theibcdaily For the latest show news and updates follow #IBC2014 MBC: “Thousands more MENA channels” possible In Brief Conference Analysis By Chris Forrester
Middle East Broadcasting (MBC) CEO Sam Barnett, speaking at IBC, said that his region is already home to about 1,000 channels, many of them small and serving local audiences, and that it could absorb “several thousands more”. He said 100 were launched last year, about 43 in Kurdish alone. “There are lots more to come,” he added. Barnett said that the normal
broadcast expectations of hybrid services, of web-based extras, do not apply in the MENA region, although he explained that Saudi Arabia had
the highest penetration of Twitter accounts, and the most active Twitter users in the world. MBC claims 48% market
share for its portfolio of 18 channels. Half of the region’s 57 million TVHHs have access to the internet, in some countries the proportion was very high, and ownership of smart phones was commonplace. “In some countries it is difficult to produce or upload content. Consequently it is much easier to upload that content via social media. “About 92-93% of our huge audience view us on satellite, and viewership is growing. Our current numbers are about 350 million, all speaking more or less the same language. About 55 million homes watch us free-to- air. Our youth viewing is up 5%.
Sam Barnett: “About 55 million homes watch us free-to-air”
“Under Saddam Hussein, satellite TV in Iraq was completely banned. Iraq now has better than 90% access to satellite TV. “However, the downside of this somewhat anarchic distribution model is that it is extremely difficult to bring in on-
Faster backups with wireless editing Nexto DI By David Fox
The new Nexto Video Storage Air NVS2825 SSD now backs up video faster, more securely and from a wider variety of camera card formats than its previous hard drive model and can also be accessed via Wi-Fi for remote editing. The solid-state drive
offers users speeds of up to
wide variety of cameras, such as Sony’s PMW-F5/55 or PXW-Z100, Canon’s C300/500 and Blackmagic Design’s new cameras, or external recorders, such as AJA Video System’s Ki Pro. It can copy from Sony’s
No more hard copy: Easy and fast backups on Nexto’s Video Storage Air NVS2825 SSD
170MBps from an SxS Pro+ card and has been designed for location backup from a
SxS Pro+, SxS Pro and SxS-1 cards, Panasonic’s P2 and P2E cards, external 2.5-inch SSD, and CF or SD/SDHC/SDXC UHS-I memory cards. It also accepts XQD cards (via a Sony QDA-EX1 adapter) and
line and other on-demand services on the hundreds of different set-top box versions. In other words, free-to-air still dominates viewing. When a Palestinian contestant won last year’s Arab Idolshow, we had an audience of 92 million.”
CFast for the Amira (via a new upgrade pack). It backs up a 64GB SxS
Pro+ card in under seven minutes, then performs verification, comparing the file on the card to the file on the SSD to make sure the data is copied accurately, which takes a further six minutes. Users can plug in a second USB3.0 hard drive to simultaneously write onto both internal and external drives at the same speed, to generate two identical true copies without needing a laptop. 11.G37
Advancing live automation Vidigo
Loudness Pilot aims to deliver mono and stereo loudness control to broadcasters
Pilot set for multiplatform loudness control TC Electronic
By Michael Burns
Loudness Pilot, a new loudness controller and true- peak limiter, is making its debut at IBC. TC Electronic said the dual stereo track Loudness Pilot had been specifically designed forTV and radio stations, which often need to transmit two signals simultaneously in different languages. Also, when transmitting simultaneously to TV and to a mobile
platform, Loudness Pilot delivers a signal fully compliant with TV standards – optimising the signal to the mobile platform at the same time. TC Electronic has equipped Loudness Pilot with multiple dual redundancy features. For example, the unit automatically switches over to another audio-stream, should a secondary language not be available. Other fail-safe features include dual power, dual fuses and dual fans. The unit is fully compliant with all major loudness and broadcast standards, including ITU BS.1770-3, ATSC A/85, EBU R128, ARIB TR-B32, OP-59 and more. It launches in five versions, SDI 1, 2 or 3 streams and AES balanced. 8.D56
By Carolyn Giardina
Three workflows for news, visual radio and sports arenas are based on VidiGo’s multi-camera live production suite VidiGo Live. On top of VidiGo Live, it has built three separate automation layers tailored for specific markets. The latest development of
VidiGo, Arena Solutions, is a complete workflow for stadium screen broadcasting that could be operated by one person. All events such as announcements, interactive audience games, goals, commercials, substitutes and reruns are configurable elements in the application, which VidiGo said means that events can effectively be ‘scripted’ in pre- production. Based on templates the creative staff could create graphics, add commercials, audio, photos and other elements. The Studio Automation workflow is an all-in-one live
iWedia integration for Android platform Connected TV software components provider iWedia today announced that it has integrated its Teatro-3.5 software solution for Android TV STB with Accedo Application Sphere, the TV app store management platform provided by hall 14 exhibitor Accedo.
The joint solution enables TV service providers to tap into the Android ecosystem by delivering an end-to-end solution for TV apps. “With the end-to-end interoperability between our Teatro-3.5 and Accedo’s TV app store management platform, we can quickly assist a STB manufacturer to put on the market an Android TV STB compatible with Accedo Application Sphere,” said SungHoon Kim, VP Sales at iWedia. “With this integration, we take into account the ever growing interest of the TV ecosystem in apps and services stores.” “Providing access to a software solution for Android TV STBs interoperable with our TV app store management platform brings endless opportunities to TV service providers willing to tap into the Android ecosystem”, said Michael Lantz, CEO at Accedo. 14.E14
production and automation environment that allows broadcasters to automate their live news production. The automation tool, Live Assist, lets broadcasters create rundowns for their show, consisting of camera input, videos, graphics, audio, transitions, DVE effects, keying and presets. Integration with newsroom systems ensures Live Assist is automatically filled with items such as video, titles and camera positions from the newsroom system. VidiGo reported that Visual Radio was developed to allow radio stations to create TV shows from their radio studio. “The audio director analyses the radio show and automatically switches cameras, like a real director would do. Due to integration with the radio automation system, video clips, video commercials, video jingles, social media and realtime data from RSS and XML are automatically played,” the company explained. 7.H30
Advanced security for smart television Display and digital home solutions semiconductor provider MStar has licensed the Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall security core for integration into its connected TV solution chips. The CryptoFirewall is a self- contained ASIC security core that provides a secure hardware foundation for signal security applications, enabling a uniformly high level of security across STBs and connected TVs for secure digital distribution. CryptoFirewall will provide operators and OTT distributors making use of the MStar-based connected TVs with hardware security to protect content and services against piracy. This approach means MStar is integrating a provider-agnostic security block that resides within the SoC, available for all service providers. 14.C17
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