July 2012
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IBC gets ready for its big Innovation Awards night
By Fergal Ringrose
The shortlist of finalists for the IBC2012 Innovation Awards come from North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. In the Content Creation category, broadcaster FX UK wanted to enhance its audience’s experience of post- apocalyptic horror series The Walking Dead and asked Red Bee Media to develop not just an app but, using technology from Civolution, a means of linking it to the TV programme, whether it is a live broadcast or from a DVR. ESPN is recognised for enhancements to its coverage of Grand Slam tennis, working with Orad, to help viewers understand the strategies top players employ to gain an advantage over their opponents. TV Globo Network in Brazil is shortlisted for its in-house development Vate, which helps directors and camera operators
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to provide flawless coverage of unpredictable live events. Two of the three finalists in Content Management come from the world of sport. Turner Sports Central is recognised for its new asset management system, created to track, log and retrieve 27,000 live recording hours of content. Partners include Dalet Digital Media, EVS, Stainless Code, Active Storage, Quantum & NetApp. NASCAR recently created a new HD replay system, together
with Telestream in association with Promise Technology and Quantum, which gives operators and officials instant access to any part of the content from any camera angle. One of the biggest system
integration projects undertaken in recent years supported the launch of Sky News Arabia this May. The build, by TSL, features technology from ScheduALL, Miranda Technologies, EVS & Broadcast Bionics.
BBC is Connected for Wimbledon By David Fox
The BBC is offering interactive coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time via its new BBC Sport app for Connected TV sets. It is also screening some of the matches in 3D again this year. The app allows viewers to access additional information, alternative coverage (with up to six live match streams available) and highlights from the Championships, including statistics and a choice of audio commentary.
The BBC Sport app was launched in April to integrate TV and online content on Connected TVs and other devices, and has been used to offer expanded Formula One coverage as well as for Euro 2012.
The BBC is continuing its two
year trial experimenting with 3D production and broadcasting, by making full re-runs available of the Men’s Singles semi-finals in 3D and offering some live coverage of the Ladies’and Men’s Singles finals in 3D on the BBC HD Channel. Sony is producing the 3D
coverage, in association with the All
England Lawn Tennis Club. This year the production involves a mixture of 3D rigs and the TD300 single body 3D camera for studio and colour shots on the court, and will move to fully tapeless operation, based around Sony’s HDCAM SR Master technology. Within the OB unit all ISO camera recordings will be recorded straight to SR memory cards, while the PMW-TD300 camcorders will also be fitted with SR-R1 HDCAM SR recorders.
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Besides the BBC, the 3D feed will be broadcast by Canal+ in Spain, ESPN, Nova in Greece and Sky Italia
The first of the four finalists in the Content Delivery category is CBS Sports Network, which turned a radio sports talk show based in Louisiana into a television programme produced live from its control room in New York. ITV has completed a trial of a personalised content replacement system, to insert content tailored for different users on different platforms into live streaming outputs. The system, developed by Yospace, works in close collaboration with ITV’s Snell playout automation. In the US DIRECTV has
developed a new Home Media Center which provides a central server and delivery into multiple rooms. Partners include Broadcom, Entropic Communications, Jethead Development, Pace and Samsung. Finally Channel 4 has allowed the Microsoft XBox 360 to access the on demand service 4oD. The app was created by KIT digital with technology partners.
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1-10 News & Analysis Future of multiscreen TV delivery Jake Young talks to Benoit Fouchard about ATEME’s ‘breakthrough’ new technology in video compression for multiscreen delivery
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Canon C300: the budget Alexa? David Fox explores Canon’s C300, which appears to be leading the way in bringing large sensor shooting to mainstream TV
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12-25 The IT Broadcast continuum Read the full report from TVBEurope’s fourth IT Broadcast Workflow conference held at BAFTA last month
26-37The Workflow On the living planet
Philip Stevens takes a look behind one of the most ambitious natural history projects ever attempted for broadcasting, Planet Earth Live 26
How fresh is your media? Why data migration is overtaking digitisation as a key industry challenge for the future, writes Russell Grute
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38-48 London 2012 Countdown Televisa reaches Olympic heights with Sienna
Melanie Dayasena-Lowe talks to Mark Gilbert at Gallery Sienna and Rune Hansen at Simplemente about Televisa’s remote workflow plans for the London Olympics
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Deltatre powers Games online The London Games will be a watershed in digital media, according to Italy’s deltatre. Adrian Pennington finds out more 44
50TVBEurope’s News Review A look back at the month’s most interesting stories from the broadcast technology arena 50
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