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Elemental wins with Telefónica
and Wilmaa Elemental Server and Elemental Conductor are providing file transcoding and system management for the Telefónica Global Video Platform video-on-demand (VoD) network. Elemental systems accelerate file conversion for Telefónica video entertainment services, including authenticated over-the-top (OTT) content to Android, Apple or Windows mobile devices and connected TVs from Samsung and LG, and simultaneously to Microsoft Media Room set-top boxes. The company also announced at IBC that Elemental Live systems are streaming 82 linear television channels 24x7, including eight HD channels to viewers online across multiple devices for Wilmaa, the Swiss over-the-top web television provider. 4.B75
ZDF and ARD ready for Winter Olympics and
World Cup Wellen+Nöthen has won a deal with German broadcasters ZDF and ARD to create a media centre to be shared by the two companies for coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup. The remote media centre infrastructure for ZDF and ARD is to be based on a technical combination of Avid and EVS, to create a file- based HD production unit. The technology solution includes Interplay Production, ISIS 7000, Airspeed 5000 Ingest + Playout server, EVS XT 3 Mediaserver and IP Directors, Media Composer Nitris DX System for high res editing and iNews plus various Interplay clients for journalists. 3.B40
Innovative TV
for Costa Rica Comigo has scored its first Central American deal with the announcement of an agreement with Racsa/Grupo ICE, Costa Rica’s biggest telco company. Under the agreement, Comigo will provide its hybrid Android-based smart set-top box to Racsa/Grupo ICE along with its backend middleware for social and interactive features. 3.C27
Smart phone apps to TV Conference Analysis
By Ann-Marie Corvin Hugo Swart, director of product management at Qualcomm, has said that his firm’s new Snapdragon chip will enable pay-TV operators to bring smart phone apps to the TV, enabling them to offer a host of new services to customers. During a session on enabling a smarter TV experience, he said: “Our vision is that you will have apps running on the smart phone and the set-top box and they will be talking to each other, enriching the consumer experience.”
Swart added that the GPU performance in the Snapdragon processors would allow operators to offer console-quality gaming services to their customers. “If broadcasters want to expand their businesses beyond the TV line-up of channels and offer games, they will need STBs with a powerful GPU.
Hugo Swart: “We’ve invested in an eco system that will optimise apps and games in Qualcomm platform”
“Given our position in the market in mobile space, we’ve invested in an eco system that will optimise apps and games in Qualcomm platform,” he said. Other new features would allow users to transfer video calls from their phone to their TV screens and create personalised
screensavers for their TVs. Earlier this week Technicolor announced a new portable STB – SVELTE – which uses Qualcomm’s new processers as well as LTE technology, terrestrial technology and Android OS, and claims to offer apps, interactivity and console quality gaming.
Compact Zoom attracts wide interest
Carl Zeiss By David Fox
Zeiss is showing the third and widest of its Compact Zoom lens family: the CZ.2 15-30/T2.9. It joins the lightweight CZ.2 70- 200/T2.9 and CZ.2 28-80/T2.9 lenses, which were introduced earlier this year and have proved so popular that Zeiss has had to double its production capacity to reduce the lead time from six or seven months to three or four months.
“Our Compact Zoom family is the only cine-style zoom with full
Zooming in: Lenhof with the new CZ.2 15-30/T2.9
frame coverage [24x36mm], and we are the only ones with the interchangeable mount system [for PL, EF, F, MFT and E mounts],” said Helmut Lenhof, Zeiss product
manager for Digital Cinema. Despite the fact that lenses get bigger as their image area increases “this is still light [2.5kg] and compact”, he added. Full frame coverage means they can also be used on DSLRs, and they can create a sweet spot effect and a uniformity of illumination when used on Super 35 sensors. Pricing for the CZ.2 15-30 isn’t decided yet, but the other two Compact Zooms cost €14,900, so it should be similar and will be exactly colour matched (as they are with the ARRI/Zeiss Master Prime and ARRI/Zeiss Ultra Prime lenses). 11.F58
Connexions Winners Clouds Media goes OTT IBC Workflow
IBC is running a series of competitions for members of IBC Workflow Connexions. Get Noticed: Everyday, club members can win a 16GB iPod Nano for wearing their lanyard around the show. Today’s winner is Marcio Albernaz from Globecast. Today’s Top Networker: The top networker and winner of an iPad mini 16GB is Wasim Azab from VIDI GmbH. All winners are announced in the IBC Workflow Connexions portal, so make sure you log in to find out if you have won one of our amazing prizes!
Visual Unity
By Anne Morris OTT solutions provider Visual Unity has helped Tanzanian media conglomerate Clouds Media to deliver a complete over-the-top content service to the East African market.
Using Visual Unity’s vuMedia Clouds Media has expanded its operations to deliver OTT transmission directly to its viewers on any screen or connected device. Visual Unity is showcasing the latest version of its vuMedia multi- screen platform at Connected
Commonwealth broadcasters: One comes from a nation of 100,000 and one transmitter, and the other from a state with 13 million people and 67 transmission stations. Solomone Finau, chief engineer of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission (pictured, right), and Bright Nkaka, principal engineer, planning and development, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (left), won IBC attendance bursaries from the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. Finau is also head engineer of the Tongan national roadmap team for digital (analogue cut off is set for 2014). At IBC his hit pick is DVB-T2. Nkaka was keen to look at radio studio technology because Zambia will soon embark on new studios across the whole country. He also looked at digital studio technology, from camera to play out.
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