs) to OTT and Hybrid STBs. By using Irdeto’s Cloaked CA security, CTH can offer high quality digital entertainment services to customers with studio-grade content protection, but without the cost and complexity of physical smart cards.

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Five star: Work’s frequency converter is now in its fifth generation

Frequency converter ‘significantly exceeds’ standard

Shotoku Broadcast Systems

By David Fox

the back to hold articulating arms, batteries or counterbalance. There are also multiple mounting points along the side of the plate for more accessory options. An adjustable tail hook can accommodate different tripod plates.

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Launched earlier this year, CueScript is making its IBC debut with the introduction of a range of creative prompting solutions for all types of broadcast production.

The company has been formed by some well-known names: Michael Accardi, president; Brian Larter, managing director; and Peter Carey, Group CFO, and claims that a “completely new way of thinking has been applied in the approach to the design and workflow” of its new iT Production and iT News prompting software.

It has been designed to be intuitive, clear and allow quick navigation, to offer richer functionality and extra efficiency.

The iT range of software will run on any OS platform, giving greater flexibility to productions and installations.

A new patent-pending prompting scroll control, the CSSC1, has been created for use with the new software.

There are also two new ranges of prompter monitors for high-end and no-frills applications.

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Work Microwave

By Ian McMurray

Spread ‘em: Shotoku’s new TTH1502C carbon fibre tripod paired with its SX300 head

The Fifth-Generation Frequency Converter Series, which is designed to support applications that require low phase noise ranging from S-band to Q-band, is being featured on the Work Microwave IBC stand. Using what the company says is a sophisticated synthesiser, the frequency converters are said to be able to deliver phase noise at a level that significantly exceeds the respected industry standard

according to Intelsat's Phase Noise Specification, IESS308/309.

The converter series also includes a new Ethernet port designed to simplify remote configuration and monitoring of the device.

Work Microwave's FifthGeneration Frequency Converter Series is based on a compact, multichannel module design that allows operators to support up to four channels within 19in housing, lowering operational expenses and saving valuable space.

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Live+ gives Carriers a boost Dejero

By David Fox Dejero has added to its Live+ family of news vehicle uplinks with the new Live+ Booster, and a new Carrier to make it easier to transport a transmitter to the scene of breaking news.

Live+ Booster is a powerful connection and signal booster for bonded uplink transmissions, with an array of up to 12 highgain antennas mounted on the top of the vehicle.

It will help “mobile news crews get their live shots even when in difficult transmission scenarios like congested cellular networks or poor cellular reception areas.

Paired with a Dejero Live+ 20/20 transmitter, the Live+ Booster can be powered up and ready to transmit low-latency, broadcast-quality video in seconds — allowing news crews to be immediately mobile, broadcasting live while on the move,” said Dejero CEO,

Ergonomic: The new Dejero Live+ Carrier makes it easier to carry a transmitter and camera

Brian Cram.

The new Live+ Carrier is a rugged, modular carrier system designed to increase a news crew's mobility and comfort, making it easier to secure and carry a portable Live+ 20/20 Transmitter.

The system features an ergonomically correct harness that adjusts to a person's torso length, comfortable shoulder straps, and a hip belt with ventilated lumbar and lateral support padding. Other features include quick release buckles and webbing straps to attach accessory bags, as well as a battery-mount module for hot-swappable batteries. The transmitter can be easily removed from the harness and securely snapped into a news vehicle, onto the wall at the broadcast facility for organised storage, or onto a motorcycle.

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Shoots, scores: SIS Live’s uPod was widely used in Brazil

World Cup coverage benefits from uPod SIS Live

By Ian McMurray One of many to benefit from the World Cup was SIS Live, which received orders for six uPod satellite terminals from leading broadcasters in Brazil. These systems were initially used to transmit news coverage around the event before fulfilling regular newsgathering duties.

SIS Live’s uPod is described by the company as the lightest, most versatile satellite uplink

system on the market. A compact unit, it can be packed into IATA compliant cases and used as a flyaway uplink solution or mounted onto any vehicle. uPod is widely used by major news broadcasters around the world to transmit breaking news coverage over satellite, even from the most remote locations. It features fully automated acquisition, an integrated bookings system, delivering what the company claims is a simple satellite connectivity solution for broadcasters.

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Innovating for the satcom market Chief technical officer Wolfgang Arnold describes the additions to Hiltron's range of satcom systems and discusses the demand for satellite tracking in the audiovisual industry Digital communication has become such an allembracing aspect of modern life that most people are awash with information via email, PDFs and PC-based slide-show presentations. The conference business continues to expand with events focused on increasingly specialised areas of commerce or technology. Sifting real information from such a wide range of sources can be quite a challenge.

Large-scale trade shows provide a useful opportunity to talk to customers personally, one to one, and get a thorough understanding of the tasks they are trying to resolve. IBC provides an excellent opportunity both to hold discussions with existing customers and to make new business contacts.

In the satellite communications market, Hiltron's focus is on turnkey installations based on innovative products and solutions. At IBC this year we have introduced two new additions to our range of satcom antenna systems.

The first of these is designed for customers who require the ability to monitor the signal quality of multiple transponders on several satellites. Using our fast-

tracking HMAM motorised antenna mount as a basis, we have developed with a partner a special dual-band feed. With this feed and a standard multi-frequency reflector, we are able to receive C-band and Ku band satellite signals.

In the case of C-band reception, the polarisation can be switched electrically from circular to linear and vice versa. Standard Ku band linear polarised signals can be received at the same time.

“Market demand for satellite tracking is increasing rapidly�

Together with the motorised antenna and Hiltron's HMCS monitor and control software, the antenna can automatically scan most of the visible satellites to ensure optimal signal quality.

The second of our IBC2014 new product introductions also relates to multifrequency downlink antennas. In this case, the customer requires high quality signals via exchangeable standard feeds. Hiltron has developed the HMFC high-precision motorised feed changer

which allows different feeds (such as Ku band or C-band) to be moved into the optimum position of the multi-frequency antenna. The transition time required to exchange the feeds is only some 20 seconds. Antenna diameters of up to 3.7 metres width with various combinations of feeds can be accommodated.

Market demand for satellite tracking is increasing rapidly as it allows satellites to be used beyond their normal lifetime. Getting a geostationary communications satellite into orbit obviously requires a great deal of propellant.

Additional motors are required to hold the satellite within a tightly specified positional window, offsetting micro-gravitational variations from the Earth and other relatively local objects. The alignment thrusters for a modern communications satellite typically last about 15 years and are themselves the subject of highly innovative research based on electrical propulsion.

Towards the end of their useful life, satellites are allowed to wander from a wider nominal angle.

Operators therefore offer greatly reduced transponder capacity pricing. Based on our fast HMAM system,

Hilton has developed software tools which automatically track satellites.

Using two-line element data or signal quality

Server manager added to DMNG options Aviwest

By Will Strauss The video contribution and uplink systems developer Aviwest has launched a new server application that can be used to monitor and manage an entire fleet of its DMNG (Digital Mobile News Gathering) equipment.

