theibcdaily IABM: Challenges ahead Conference Analysis By George Jarrett
The IABM’s annual market evaluation was a mixture of rude health and rude shocks. Market value is $40 billion, growing to $45 billion in 2017, but this industry is playing catch-up. Under the banner ‘What future
for broadcast technology?’ IABM CEO Peter White produced a mass of stats – the top user spend prediction is multi platform for content delivery, 69% of vendors are in profit, and the big companies take 85% of revenue – being just three of dozens.
“The market is quite buoyant, but it is going to change,” he said. “There will be new players coming in and established names going out or being absorbed. We are still spending a lot on innovation and R&D, but
“Quantel and Grass Valley should be partners of Imagine,” said Charlie Vogt (far right)
is that roadmap aligned with market requirements? “If you are not into workflow management, managing assets, and providing that sort of service you are likely to be missing an opportunity,” he added. Price pressure is immense,
margins pinched, R&D a risk or at risk, but the IABM’s evolving membership is so indicative of change. “We are not finding many
large global members. There are a lot of small companies
DutchView’s Michiel van Duijvendijk and EVS CEO Joop Janssen shake on the deal at IBC
coming in that provide IP network services and streaming,” said White. “A lot of the innovation is coming from the smaller players.” