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Showcasing 4K direct to home Sony
By Adrian Pennington
As visitors can see for themselves, Sony has teamed with satellite operator SES to showcase 4K transmission into the home. The demonstration features 4K content played out and uplinked from SES’ offices in Betzdorf, Luxumbourg in Quad Full HD format via the Astra 3B satellite (23.5° east) in DVB S2 encoded in MPEG-4 at 50Mbps. The signal arrives at IBC on a 4K receiver and is being displayed on SES and Sony
Thomas Wrede: “This makes it commercially viable for broadcasters”
the rate to 20Mbs which is similar to HDTV over MPEG-2 in 2000, so this makes it commercially viable for broadcasters.
“This [U-HD] is what the consumer expects as the next step in home delivery. We have the whole chain now and we are going to bring 4K into the home much sooner than many people think.” Katsunori Yamanouchi, VP of
stands on an 84-inch Bravia. “The capability and
bandwidth is available today using H.264 encoding,” said
Wells defines priorities By George Jarrett
With Ulrich Reimers concentrating on his university career, the role of chairing the DVB Technical Module has passed to BBC R&D research fellow Nick Wells, who has a clear set of ambitions. “There’s always
maintenance of existing standards, and then there are so many projects in the pipeline, like new 3D standards,” he said. “But what are the big issues?
“Number one is the scarcity
of terrestrial spectrum and the pressure imposed on broadcasters by the mobile network operators,” he added. “Spectrum is going to be more highly prized, and there is going to be more demand on it from higher resolutions and 3D services.” As spectrum resources shrink, what can be done? “We have got to introduce standards that maximise the efficiency and the flexibility of spectrum,” said Wells. “There is the idea around to make
Thomas Wrede, SES VP, Reception Systems said, “When HEVC becomes available next year we will be able to reduce
systems that can be shared between broadcasters and data networks.” Another area Wells expects to target is that of companion screens and companion streams, and the potential for connected TVs. Asked about the prospect of 4K 3D, the data would be too much for terrestrial TV.
“It is less likely that we will ever go to those very high definition formats on terrestrial spectrum. If you want those, it will be via IP networks, cable networks, and satellite,” said Wells. “It depends on how well the new HEVC coding scheme works.
Remote production and workflow success
Net Insight By Ian McMurray
A live remote production and workflow demo is being shown at IBC by Net Insight and Miranda Technologies. Net Insight is also discussing how, through seeing the first large-scale commercial success of remote production techniques at the London Olympics this year,
companies are becoming more aware of how they can simplify remote workflows and centralised production for live events.
Net Insight says that its live demo exemplifies why the company’s high-quality media transport capabilities, in conjunction with a solution such as Miranda Technologies, is an ideal way to enable integration and accessibility for all
7m set-top boxes under xVu
studios and content regardless of location. By showing increasing
efficiency and simplifying workflows, the London Games has provided an example of how cost savings can be brought to broadcasters by opening the Studio LAN to a Studio WAN environment, enabling the provisioning of resources over a virtual studio network. As a result, says Net Insights, broadcasters can
Nick Wells: “Spectrum is going to be more highly prized and more demand from higher resolutions”
If that is absolutely brilliant, people might want to go to 4K on that.”
now cover and produce a larger number of events, over long distances, which leads to increased revenue gains and greater efficiency. The company’s Nimbra JPEG2000 encoders and decoders were deployed by SVT, the Swedish public service television company, to meet the needs of remote production and to deliver live sports programming from London via two broadcast channels and six internet streams. 1.B40
Mariner By Anne Morris
Mariner is celebrating a milestone at IBC. The provider of IP video service monitoring and troubleshooting technologies said it is now monitoring more than 7m IPTV set-top boxes on managed networks across North America and Europe.
This means that its Mariner
Mariner team celebrates a new milestone at IBC. From left to right: Curtis Howe, Marc Savoie, Arman Aygen, Huw Price-Stephens, Marie Jo Thibault and Alain Michelet
xVu product is monitoring more IPTV set-top boxes than all other vendors combined, claims the company.
According to Marc Savoie,
Mariner’s VP for product management, the company is set to double this number in the next two-to-three years as it expands its business in North America and Europe. Savoie estimates that around 6m of the monitored set- top boxes are based in the US. He added that the company’s target customers are IPTV telco providers such as Canada’s Telus. Mariner is not able to reveal all of its customers’ names, but said it currently monitors three of the top five service providers in the US. 14.521
Sony’s Professional Solutions Europe (PSE) business, said: “Starting with the launch of our 4K home projector and new 4K Bravia TV we are leading the next stage beyond HD which is realtime satellite delivery to the home.” 12.A10
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with Filmpartners’ Content workflows and media integration software specialist Marquis Broadcast has collaborated with service production company Filmpartners to expand the capability of the latter’s MXFserver. Talking to The IBC Daily, Marquis said its flagship media integration solution, Medway, has been enhanced to expand its connectivity, and now combined with Filmpartners’ MXFserver it enables live news and sports to be edited while content is still being recorded. The solution is on show for the first time at IBC. 2.A58
converter launched The new C2-2375A from TV One is described as a universal 3G-SDI converter that provides bi-directional conversion between analogue and digital video formats. The high resolution RGB/YPbPr output is selectable as virtually any PC or HDTV resolution, while the AutoSet feature automatically sizes and positions so that the computer image fits exactly on the video screen. A second output can be set to a completely different format and resolution.
An optional extra gives the C2-2375A the ability to take the SDI out and distribute it over distances of up 30km on one fibre optic cable. 7.C27
goes digital Canford is demonstrating a pre-launch version of its new e-catalogue. The soon-to-be available service blends the benefits of a website and a paper catalogue, says the company. Touted as the first of its kind in the broadcast and pro-audio industry, it allows users to create and post orders and to download and print individual pages and sections of The Source, Canford’s 1,500-plus page catalogue. The new e- catalogue is named The e-Source. Users can add products to a basket in the usual ecommerce way and place the order online, creating and saving multiple shopping lists. Product pricing can be displayed in a choice of currencies. Customers with special pricing arrangements will see their own specific pricing and price breaks for quantity once they have logged in. 9.C01
The Source Universal 3G-SDI
In Brief Marquis works
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