Using a cloud or head-end installed web browser, DMNG Manager allows broadcasters to allocate network resources and route live video content across

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DMNG transmitters, smartphones (using the iOS and Android compatible DMNG App) and DMNG Studio receivers.

The DMNG Manager also includes geo-location capabilities for identifying the exact location of each transmission.

Also on show at IBC are performance improvements for the Android version of the DMNG App and enhancements to the DMNG PRO series of portable uplink products. A key highlight of the latter is dynamic resolution capability which adjusts video resolution in

realtime, based on available bandwidth.

The DMNG system is a live video contribution platform for capturing and broadcasting live HD or SD video over multiple networks, including bonded 3G/4G cellular wireless, Wi-Fi, Ethernet and satellite.

The company is also putting on a demo of H.265 encoding technology at IBC that shows video content being compressed based on realtime characteristics of the various bonded networks, their bit rates and delays.

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Universal encoding/decoding system announced Appear TV

By Ian McMurray Claimed to provide the broadcast industry with the ultimate in quality and flexibility, Appear TV’s Universal product family is said to enable operators to move to new highly flexible encoding architectures, such as localised encoding that can maintain the highest quality while simultaneously maximising flexibility.

“Encoding, which has been traditionally where most money has been spent on equipment by operators, was initially provided by high-cost single box per channel solutions,” said Carl Walter Holst, CEO of Appear TV. “The industry then progressed to more efficient and cost-effective centralised rack-based encoding. The next move is the most exciting of all, with virtualised encoding deployed through ‘pools’ of potentially decentralised encoding and transcoding resources.”

“Having looked closely at video coding software and

hardware roadmaps over the near- and medium term we are convinced that hardware encoding and transcoding is essential if you want the highest quality or if you have a complex broadcast or multiscreen

offering especially for live delivery,” he continued. “Our latest hardware encoding solutions combined with our flexible carrier-class XC5000 Series Video Processing Platform ensure that our

solutions are best placed to offer the highest possible encoding and transcoding performance and flexibility.”

IBC also sees the launch of what Appear TV describes as a very high quality dual pass video

encoder for primary distribution that the company says provides truly superior coding performance for applications where quality is of the utmost importance such as mezzanine formats created for onward processing in cloud, pool-based applications.

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Plug-in powers up Premiere Pro Tedial

By Michael Burns A new plug-in allows Adobe Premiere Pro CC users to directly search, access, enrich and edit broadcast quality content directly from anywhere in a media workflow using Tarsys media tools. Tedial said this would eliminate confusion caused by searching, saving, editing and packaging content outside of the MAM. Search results and metadata are displayed directly in the Adobe application, using a configurable template that includes thumbnails as well as the workflow status of the clips or programmes.

The company claimed its media tools and workflow would ensure every user is working on the right media at the right time. Adobe edits are automatically exported to the archive, sent to playout and packaged for nonlinear distribution, orchestrated by the Tedial system.

It already has an established integrated route in place with Apple, Avid and Quantel, which Tedial said had dramatically improved editing throughput and archive access.

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DFT-12 Series debuts at IBC Joseph Electronics

Evidence of Evolution: K5600’s new 200W two-light kit with its handy soft case

By Heather McLean The DFT-12 EXP and DFT-12JR fibre transport systems are making their debut at IBC2014.

Requiring only 2 RU, each system from Joseph Electronics (Joseph Fiber Solutions) features 12 paths of 3G/HD-SDI and ASI signals over one or two fibres.

Additionally, modules for AES or analogue audio, MADI, 1Gb Ethernet, RTS intercom, POV interface (genlock and video), or data can be fitted into the four available expansion slots to

Slot machine: The DFT-12 Series has four available expansion slots

provide a complete signal transport solution for remote announce booths or split feeds.

More modules are in development.

All signal paths for any unit in the DFT Series are userconfigurable in pairs of two in order to meet any send/receive

requirements, and redundant power supplies are standard to ensure a complete backup of critical paths. Full-fibre redundancy with automatic failsafe switchover is available as an option for all DFT Series frames.

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Robust and reliable: The Ecreso FM 300W Transmitter offers a 10-year warranty to all customers

LPFM transmitter makes show debut WorldCast Systems

By Michael Burns The new Ecreso FM 300W Transmitter has been unveiled at IBC2014.

Designed for low power FM broadcasting, the compact professional transmission platform is the latest addition to the Ecreso FM range. A full 10 year warranty is included, due to recent improvements in the transmitters’ onboard recording capabilities, according to WorldCast.

The transmitter features a direct-to-channel digital modulator, as well as a sixth Generation Mosfet in the integrated amplifier. WorldCast claims the latter provides

efficiency of up to 70% to enable broadcasters to minimise operational costs. Other key functionality includes management by TCP/IP and SNMP, auto failover, audio backup and integrated functions such as a stereo encoder, FM limiter and RDS encoder.

In terms of control and information, the Ecreso 300W offers an Advanced Metering Interface, or AMI, which provides users with a realtime dashboard to show exactly how the transmitter is performing, with results from on-board instrumentation delivered in a clear panel.

For broadcasters who do not have teams of maintenance engineers at their disposal, the Ecreso FM 300W Transmitter also offers a subscription-based service which provides proactive

maintenance guidance and information to ensure that the system is run in optimum conditions. This EMR (Expert Maintenance Reporting) service delivers regular reports on the status of key parameters such as temperature, current, voltage and on the performance and lifespan of components such as the fan and power supply of the transmitter. With detailed logging and trend analysis, WorldCast said EMR is able to identify slow-burning problems, issuing warnings well in advance to allow for corrective action to be taken.

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STB win at TIM Brasil ContentWise

By Monica Heck TIM Brasil, a leading mobile operator, has launched its Live TIM Blue Box service running personalised content discovery by Hall 14 exhibitor ContentWise.

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recommendations and video search for the Live TIM Blue Box entertainment centre, which integrates Netflix and YouTube for free to air TV channels.

TIM Brasil reaches approximately 93% of Brazil’s urban population and recently introduced its fibre-based fixed broadband service Live TIM. The operator’s new STB combines off-air digital

content with OTT services for Brazilian subscribers.

“TIM selected ContentWise because it enables a full ‘recommendation driven’ discovery pattern for each user of Live TIM Blue Box, with a robust set of business capabilities to deliver an integrated content discovery solution,” said Rogerio Takayanagi, TIM Fiber’s CEO. 14.K05

Evolutionary versatile two-light kit K5600 Lighting

By David Fox The new Evolution two-light kit from K5600 Lighting consists of a new Alpha 200W and a new Joker Bug 200 Evolution head, both of which are designed to use either a 5600K or 3200K bulb newly-developed by SLI. The kit is designed to provide for a wide variety of needs, with a choice of accessories possible for both lights. The Alpha 200W is configured with a removable Fresnel lens, which produces the classic light quality expected of Fresnels, but with the Fresnel lens removed, its Open Face configuration is perfect for creating hard

shadows. It can also be turned into a precise profile light for projecting gobos using a quickly set up accessory.

