January 2013
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UEFA to join EVS on Workflow stage
By Jake Young
EVS HAS joined TMD as Gold Sponsor, supporting TVBEurope’s fifth IT Broadcast Workflow conference, which returns to the BAFTA venue in central London on 9 July. The company has named Nicolas Deal, ICT V and A project manager, UEFA Information and Communications Technology, as its speaker. Deal will present a case study
titled ‘The Future of Sport Broadcast — towards collaborative production and media delivery’. EVS designs broadcast and media production systems for sports, news and television entertainment, and its integrative tapeless solutions are now widely used for non-linear editing and 3D HD productions across the globe. Attendees for ITBW 2013 include broadcast TV CTOs, Directors of Operations, Media
H.264 microwave link By Jake Young
SVP BROADCAST Microwave’s new generation microwave link has an H.264 and MPEG-2 HD/SD encoder/decoder, based on NTT technology. The HDT-02
multifunction transmitter accepts analogue video, SD/HD-SDI and HDMI video input signals. Analogue, SDI embedded, HDMI embedded and AES audio inputs are available as standard. User data or GPS data can be transmitted over the data channel. The HDT-02
performs DVB-T, DVB-T2 and DVB-S2 modulations. An L band IF output is available which enables the user to use the transmitter as a satellite encoder and
The HDT-02 multifunction transmitter accepts analogue video, SD/HD-SDI and HDMI video input signals
modulator unit. It allows simultaneous terrestrial and satellite transmission and the ultra-wide frequency band is from 1,3 to 3,8 GHz. The HDR-100 is a diversity
receiver. It integrates COFDM demodulation and spatial diversity based on MRC (Maximum Ratio Combining) technique, which reduces the effects of multipath and fading losses. This receiver has several outputs: analogue video, SD/HD-SDI and HDMI outputs. It offers the received signal in all outputs simultaneously.
www.svpbm.com The event is dedicated to change
Managers, Heads of Production Resources, Directors of Engineering, Chief Information Officers and Operation Managers.
management, greater operational efficiency, multiple platform delivery and business process management improvement in television broadcasting. Register now to attend ITBW 2013 and take advantage of the special early bird price of £49 (plus VAT) by 31 May 2013. Save £100 off the cost of a standard ticket by booking your early bird now.
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France Télévisions equips centre with ATEME, Sony By Jake Young
ATEME IS providing the encoding and decoding for France Televisions’ new broadcast centres in Paris as part of a major playout and distribution project in partnership with Sony Europe as the systems integrator. The new facilities, called Centre de Diffusion et d’Echange (CDE), will equip France Télévisions for TV Everywhere, with the ability to reach multiple screens over all distribution platforms including terrestrial, satellite, cable, IPTV, and also OTT (over the top) via adaptive streaming. “We were looking for a single
platform that would meet all our playout and distribution needs now and in the future,” said Yves Le Bras, France Télévisions’ director of Innovation and head of the CDE project. “As the national broadcaster it is essential that we provide the best experience possible for all screens,
and Sony demonstrated they had the right technology in place. ATEME is a big part of that with the vital ability to deliver high quality video across all the formats including OTT as well as traditional broadcast.” The CDE installation is
currently taking place at two different sites in Paris, catering for disaster recovery. ATEME provided its Kyrion Live encoders for delivery over traditional broadcast infrastructure, and its TITAN Live for OTT, both platforms are entirely future proof. “This was a major contract win
for Sony,” said Bertrand Caurier, project director at Sony Europe. “ATEME played a crucial role, firstly getting us involved as systems integrator, but most of all through the excellence of their transcoding technology. They are unique in being able to deliver consistent quality across all distribution platforms.”
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News & Contents Contents
1-17 News & Analysis Sony’s beyond HD codec Sony is releasing a new
H.264-based codec that will enable its equipment to cope with higher resolutions and higher frame rates. David Fox reports
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Cloudy with chance of change Jake Young spoke to Associated Press’ VP & Director of News for International Video Sandy MacIntyre about predictions and directions for TV news consumption
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18-36 ForumChannel in a Box Blinded by lights?
How do we define CiaB, the products, the market and the use-case scenarios? Mark Errington, CEO of Oasys, asks the questions
19 A mirrored effect
Jan Weigner, MD and CTO Cinegy, analyses CiaB in terms of mirrored boxes, reducing complexity and the move to playout as software service
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Province of specialists John Birch, Screen’s Strategic Partnerships manager, expresses the company’s concerns over the potential shortfall in specialist expertise in the CiaB market 32
38-47The Workflow Cracking the file barrier The UK is way out ahead of the rest of Europe in terms of file-based programme delivery, thanks to the Digital Production Partnership, writes Adrian Pennington
Wireless goes live
For live productions where even a little break-up is unacceptable, factors like delay times, reliability and frequency availability are crucial, says David Fox
48 The Business Case Partners in time
Paul Scurrell has gone from being a busy sound recordist through developing an award-winning product to running a successful start-up in just three years. Dick Hobbs finds out more
48 50News Review
A look back at the month’s most interesting stories from the broadcast technology arena 50
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