4 Friday 13.09.13 theibcdaily In Brief
300 million rely on Cisco for TV 300 million homes worldwide depend on Cisco for their TV experience, the company announced as IBC opened its doors. That’s around a quarter of all TV-owning homes. The company claims that it secures $800,000 million of pay-TV revenues. New for IBC is Videoscape Open UX Snowflake, which enables service providers to launch an adaptable, premium user experience that is cloud-powered and based on HTML5. 1.A71
Three million
Aframe uploads Aframe has broken through the 3 million video-uploads barrier for the first time and secured another BBC- produced series. The cloud-based production and asset management platform was used for production of the BBC3 show Shoplifeearlier this summer, with rushes being moved from location to a London-based post production facility. The series win for Shoplife coincided with the 3 millionth video file being uploaded into Aframe’s London datacentre, a landmark that the company says ‘reflects the industry’s confidence in their migration to cloud’ as well as Aframe’s ability to ‘handle a wide range of camera and broadcast-ready file formats’. 9.B13
World’s largest
CDN deployed Rostelecom, Russia’s largest telecoms operator and leader in the broadband and pay-TV markets, has deployed what is claimed to be the world’s largest operator content delivery network (CDN) – thanks to a solution developed and integrated by Ericsson. The CDN design and integration is said to be ground-breaking in terms of capability and geographic span, with content servers located in 30 major cities across Russia. Ericsson’s Media Delivery Network solution is at the heart of the new system, enabling Rostelecom to optimise content delivery across Russia through the strategic distribution of multi-service edge servers, which bring content closer to the end user. 1.D61
Europe to be ‘early adopter’ of 4K
Conference Preview By Chris Forrester
IBC will be awash with live – or near-live – test transmissions of 4K for TV (3840x2160 pixels). And the word from some exhibitors is that Europe will see regular 4K transmissions within 18 months, or perhaps sooner. SES yesterday announced a pair of Ultra HD channels using HEVC for IBC. One of the channels, set up with Fraunhofer HHI, is broadcasting HEVC at higher frame rates. Ferdinand Kayser, SES’ CCO, in
a press briefing at IBC, said: “Europe will be an early adopter of Ultra HDTV, with around 111 million displays in use by 2025.” He added that SES expected Europeans’ preference for ever-
Brian Sullivan, CEO Sky Deutschland and Tae Hun Kim, Humax Digital at IBC
larger screens would make Europe “the most attractive market” for early UHD channel launches. Eutelsat and Intelsat are also showcasing 4K at IBC, while just about every heavyweight hardware, software and display vendor is demonstrating 4K kit. Japan’s NHK is showing its Super Hi-Vision 8K transmission system,
and is happy to talk about the impact the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will make on the world’s demand for high-resolution Games footage. Leading the European charge is Sky Deutschland, and its 4K session on Saturday (12.30, Room G102-G103) lines up SES, Pace, Harmonic and Sony TV to show off the technology. Also
presenting is US broadcaster 3net, which is already investing in 4K new productions for TV including its flagship production Space as well as other factual programming in 4K. Sky Deutschland’s CEO Brian Sullivan maintains the same enthusiasm for 4K that he showed at IBC a year ago: “There has been a huge amount of progress during this last year although mostly driven by the industry rather than broadcasters. We have to deliver these technologies to the consumer and they need to be reliable and cost-effective. We will be continuing on this path for the next year or three. But this doesn’t mean that things will take that long to materialise. You don’t always wait until a technology is fully developed [to bring it to market]. We take risks and we have to create the market.”
Sky deploys Agama for deep level monitoring theibcdaily
Agama By Ian McMurray
Ultra-small Ultra HD: Nimb TV is rolling out what is billed as Denmark’s first Ultra HD OB van. The unit – housed in a three-wheeler moped van – is built around several
Blackmagic Design Ultra HD products, including the ATEM Production Studio 4K and Blackmagic Audio Monitor. Built with the help of Stjernholm & Co, the OB van is aimed at multicamera 4K production in the Danish broadcast industry, big screen events and live concerts. 7.H20
Said to be the UK’s biggest investor in television content, investing more than £2.5 billion a year, Sky has chosen Agama’s DTV Monitoring Solution for service assurance and operational excellence in its multi-platform video delivery. “We wanted to provide deep content level monitoring on all streams leaving our broadcast centres,” explained Vlad Korotkov, senior design engineer at Sky.
“The initial demand was driven by the operational and support teams who requested a system
that would provide the ability to have a very detailed technical view on the quality of our channels. There were two main factors in our selection of the Agama solution: a single end-to- end QoE and QoS monitoring system; and software flexibility to allow for future expansion.” The Agama DTV Monitoring Solution is intended for continuous and realtime monitoring and quality assurance of the end-to-end video delivery chain.
It is designed to provide full transparency of the service distribution from pixel level in the head-end to what is actually experienced by each individual viewer. 4.A71
AMWA Awards Cinegy AS-11 certification
Cinegy/AMWA By Carolyn Giardina
Cinegy is the first company to be given official certification for MXF AS-11 by the Advanced Media Workflow Association, which is urging additional manufacturers to achieve standardisation. “We are pleased that Cinegy has been awarded the first certification for AS-11 and I am certain that other vendors will now follow swiftly,” reported Brad Gilmer, executive director of AMWA.
The MXF Application
Specification 11 – a set of rules that constrain MXF for a specific application like a common broadcast playout format – is aimed at simplifying file exchange by allowing content providers to create one version for delivery rather than many. AS-11 is a vendor-neutral subset of the MXF file format for the delivery of finished programming by or from producers and programme distributors to broadcast stations. It also defines a minimal core metadata set required in all AS-11 files, a programme segmentation
metadata scheme, and permits inclusion of custom shim-specific metadata in the MXF file. “As the first company in the industry with AMWA MXF AS-11 certified products, we can create, modify, check and play MXF AS-11 files that you can rely on,” said Jan Weigner, managing director and co-founder of Cinegy. Originating in June 2012, AS- 11 was created at the request of the UK Digital Production Partnership. Broadcasters around the world are in discussions about adopting AS-11. 7.A30, 7.A41
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