The Joker Bug 200 Evolution makes use of all the existing accessories of the Joker family, including Lightbanks, Lanterns, and Softubes. As K5600 wants to introduce the lights to a broader user base, the kit is competitively priced, and starts at €3,337, depending on accessories selected.

Also new is K5600’s Zoom Beamer 800W, which is similar to the existing 1600W Zoom Beamer with a facetted open-face style reflector. It is compact and lightweight, and manually focusable to 10-50º of smooth, even light. It will fit any existing Joker Bug 800.

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OneBeam offers combo feed Enensys

By Will Strauss Broadcasters looking to use the same satellite capacity to deliver services for both DTH (DVB-S/S2) and DTT (DVB-T or T2) are the target audience for Enensys’ OneBeam.

Encompassing multiple technology solutions from the company, OneBeam provides a single feed with no modification of the A/V stream.

Indeed, it provides an alternative to using two

separate networks, something that may not be possible when receivers for one may not use signals from the other.

Related products at IBC include the brand new T2Edge DTH. Sitting at the transmitter end of the content distribution network, T2Edge DTH improves capacity, provides new input and output capability (including DVB-S2) and has a more compact footprint.

T2Edge includes the company’s’ Regional Early Warning System as an option.

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Advancing live clip streaming Telestream

By Carolyn Giardina Version 6.0 of Telestream’s Wirecast live streaming production software is debuting at IBC. Scheduled for availability during Q4, Wirecast 6.0 possesses new features including Replay, which allows users to record and select live clips to replay in realtime, slowmotion or fast motion. With an eye towards sports applications,

it also enables scrubbing through clips and suppressing audio.

A new playlist capability gives service providers the ability to queue recorded content. This could be used for adding commercials or scheduling and planning long broadcasts.

Paired with Replay, it could be used to create highlight reels while producing a show. Finally, social media connections to Twitter let users keep in touch with their audience in realtime.

Noting that Wirecast enables capture, live production, and

Give me stream: Wirecast 6.0 live streaming production software launches

Metrological

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encoding of live streams for broadcast to multiple servers and platforms simultaneously, Telestream VP of desktop business, Barbara DeHart, said: “It makes possible an ultra-

LEDs achieve colour consistency Litepanels

By David Fox LED lights from Litepanels have performed highly when tested for the new Television Lighting Consistency Index (TLCI). All scored in the highest bracket, meaning they wouldn’t require colour correction in post.

The TLCI was created by colour scientist, and former BBC engineer Alan Roberts in conjunction with the European Broadcasting

Union, and assesses colour reproduction as seen by a camera, taking account of the response of the TV system, while to the old colour rendering index is designed purely for architectural

Top lights: Litepanels’ Inca and Sola 12 were among its LED fixtures to achieve top TLCI scores

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lighting and gives no indication of how much colour correction will be necessary.

Roberts tested a wide range of lights from different manufacturers, including Litepanels.

Litepanels 1x1 Bi-Focus lights achieved a TLCI of 98, the Sola 9 rated 94 (the Sola 12 attained 89), the Inca 9 rated 93, and the Inca 12 scored 86. All scored above 85, which means they produce errors “so small that a colourist would not consider correcting them,” according to Roberts, while for scores between 75

portable system, comparable to a professional hardware switcher with up to 35 layers of live compositing, in a flexible software application.”

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and 85 “a colourist would probably want to correct the colour performance, but could easily get an acceptable result.” The index has been designed so that any light scoring above 50 should be useful for broadcast, although it might require a lot of grading below 75.

“Litepanels LEDs have always performed well in CRI testing, achieving top results.

However, the TLCI measurement is particularly significant for the industry as it has been developed specifically with the LED light in mind,” said Chris Marchitelli, Litepanels’ VP of marketing.

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In partnership with ActiveVideo, Metrological has deployed a cloud-based TV app store on UPC Hungary’s HD mediaboxes. Through the partnership, the cable operator was able to launch a TV app store without replacing its existing mediaboxes and the subsequent cost and time losses.

Metrological’s cloud-based approach enabled UPC Hungary to virtualise mediabox functionality, using ActiveVideo’s CloudTV StreamCast platform. To allow access to the UPC TV apps, the Metrological platform uses the thin client application running on the UPC mediaboxes.

Customers have access to a host of new apps such as YouTube, CNN News, Picasa and Facebook on their TVs, while online content providers and app developers can expand their market footprints to include UPC Hungary TV viewers.

The Metrological framework also gives UPC Hungary the flexibility to deliver new content quickly, as the management and deployment of apps is taken care of centrally by Metrological.

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Pumped up: The two new Noga Arm models are longer and stronger

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SlovakTelekom expands DTH Intelsat

By Ian McMurray Looking to expand its DTH services in Central Eastern Europe, multimedia operator Slovak Telekom has signed a multi-year agreement with Intelsat.

As part of the agreement, Slovak Telekom is operating multiple transponders at the Intelsat 1˚ West video neighbourhood. In addition, Intelsat’s terrestrial network, IntelsatOne, is providing an uplink from Intelsat’s Fuchsstadt, Germany teleport with fibre contribution from Bratislava and a provision for disaster recovery uplink services.

“Intelsat’s global scale and portfolio of services enabled them to rapidly respond and meet our needs for a costefficient solution that will

deepen and expand our relationships with new and existing subscribers,” said Dušan Švalek, Slovak Telekom’s CMMO. “The prime video neighbourhood, reliability of the IntelsatOne network and benefits from the economies of scale were instrumental in our decision to move our service to Intelsat.

We look forward to strengthening our relationship with Intelsat going forward.”

“Slovak Telekom’s decision to move their services to Intelsat further demonstrates that 1˚ West is the orbital location of choice for the CEE region,” said Jean-Philippe Gillet, vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales at Intelsat (pictured). “We look forward to providing them with the capacity and solutions they need to increase their subscriber base within the region.”

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Cloud transmission for DTT ETRI

By Adrian Pennington A great debate energising the IBC Conference this week is that of spectrum allocation as crunch time nears for the immovable object of broadcast and the irresistible force of the telcos.

Korean researcher ETRI may just have found a way out of the impasse.

Its technology, developed for the next generation digital terrestrial broadcasting standard, enables the flexible use of broadcasting spectrum by

providing robust mobile, portable and indoor receptions, as well as multiple HD and Ultra HD TV services. Novel spectrum overlay and signal cancellation technologies are used to combine the high data rate services. The system is claimed as robust against multipath distortion, noise and interference, and it described as scalable to transition to future developments.

The technology enables different content to be transmitted through a single channel for successful decoding on reception.

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Dolly mixes in tight turns Egripment

By David Fox The new Universal Dolly from Egripment uses a new steering method and can fold into a small, lightweight (16.8kg) package that can carry a payload of up to 200kg and offer a solid camera platform.

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back or the front side, using either two-wheel or four-wheel steering (for very tight turns). It can also be equipped with sideboards that are flat or contain 100mm or 150mm camera bowls, and can be operated with pneumatic wheels, hard rubber wheels or track wheels. When equipped with track wheels it runs on standard width straight or curved 62cm-wide rack.

The dolly is made from strong, lightweight aircraft-grade aluminium and optional accessories include seat supports, columns, bazookas and most of Egripment’s jib arms.

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About turn: Egripment’s new Universal Dolly offers twowheel or four-wheel steering

Noga Arm flexes muscles Matthews Studio Equipment

By David Fox A longer, stronger new Noga Arm for positioning lights, cameras or accessories has been introduced by MSE. “Noga Arm has been a staple on practically every type of production for many years. Its positioned small lights on set or on table top as well as props, mirrors, reflectors and more,” said MSE’s VP of sales and marketing, Robert Kulesh.

“This new Noga Arm does this and more. The articulated multi-jointed arm offers more strength and more versatility. It is larger, longer, tougher and stronger than any other extended three jointed, articulated arm on the market.”

Designed for simplicity, the new Noga Arm will hold smaller cameras, lights, monitors, props and other production accessories that require precise, extended, positioning on a camera or on a set.

Its three articulated joints can be locked or released instantly, to position equipment or accessories quickly, modify the angle, and skew or change the height.

Noga Arms are available in two lengths: Large, 55.8cm long at full extension and will support a weight of 5kg; and Medium, 26.6cm/6kg, both of which are claimed to be stronger than any other similar product in the market.

A Quick Release Adaptor accessory allows for fast changes without the need of screws and threads, while a Head Adaptor makes it quicker to add or remove a camera or accessories.

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Integrated production for going live Orad

By Carolyn Giardina Orad is showing its live production integrated system for workflow from ingest to playout, for both video and graphics, all managed by the iFind media asset management system.

Video ingest is scheduled by the iAcquire ingest scheduling module that controls Orad’s VJ server. While content is ingested locally, it is also captured remotely by Orad’s Orbit storage. During ingest, metadata is added while the story is put together using Orad’s video editor. The iFind system sets workflow rules, moving content until the content goes to air.

On the graphics front, Orad is showing a new version of its Maestro enterprise graphics system. Maestro is integrated with the iFind MAM system,

Serving it up: TD Control in tennis action

plus the integration between Maestro and Orad’s mapping tool WorldMapper and social media hub have been extended.

Also on display is 4Designer authoring software with improved production tools, enhanced animation controls, multiple working viewports, additional geometry import options, and realtime motion blur effects for graphics.

The exhibit includes Orad’s TD Control live production hub; and Master Control Room systems including

Channel-in-a-Box devices like Blend and branding graphics with 3DPlay.

Visitors to the Orad stand can also examine ProSet, the company’s high-end virtual studio system; PowerWall, a turnkey system for video walls based on Orad’s HDVG4 platform with up to 16K resolution output from a single box; and Interact, which allows presenters to control and direct the content on their touchscreens, video walls and other input devices.

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Next evolution of video chip Ericsson

By Ian McMurray Demonstrating what the company describes as its continued commitment to the contribution and distribution (C&D) market, Ericsson is featuring the next evolution of its in-house developed professional chip, designed for video applications, at IBC. With consumer demand driving higher quality video experiences, Ericsson says that its chip ensures that content owners and service providers can respond to these challenges by ensuring the best possible picture quality throughout the media delivery chain.

According to Ericsson, it continues to be a market leader in this sector, with the highest rate of deployment for C&D encoding and decoding equipment and digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) encoders.

Ericsson is introducing product support for new technologies — the HEVC compression standard and the

new DVB-S2X satellite digital broadcasting standard — that the company says are fundamental to the future of C&D market. The company is also demonstrating how it believes it offers the complete suite of tools for the most demanding C&D applications, including multiple low-latency processing modes, 4:2:2 sampling and 10-bit precision, all in a powerful softwareprogrammable engine designed to deliver the processing power needed to deal with higher bit rates.

“In order to maximise the value of content in an increasingly competitive TV industry, major broadcasters and TV service providers must use the most reliable and technologically advanced solutions to deliver the video quality that consumers demand,” said Dr Giles Wilson, head of TV Compression, Ericsson (pictured). “Our record of innovation in the area of contribution and distribution is unrivalled and we understand that by including these specific features within our software programmable chip, we can enable TV service providers to increase functionality and transform video delivery.”

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IBC is for winners Digital TV Group

By Ian McMurray The opportunity to showcase their innovation to thousands of IBC visitors was the prize on offer to the winners of the Digital TV Group’s second annual DTG Television Innovation Awards – and the four companies are here at the RAI on the DTG’s stand.

A short list of eight finalists was chosen to take part in a Dragon’s Den style final not long before IBC2014 opened its doors, with five minutes each to pitch before a crowd of 70 and a panel of dragons with representatives from YouTube, BBC Worldwide

Labs, Digital TV Group, UK Trade & Investment, Televisual magazine and Sony Europe.

“The quality and diversity of this year's entries shows us how much television technology innovation is coming out of, or scaling up, in the UK,” said Richard LindsayDavies, CEO, DTG and chair of the event. “We’re pleased to be partnering for our second year with UK Trade & Investment who complement our industry knowledge and contacts with their global reach. I have high hopes for all of our award finalists.”

After lengthy deliberation the Dragons’ awarded the four places at IBC to: Chirp: an application which can send messages through

Eyes on the prize: Winners and judges at the DTG Television Innovation Awards

an audible trigger from a television broadcast to a mobile app device to send the user interactive content such as links, video or images.

CrowdEmotion: facial recognition software which can read television viewers’ expressions as they watch a television broadcast in real time.

StreamHub: analytics software for big data which combines viewing figures with social media, app and YouTube data.

Grabyo: an application allowing users to quickly edit and share branded video clips from a live broadcast online which is fully integrated into Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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By Ian McMurray FOX International Channels (FIC) Philippines has installed a turnkey playout solution from Harmonic to enable streamlined and cost-effective media storage, channel branding, and origination of HD and SD channels. The complete solution features a Harmonic Spectrum MediaDeck integrated media server system, equipped with Spectrum ChannelPort integrated channel playout, Harmonic MediaGrid shared storage systems, ProView 7100 integrated receiver-decoders (IRD), Electra 9200 multiservice encoders, and ProStream 9100 high-density stream processors.

“With its rich portfolio of media storage and processing products, only Harmonic was able to provide a complete and readily scalable solution for

playout of FOX International Channels here in the Philippines,” said Jude Turcuato, SVP and general manager of FOX International Channels Philippines. “Particularly valuable to our operations was the smooth integration of the ChannelPort system with our existing automation system, which made it easy for us to realize the functionality needed to deliver quality branded broadcasts to our customers.”

“The Harmonic video delivery solution deployed at FIC Philippines serves as a successful model for how similar broadcast facilities can quickly and affordably bring compelling branded channels to air,” said Eric Mok, regional sales manager at Harmonic. “Because expansion of the system is straightforward, users such as FIC Philippines can grow in accordance with business drivers and strategy.”

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By Ian McMurray Paul Martin is the CEO of Ocean Blue Software, which is a

founding member of DTVKit, a new initiative designed to promote considerably lower costs, accelerated time to market and commercial quality software, making it easier, cheaper and faster to build both

DVB and hybrid DVB/IP receivers.

“As a founding member of DTVKit, we look at how DTVKit is progressing and changing the way companies are able to access and develop DVB

software using a collaborative approach,” said Martin.

“So far, Ocean Blue’s experience with DTVKit has been very positive,” he continued. “We are seeing the membership grow and this is generating significant opportunities for us. Our next challenge will be to manage the

growth of Ocean Blue in order to maintain the high level of service we believe our customers deserve.”

DTVKit uses a single stack with a shared pool of software components, and can either be used to implement a receiver as a whole or members can select from the variety of software components available (including DVB Core, MHEG Engine, HbbTV Plug-In and CI+ Engine) and integrate them into existing solutions.

Since DTVKit’s official launch in March, the not-for-profit organisation says that it is attracting SoC vendors, OEMs, system integrators and set-top box manufacturers. Having already had over 100 check-ins from the growing community, DTVKit believes that it is living up to its expectation of developing a common framework that is rapidly enhancing the already mature software.

Having released V1.0.0 in May this year, the feedback from the community is that it is already of high commercial quality: the high standard of software is being maintained over time through a system of moderation and change control which will, it says, ensure that DTVKit remains a reliable source of software.

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FIDO gets new member The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance has gained a new member in embedded security solutions company Elliptic Technologies. FIDO is an industry consortium bringing standards-based specifications for simpler, stronger authentication that define an open, scalable and interoperable set of mechanisms that reduce reliance on passwords providing easier authentication to online services. Elliptic offers a range of products and services including authentication and confidentiality, programmable root of trust, embedded security modules and hardware-enforced security for trusted execution environments (TEEs). With tVault technology, which integrates with various TEEs, Elliptic says that userinstalled applications can run on a device's main operating system, providing full features and access for users, while authentication secrets are protected in the TEE. 5.B40a

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Who needs the broadcaster?

Conference Analysis

By Kate Bulkley Broadcasters no longer have a monopoly on technology and distribution, and that means that the model for broadcasters has changed irrevocably, said Arno Otto, managing director of digital media RTL Netherlands.

That Otto, a senior executive at the biggest commercial broadcasting group in Europe, believes this, speaks volumes to the depth of mindset-change that the company has gone through. “We are being open and offensive. We are preparing

for a future where content is the differentiator and not the channels,” said Otto.

Speaking at the ‘Do we need the broadcaster?’ panel, Otto said that RTL NL has over the last several years been commissioning and producing much more local drama programming because, like

Netflix and other SVOD services have shown, this is what makes a service stand out. RTL NL has also jumped into digital with both feet: it recently launched a Hulu-like VOD service that offers all of the broadcaster’s current content in a co-owned independent business and it also purchased the local Blockbuster DVD rental store business and is using the brand to launch a SVOD service in the next couple of weeks.

“Is there going to be a war between all these services? Yes. And will it bloody? Yes,” warned Otto. “Netflix launched in the Netherlands last November, so right now we are the challenger

Pro DSLR good for video Nikon Europe

By David Fox The new Nikon D750 DSLR is its most video-focused offering yet. It has all the video features of the EURO3,200 D810, but is smaller, lighter, less expensive, and “is the first pro camera in the Nikon range with a flippable [3.2-inch] screen,” said Frank Zuidweg, co-ordinator Nikon Professional Services.

It is also its first full-frame (24x35.9mm) camera to have

HERO 4K debut Media Excel

By Monica Heck A 4K encoder for high-end live and file workflows, for contribution and distribution, is making its debut on the Media Excel stand.

The HERO 4K encoder, available as a 1RU or 2RU unit depending on configuration, enables the encoding of video in HEVC or AVC up to 60fps 4k/UHD. It offers 4K pixel density and 10-bit colour depth and enables service delivery across conventional and constrained network pipelines such as copper, fibre or satellite.

“HEVC offers superior bandwidth efficiency,” said Norman C. Krebill, VP of sales at Media Excel. “We are doing single input, single picture 4K encoding, and it’s exciting to be able to deliver this type of encoding to 4K monitors.”

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Wi-Fi, for remote operation.

“We’ve made it as compact and lightweight as possible [using carbon fibre and magnesium], without losing any functionality for professional users,” he added.

“It is a big improvement for a lower price range,” It offers full HD recording at 24, 25, 30, 50 or 60 frames per second, at up to 42Mbps in H.264, and has a clean HDMI out, with simultaneous capture of full-resolution footage in-camera (to dual SD cards) and on an external recorder.

Rotolight chairman,

Flip-up: Zuidweg demonstrates the new Nikon D750 video-focused DSLR

Rod Gammons, saw an immediate synergy with his new Neo ringlight, which can display brightness as an f-stop, using ISO, shutter speed and distance-to-target information.

“When you then adjust the brightness, it displays the

brand. We plan to launch six to eight original content series a year and our goal is to get to at least 12 series year.”

RTL NL commissioned its first VOD series in 4K that will launch on its new SVOD service next year. “It has a top-quality cast, so it’s the local House of Cards,” said Otto. “We commission hundreds of millions of Euros in local drama.

That is about four times House of Cards for a population of only 7 million households.

By the time Netflix has that kind of financing power for that kind of content, the country would have to be 10 times the size!”

f-stop to set in the camera, and the D750 has a convenient thumbwheel which adjusts the aperture that is silent in video mode,” and allows very smooth changes during video recording.

“It has very smooth autoISO functionality,” added Zuidweg, so you can move between dark and light and get a smooth transition.

Its ISO range extends from 100-12,800, expandable from (Lo-1) 50 to (Hi-2) 51,200.

Users can also set a Flat Picture control, for a broader tonal range that is ideal for grading.

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BRAHMS makes connection: Impressively mature after three years in development, the BRAHMS broadcast and HbbTV media server from IRT matches beautifully to developments in German TV at present. “HbbTV is very successful in Germany. We have about nine million connected devices in the market.

Connection is the important thing and we think we have a connection rate of 50%,” said IRT spokesman Thomas Schierbaum.

“Catch-up TV is a very popular application, so all the service providers are offering this with electronic EPG. We have a new second screen app which combines with HbbTV and you can interact with things on that second screen,” he added.

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New consoles set for broadcast audio DiGiCo

By Michael Burns Dedicated broadcast versions of the SD7, SD5, SD10, SD9 and SD11 consoles are being showcased at IBC. The SD7B console, based on the SD7 live digital console, is designed for multi-engineer operation with three touch screens and dual

redundant processor engines. It features a 5.1 monitoring matrix with a 48 by 6 source to speaker selection.

