SHOW PREVIEW BVE is Back
More than 15,000 people are
expected to visit the 2014 event
BVE is set to take over London’s ExCeL Centre this month. Here’s everything you need to know to make the most of your time at the UK’s largest broadcast and production technology event.
BVE IS ready to return to London’s ExCeL Centre on 25-27 February, with organisers expecting more than 15,000 broadcast and production professionals to take the opportunity to check out the latest products and hear about industry trends. Over 300 exhibitors are signed up to
showcase a mix of products and services. While much of the content is focused towards the video professional,
there is a serious contingent of broadcast audio specialists exhibiting, including Avid, Riedel, Calrec, Harman, JoeCo, Lawo, Sennheiser, and Sonifex.
IT’S ALL ABOUT DPP For the broadcast audio professional one of the show’s hot topics is surely to be the Digital Production Partnership’s new TV broadcast delivery standards being introduced this October. With
the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and others moving to EBU R128 compliance, loudness monitoring is still a growing section of the market.
delivery of file-based content in the AS-11 UKDPP file format specified by the DPP standard. RadiantGrid has also been upgraded to Version 8,
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WHAT? BVE 2014
WHERE? ExCeL Centre, London 1 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock E16 1XL
WHEN?
25-27 February, 10:00-18:00 (16:30 on the 27)
TSL will show the latest developments in its PAM series
“Many broadcasters are still figuring
out the best practises with regards to measuring, monitoring, and recording loudness levels in order to keep within newly instated loudness regulations,” says Tim Weston, regional sales manager for the UK & Ireland at TSL Products. At the TSL stand (H25), the
company will be showcasing the latest developments in its PAM series, which addresses loudness compliance not only for EBU R128, but also EBU, ITU, ATSC, and ARIB standards. Aspen Media (K34) will be
demonstrating a loudness toolkit from RTW and Jünger Audio including Jünger’s T*AP Edition audio processor and D*AP8 MAP Edition loudness measurement and audio monitoring system as well as RTW’s modular TouchMonitor series – the TM9, TM7, TMR7, TM3, and TM3-3G. HHB (H57) will be showing a range
of products for all steps of the production chain including the TC Electronic TM9 TouchMonitor for standalone hardware metering, the full suite of Nugen Audio software for post-production and archive, the Wohler AMP2-16V-M AMU for OB and ingest, and the Dolby DP580 for playout and off-air. Wohler will also be taking its own
stand (K30) with a large emphasis put on WohlerDPP – a turnkey solution powered by the company’s RadiantGrid Intelligent Media Transformation Platform, that is designed to accelerate repackaging and
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which, at the audio level, parallelises complex audio loudness correction alongside video at increased speeds.
GETTING EDUCATED As in past years, BVE 2014 will play host to three days of technical, creative, and business seminars. This year the 120+ seminars will take place in eight themed theatres including rooms focused on Broadcast IT, Production, Post Production, Skills Zone, and 4K. Highlights of the seminar sessions
include ‘The Cloud: A technical nightmare or a dream come true for collaboration’ chaired by Sohonet CTO Ben Roeder; ‘Delivering to spec: Effects of the DPP as-11 spec on Post’ chaired by Craig Dwyer, senior director at Avid’s Global Centre of Excellence; and ‘High end audio editing: A case study’ with Halo Post CEO John Rogerson. Avid will also be showcasing its Avid
Everywhere strategic vision for the broadcast industry that was announced at the 2013 IBC show. “BVE is an opportunity for media
professionals who are facing unprecedented challenges – such as the consumerisation and digitisation of content – to take a closer look at Avid Everywhere. They will be able to find out how our vision for delivering the most fluid, end-to-end, distributed media production environment in the industry is becoming a reality,” said Tom Cordiner, vice president of international sales at Avid.
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