IBE Feature | News Analysis
NEWS ANALYSIS
Monica Heck, Deputy Editor, IBE
With HD production conquered and 3D all fizzled out, 4k stepped up to the plate at this year’s NAB Show with companies from all parts of the workflow keen to showcase their support of the Ultra-HD format, in some cases up to 8k. One of the big 4k announcements at NAB was that Sony is building what is touted as the world’s first 4K multi-camera live OB truck for its long-term UK- based customer Telegenic.
The truck, expected to be used in the coming months to cover live events, will be able to capture live footage in HD or 4K using Sony HDC-2500R cameras, PMW-F55 4K cameras, Sony’s MVS-8000X vision mixer, Miranda’s 4K / UHDTV enhanced NVISION 8500 Series routers and three Sony PVM-300 4K LCD monitors, to deliver a full 4K production workflow.
And at NAB, Sony and Miranda both provided joint integrated 4k production demos specifically targeting high profile sports, similar to the ones that will run for Telegenic. “The depth and breadth of Sony’s expertise means it’s in a unique position to ensure that each device within the production workflow supports the features required by the overall 4K,” commented the MD of Telegenic Peter Bates.
The 2013 4k revolution
Indeed, the year of the 4k bloom started with an early January crop of gigantic 4k TV sets at the CES show from the likes of Sony and Samsung, to the sound of Deloitte predicting that up to 20 4k TV sets from over ten vendors could be available by year-end. And
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Scott Murray, senior VP of core products for Miranda
Monica Heck | Deputy Editor
Our Deputy Editor Monica Heck takes a post NAB look at an industry where 4K and cloud based technologies are starting to come of age.
what the Telegenic story shows is that the industry is now focused on feeding those screens with 4k content.
Supporting an initial 4k drive by consumer TV sets and video games, the film industry are also likely to drive demand, according to Deloitte. In broadcast, live sport is driving the format, with recent forays into 4k acquisition made by the likes of SIS Live trialling 4k acquisition at a Premiership match in early February 2013 and Ericsson, who ran a live demo of UHDTV encoding during an EBU technical seminar in the belief that live action sport would be a driver for the testing and uptake of UHDTV. Ericsson puts the launch of 4K direct to the home at 2015 and though most broadcasters are not yet making any vocal 4k commitments, rumours abound that the Japanese government aims to launch the world’s first 4K TV broadcast as early as July 2014.
“The fundamental problem is there are no standards so it’s kind of the Wild West for 4k right now, it’s kind of fun,” said Scott Murray, senior VP of core products for Miranda.
“I think 4k will find its way into consumers’ homes starting next year, with an adoption that is somewhat like HD. We’re on the cusp, but three things that need to converge: we need sets in the customers’ hands, a way to produce 4k and get it to the consumers and finally, technology standards to help broadcast manufacturers make the equipment required.”
NAB’s foray into 4k
At NAB, all eyes were on the broadcast industry to understand how it plans on supporting the format from within the workflow, from camera to eyeballs and 4k announcements were abundant. A new 4k production camera was unveiled by Blackmagic Design, with a large Super 35 size sensor with professional global shutter. But broadcast manufacturers are now thinking beyond the lens or the screen, with Blackmagic Design also showcasing other 4k products like the ATEM Production Studio 4K, Blackmagic Audio Monitor, ATEM Studio Converter 2 and HyperDeck Studio PRO Ultra HD Recording.
Other 4k signal processing advances were visible, with MultiDyne announcing SilverBACK-4K, a new camera- mounted fibre transport solution that supports 4K (UHD) digital television. Ross Video partnered with Semtech to demonstrate 6G UHD-SDI solutions, extending standard copper coax cabling with longer distances for 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s transmissions and opening the opportunity to multiplex up to 4 1.5Gb/s or 2 3Gb/s signals onto a single link.
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