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launch in Romania RCS & RDS has executed a successful HD launch
leveraging the enterprise Actus Digital media management platform. Actus business partner, Cellphone Group Romania, spearheaded the installation, using a high- resolution Actus media management and ratings analysis system that included capabilities for recording all broadcast channels in HD, editing broadcasted content, and re-broadcasting the repurposed content in full HD. With a three-month launch timeline, Actus was ready for the debut of RCS & RDS’ HD News channel, Digi24. 4.A91
is set for Brunei Alan Dick Broadcast (ADBL) has been awarded a full turnkey project to install and commission a sizable DVB-T television antenna system for the official state broadcaster of Brunei. ADBL will provide Radio Television Brunei (RTB) with the vertically polarised 30 panel UHF DVB-T broadband antenna, along with a Constant Impedance Combiner, unitised Patch Panel Power Splitter and Rigid Line kits. RTB currently airs five television channels including the national flagship channel. 8.B99
services from Snell Snell’s stand is playing host to a range of new modules that include a 3Gbps format translator. This provides signal translation between SMPTE 372M dual-link and SMPTE 425M single-link sources, allowing signal integration into a single system standard. Also, for sending 3Gbps signals over the same distances as HD-SDI, Snell modules can compress the 3Gbps signals and send them over standard HD-SDI copper infrastructure. 8.B68
Translation Turnkey system Successful HD
Broadcasters need to streamline their workflow and we’ve solved the riddle, says Bernhard Reitz, head of product management, Rohde & Schwarz DVS
Today’s broadcast stations are confronted with multiple ways of controlling their content. Migrating from SD to HD is an ongoing task also introducing new challenges to combine different formats like SD, 720p and 1080i in one production workflow. Moreover, multiple video codecs and formats are streaming into the studio environment. But there is more to it: a huge amount of additional metadata needs to be handled – and all of this has to be managed on different equipment that usually does not interact properly. The production environments we experience with our international clients are heterogeneous, mirroring the different needs and preferences of the involved parties. This results in a number of different production islands with varying equipment like video servers and different NLEs – each with their own storage solution – transcoders, streaming equipment and playout servers. These production islands are mostly interacting slowly leading to time waste because of transferring and transforming
Bernhard Reitz: ‘Production islands waste time’
media from one production step to another.
Faced with the necessity to deliver content faster, using several distribution ways, we understand that today’s broadcasters need to streamline their file-based workflow. Renowned for developing efficient tools for file-based post production workflows, Rohde & Schwarz DVS worked closely
Console legend in IBC debut DiGiCo
By David Davies
Iconic UK-based audio manufacturer DiGiCo is exhibiting for the first time at this year’s IBC, showcasing its SD7B, SD10B and SD11B mixing consoles.
Designed to cater to a wide variety of broadcast applications, the SD7B, SD10B and SD11B draw on DiGiCo’s Soundtracs
with broadcasters, coming up with Venice as a Media Production Hub to solve this riddle: speeding up the workflow, granting flexibility, reducing error rates and lowering the cost of ownership while minimising the integration efforts. The system allows for flexible video channel configurations, since tedious tasks as pre- configuration or reboots to switch a channel from in- to output, from SD to HD, from playout to ingest or to trancode are time-consuming. Studio programme signals, live feed or tapes and generic video files or file transfer should be captured in all typical broadcast codecs directly without any transcoding. Direct capturing into a production storage like Avid ISIS with the edit-while-ingest feature speeds up broadcast workflows tremendously. Fewer systems in the workflow with more flexible functionalities lead to decreased costs of ownership This is what the Media
Production Hub Venice stands for. The DVS system allows for great flexibility: media exchange between the production systems occurs directly, thanks
heritage by adding broadcast-specific feature sets to the respective multi- application consoles. The SD7B has the routing capacity, processing ability and user interface to form the heart of the most complex broadcast audio productions. The work surface handles up to 996 simultaneous optical, plus 224 MADI, 24 analogue and AES/EBU connections, along with 128 buses (each with
full processing in mono, stereo, LCR or 5.1), 32 matrix busses and 32, 32-band graphic equalisers. Up to 100 physical faders can be accessed with the addition of EX-007 expander units. The SD10B, meanwhile, is designed to provide a blend of features, performance and flexibility to a broad cross-section of the broadcast market. And the SD11B is a compact 19-inch rackmount or table top mixer, delivering a low cost solution which is
Challenging file-based workflows Opinion
to Venice’s comprehensive transform and transfer capabilities. Venice adapts to changing workflow environments with ease. With the combination of the
Venice Media Production Hub plus DVS storage systems at the heart of broadcast production workflows, the four core fields are covered in one system: ingest, playout, transform and transfer. This minimises the effort of integration considerably: open communication interfaces like FIMS (Framework for Interoperable Media Services) of the AMWA/EBU instead of proprietary standards and web- service based architecture instead of point-to-point connections. We invite IBC visitors to learn
more about solving the challenges of file-based broadcasting at the DVS booth and also to visit Rohde & Schwarz, showcasing the new headend solution AVHE100, automated quality assurance of file-based content with R&S VidChecker and R&S’s innovative high-efficiency transmitter technology. 7E25/8.D35
straightforward to
incorporate into almost any mixing environment. DiGiCo will also be showing the newest, ‘supercharged’ version of the SD9 live mixer. The SD9 is a complete, integrated system, which includes the mixing surface, a D-Rack digital stage interface and Cat5E digital multicore, with the additional ability to simultaneously record 56 channels direct to multitrack software or DAW. 8.B16
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