8 Saturday 14.09.13 theibcdaily In Brief
Android support for connected TV Beenius is demonstrating its new Android-based set-top box client. The Android app extends Beenius’ Beesmart interactive TV middleware platform, and enables operators to benefit from the lower deployment costs of the Android operating system to provide customised, scalable services through IPTV, OTT and hybrid cable on all devices. Customers are able to access the same 1 million- plus apps that are available on their Android devices through their Google Play accounts. The Android STB client means they can play a full range of games, access services, listen to music and read books and magazines through their TV, while staying connected by sharing through social networks using BeeSocial TV. 14.121
Thor and Loki
for Digital Vision Digital Vision is showing Thor, the forthcoming hardware for image processing, and Loki, a web-based monitoring and control interface to create and manage image processing tasks.
Thor is said to be suitable for video and file-based sources, and will initially be able to process up to four HD video streams in real time, or one stream of 4K in real time, producing high- quality images initially using Digital Vision’s DVO tools. The latest release of Phoenix includes tools to fix chromatic aberration and chroma bleed, and a colour component align tool. 7.E30
Infuse Chroma
Key on display Orad Hi-Tec Systems is showing its new Infuse Chroma Key, a toolset to adjust both chroma and linear keys, including on the final output. Uses can include a virtual studio or augmented reality production.
The Infuse user interface includes drop down menus, colour picker, adjustment sliders and other image manipulation tools. One Infuse controller can control up to eight chroma key channels and multiple renderers simultaneously. The combination of keying technologies lets users composite videos and graphics in realtime. 7.B29
IABM: “Industry is at IT tipping point” Conference Analysis
By Chris Forrester Peter White, IABM director general, drew a full house to his annual ‘State of the Market’ survey at IBC, and while he confirmed that by and large the industry is in a better state this year than for the past few years, there are still growing problems for his vendor members, not least currency devaluations in some countries. Around 70% of respondents to the IABM’s Industry Trends Survey are either ‘very positive’ or ‘quite positive’ about prospects for the next two to three years. However, White said there are also trends showing that broadcasters are increasingly turning to the IT sector
Peter White: “Our SME members are under considerable pressure”
to solve problems that were once the near-exclusive domain of IABM members.
Only 54% of responding companies were in profit this year and last, while 22% had been loss- making for the past two years.
“Our SME members are under considerable pressure,” said White. The panel discussion, chaired by John Ive, IABM’s director of business development, heard Gier Bryn-Jensen (CEO, Nevion) tell delegates that despite the trend
towards IT suppliers being used, this represented “an opportunity for vendors. We must reinvent ourselves and take advantage of these changes.” Martin Burkhalter, CEO at Vizrt, said that the speed of change was a real challenge. “How can we deliver what’s needed today, but prepare for what’s needed tomorrow.” Industry veteran Larry Kaplan, now heading SDVI Corp, summed up for all saying that the broadcasting industry was undoubtedly at a tipping point, “and where we should be using generic and high-volume equipment in smarter ways. For example, the time it takes for us to reconfigure our infrastructure is nuts, it really is. Every month we can take off that timescale improves our client’s revenues.”
New heights for Callisto
Calrec By Paul Watson
After two-and-a-half years of hard graft Calrec is presenting Callisto, its new, compact and easy-to-use broadcast console – and it’s just as clever as its big brothers. “Not everyone needs an Apollo desk for every truck or studio,” admitted Calrec head of sales and marketing, Henry Goodman. “These days, smaller OB trucks are far more prevalent, and there’s an increase in smaller shows, which are often far less complex; that’s where Callisto comes in.” The console benefits from 180
“Because Callisto incorporates Hydra2 and Bluefin2 technologies, it’s basically got the same brain as the rest of our range, but in a far smaller footprint,” Bourne continues. “In addition, the three 17-inch high- res screens, one of which is an interactive touch screen, make it as straightforward to use as possible.”
Henry Bourne with the new compact console
channel resources, all of which can be pulled to make surround, stereo or mono channels without any loss of processing: its four mains and eight groups can all be
Sporting win at multisite MAM
Dalet Digital Media Systems By Michael Burns
Perform has selected Dalet Sports Factory as the end-to-end production and media asset management platform for its worldwide sports content production. Perform delivers multimedia sports content across web-enabled digital platforms, driving revenues through a mix of content distribution, advertising and sponsorship, and developing subscription platforms. Dalet said Sports Factory would provide Perform with a
flexible MAM underlayer that manages the workflows and content for different kinds of services, from ingest through production to multiplatform distribution and archiving. Perform will use the Dalet Xtend module to easily exchange media and metadata between the Dalet MAM and NLE systems. Dalet Brio servers will also be used for ingest. Several Dalet desktop and web-accessible tools will help streamline the production chain. “Dalet overwhelmingly had the right technology for us,” said
Perform CTO Howard Kitto and Chris Wright, Dalet UK
Howard Kitto, Perform CTO. “We’re setting up video newsrooms all around the world and we wanted them to collaborate when producing their content. The Dalet MAM will allow us to have edit tools and access to media at every desk.” Kitto explained that Dalet Sports Factory would combine
Perform sports data with metadata management to optimise its content. “With our operations spread across the globe, we often need to move files between locations, so we really appreciate the remote and multisite capabilities of the system,” he added. 8.B77
5.1 at the same time, “and because every channel “has everything in it, there is no trade off”, reveals Calrec’s product manager, Henry Bourne.
Callisto comes in 32- and 44- fader frames, both of which include 16 stereo auxes, 32 stereo tracks, and the same Hydra network capabilities that are on all Calrec consoles. Callisto will be in full production around Q1, 2014. 8.C58
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