theibcdaily For the latest show news and updates follow #IBC2014 Bundesliga branding deal done Universal Electronics By Ian McMurray
A deal with Sky Deutschland has been announced by Universal Electronics (UEI) in which the latter will supply the broadcaster with football club-branded remote controls. Each remote control will
feature the individual branding of one German club through the use of ultra-graphic water
Channel replication for
WHATS’On MediaGeniX
By Will Strauss
Broadcasters looking to centralise their global channel scheduling are the targets for a new software module from Belgium’s MediaGeniX. ‘Replica Channels’ allows multiple versions of a linear channel to be created that include the same programme content, rights depending, but have configurable local audio, promos, advertising, languages, subtitling, frame rates and other variants, from within a single application. Uniquely, each copy of the channel is linked to the original via what the company compares to an ‘umbilical chord’, allowing content changes at the parent level to cascade down to child channels that are linked to it. MediaGeniX product director Michel Beke told The IBC Daily: “The trend we are seeing is that the same channels are being exploited more and more with derived channels broadcast to different countries or time zones. Because it is virtually all the same content, instead of having a channel in every country, broadcasters are now centralising. If they do that [using our system] they can maintain multiple flavours of a channel within one application. It is a further step for stations to economise on their operational costs.”
Replica Channels will be made available as a module within MediaGeniX’s multi-user broadcast management software WHATS'On, which also includes tools for content and rights management, analytics and finance, VoD and media management. 3.C59
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transfer technology that is said to ensure the precision and premium quality of the materials. Fifteen of the top league’s clubs are participating.
UEI says that it has extensive experience in developing personalised remote control units for broadcasters in Europe and the US.
“Often the remote control is the only tangible hardware that the end user sees, and uses all the time, which makes it the ideal vehicle for brand activation,” said Menno Koopmans, senior VP subscription broadcasting at UEI. “For a broadcaster like Sky Deutschland that delivers
premium content to audiences in Germany and Austria, with exclusive
coverage of all German
Bundesliga and UEFA
Champions
League matches, as well as Premier League games and many more, the addition of these themed remotes brings an added element of passion and emotion to the brand and reinforces the nation’s love of football.”
15 German football clubs support personalised remotes
The branded remotes are being made available through the Sky Deutschland website to coincide with the start of the 2014/2015 football season. 1.C41
ContentAgent gets a new look By Carolyn Giardina
ContentAgent, the workflow management and automation tool from Root6 Technology, has new features and enhancements at IBC. Its automated camera card ingest workflow is now augmented with CardAgent, a tool designed for multi-user ingest intensive environments such as news or reality shows. Operators are able to browse, select, and playback media. Avid integration, in both standalone and Interplay environments frees up resources, as ContentAgent automates the transcoding of
ingested clips into Avid compliant MXF files, checking them into the Avid Interplay Production Asset Management database, if required. Root6 is an official member of the Digital Production Partnership’s (DPP) compliance programme and ContentAgent is already used to automate the creation, QC and delivery of AS- 11 UK DPP files. It now includes a Metadata Update feature enabling production or technical metadata to be updated without the need to re-wrap the entire file, and an Insert Edit function. Also featured at IBC is resolution
independent, motion compensated standards conversion, the result of ContentAgent’s integration with Tachyon from Cinnafilm and the deployment of GPU acceleration. This technology was used widely by BBC Sport for its recent coverage of the FIFA World Cup to convert more than 3,500 separate clips totalling nearly 8 TB of media for use in editing. ContentAgent was also used to convert a further 37TB of media during the event so it could be added directly the BBC Sport Archive in Salford. 7.E21
Beam up for contribution: The new Teradek Beam is an H.264 broadcast contribution system with a reach of up to 750m (line of sight). It will encode at up to 50Mbps, making it useful for ENG delivery to an OB vehicle. “One of the big requests we got was for a long-range application where the receiver can be in an OB van,” said Michael Gailing, Teradek’s director of marketing (pictured). Many of its broadcast users are already using the Teradek Bond, bonded cellular links, but its tiny Cube encoder didn’t have the high bitrates (it only goes up to about 10Mbps) or range users wanted. Beam’s latency is only two frames, and it has been attracting attention beyond news use. “We’ve had a lot of interest from reality television and live events,” he said. The unit only requires 8W of power (7v-17v), so can be powered off a Lemo connector, and is sized to fit easily on a camera back. It has 3G-SDI I/O, and is scheduled to ship on 22 September for $5,990. 11.E55
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