SD7B handles up to 996 simultaneous optical plus 224 MADI, 24 analogue and AES/EBU connections. It can run two high-speed Optocore loops, with any combination of 448 inputs and outputs on each loop and all at 96KHz. Another new arrival is the

SD11B, equally at home as a desktop console or mounted in a 19-inch rack, while the SD10B has a broadcast-specific feature set that includes multi-channel folding under a single fader. This allows users to configure stereo, LCR, 5.1, or up to 11 mono channels under a single fader strip, which can be unfolded for individual control, or neatly folded up for convenience.

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In Brief Cost-effective 4K monitoring on legacy screens Apantac said its Crescent line of signal processing solutions offered an ideal solution for 4K broadcast and mobile production, as well as other on and off-set monitoring and conversion.

The Micro-4K mini converter down-converts four 3G-SDI signals from 4K/QFHD equipment at 50, 59.94 and 60 Hz. The Micro-4K four 3G-SDI inputs are downconverted to both HDMI and SDI simultaneously, with outputs up to 1080P. The company said UHD sources could thus be affordably viewed on inexpensive LCD monitors or routed in existing 3G infrastructure.

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Thunderbolt cables now available IBC is timed well for exhibitor Corning who, only days before the show opened, announced its Thunderbolt Optical Cables are now available in the European market in cable lengths spanning 5.5, 10, 30 and an unprecedented 60 meters.

Claimed to be the first alloptical fibre cables for the Thunderbolt community, Optical Cables by Corning are enabled by Corning ClearCurve VSDN optical fibre. They are said to be up to 50% thinner and 80% lighter than comparable copper cables.

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Turning data into information Exhibitor Kantar Media says it can help broadcasters by gathering masses of data and turning it into insights and a basis for action. “We can help deliver to our customers the information that can drive marketing, promotions, advertising and scheduling, for example,” said Paul Ruston, business development director.

“Beyond that, we have access to a broad range of information sources that can help put that information into a meaningful context.”

The company claims to be the largest audience measurement organisation outside the USA, and can provide a broad range of audience measurement and analysis services.

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Conference Analysis

By Catherine Wright How do sports right owners and broadcasters reap the benefits of multi-screen delivery, now that an increasing number of people watch sports on their TV screens, while also viewing related content on their smartphones or their iPads? And perhaps more importantly, how do they engage the viewer?

Speaking at ‘TV sport: from big screen to multiscreen – harnessing the value of sport everywhere’, a conference session chaired by Caru Ventures CEO Mike Grant, Tim Orme, head of digital product development at Sky Sports, described his current strategy: “We think hard about which second screen app is better for which sport. For instance the Champions League viewer likes to have a choice of games to watch from at the same time so we have an app that is basically a channel chooser but for golf coverage the app will offer subplots, and an idea of what is going on elsewhere on the pitch.”

For Trevor Doerksen, the CEO

of Mobovivo, a company which develops second screen applications for a number of sportscasters, the key question is how to engage the wider audience watching sport, not only the fan base. “All sorts of people watch the World Cup, not only sport aficionados. There is more work to be done in that area, for instance by providing gossip and behind the scenes coverage, not only sports stats.”

Tapping into the gambling community is also a path that is being explored, for it could generate a lot of extra revenue, even though it remains controversial.

“We have conducted a survey which shows that there is tremendous potential in that area, but we are cautious about linking both worlds together. We have to be mindful of our other relationships. Some sport federations are very reticent towards that idea.”

The executive vice president and CTO of Major League Baseball, Joe Inzerillo, concurred. “ We will not get into gambling, even if it goes hand in hand with sport.”

This session is available to view on demand at www.ibc.org/vod.

Digital publishing in Oz: Sky News Australia has chosen Mediamano to power its digital publishing capability. The broadcaster is upgrading its existing platform, which is approaching end of life, with Mediamano’s module-based workflow solution. “More and more channels are digital and are seeking ways to get their content out to different potential customers,” explained Mediamano CEO Mike Beattie. “They have a great market in the reselling of their news to new customers, but are limited by some of the technical complications surrounding that.” Beattie explains that the aim of this project was to minimise the input of the user to such an extent that there was no limitation to the number of customers the news producer could send content to. Not only is it much quicker, but they can sell to more customers, as there’s no extra cost to them to add new customers to the distribution,” he added.

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As the world looks at that great British success story, the DPP, the manufacturing base has been rushing to gain AS-11 certification and break bogey issues like insert editing.

First strike on this technical mindbender has come from root 6 with an essence for essence extension to Content Agent. “We discovered some magic and go right into the MXF,” said product specialist Bill Baker.

“A long read of the AVC H.264 spec to check if it was possible to write our own H.264 analyser in order to verify the bit stream came first. We did our R&D and worked with world-renowned MXF experts,” he added.

When you hit ‘save my bacon’ time, you can go back to an Avid timeline, go back to the original sequence and maybe do a fix like correct spelling or remove

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an expletive.

“You would export to us your short fix, and we would do a quick transcode to make it an AS-11 compliant bit stream and we could drop that directly into your point in the file where you have that issue,” said Baker.

“We can do a like-for-like replacement of your problem on the master file. You could choose audio or video only. We start at zero and go right to the end of the file,” he added. “It is literally a direct essence change, and I cannot envisage anything in terms of video and audio problems that we could not fix.

“This is new technology and it is something we are open to understanding. It is all about proving the principle that scientifically and technically it is possible. Overall, DPP feedback has been great,” he concluded.

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Multiviewer with 4K output: TVLogic, designer and manufacturer of broadcast and professional displays, is exhibiting its new SWM series monitors and a 4K multi-viewer system, among a number of other new products. A clean bezel with only a power button and a small indication lamp gives an uncluttered appearance for the SWM series monitors, while maximising display space in any given area. Along with the traditional interfaces of SDI, HDMI and DVI, an optical fibre interface has been added for flexibility. The monitors support video formats up to 3G-SDI and professional features include markers, time-code, audio level meters, various CCs and UMDs. The multiformat studio wall monitors SWM series are designed for a neat fit in studios and OB galleries, said Andrew Sunwoo Kim, director of international sales at TVLogic: “These models are all controlled by TCP IP and Ethernet. Users can control, change and set features and functions to suit their needs and with the Observer package that comes with the monitors, they can carry out emergency colour calibrations, by backloading the original calibration data saved on a laptop to provide a useable colour, until there is time to do it properly.” – Heather McLean 10.D26

The Dynamic Drive Pool (DDP) shared storage system from Ardis Technologies — which won an IABM Design & Innovation Award in the storage category on Saturday — is on display at IBC. The DDP technology is an Ethernet SAN, meaning it combines wire speed data access with an Ethernet infrastructure. Among the latest additions to the scalable and redundant DDP systems line is the DDP60EXR. Co-exhibiting with DDP is systems integrator Media Logic whose clients include an array of major European broadcasters and post houses.

