104 Friday 13.09.13 theibcdaily EPG in a Heartbeat Q&A ViSTA-TV By Adrian Pennington
A programme guide enabling viewers to see which programmes are currently attracting the greatest attention – dubbed Heartbeat EPG – is one of the prototypes under research at EC-funded project, ViSTA. ViSTA-TV (Video Stream
Analytics for the TV Industry) combines linked open data with live streams of behavioural information from IPTV. “TV statistics so far have
been national monopolies, closed to new participants or prohibitively expensive,” said Professor Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich. “The data has been extrapolated from small samples and data has not been available realtime. ViSTA-TV solves this with an open source system, using a very large sample and analysing this data in realtime. “ViSTA-TV relies on data
from digital TV providers who know their customers,” he
Live vista: A realtime view of IPTV audience activity
explained. “We turn every viewer into a participant in the sample. We process this data within milliseconds to make it available to participants who include both traditional players and new entrants such as social TV startups.” At IBC, ViSTA-TV is
demonstrating a dashboard application for broadcasters providing a realtime view of IPTV audience activity and audience-facing applications showing trending programmes, and personal recommendations. “We encourage attendees
to run live queries and we will explain how to participate with us as partners or benefit from our system as users,” said Bernstein. 8.G39
Chris Exelby managing director, TSL Products
Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why?
As the economies of the world become more stable, and dare we say it, even start improving, we are beginning to see signs of growing confidence with new investments by our broadcast end customers. Now that traditional broadcasters are getting to grips with multi-platform delivery as a revenue generator, IBC is bound to be more positive and upbeat with real projects and budgets to match.
What do you think are the key developments in, or threats to, your market sector at the current time? There will be a couple of contradictory technologies that will be at the forefront for audio. AVB solutions that use GigE infrastructures have existed within the sound reinforcement
and AV installation industry for a couple of years but, NAB 2013 marked the first time that the broadcast industry really sat up and took notice, with the first dedicated product offerings from some very well respected brands making their debut. Standards are still being defined, but expect to see manufacturers and broadcasters starting to openly discuss what will be a revolution in terms of simplifying the broadcast infrastructure. On the other hand MADI or AES-10 is finally being adopted en masse due to the widespread need to deploy increasingly large numbers of signals across mixing console, intercom and routing infrastructures within fixed and mobile broadcast installations.
Why should delegates visit your stand at IBC? We’re launching the SAM1-
3GM+MADI studio audio monitoring unit. Until now, the choice of confidence monitoring devices incorporating MADI has been extremely limited and now that broadcast engineers are having to deal with a mixed multichannel environment, including HD-SDI, MADI, AES and analogue audio, we’ve developed a powerful solution that will handle everything. We’re launching the PAM1
MK2 Precision Audio Monitoring unit, offering an improved feature set and user interface, upgraded integrated speaker system, larger screens and a full set of functions carried over from the flagship PAM2 MK2 Precision Audio Monitor, including support features for audio that is Dolby encoded, multi-language, 5.1 as well as loudness compliance measurement, all in a 1U unit. 10.B41
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