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NEP chooses LDX 86N for five new trucks Grass Valley By David Fox NEP Europe is to standardise on the new Grass Valley LDX 86N for Ultra HD production, buying at least 40 cameras initially for five new OB trucks, having signed the agreement at IBC. “We see 4K is starting to develop in Europe, and now is the time to stop buying normal HD cameras,” said Paul Henriksen, president at NEP Broadcast Services Europe “This is the first commitment we’ve had from someone to standardise on [the LDX 86N],”
In agreement: JP van Welsem, VP sales and marketing, EMEA, Grass Valley; Marcel Koutstaal, SVP and GM of camera product group, Grass Valley; Scott Rothenberg, SVP of technology and asset management, NEP Group; Paul Henriksen, president, NEP Broadcast Services Europe; Leo Smeding, sales manager, Benelux, Grass Valley; and Steve Stubelt, SVP, sales and marketing communications, Grass Valley
said Steve Stubelt, SVP, sales and marketing communications, Grass Valley. “It’s had a very positive response. We now need to increase our production. [Orders are] already exceeding our expectations.” “What we have seen from having
a proper test of the camera, the feedback we had from my technicians is that what [Grass Valley] has done with its noise reduction is very impressive,” said Henriksen. The five trucks, including Grass Valley switchers, will be built by
Broadcast Solutions over the next seven months. Four will be 10-16 camera vehicles, while the fifth will be a triple-expanding trailer capable of handling more than 30 cameras. NEP Europe recently started UHD production in Germany and Switzerland. Swisscom Teleclub is doing half of its coverage of Swiss football in UHD, using NEP’s 16-camera HD41 truck, while Deutsche Telekom will produce one match in each round of the German hockey league in UHD using NEP’s new 8-camera HD34K truck, which is being shown at IBC and goes on air next week.
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Lord Puttnam warns broadcast media: “It must engage” By Chris Forrester Lord David Puttnam delivered an unashamed masterclass for IBC that embraced filmmaking, journalism, broadcast media, political influence and his current passion for climate change, and generated a standing ovation from delegates. Lord Puttnam said that the technology at IBC was clearly getting better and better, especially in IBC’s Future Zone, but that perhaps broadcast media was getting worse and worse at actually helping us to understand what was going on around us. He was critical of UK broadcasters and their coverage of the recent Brexit debate. “There was no challenge to
the Brexit lies. Broadcast media was pathetic in how they followed the ridiculous impartiality rules.” He backed up his comments with film clips, in particular his own The Mission (1986) and what he described as the most perfect two minutes, 18 seconds from the movie. He praised George Clooney’s Oscar-winning Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) where the real-life hero of the film, Edward R Murrow (speaking in 1958) argued that “unless TV started again to teach, and to illuminate, and to inspire then it was no more than merely wires and lights in a box”. Lord Puttnam stressed that he wanted Europe’s public broadcasters to start explaining, and
not simply following the money. Puttnam said the message was every bit as important as the medium. Indeed, this passion to tell it as it is, but also to entertain, is why he is returning to filmmaking. He has scripted a climate change story about Greenpeace’s Arctic 30, the multinational crew of the Arctic Sunrise who took part in a protest against Russia’s drilling for oil in the Arctic in 2013 and were arrested by gunpoint. The film tells the story from one of the activist’s point of view. “And we follow her journey,” he said. Asked whether he agreed with Sir Martin Sorrell’s statement made at IBC that the UK’s Channel 4 should be sold, Lord Puttnam
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said the publicly-owned channel should stay public (“profoundly wrong to privatise it”), and continue to plough back its profits from advertising into programme making. He also argued for a tax on the English Premier League, and on gambling and even on each email sent (one cent), “which would stop people sending them, and also hitting the ‘reply to all’ key!”
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