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Cindy PCI with ad management The Cindy advertising management software has been updated so that it can control nonlinear campaigns as well as linear TV and radio ones. The ProConsultant Informatique (PCI) developed system manages all aspects of advertising including account management, campaign planning, scheduling and invoicing.

“We believe that you cannot separate the two worlds of linear and nonlinear,” PCI chief executive Herve Obed told The IBC Daily. “It is one world with different streams.

Our software now has the capability to manage both linear and nonlinear businesses. This will bring lots of productivity to our customers who can automate their processes and maintain them, and evolve their businesses.”

The new functions allow for the management of both pre-roll and post-roll spots and also addressable campaigns that are targeted at specific customer segments or demographics.

Cindy also includes modules for scheduling optimisation and yield management and offers updating and reporting capabilities. PCI makes Louise, a software system for managing programming, media assets and metadata including contract and rights management, programme scheduling, break management, budgets and multiplatform exposures.

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Content heads towards In Brief Cameras gain from HDR being audience driven In Control

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Conference Analysis

By Kate Bulkley

By David Fox The delivery of broadband services can no longer be considered an adjunct to the main broadcasting business because audiences are demanding nonlinear services like VoD. But the ‘Broadcast Meets Broadband’ session, produced in association with the EBU, revealed that both big organisational and technology challenges persist.

“We have to be everywhere now because our audience is everywhere and we have to change our business from being content driven to being audience driven and to be fair, that scares the bejesus out of most of us,” said Egon Verharen, manager of R&D for NPO in the Netherlands.

Meanwhile, there are technical issues around both contribution and distribution and making it all work around the systems that broadcasters already use. “There has to be a marriage of the systems we are already using for our normal production and (a way to) enrich that with new systems that make it capable for us to do storytelling on multiple platforms,” said Verharen.

There are questions about where in the production chain to repurpose content for the different platforms and whether to store it for the different platforms or to repurpose it in realtime. There are also really difficult questions around the tradeoff between speed and

Egon Verharen: “To change our business to being audience driven scares the bejesus out of most of us”

quality, as well as serving all the many consumer devices out there. “I have to build different streaming platforms because some support HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and some support progressive download, so it’s good that new things like DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) are coming as well as standards,” said Verharen.

“There is a huge audience expectation around broadband,” said Henry Webster, executive product manager, media services at the BBC, which gets more than 10 million requests a day for its online iPlayer. “This is only 2% of people’s consumption of BBC programming but it is a growing 2% and many people couldn’t live without iPlayer.” Webster described the project to rebuild the backend of iPlayer called Video Factory and Audio Factory to address the problems created because the iPlayer system was built in an “experimental space” and so is a “very manual handcranked operation.”

Higher dynamic range, with 20 times the contrast of standard video, offers better colour rendition and the image sharpness is “profoundly different. It really is as close to the eye as you can get with today’s technology,” said Milan Krsljanin, ARRI’s director of business development.

Ikegami is showing a prototype HDK-97Arri expanded range camera that makes use of the full dynamic range of the sensor. Both it and ARRI are working with the prototype Dolby Vision system.The 32-inch 1920x1080 display uses quantum dot technology, and offers 2,000 nits of brightness and 600,000:1 contrast.

The sensor on the HDK97Arri has a bigger pixel size, “which gives higher dynamic range.The sensor has a dual gain structure, which gives two A/D convertors for each pixel, and the combined signal expands the dynamic range,” said Naoki Kashimura, Ikegami’s director of marketing and product strategy.

In contrast: Naoki Kashimura with the prototype HDK-97Arri expanded range camera

The dynamic range improvements are one of the key reasons the EBU is more interested in UHD Phase 2 than Phase 1, insisted Krsljanin, “because of HDR, higher frame rate, wider colour gamut and more appropriate audio, as well as higher resolution.”

What is stopping the move to HDR is the wait for standardisation, said Kashimura, but existing users of the camera will get it via a software upgrade.

Ikegami also has a new 4K output board for the HDK-97Arri, for upsampling to Ultra HD in the CCU, and is showing its third-generation 8K camera, created for NHK, which uses four 1.25-inch sensors and was used at the World Cup. It hopes to use this technology for future 4K and beyond cameras.

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Assist apps allow for audio iPad tracking Calrec Audio

By Michael Burns

Soccer Assist allows operators to track audio during a football game

The Assist suite of iPad apps have been launched to heighten the viewer experience and aid operators in busy production environments. Soccer Assist, Ice Hockey Assist and Fader Assist, take advantage of Calrec’s CSCP remote control protocol to simplify workflow and provide operators with new ways to interface with Calrec consoles.

Soccer and Ice Hockey Assist allows operators to simplify the complex tasks of tracking audio during a game, providing an alternative approach for highly experienced operators while allowing those with less experience to create a quality mix very simply.

“One of the many tasks the audio operator must manage is

capturing all important events during live sporting occasions while maintaining a steady background level of crowd and venue noise,” said Calrec’s head of Sales Henry Goodman.

“Calrec has developed these apps as an assistive tool to ease the pressure in this demanding working environment.”

Fader Assist allows operators to remotely control fader level, PFL, cut/on and aux/main routing on all Calrec Bluefin2 consoles. Calrec said the ability to remotely control these fader functions from any location within a Wi-Fi range provides a new level of flexibility and convenience for both mixing and set-up.

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JLCooper Electronics is showing its newest development, the MCS5 Media Control Station, a desktop control product aimed at editing audio, video, animation and related applications.

The professional control surface incorporates transport buttons for record, play, stop, fast forward, rewind and a precision optically encoded jog wheel.

Also at IBC, JLCooper is now shipping the VTC1, a compact remote for filebased recorders.

The third generation SloMo Elite Control Surface from JLCooper is customisable, and allows developers and OEMs to use controllers that are tailored to their specific needs, using standard parts.

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ITN picks Cerebrum Axon has developed a new graphical control solution for ITN, which is now available as an ad-on for the company’s Cerebrum Monitoring and Control system. Earlier this year ITN asked Axon to see if it could provide a graphical control solution that would offer sound supervisors an easy to use touchscreen interface to monitor and configure the large intercom system at its London studios. Axon’s task was to create touchscreen panels to be displayed on the existing ITN audio console PC screens that would simplify the day to day control of the system, and additionally allow complex set ups, such as an election configuration, to be automated and quickly executed.

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Maxdome personalisation: German VoD company maxdome is working with ContentWise to drive personalised recommendation and discovery for its online VoD service. The ContentWise solution enables maxdome to offer more compelling TV experiences across devices, with personalised streams created to match viewer behaviour, context and preferences. As one of the largest VoD companies in Germany and Europe, with a catalogue of over 60,000 titles, maxdome needed to simplify search and discovery for its users while also maximising the return on its licensed library of content. The ContentWise personalisation and management solution was selected by maxdome to address these challenges, creating consumer profiles across multiple screens and delivering individually selected content to each device in milliseconds. Pictured: Erno Hempel, CTO maxdome (left), with Paolo Bozzola, CEO. – Monica Heck

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LCD monitor Flanders Scientific has launched its new CM420TD 42-inch, 10bit, 3D Capable, Professional LCD Monitor.

