40 TVBEurope IBC2013 Show Preview
Enabling HD in a UHD world Media Excel By Anne Morris
AS WITHthe transition from SD to HD, content owners, broadcasters, video service
providers, and content aggregators will be under pressure to make legacy HD media available in a 4K/UHD world. At IBC Media Excel is
demonstrating technology that it says will help companies to achieve this transition: 4K/Ultra High Definition (UHD) HEVC/H.265 file-to-file
Searching for a hero: Media Excel provides a solution to HD legacy media
encoding on the company’s Hero multiscreen platform. This Media Excel technology is based on the fourth generation Intel Core processor family and QuickFire Networks’ T-Video V1200 appliance, with 10x the current ‘state-of-the-art’ performance per rack unit with half the power consumption of competitive systems. “The Hero platform’s superior quality encoding and transcoding software, coupled with the T-Video V1200 delivers the versatility, scalability, and flexibility that is required for file-to-file legacy to HEVC/4K transcoding,” said John Hotchkiss, COO at Media Excel. “With Hero’s on-demand dynamic repurposing for live-to-live, live-to- file, and file-to-file transcoding, no other platform delivers the quality, ease of use, and management capabilities for reducing CAPEX and OPEX.” Hero uses MPEG-DASH
adaptive streaming so that several versions of live or VoD media are available to different devices based on the performance of those devices. 14.150
BLT
Full serving for editors
By Michael Burns
THE BLT SMS U series of video servers, featuring improved NLE interoperability, are being showcased at IBC. The SMS-4U is a full HD broadcast video server with simultaneous recording during playback. It records up to eight independent sources or performs super-slow motion with high-speed cameras up to triple speed.
The SMS-4U supports dual
stream and 3D HDTV, features transition effects and timeline-based audio editing and has an embedded multiviewer. With instant replay, live editing and super slow motion among its features. BLT claimed the SMS-4Uwas especially appropriate for live and sports event production. 8.A64
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