July2013
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TVBEurope 3 News & Contents Sony tests 4K at Wimbledon Contents By Adrian Pennington
SONY IS shooting and recording part of this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships in 4K, but it hasn’t confirmed whether its three-year production partnership with the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) will be renewed. The previous two years, as this
year, Sony has shot the tournament’s closing rounds and final in 3D with technical partner CAN Communicate. CAN has also provided technical facilities for the 4K test shoots at Wimbledon. Sony said: “For the moment,
we’re very much focused on the delivery of this year’s Championships and will be reviewing our partnership with the AELTC as part of future plans after the tournament has finished.”
new HXR-IFR5 interface with the NEX-FS700. Wimbledon 2013 also sees the
Sony’s 4K footage was shot on Centre Court and Court Number One on the first day of the tournament to test the format
Sony’s 4K footage was shot on Centre Court and Court Number One on the first day of the tournament, to test what the format can bring to the tennis experience. Two of its F55
In and out of the server: German public broadcaster Bayerisher Rundfunk (BR) has implemented Marquis’ integration solution,
Medway, as part of a major new Avid edit and Interplay PAM and MAM
system installed at its Munich headquarters.
Medway will be used to integrate the movement of media and metadata in and out of Avid and other component systems. “BR was one of the first installations to take advantage of Medway’s tool kit, delivering integration between broadcast content applications,” said Simon Fearn, Medway project manager. “Six years on and BR needed to upgrade. Following a detailed tender process, won by Avid at the end of 2011, Marquis was subcontracted to Avid to supply the latest version of Medway, along with bespoke developments enabling integration with other existing third-party and legacy systems.” –Holly Ashford
www.marquisbroadcast.com
35mm 4K cameras and an NEX-FS700 were used to capture the action. All content was captured in Raw 4K using AXS-R5 recorders, linked directly to the F55’s or via the
last five days of the tournament, including the men’s quarter finals and the ladies and men’s semi- finals and finals matches, being broadcast live in 3D, which the BBC, Canal+ (Spain), ESPN (US), Nova (Greece) and Sky Italia plan to broadcast. “Over the past two years, Sony and the AELTC have continued to push the production boundaries at Wimbledon and are excited to be able to raise the bar even further this year,” said David Bush, director of Marketing for Sony Europe. “Having wowed TV and cinema audiences for the last two years with captivating 3D footage, we’re excited to see the benefits that 4K can bring to the sports world.”
www.pro.sony.eu www.wimbledon.com
New data model for news By Dick Hobbs
THE BBC is adopting a new data model which is the result of an informal development from a number of UK publishers including The Guardian and the Press Association, together with digital media technology specialists Ontoba. The purpose of the development, which the BBC is calling Storyline, is to define the use of metadata around BBC News stories, helping to tag articles, pictures and video clips to make content discovery easier and more accessible. In a blog post, Robin Pembrooke
of BBC Future Media described the work as “a really interesting and viable model that we are beginning to build prototype services around. We believe it will help create more compelling user experiences about evolving news stories, particularly in showing
how stories develop over time. We are interested in exploring how this could be used to drive co-operation on stories between news organisations,” he added According to the BBC, Storyline is intended to be flexible to support any publisher’s approach to handling news stories. Typically a storyline would be composed of a rich collection of elements that can be fully ordered using an index or a timeline. It can also be ordered more graphically, allowing relationships to be defined to support subsequent semantic searching. By allowing for these connections, different news organisations with differing editorial takes on an event can still access the same core of material, including information, facts, quotes and data as well as content.
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/ posts/Storyline
1-25 News & Analysis Digital switch for Turkey Having been accepted as a deadline to switch off terrestrial TV broadcasting in analogue and line up digital terrestrial no later than 2015, Turkey is running the transition period from analogue to digital. By Ibrahim Cucioglu of Anten 10
15 The Business Case Operation transformation Holly Ashford took a tour of Ericsson’s Broadcast Services HQ at Chiswick Park to discover the company’s vision and ambition for the future
16-27 Into the future The Beyond HD Masters conference successfully linked standards bodies with broadcasters, vendors, market analysts and producers for the first time to examine possibilities for Ultra HD. Report from Melanie Dayasena-Lowe, Adrian Pennington and Fergal Ringrose
28-30 Transcoding Forum Breaking the code
Why is the broadcast industry always burdened with multiple formats and delivery platforms? Philip Stevens asks industry experts about the world of TV transcoding
32-35 Acquisition Focus Back to Square One
Most of the recent progress in TV lighting has been in LEDs, but other technologies are also being given a chance to shine. David Fox reports
36-39 Channel in a Box Forum Thinking around the box Philip Stevens takes the chair for our latest Channel in a Box debate
40-49 The Workflow Sky races through F1
Sky Italia’s new Sky Sport F1 HD channel is providing fans with live coverage of the season’s Grand Prix – 10 of which will be exclusives. By Mike Clark The Sound of Change
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Erica Basnicki finds out how The Sound of Change concert went from live to on-air at Twickenham Stadium 49
50 News Review
A look back at the month’s most interesting stories from the broadcast technology arena 50
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