The monitor is the smaller sibling of the 50-inch CM500TD. This new unit shares most of the specifications of the larger CM500TD but with a more compact form factor suitable for smaller environments.

The CM420TD includes: 12 bit signal support, 10 bit panel, 3G, dual-link, HD, SD-SDI, DVI-I, and analogue inputs, and 3D capable display (passive).

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Pushing personalisation

By George Jarrett The barrier between media devices and online devices has been broken. The wizardry to do this is a protocol based on OAuth2, developed by the EBU’s Cross-Platform Authentication Project Group. It will be submitted to ETSI as an open standard.

“This is an unusual task for the EBU because we are going to produce a technical specification from A-Z in authentication,” said EBU head of delivery and services Peter MacAvock. “It is all about trying to ensure that you have a set of personal preferences that you have stored with one broadcaster, and you can push those to any type of device that might connect to that

broadcaster’s service.

“The idea is pushing the personalised experience from a website or from an online world into a device-oriented environment,” he added. “That requires a relatively sophisticated mechanism.”

The EBU team, led by software engineering project manager Michael Barroco, started with radio because that was relatively easy, and moved on from there to TV sets and more complex devices. The latest version of BBC Playlister hosts the protocol.

“The intention is to de-couple the notion of personal preferences from the device,” said MacAvock, “and to remove the need to have this vertical link between the CE vendor and any other type of vendor and

Future ready for 4K

Designed for live: Cronk with the new LDK UHD system camera

Grass Valley

By David Fox Easier migration to Ultra HD and 4K is one of the themes of IBC. ARRI is showing it for documentaries with its Amira upgrade, and Grass Valley is doing it for live production with its 4K strategy.

Customers want to buy equipment that meets today’s needs, but is also future-ready through “low cost upgrades,” said Mike Cronk, senior vice president of strategic marketing, Grass Valley. It can take its broadcast products and, “either with an upgrade or reconfiguration of the product, get to 4K.” It is offering a full line of 4K/UHD-capable switchers, multiviewers, editing, routing and replay equipment, but the migration starts with acquisition.

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however customers wanted more flexibility, so it is now showing a technology preview of a new 4K system camera for studio, OB or shoulder-mounted use, which should ship by the end of the year.

Because it takes B4-mount lenses, and has three 2/3-inch sensors, users can zoom in just as much as with an HD camera, don’t lose sensitivity (as cameras that need a PL-to-B4 converter do), “and it has the depth of field you need to track a player across a field and keep them in focus.” Cronk also promised “better colour resolution than a lot of the 4K cameras out there.”

The cameras will also integrate with current camera control systems, via fibre. “In a mobile environment it looks and feels like every other camera,” he said. “This is the breakthrough that will allow broadcasters, get more standard with Ultra HD equipment.”

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the preferences. Personalisation is such a big issue at the moment.”

Sean O’Halpin of the BBC chairs the EBU CPA GROUP. In his demo Barroco highlights watching TV news and wanting to share a sequence: you simply open, press the green button to send a notification to a mobile, and send the content with a message to the selected friend.

“Later back to my place I switch on my TV channel and see a red button appearing,” he said. “I will be able to watch the content my friend shared – on

In Brief TF1 VIDEO selects MYTF1VOD platform

In his demo Michael Barroco highlights watching TV news and wanting to share a sequence

demand on catch-up.”

Press a red button and you get a list of shared videos. The system, as in Playlister, will stop and resume TV. 10.F20

Redefining IPTV for telcos Digisoft.tv

By Monica Heck The dongle is the new STB, according to Digisoft.tv CEO Fearghal Kelly (pictured) as he unveiled the company’s new white label CastOS framework.

The company is encouraging telcos to embrace the move towards smaller dongle form factors and OTT delivery methods. “CastOS is a way for telcos to do next generation TV fast without the CAPEX currently associated with IPTV,” explained Kelly. “We are taking an OTT approach to doing IPTV. We’ve condensed the STB into this dongle, which runs carrier grade video chips designed for 1080p at 60fps and consumers will end up using this dongle more than they will use their Roku, for example,” added Kelly.

CastOS can turn any type of mobile and wearable devices into a remote control

The framework takes advantage of existing consumer electronics by coupling them with the operator’s smartphones. It allows service providers to ‘cast’ without worrying about the underlying protocols on the target connected devices, delivering a carrier grade linear TV replacement with VoD and cloud DVR across multiple devices.

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TF1 VIDEO has chosen Arkena to provide the technical platform of its Video on Demand service MYTF1VOD. The media services subsidiary of the TDF Group will fully operate the premium transactional VoD service of the largest French broadcaster TF1. Arkena is showcasing the service on its IBC booth. By putting different components of its product portfolio together, Arkena says that it is offering a full end-to-end solution that integrates all the workflows of the MYTF1VOD service: content preparation – with the secured Cloud4Media solution - back-office, management of the PlayReady and Marlin DRM protection, Content Delivery Network and the apps, managed in collaboration with TF1 VIDEO’s partners.

“MYTF1VOD is one of the most ambitious and innovative Video on Demand platforms on the market,” said Grégory Samson, SVP media and telecom at Arkena.

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EMC Isilon demos 4K EMC Isilon is featuring several technical demos including a live 4K workflow. It’s also showing a live collaborative editing workflow, Media-inthe-Cloud systems for workflow and content distribution, and in the area of media analytics, Isilon is highlighting native support for the Hadoop technology.

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Channel 5 selects Fonix Fonix

By Heather McLean Fonix, provider of mobile messaging, payments and telephony, has announced a two-year partnership with the UK’s Channel 5. The deal is focused on developing engagement between Channel 5’s audience through mobile interactive services, driving returns for the broadcaster and value to the audience.

Using a suite of Fonix solutions including mobile messaging and payments layered with data analytics and marketing services, Channel 5

is providing viewers with an opportunity to interact and engage with formats through an increasingly optimised and value-added experience.

Said Joanna Cox, acting head of commercial partnerships, Channel 5: “We have some of the most popular interactive formats that TV has to offer. We need our partners to be technically and operationally flawless whilst supporting us strategically around new initiatives. We have undergone a market wide supplier review process and are very pleased to have appointed Fonix to work with us moving forward.’’

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IP stream monitoring Dayang has a lineup of its latest technologies on its IBC stand. This includes FrescoIP, a multiviewer for IP stream monitoring, aimed at broadcasters and network operators. The exhibit also features Fresco-Atom, a compact multiviewer that supports SDI, iChannel2, a single box HD automation system for small and mid-size broadcasters, and eVIAS, a new media asset management system.

The latest products from Dayang also include DAURIC, an on-air 3D graphics system; and the D3–CG Live character generator.

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