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“Dragon’s Den for grown-ups.” That’s how Jean-Michel Deligny, managing director of Go4Venture Advisors, views the inaugural ISE Investor Showcase event, which took place at the RAI yesterday. ISE exhibitors were able to pitch
to investment heavyweights from among Go4Venture’s network, a mixture of strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and Bosch. Following a welcome by Deligny
and Mike Blackman, MD of ISE, the tone was set for the Showcase by a keynote address from Miles Kirby, managing director of Qualcomm Ventures, and an investor panel discussion. Both concentrated on
the topics of greater connection, posing questions such as how corporate and financial investors can work smartly to create great investment outcomes and make companies successful. “It’s definitely something the
ecosystem is trying to get better at,” said Deligny. “We’re seeing syndicates of corporate and financial investors pooling together to create successes. The technology isn’t necessarily the most complex part of it – getting it to market is really tough. For the investors it’s been a way to discover ISE.” The main route to that discovery of course, was the presentations
The Investor Panel discussed how great investment outcomes can be achieved
themselves. Eleven companies were able to showcase their business for eight minutes each.
The judging panel of investors then had a five-minute Q&A to learn more about each business
and deliberate over the best company and best presentation. The results can be seen at the ISE Investor Showcase website (
www.ise.go4venture.com). “We also had three companies doing a shorter ‘elevator pitch’ to the panel while other companies, who were not presenting, showed demos at the back of the room,” added Deligny. “These were simply those we felt were not quite ready for ‘prime time’, from an investor’s viewpoint, but were doing some interesting and innovative work in product development. They got to see how people reacted to their story, how their message went down.”
‘Avoid dead end installations’ Audioforum warns AUDIOFORUM
Anyone looking to install an IP media network should make sure it supports AES67, to simplify adding future products. “If it doesn’t support AES67 it is probably a dead end. It will work, but it cannot connect,” said Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX senior product manager for RAVENNA, at yesterday’s Audioforum, organised by Connessioni. AES67 “addresses an
interoperable professional means of streaming audio over networks” using uncompressed PCM, “so it can be used in TV or radio production, and anything else that requires high quality and stable
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quality,” explained AES standards manager Mark Yonge. There are already several
proprietary systems in use, “but standardising benefits customers and sellers”, he said. AES67 is
4K visual presentation solution debuts SONY
Vision Presenter is a new 4K visual presentation solution from Sony. Launched at ISE 2014, the Vision Presenter makes it possible to display data from multiple sources – videos, still images, presentation slides, websites, and videoconferencing – as part of a collaborative environment. Claimed to be
extremely easy to operate using either a conventional wireless mouse or tablet device, Sony’s Vision Presenter viewing system is able to select a layout pattern of the user’s choice, displaying information from various sources at the same time. Interactive operation can be performed regardless of where the system is located. For example, shuffling content by dragging and dropping to a main screen from source screens or maximising main screen size to
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focus on one content source can be done instantly. Using Sony’s professional
projectors equipped with edge- blending functionality, the Vision Presenter allows images from two projectors to be ‘tiled’ to create displays up to 3552 x 1080. It is also able to control Sony’s PTZ camera SRG series (SRG-120DH, SRG-300H) and BRC series (BRC-H900, BRC-Z700, BRC- Z330) through a remote-control function pop-up on the screen.
The Vision Presenter can
control the pan/tilt/zoom of the camera position, allowing users to present live video images on the screen. Without interrupting the flow of a presentation, Sony says that it is possible to insert live video effectively and pre-set a camera position so it can be called up anytime. This function can also be performed remotely by tablet devices. Stand: 1-H95
similar to AVB, “but ours is aimed at professional streaming”. “The big win for customers is that there is a possibility that network streaming can replace traditional infrastructure cabling with IT-style cabling, which is simpler, faster and cheaper to install and change,” added Yonge. AES67 only addresses
interoperability within IP networks, so it can be added to existing standards (which go way beyond it in functionality), such as Dante or QLAN. RAVENNA is already compatible, as is Livewire 2.0. “[These standards] are all based
on IP, but they can’t talk to each other,” due to proprietary clocking synchronisation or other issues,
explained Hildebrand. The EBU and SMPTE are also working on a general scheme for IT-based systems for TV production with which AES67 is compatible. RAVENNA, the open, licence-
free IP-based audio and video technology introduced in 2011, is now supported by about 25 companies, offering mixing desks, recorders, microphone interfaces, DAWs, and now a prototype speaker (Genelec). It has focused on broadcast initially, but can also be used in the installation market, which is why ALC NetworX is exhibiting at ISE for the first time. Stand 7-T220
Receivers and switches boost distribution range
SAVANT
An audio distribution system and two HDBaseT receivers to accommodate a wide range of installation options are joining Savant’s multi-room media distribution family. Savant’s new HDBaseT
receivers are designed to connect the full HDBaseT 5Play feature set in any room, including video, audio, control, power and Ethernet over a single Cat5e/6 cable. The receivers are available as an in-wall solution or as a slender standalone module, designed to fit in the space between a flat panel display and the wall or mounting surface behind it. The functionality of both versions is identical, allowing integrators a greater range of installation options. The company claims its new HDBaseT receivers, paired with any of the new SmartLink HDMI matrix video switches, will deliver convenient,
cost-effective audio and high definition video distribution on a single cable path.
The new SmartAudio SSA-3220 32 x 20 switch is a distributed audio solution housed in one compact 2U rack-mountable design. The SSA-3220 includes 16 analogue and 16 digital selectable inputs, 20 outputs (16 analogue plus four S/PDIF) for passing analogue line-level audio to an external amplifier. Both analogue and digital audio conversion capabilities are standard and both analogue and digital audio are available simultaneously on each output for maximum flexibility. The company says the broad range of selectable analogue and digital inputs make it simple to manage a large number of audio sources. The SSA-3220 incorporates control of volume, balance and a seven-band equaliser per zone of analogue and digital audio. Stand: 7-N200
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