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Duplex wireless intercom system Pro-X
By David Fox
XW-IS-Station is a new full duplex wireless intercom system from Pro-X that is designed for live show applications, and features advanced digital wireless and audio codec technology to allow the crew and gallery to communicate freely.
It uses an integrated wireless headset and microphone that doesn’t require a separate belt pack, and can transmit over distances of up to 250m. It supports realtime Tally transmission, and uses frequency and channel-hopping technology so that it can automatically find clear spectrum.
It supports up to four channels and has four-wire and party line intercom connections on the rear
The new Pro-X XW-IS- Station and its four wireless, belt-pack free headsets
panel for communication with other wired intercom system 11.E42
WWE expands Baton installation Interra Systems By Carolyn Giardina
IBC attendees can catch demonstrations of file-based QC software Baton at Interra Systems’ stand.
Customers include World
Wrestling Entertainment, which recently expanded its Baton installation. “Baton helped us by expanding our analysis capability,” said Jonathan E. Solomon, senior engineering project manager at WWE. “To achieve this we accelerated a hardware replacement
schedule, installing additional cores on our Cisco UCS B200M3 blades. We saw an overall throughput increase of nearly five times. Baton’s reliability was paramount to processing time for the files. Most files had two transcode outputs, resulting in three outputs per file.”
WWE delivers original content that is broadcast in more than 150 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 650 million homes worldwide. “We have been using Baton for nearly five years and continue to increase the number of files we analyse,”
Solomon said. “Baton supports our internal production workflows as well as our file- based syndication distribution platform. We are increasingly leveraging the API to integrate Baton in the workflow management software.” He related that once WWE content is edited, “the content is QC’ed and then transcoded and stored, where Baton picks up the different flavours of content and performs extensive QC. All of the operations are managed and controlled by central control room for digital media operations.” 7.B13
Expansion through multilingual multiscreen
Visual Unity By Monica Heck
The latest versions of Visual Unity’s vuMedia multiscreen platform and vuEasy online video platform are making their debut at IBC this year. A range of new languages is being introduced to vuEasy's administrator user interface, including Chinese, Arabic, Spanish and Russian. The company expects this upgrade to broaden vuEasy's international appeal and reinforce Visual Unity's plans to expand sales into new territories. Visual Unity recently secured an investment of €5.2m from 3TS Capital Partners.
Also on show is a new white-label version of vuEasy that allows partners to sell the product under their own brand, alongside new multi-level account administration functionality, which allows customers to collaborate on OTT projects and to share or limit access to resources. Introduced in 2011, Visual Unity’s flagship vuMedia end-
The move to remote live production Opinion
Live production is increasingly important as it plays a key role in a broadcaster’s fight against OTT competition says Tracey J W Ford, chief sales and marketing officer, Norwia
The emergence of higher quality standards such as 4K means live production systems are required to do more than ever before. Production, TV and broadcast companies are looking for the best ways to efficiently supply heavy content loads to viewers without degradation in quality and with solutions that are future- proofed and provide operational efficiency while reducing operational costs. Live production is increasingly important as it plays a key role in a broadcaster’s fight against the OTT competition. With the right production tools, broadcast companies can increase their brand value and customer base and monetise their service better,
and greater efficiency and flexibility is especially helpful in a time when many broadcasters are facing pressure on production budgets.
One solution for
broadcasters is to move to remote live production, which saves costs through utilising existing in-house production equipment and staff. This enables the broadcaster to remove the necessity for location equipment for live event production and meet the complex challenges of signal distribution through the requirement of new standards like 4K. To be able to move efficiently
to remote production, broadcasters need solutions
that can contribute video, audio and control signals from the OB site to studio, cutting down production costs and ensuring a greater return on investment in studio equipment. Norwia miniHUB addresses these needs, enabling broadcasters to take advantage of their optical distribution platform to ensure that video and audio quality remains pristine while there is no adverse effect on the control of cameras and lighting, regardless of the distance between the studio and production location. It also allows clear
communication channels to be maintained so that the programme can be made just as well as when the production
staff is kilometres rather than metres from the cameramen and the live action. miniHUB provides a seamless workflow for remote productions that is indistinguishable from an on- site production suite. Our unique AutoSFP technology enables the miniHUB platform to solve all the issues surrounding live broadcast and the emergence of higher standards and achieves all the functionality of a multi-card system in a single card, helping reduce both cost and the complexity of optical signal distribution. It is configurable as a multiple fibre solution or a multiplexed backbone structure that provides redundancy in both main and back-up fibre paths,
ensuring content can be contributed in either direction while maintaining signal integrity. Visitors to our stand at IBC (Hall 9, Stand C19) can see the miniHUB live production platform in action. The Norwia stand will have two identical miniHUBs demonstrating the power of its AutoSFP functionality and a three-node ring structure set up utilising the miniHUB. Visitors will be able to see the redundancy of the system, as Norwia break the fibre ring to simulate the redundancy and remove power from a site to see how the signal passes uninterrupted through the location. 9.C19
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vuEasy’s new multi-level account administration supports different re-seller and seller models
to-end OTT platform has been upgraded to feature an improved modular architecture and enhanced API integration for faster OTT integration into existing infrastructures. It also supports live time- shifting and includes a Timeline Thumbnail Preview (vuMedia TTP) which makes it faster for consumers to navigate within streamed content. vuMedia is now fully integrated with the vuEasy cloud-based service. The company is also showing a new, native application for iOS devices that enables delivery of VoDs that are DRM protected. This upgrade supports Widevine DRM in iOS applications. 14.F34
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