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www.tvbeurope.com March 2014
By Holly Ashford What’s new for NAB?
In just a few weeks, TVBEuropewill be joining you in Las Vegas for the world’s biggest broadcast industry confab. This year’s NAB is sure to feature a lot of buzz about 4K, IP, second screen, and workflow disruption, but just as important is the show’s traditional role as an annual platform for product launches. Go to any big tradeshow between Christmas and Easter and the mantra you hear is: “We’ll be waiting till NAB to announce that.” In the following pages, you’ll find the first of our two-part NAB Product Preview, a glimpse of what to expect next month from the big players in the business. Neal Romanek
Leader’s latest additions on show at NAB Leader
LEADER INSTRUMENTS will exhibit the latest additions to its range of broadcast-quality test and measurement solutions at NAB. Leader’s LV5490 will be on show, and the FS3140 quality control software will be making its NAB debut. The company’s LV5490 multi-
LiveU Central Bonded 3G/4G uplink solutions from LiveU
LiveU At NAB, LiveU will demonstrate its complete range of bonded 3G/4G uplink solutions for broadcast and online media, promising to deliver a ‘one-stop-shop’ for live news, sports and event coverage. LiveU’s LU500 backpack, LU- Smart application and LiveU Central will all be on show. The company’s new
professional-grade LU500 backpack weighs 2.2lbs (1kg), and is based on LiveU’s fourth- generation patented bonding algorithms and powered by LiveU’s multi-processor video encoding engine. LiveU will also be presenting
LiveU Central, its central management system that allows
control and monitoring of the ecosystem and content via any browser-supported device. The system includes: point-to- multipoint distribution; the LiveU Matrix for realtime previews and online management of multiple feeds for live broadcasts and social newsgathering; geo-location for each LiveU unit; and enhanced remote control. Also at NAB will be LiveU’s mobile app for smartphones and tablets, the LU-Smart with its handheld Smart Grip; LiveU’s Xtender external antenna solution for resilient signal in extreme scenarios; and hybrid solutions with microwave and satellite technologies.
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display picture and signal monitor now supports video production and transmission resolutions from 525 and 625 standard definition up to 3840x2160 and 4096x2160 4K. Equipped with four 3G- SDI/HD-SDI/SD-SDI input channels plus a wide-viewing- angle 1920x1080 9-inch flat-panel display, the LV5490 allows precise
matching of studio or outside broadcast cameras. Test and measurement
capabilities of the LV5490 include waveform, vector and picture monitoring, SDI signal data analysis, cyclic-redundancy-check error, embedded-audio error, event log, data dump and timing display.
NAB debuts from Bridge Technologies
Bridge Technologies “At NAB 2014 we are showing a full hand of aces!” said chairman of Bridge Technologies, Simen K Frostad. A range of new products will be on show, including the Objective QoE solution, VB288 Content Estractor and next generation OTT Engine with MPEG-DASH support. The company’s new QoE solution enables Bridge systems users to bring QoS capability together with QoE monitoring, running on the same Bridgetech infrastructure
and with support for QoE monitoring of regionally- inserted material. Also new is the VB288 Content Extraction System for Objective QoE Monitoring with remote videowall display. The VB288 delivers visual content extraction, status displays and alerts to a virtual videowall display. Bridge Technologies’ second-generation OTT Engine makes MPEG-DASH support a core part of the user’s OTT monitoring capability, is compatible with
all Bridge Technologies 1G and 10G probes, and part of the iOS and Android PocketProbe mobile monitoring apps. The VB273 Satellite
Redundancy Switch is designed for Bridge Technologies’ new redundancy switching solution for satellite uplinks. Also new will be the
PocketProbe for Android, Version 5.0 System software with new capabilities and MicroAnalytics System.
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The Leader FS3140 combines
the waveform and vectorscope displays, plus automated QC software. It can be deployed on a web-based Windows server, allowing rollout across Windows, OS X or Linux environments.
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Leader’s LV5490
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