December 2013
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Beyond HD Masters 2014 registration is now open
By Neal Romanek
TVBEUROPE’S BEYOND HD Masters 2014 conference has officially launched. Taking place on Tuesday 3
June, 2014 at BAFTA in London, Beyond HD Masters follows the successful series of HD and 3D Masters conferences from TVBEurope that helped to chart and forecast the maturation of HD in the broadcast market. Beyond HD Masters 2014 asks the questions: What’s next on the horizon for European broadcast TV? If high definition is the new standard definition, then what’s beyond HD? Is it
Masters conference at BAFTA to take advantage of the special early bird price of just £149 (plus VAT). By booking your early bird ticket now, you save £100 off the standard ticket price.
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going to be a 4K future? An 8K future? Or do we even deserve HD? And is 3D dead or only sleeping? Where do big screens fit in a small screen world? How will future formats be delivered? Satellite? Fibre? IP? And what is going to drive the European television technology industry
into the future? These and other vital issues will be explored in a full day of presentations, discussions and demonstrations at TVBEurope’s Beyond HD Masters 2014. Delegate places are now open
for booking. Register now to attend next year’s Beyond HD
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dB Broadcast creates new signing studios By Holly Ashford
BROADCAST SYSTEMS integrator dB Broadcast has completed the commissioning of two new automated signing studios for a broadcast media management company. The facility provides in-vision sign language captioning for hearing impaired viewers for both live and pre-recorded programmes. The signers communicate using a combination of mouth, hand and finger movements. The two one-camera studios
with blue, green and black Chroma key screens each allow a single non-technical deaf signer to prepare their studio for operation without local assistance. The two studio floors were located in one building with the control rooms and technical staff situated
five miles away. The aim of this approach was to provide greater flexibility, lower operational costs and enhance operational efficiency. The new studios are joined to the control rooms with remote control connectivity and video feeds, and the signer can access monitoring and on-air tally information in live or recorded mode through the supplied reverse picture feeds. “We are delighted to have
been able to provide this state- of-the-art facility”, commented Tom Swan, sales and marketing director at dB Broadcast. “Our independent status and extensive experience meant we could deploy the best equipment for this SD and HD facility and get it up and running reliably in the shortest time.”
Tom Swan, sales and marketing director at dB Broadcast
The studios are fitted with ARRI L7-T low energy LED lighting, Sony PMW-EX3 camera, Autoscript prompter and Telemetrics robotics pedestals, and the control rooms feature a
Sony MVS-7000X mixer and Miranda Kaleido multiviewer. dB Broadcast used an IP-based display and control system for communication between areas.
www.dbbroadcast.co.uk
16-22MAM Forum
Philip Stevens leads an investigation into Media Asset Management systems, with contributions from industry leaders
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24-30Archiving Storage Forum In this month’s second Forum, Philip Stevensc delves into the importance of archiving and storage for both preservation and monetisation
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Storage on Demand A look at British Telecom’s BT TV platform
33-49The Workflow Subtitling and closed caption management
Benoit Février, SVP at EVS Media, provides a guide to the words behind the picture
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The rise of the recorder A guide to the latest external recording solutions, by David Fox 34
Great Deal for Bristol
Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios has been transformed from an industrial warehouse into a purpose-built studio and post facility. Holly Ashford goes behind the scenes
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A round-up of this month’s most interesting stories from the broadcast technology industry 50
News & Contents Contents
1-15 News & Analysis Legacy content: the past is the future
Guest opinion from Matt Bowman, commercial director of RRsat Europe
Learning at the cutting edge Neal Romanek looks inside Gearhouse Broadcast’s new HD facility for Dublin students
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VB288 OBJECTIVE QoE CONTENT EXTRACTOR performs objective video and audio measurements of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 streams and offers remote video-wall capability.
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