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Ikegami and ARRI partner for Unicam HD
Ikegami has launched a new Unicam HD camera that combines broadcast technology with cinematic image quality. The HDK-97ARRI is the result of a collaboration between Ikegami and ARRI, aiming to give the broadcaster and content producer ‘the best of both worlds’. It allows the picture characteristics of digital cinema to be achieved in a multi-camera production. Cameras can be operated in a conventional broadcast manner with a vision engineer operating multiple cameras. With a dynamic range of about 1000%, the dockable camera is close to the capability of film. The centrepiece of the camera is the Super 35mm CMOS sensor of the ARRI Alexa, with ARRI’s debayering electronics. 16-bit signals from the ARRI frontend are transferred to Ikegami’s digital signal processing, and all camera processes and functions are carried out in realtime.
New Italian distributor for Genelec
Audio monitor specialist Genelec has announced a new distributor for Italy, MidiWare, following Genelec’s amicable split with long-time distributor, Leading Technology. Based in Rome, MidiWare has a local sales office and demo space in the Lecco area close to Milan and represents other audio brands including SSL, REM, Moog, SE, and Novation. “MidiWare has a dynamic team that is focused on achieving results for their wide network of dealers and business partners,” said Jarmo Masko, Genelec international sales manager. “They have excellent reach into the education sector through 30 years of experience, alongside their excellent programming and software based product expertise. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Leading Technology for their dedication to the Genelec cause for over 30 years and to wish them a fruitful future for their Monza-based operation.”
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A staggering 10,000 hours of TV transits through BT Tower each week
Storing the digital future
The rise of digital media will see data centres make a play for the film and broadcast industry, says Alex Rabbetts, MD MigSolv — who hopes that the next BAFTA award will go to... a UK data centre
THE EXPONENTIAL growth of digital media content in broadcast and film has turned archiving and storage into one of the largest issues facing the industry. The sheer number of hours being filmed is vast, transforming the problem into more than a simple archiving and storage issue. According to David Peto, CEO Aframe, “Storage, accessibility and making something findable will make digital content the focal point of any business in the media industry, with data centres playing a major role in the creation of a central media hub for broadcasters and film and programme-makers.” Today, many perceive storage as simply a place to archive information for later retrieval, but global demands mean there is a need to create a central media hub or a ‘living entity’ where users can access content as and when needed and from any location around the world. Data centres need to think beyond merely providing space, racks and power as the media industry looks to operators that can provide instant on-demand access to their content. As well as being scaled to support the data throughput demanded by users, the systems must make the whole process easy to use and economical — cloud will be incredibly important. The sheer volume of data
that is now being created by the television and film industry is breathtaking. To put this into context, take a standard TV broadcast. Assuming that the footage is filmed at 50MBps, then filming one minute of video will generate 375MB of
astronomical. Intel suggests that in just one minute, 30 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube and 1.3 million videos will be viewed via the site. The future is even more staggering. According to Intel, by 2015 it would take five years to view all the video crossing IP networks in just one second! Philip Low, MD BroadGroup Consulting, says: “Media represents a key vertical for the data centre industry. Storage security, content distribution, cloud agility and cost performance are all important requirements for this sector. Data centres will need to stay competitive in the increasingly digital industry sector.” Putting things in perspective,
Alex Rabbetts: There are 17 news channels in the UK alone that broadcast 24 hours a day, meaning TV news alone generates 9180GB of data per day
data. One hour of film generates 22.5GB of data. There are 17 news channels in the UK alone that broadcast 24 hours a day, meaning TV news alone generates 9180GB of data per day. As news is a 365-day activity, this equates to 3,350,700GB of data per year. A reasonable estimate of the amount of footage recorded for an hour of TV is a 70:1 ratio — a staggering 10,000 hours of TV transits through BT Tower each week.
Using these numbers, we can calculate that 15,750,000GB of
data is generated and stored each week. That’s 819,000,000GB per year. Assuming that this has to be stored for the next 50 years, there is likely to be 40,950,000,000GB of data that must be stored somewhere! All this assumes that just one camera is used – in most cases more than one camera will be used, so the real number is much larger.
Gigabytes and zettabytes If you think about media as not just television, but include film, radio and even video created for YouTube, the numbers are
Cisco’s Visual Networking Index recently suggested that by 2016 the amount of data transferred across the Internet will breach the zettabyte threshold and that 55% of this data will be video. How big is a zettabyte? It is almost 1 trillion gigabytes! If one accepts that 1GB can store around 950 minutes of music, a Zettabyte would be capable of storing 2 billion years of music! That’s quite a lot of data.
Data centres: winners and losers The days of storing, (or losing), hundreds of rolls of film have long gone and have been replaced by data. This data must be stored somewhere and it must be available at any time for producers, editors and directors. It must be stored in suitable data centres. But not every data centre will be geared up for this kind of storage, so media companies
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