enterprise IPTV delivery system in the world. The platform allows presenters to stream video and interactive signage in real-time HD, with video resolution up to 1080p, while providing maximum brand engagement. The format-agnostic platform can be quickly and easily deployed in virtually all IT environments and features support for live playback and recording, real-time analytics, and a video confidence and monitoring workflow. See VITEC at IBC2017 (Stand 7.G23).
VIZRT
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izrt creates tools that put more power in the hands of media companies and rights owners. Discovery Networks Norway’s journalists and production staff produce content for social media and online using Viz Story and also uses the Viz Libero advanced analysis system for its sports productions. The live production of the League of Legends esports tournament was enhanced with Vizrt AR graphics. League of Legends used multiple Viz Engines to display multiple variations of AR graphics each round, with the placement of the graphics on-screen changing from round to round. Nine Network Australia is pioneering the use of the latest AR technology with Viz Arena. The network has partnered with Alston Elliot to operate Viz Arena systems at each of the network’s live televised National Rugby League games, including on its flagship program Friday Night Live. Viz Story gives sports journalists the perfect tool for editing quick promos, highlights during a game, or video packages from the field in a web interface. Viz Libero provides analysis tools with high-quality graphics and 3D perspectives of the game. Viz Arena, Vizrt’s live virtual enhancement tool, provides 4K data-driven AR graphics for live sports productions.
WARNER/CHAPPELL PRODUCTION MUSIC
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arner/Chappell Production Music has more than 35 years of experience uniting many of the most successful and respected independent brands in production music. The company’s brands have received many industry awards, including Emmys, Tellys, ADDYs, and Promax honors.
WAVE CENTRAL/CP COMMUNICATIONS
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ave Central is the preferred RF wireless system for in-house game-day productions. The company has delivered so many systems to various sports teams within the MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLS that, chances are, if you’ve been to a ballgame, you’ve seen the company’s equipment in action. Wave Central equipment has covered major sports events from the World Series to the Super Bowl and beyond.
WAZEE DIGITAL
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azee Digital enables sports rightsholders to monetize and enrich their valuable content. Its scalable solutions offer complete control over content so that assets reach their rightful audiences around the globe. It is the only assetmanagement solution built from the ground up to run natively in the cloud and the only one to make live moments available immediately for global
publishing, syndication, advertising, and sponsorship. Wazee Digital funneled more than 10 years of experience in digital-content licensing, rights, and clearances into Live Event Services, its solution for capturing, amplifying, and monetizing the most compelling moments in sports. Live Event Services include content capture, management, and access; highlights production and publishing; an interview and highlights newswire; sponsor activation; and dynamic ingest and licensing. Wazee Digital has longstanding relationships with major sports properties and their rightsholders.
WEATHEROPS
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DT uses big-data solutions to develop and provide weather analytics, such as hazardousweather detection and prediction, high-resolution forecasts, decision analytics, and content for mobile apps, as well as interactive mapping. The WeatherOps forecast team is staffed by experts who provide global asset-protection and commodities-trading decision support. Be it asset protection, positioning of goods and services ahead of weather or as response to weather, or simply warning the general public of impending adverse weather, WDT has a product to fit any need.
WESCO BROADCAST AND ENTERTAINMENT
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ESCO delivers direct-access and in-house inventory to the industry’s top bulk-cable and connector brands: AFL, Canare, Commscope, Corning, Gepco, Lemo, OCC, Neutrik, Panduit, and many more. WESCO offers the highest-quality assemblies, manufactured in the U.S., comprising topof-the-line connectors and cables built for superior performance in a multitude of environments. These assemblies include SMPTE hybrid fiber-optic cables for portable applications or harsh environments in the field. Stadium cable runs can be minimized with 3-in-1 install SMPTE cable, combining three channels of SMPTE into one cable. Complete solutions include highly flexible, lightweight, and portable 7.8-mm products for Steadicams, a full offering of tactical fiber products to keep your game on the air, and end-to-end connectivity solutions, such as junction boxes, wall plates, rack panels, distribution panels, and patching solutions, including OCC’s newest modular enclosure.
WHEATSTONE
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t IBC2017 (Stand 8.C91), Wheatstone will again highlight its latest IP audio console, the LXE, an audio network interface with fully programmable switches, rotary encoders, and fader groupings. The LXE brings control-surface configuration to a new level. Software allows virtually every control on the console to be programmed for function, mode, and even color. Buttons are also scriptable, letting you create powerful macros for as many automated features as you want. The LXE can have up to 32 physical motorized faders, with full EQ/dynamics on all channels, plus loudness metering, full-color OLED panel displays, event recall, and customizable drag-and-drop touchscreen GUIs. The surface interfaces seamlessly with the
WheatNet-IP audio network and can ingest and convert virtually all audio formats.
WOWZA MEDIA SYSTEMS
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owza is a recognized gold standard of streaming, with more than 20,000 customers in 170+ countries. By reducing the complexities of video and audio delivery to any device, the company enables organizations to expand their reach and more deeply engage their audiences in industries ranging from education to broadcasting. Visit Wowza at IBC2017 (Stand 14.C08) to learn that affordable sports streaming is at your fingertips with Wowza Streaming Cloud: manage costs, reduce complexity, increase revenue, and drive fan engagement. Streamline delivery to laptops, smartphones, and OTT devices like Chromecast and Roku.
WTVISION
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TVision’s playout-automation solution is now also available in the cloud, and you can see it live at IBC2017 (Stand 7.B33). With ChannelMaker-in-the-Cloud, you can manage your playout automation structure from anywhere and reach a global audience instantly. ChannelMakerin-the-Cloud, which is entirely hosted on the web, sequences and plays out clips previously uploaded, mixing them with state of the art 3D graphics overlays and encoding everything to an output stream that is sent to a channel distribution center.
YAMAHA COMMERCIAL AUDIO SYSTEMS
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amaha Professional Audio, a division of Yamaha Corp. of America Corp., offers a line of professional digital and analog audio products for live sound, on-air broadcast, postproduction, sound reinforcement, and commercial installations. Products include the flagship RIVAGE PM10 digital audio console, which features the CS-R10 control surface and the new compact control surface CS-R10-S, including hybrid mic preamps with Rupert Neve SILK emulation; the Yamaha CL Series and TF Series digital consoles; and TF-Rack. Speaker systems include NEXO STM, M10, M6, and ID24 and Yamaha Commercial Installation Solutions (CIS) products.
ZIXI
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ixi’s software platform transforms the internet into a broadcast-quality, global video-delivery network. Since 2007, the company has been helping the world’s leading media organizations, service providers, and technology companies to enrich user experiences, create new services, reduce operating costs, and realize possibilities not yet imagined.
ZYPE
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ype is a cloud video distribution service for OTT that makes it easy for content owners to connect directly with their audiences on every screen. With Zype, enterprise content owners and brands can own and accelerate all aspects of their video distribution pipeline. Zype provides pushbutton app publishing, monetization, streaming, audience management, and analytics. <
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