6 Saturday 08.09.2012 theibcdaily In Brief
Blue Bridge debuts Being unveiled during this IBC is the new Neotion Blue Bridge which creates a secure wireless link between television and smartphones or tablets, allowing the introduction of new services – TV apps – combining
simultaneous use of television and mobiles. The Blue Bridge system can be integrated into multiple interfaces such as a CAM, STB or even a USB dongle. Neotion is presenting a solution based on CI Plus CAMs (Conditional Access Modules), but the company is also announcing versions for set-top boxes using an integrated solution and a USB dongle for deployment in 2013 to address the legacy market. Blue Bridge is first and foremost a wireless link that allows two screens to exchange data in a secure manner. It allows data to be extracted from TV streams and to generate information from an interactive television application for transmission to the second screen. Since this link is bidirectional, the mobile device can also transmit information to the television in the opposite direction. 4.B53
Sky Sport News Production at Sky Deutschland’s Sky Sport News HD is now being driven by the Kahuna 360 video switcher, Snell has revealed. A native 1080p/3G switcher, Kahuna 360 supports any format in and out, on any input or output including 1080p (single link). It features up to six mix effects (M/E), four of which are currently in use by the Sky Sport News HD production. Snell said the reserve power would provide ample room for growth as the new channel, Germany and Austria’s first 24-hour sports news broadcaster, expands. Working in conjunction with Mosart Newsroom
Automation, the Kahuna 360 will benefit the realtime, graphics-intense channel by providing seven keyers per M/E, 120 HD/SD inputs, 64 HD/SD outputs, and an audio/video clip store with 40 minutes of capacity for SD or eight minutes for HD. The switcher supports up to 16 simultaneous broadcast productions from a single mainframe. It also offers multi-format switching through FormatFusion3, providing high-quality 1080p outputs for low-latency multi- viewer feeds. 8.B68
Kahuna 360 for
All-new hardware takes 1080p from Grass camera to playout
Grass Valley By David Fox
Grass Valley has completely revamped its product line-up at IBC to support 1080 50/60p workflows ‘all the way from the camera to distribution’, with multiple new products in its three main sectors: live, news and playout/distribution. With the refresh of its entire
product range, except routing, which already supports 1080p, “it’s a pretty huge show for us” said Graham Sharp, CMO and senior VP of Corporate Development. “It’s the fruit of the last 18 months, since Grass Valley became an independent company.”
Shiny new hardware: A chrome-plated LDX camera takes pride of place on the Grass Valley stand
Grass Valley is launching a new camera system, the LDX range, with three models initially, all with new 2K CMOS sensors
Lawo’s Christian
Struck (left) and Felix Krückels
manager for the mc² series. The mc²56’s new features, include permanent
metering of the 16 central faders, and decentral and two- man operation due to full ISO bay access. Nine assignable user
Audio giant enters video market and refreshes console technology: An enhanced version of the mc²56 mixing console and a debut video product head up Lawo’s appearance at IBC. “In light of recent technological innovations, we are able to offer more convenient operation and an even smaller footprint while delivering the same extraordinary mc² performance,” said Felix Krückels, senior product
buttons, illuminated rotary knobs, integrated RTW goniometer and Reveal Panel in the overbridge, and button- glow for colour-coding the channel strips are among the other updated mc²56 features. Lawo’s other focus is on its first video device, the V_pro8. Developed for displaying video power on a small footprint, the V_pro8 enables the
connection of signals using different video formats. – By David Davies 8.C71
Capturing the story on PC “Live streaming
Lauched this week at IBC, Matrox VS4 is an HD-SDI capture card for use with Telestream Wirecast for Windows webcasting software.
In a single PCIe slot,
Matrox VS4 provides up to four independent HD-SDI inputs with up to 16 embedded audio channels per SDI source, ‘taking up an absolute minimum of the precious real estate inside a PC’, according to Matrox. The VS4 sends video feeds to Wirecast for streaming, and simultaneously records all the original video and audio feeds to disk.
professionals are striving for more ways to engage their audience, making multicamera shoots more important,” said Barbara DeHart, vice president of marketing at Telestream. “Telestream Wirecast allows producers to easily switch between multiple live camera feeds from Matrox VS4, and also provides production features such as chroma key, transitions, 3D graphics, lower-thirds, virtual sets, and built-in scoreboard templates.” Matrox 7.B29/ Telestream 7.D16
that perform significantly better in low light. There are also two new switchers that are more
powerful and a great deal greener than before; and a new media server plus slo-mo/replay controller that are simple to network, allowing one channel or controller to access all media on multiple machines. They will all work together and be integrated “in a way you haven’t seen from Grass Valley before,” Sharp added. The products are also designed using a new modular architecture that allows users to “start with what you need and upgrade,” said Sharp. The company is also overhauling its Stratus Media Workflow application, with Stratus for Live (offering operators simpler tools for specific tasks), Stratus for News (integrated with Grass Valley’s nonlinear editor, Edius, to offer a “much faster, more efficient news workflow”), and Stratus for Playout. The new products will ship by the end of the year. 1.D11/1.E02
Its name is Rio
Quantel By Carolyn Giardina
Pablo Rio – the development of which was first announced earlier this year under the name ‘new Pablo’ – is Quantel’s open colour grading and finishing system that supports requirements including stereoscopic 3D, high frame rates and multiple digital acquisition formats.
“Pablo Rio is available as software only and as a range of out-of-the-box systems running on high performance
PC hardware and making use of multi-GPU NVidia Maximus technology,” explained Steve Owen, marketing director at Quantel.
The system offers Pablo’s colour grading and finishing toolset, and supports both the Neo panel and the new Neo Nano compact panel. Quantel has also integrated Imagineer Systems’ mocha Planar Tracker into the toolset. The tracker will be a free upgrade for all Pablo systems running V5 software from the end of October. 7.A20
From eggs to chickens By George Jarrett
The DVB has made huge strides in the twinned specification areas of DVB T2-Lite and Next Generation Handheld (NGH), thanks in large part to astonishing levels of support from the industry. “Just after IBC, the technical module will finalise and approve the specification for NGH, and this will be the most sophisticated air interface for mobile TV available,” said DVB Executive Director Peter Siebert. “This has been an extremely active group, with 50-60 participants at every meeting. Typically this means 30- 40 companies, and Samsung, Sony, and Panasonic have been very active in the NGH group.” The second spec is T2-Lite. “This was created specifically for the requirements of broadcasters, whereas NGH goes beyond it. And we assume
this can also be used in conjunction with mobile broadband networks,” added Siebert. “Last year we showed T2-Lite and we had six big red boxes supplied by the BBC. This year we have T2-Lite on a chip measuring 7x7mm.” A year from concept to integration onto the chip set, so what comes next? “It will take one more year to put it into devices,” said Siebert.
“But with devices you always find the chicken and egg problem,” he added. “You need an operator to offer the service and you need equipment manufacturers to provide the devices. Sometimes, they do not know who is the chicken and who is the egg. “We have the technical
ingredients to make it work. It is now up to the commercial companies to exploit it.” 1.D81
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