theibcdaily For the latest show news and updates follow #IBC2014 In Brief
4HM merges with Bel Digital Audio Owners of UK manufacturer, 4HM, Barry Revels and Craig Lovell, have bought into fellow UK business, Bel Digital Audio, to create a new holding company called Bel Digital Group and merging 4HM into Bel Digital Audio. 4HM specialises in MADI-
related equipment for the professional audio, broadcast and live industries, while Bel Digital Audio provides broadcasters throughout the world with delays, layoff recorders and a comprehensive range of in- rack monitoring solutions. The merged companies
create an expanded business of non-overlapping yet highly complementary products, and will deliver the
associated benefits of being a larger business to customers, from product development through significant investment in R&D, to the adoption of new technologies.
“The formation of the Bel Digital Group enables us to enhance the Bel brand further with an ever increasing range of audio products, including the existing MADI and
forthcoming Audio Over IP units said Lovell. "It’s exciting to bring these two product lines together as one,” added Revels. 10.A30
New CTO at ContentWise
Pancrazio Auteri has been announced as the new CTO of ContentWise. Auteri will drive forward ContentWise’s technology roadmap and oversee the company's technology vision and innovation as it redefines the content discovery experience.
Auteri joins ContentWise
from TiVo, where he held the position of director of product management, and aims to bring to the company relevant knowledge of creating data-driven consumer choice and experience.
Auteri led the Italian team
that introduced the first digital terrestrial Internet-DVR that featured HTML apps, as well as driving the multiscreen and big data evolution of the IPTV platform at Minerva Networks. 14.K05
On-board with British Touring Car drivers
Cobham Broadcast By Ian McMurray
Videosys Broadcast has announced its support of UK outside broadcast specialist Cloudbass to supply onboard camera and video transmission systems for high definition coverage of the 2014 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), in which 31 drivers compete in two-litre engine versions of their road cars over 10 races at circuits around the UK each year. Working closely with
Cloudbass and using Cobham Broadcast’s Solo 4 HD TX transmitter and PRORXB eight- way receiver/decoder unit, Videosys devised new onboard
camera transmission systems for four BTCC cars, two support cars, four pit lane cameras and one pit lane return vision monitor; plus a bespoke fibre link and live switching system designed by Videosys.
The designated BTCC cars are equipped with cameras attached to Cobham’s Solo 4 HD TX wireless transmitter. The 2RU PRORXB wireless receiver platform from Cobham is a COFDM receiver designed to work with H.264 wireless camera systems.
Cloudbass Head of RF Jason Naismith said, “They understood our need to have a system that was specific to motorsport but that could be versatile and be able to be redeployed in to other situations." 1.F41
DTG picks four innovation winners
The UK’s Digital TV Group (5.A09) features the four winning companies from its annual Television Innovation Awards, an event it stages with partnership support from UK Trade & Investment. Eight shortlisted finalists
faced Dragon’s Denstyle scrutiny in which they had five minutes to pitch for exposure at IBC in front of an audience of 70 plus a gang of Dragons from Sony, YouTube, the DTG and UK T&I, plus BBC Worldwide Labs and Televisual magazine. DTG CEO and event chair
Gearhouse migrates with EVS: Gearhouse Broadcast is upgrading its 115-strong fleet of EVS machines across its locations worldwide. This upgrade makes Gearhouse Broadcast one of the single largest users of the latest EVS equipment and workflows in the world. The upgrade includes migrating all of Gearhouse’s EVS kit to the latest 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and means all of its 8-channel XT3 production servers will have onboard low res proxy recording. All EVS equipment will also have the latest XFile3 software enabling them to manually or automatically archive content from EVS servers to transportable hard drives. XFile3 also presents a simpler way of handling file formats and codecs thanks to its built-in transcoding possibilities. Gearhouse is also investing in the first 4K licenced XT3 and all of its OB trucks will have C-Cast, the platform that enables users to maximise the value of their media by connecting live content with production teams, accredited teams and final viewers for second screen applications. Pictured: Gearhouse Broadcast owner John Newton (left) with Luc Doneux, executive VP Sports Division, EVS. 8.A96
RF small matrix DEV By Ian McMurray
Said to be superior to other RF matrices in terms of variable gain and tilt, DC insertion, local user interface and other technical parameters, Archimedes from DEV is being launched today at IBC. Archimedes is also
differentiated, according to DEV, by its small size – it hosts a 64 x 64 matrix in a high density 4 RU rack – and by a price that is claimed to be 40% lower than competing products. With optical inputs, redundancy options for inputs, outputs and controller that DEV says are
Vodafone plays Nordija Vodafone has choosen Nordija as its middleware partner in the Netherlands. The middleware is being used to deliver the IPTV portion of a new triple play proposition, driving Vodafone's STBs, multiscreen devices and WebTV. Vodafone recently created a new solution for its fixed broadband triple play proposition in the Dutch market. End users have access to a third party Vodafone app,
unique and other features are said to provide users with market-leading flexibility and reliability. Available in standard
configurations of 32x32, 32x64, 64x32 or 64x64, DEV says that Archimedes can easily be upgraded to 64x64 in increments of eight. With the LNB power option, each RF input port is capable of delivering LNB power and is able to select the polarity and band of the LNB. In addition, the matrix provides an integrated TV receiver that is operated via the multi-touch display. Each input signal can be routed to the TV receiver which can play unprotected content. 1.B31
which allows them to watch live TV on smartphones and tablets, or engage these as a second screen while watching TV. Nordija’s second screen interaction technology will enable Vodafone customers to control the interactive STB and manage recordings from anywhere. Integration between platforms is said to be an important feature of this new solution. 14.L06
theibcdaily 121
Richard Lindsay-Davies (pictured) said: “The quality and diversity of this year's entries shows us how much television technology innovation is coming out of, or scaling up, in the UK.”
The four places at IBC went to Chirp, Grabyo, StreamHub and Crowd Emotion. The last is facial recognition software, which reads TV viewers’ expressions in realtime. Chirp is an application which can send messages through an audible trigger from a television broadcast to a mobile app
device to send the user interactive content such as links, video or images. StreamHub offers analytics
software for big data, which combines viewing figures with social media, app and YouTube data. The Grabyo application allows users to quickly edit and share branded video clips from a live broadcast online – which is fully integrated into Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Apart from the designated space on the DTG exhibit, all four get a year’s affiliate membership. 5.A09
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124