January 2014
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Double launch for Apple
By Holly Ashford
APPLE HAS announced that the new Mac Pro is now available to order. The Mac Pro features the latest Intel Xeon processors, dual workstation-class GPUs, PCIe-based flash storage and ECC memory. The company has also released version 10.1 of its Final Cut Pro editing software. The FCP update features optimised playback and rendering with the dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro, video monitoring up to 4K via Thunderbolt 2 and HDMI, and 4K content including titles, transitions, and generators. The Mac Pro features 4-core,
6-core, 8-core or 12-core Intel Xeon processors running at Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9GHz and two workstation- class AMD FirePro GPUs.
Apple’s new Mac pro is now available for order
It boasts PCIe-based flash storage and ECC DDR, which gives it up to 60Gbps of memory bandwidth for editing full- resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background. The company’s latest Mac Pro has six Thunderbolt 2 ports, each with up to 20Gbps of bandwidth per device. It offers
support for up to 36 high- performance peripherals, including the latest 4K displays. Updates to Final Cut Pro include the option to import media to locations inside or outside a library, custom project frame sizes, Project Snapshots allowing quick capture of a project state for fast versioning, 4K sharing to YouTube and an API for custom share operations using third party software.
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NewBay Media acquires Broadcast Engineeringassets
By Neal Romanek
TVBEUROPEPARENTcompany, NewBay Media, has acquired select assets of TV industry news and information source, Broadcast Engineering — both US and World editions — from Penton Media. The magazine will join NewBay’s extensive portfolio of TV and broadcast information resources, includingTVBEurope, TV Technology, Next TV, Multichannel News, and the Creative Planet Network. The acquisition includes Broadcast Engineering’s trademark, web assets, and subscriber lists. In the coming months,
broadcastengineering.com and
tvtechnology.com will be integrated into a single web-based resource. When integrated, Broadcast Engineering will add over 75,000 unduplicated professionals to NewBay’s existing broadcast/video database, extending NewBay’s reach to over 500,000 professionals within Europe, the United States, and around the world. “We are excited to welcome Broadcast Engineeringreaders and
Harris Broadcast goes OTT with Imagine By Dick Hobbs
HARRIS BROADCAST will acquire digital broadcast and TV Everywhere solutions company Imagine Communications. Imagine provides solutions for digital broadcast markets as well as TV Everywhere, network DVR, internet/mobile video and IPTV applications. The deal will expand Harris’ ability to offer OTT and TV Everywhere solutions. Imagine Communications uses software running in a virtualised blade server environment for TV Everywhere encoding, in keeping with Harris’s push for production
development focused on software and commercial off-the-shelf hardware. Harris hopes that Imagine’s combination of video processing, adaptive bitrate transcoding and statistical multiplexing technology will improve the bandwidth efficiency and density needed for improved TV Everywhere services. Harris Broadcast CEO,
Charlie Vogt made the announcement at the IABM Conference in London. “Many of our content originator customers have been adding services for OTT and TV Everywhere, but have had to do
so with bifurcated systems for linear and non-linear services,” said Vogt. “This acquisition enables Harris Broadcast to take a leadership position in the OTT and TV Everywhere market, while laying the foundation for the first true software defined integration of sales, scheduling, automation, playout and delivery across both linear and non-linear content distribution networks. Additionally, through this acquisition, we will expand our R&D and innovation initiatives, strengthen our encoding, transcoding and ABR market position, and increase our total global addressable market.”
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advertisers to the NewBay family,” said Steve Connolly, publisher of TVBEuropeand TV Technology Europe. “This is a great opportunity to introduce a new audience to our market-leading brands, and to continue to build upon our goal to be the broadcast industry’s primary resource for business news and technical information.” Broadcast Engineering’s current print subscribers will have the opportunity to subscribe to TVBEurope, TV Technology, and TV Technology Europein print, digital, or tablet formats. Subscribers will receive information on how to start their new subscriptions shortly. “NewBay Media’s goal is to be the leading information and marketing resource for the industries we serve,” said NewBay CEO Steve Palm. “We are excited to have the opportunity to bring Broadcast Engineering and its dedicated readership to our deep stable of television industry brands. In doing so, we have strengthened our commitment to — and our ability to serve — this dynamic and fast-moving market.”
“Harris Broadcast’s new leadership team, end-to-end technology and industry leading platforms ideally complement and significantly expand the possibilities for our cutting edge TV Everywhere capabilities,” said Imagine Communications CEO Richard Stanfield. “By combining Imagine technology with Harris Broadcast’s intellectual property, which already powers most of the world’s top content producers, this acquisition will transform the marketplace by leveraging Harris Broadcast’s strength and transferring it through smart integration to the non-linear, OTT, TV Everywhere world.”
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1-16 News & Analysis Opinion: The Year Ahead Guest opinion from industry experts, looking ahead to 2014 4
The Rory Peck Awards George Jarrett reviews the annual Rory Peck Awards night, and talks to winners and Trust members 16
20 The Business Case The Fixer: Blackmagic’s Grant Petty remakes an industry in his own image The Blackmagic Design CEO gives a characteristically candid interview to Adrian Pennington
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23-35 The Workflow Sensor requirements loom large for lenses
David Fox looks at how larger camera sensors are driving the most recent advance in lenses 23
The downhill run to Sochi Winter Olympic Games’ OB provider Panorama is preparing the way for the world’s biggest winter sports event, by Philip Stevens
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36-42 Channel in a Box Forum Philip Stevens moderates this month’s Forum, which returns to the popular topic of CiaB and gathers together a number of those involved in the industry 36
43-48 The Workflow Think global, broadcast local: British local TV takes off UK local television is about to move forward in a big way, reports Philip Stevens
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