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theibcdaily Monday 16.09.13 81 Beware the ‘Humpty Dumpty’ word In Brief Conference Analysis


By Chris Forrester Cisco’s Kevin Murray (system architect) warned IBC conference delegates of the dangers of metadata (which he described as a ‘Humpty Dumpty’ word, and which had different meanings to different people) as being potentially dangerous in his ‘Personalised TV’ session. “When talking about metadata sometimes people have very different ideas as to what we are trying to achieve.” Murray explained the route map


already achieved, favourite channels, language options or subtitles being well-known examples. But the role of second screens and other companion devices now made the overall task


Advanced discovery for pay-TV


Spideo By Anne Morris


Spideo is showcasing a platform for pay-TV operators and service providers that are looking to offer an advanced content search and discovery service for both live and on-demand content. Spideo Blended Content Discovery can be adapted for cable, IPTV and OTT set-top boxes as well as for mobile phones and tablets running Apple iOS or Android.


The platform allows viewers


to search for and discover VoD, catch-up TV and live TV content from a single screen interface, eliminating the need to switch from one menu to another. This enables operators and service providers to deliver highly personalised content recommendations.


In addition, Blended Content Discovery includes social discovery features that allow viewers to share content and receive smart recommendations from their friends. 14.370


Kevin Murray: “[Interactivity] could be a richer, even more engaging activity on the second screen”


want sports data to clutter the main screen, or would it be better displayed elsewhere? Everyone recognises the value of interactivity to a programme, but it could be a richer, even more engaging activity on the second screen.”


much more complex, not least in items such as sports results or news-based elements. “One danger point is ‘recommendations’ and where the same device is accessible to different members or age groups in a family,” he said, “and this highlights the challenge in ‘shared’ space.”


“Companion devices can be


very attractive because even though items such as sports- based data can be displayed on the TV, perhaps they’d be better off on a companion device. We see the user making decisions as to where the data is best displayed. It starts to make sense to think beyond the TV and choosing where to place the data. Do you


A dockable camera Hitachi Kokusai Electric Europe By David Fox


Hitachi has added its first 3MOS sensor HD camera to its affordable Z Series line. The new Z-HD6000 2.6-megapixel portable studio and EFP camera is a versatile dockable model that outputs 1080/59.94i or 1080/50i with 1100TV lines resolution. Hitachi “developed the Z- HD6000 to offer customers superior price performance with uncompromised quality and functionality at a great value”, said Cemal Yilmaz, broadcast marketing manager, Hitachi Kokusai Europe. “This is a global release. There is a large market in the US for universities and religious use. That


market doesn’t exist in Europe at a high level, but this will be an excellent entry-level product for people with small studios or OB vans,” said Paddy Roache, Hitachi director and general manager. It is a two-piece design that can be docked to an optical fibre, triax, or RF wireless adapter, and is claimed to offer high light sensitivity with no vertical smear. Its three 2/3-inch 1080i MOS sensors have a sensitivity of F13@2000 lux (1080/50i), with an HD Signal to Noise level of 60dB for a clean HD picture. “It has all the technical functionality of our high-end studio cameras,” said Roache. Features include: realtime lens


In the dock: Roache with Hitachi’s new Z-HD6000


aberration correction; versatile scene and lens features; ultra- gamma for film contrasts; 12-vector and linear matrix masking allowing for changing hue and saturation levels; skin- tone-masking; quick-focus; user-programmable switches; and a choice of monochrome or colour viewfinder displays. 11.D42


Package augments reality Egripment


By David Fox To cater for virtual studios and augmented reality, Egripment has introduced an Encoding Package usable with a range of its support products, including cranes, remote heads and camera tracking dollies.


Camera cranes for VR applications are usually


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expensive, but the company says the Encoding Package will deliver “high-quality and reliable crane operation in a much more affordable price range”. Existing Egripment cranes can be upgraded with the package.


Further, optional, encoders can be fitted to its telescopic columns, crane dollies on track and other add-ons to its main products. The tracking interface provides information obtained from all measured axes via Ethernet, allowing multiple systems to be operated on one network, and


Virtually ready: An encoded Egripment TDT3.0 ENC in use at TVN Poland


tracking data can be easily integrated with graphics software. A camera data mode, where the camera parameters (eg FoV, XYZ, PTR) are calculated at the interface electronics itself, means users don’t have to home or do elaborate calibration of the system. 11.A21


Murray said that multi-casting in the home was also fraught with dangers, as was assuming the metadata that your own archive provided was correct. He said it was increasingly important that broadcasters ensured that their version of an archived movie, for example, was the correct one for broadcast. Is it the wide-screen version, or with ad breaks correctly tagged, or ready for a daytime screening. “The archive might have a dozen masters in the system. The core intelligence is often in place but it has to be checked and monitored.”


Numericable deploys Envivio


headend solutions Numericable has installed an Envivio software-based headend solution to provision the SD and HD TV services component of its new triple-play service. Envivio Muse encoders on the Envivio 4Caster G4 Intel- based appliance, managed and controlled using Envivio’s network management system, will support the delivery of high-quality video in multiple adaptive bitrate profiles to customers. Envivio Muse software supports live or on-demand video encoding and transcoding, with solutions designed for all codecs – HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264) and MPEG-2 – thanks to proprietary video algorithms. 1.D73


Cutting capex OpenHeadend is unveiling a new transcoding feature of its content preparation and IPTV platform at IBC. The company said the new


feature allows a cost-effective transcoding of live IPTV streams and catch-up TV files into other formats, which improves capex and opex by using less equipment for the same workflow. OpenHeadend provides


professional equipment that combines the functionalities of integrated receivers (DVB to IP), monitoring devices with automatic fail-over, digital recorders and play- out systems (such as for time-shifting). It also allows programme extraction from recorded streams, in particular for catch-up TV. 14.172


35mm EF prime lens


The new CN-E35mm T1.5 L F prime lens takes Canon’s range of EF Cinema primes to six lenses. The CN- E35mm has been developed in response to strong demand from Cinema EOS users, and has a compact design that promises fast performance, which Canon believes makes it ideal for shooting in challenging low- light conditions. The 35mm lens is designed for 4K production, with full frame coverage, and is colour matched to others in the range, as well as featuring the same form factor and uniform markings, making it easy to switch between lenses when on a shoot. 11.E50


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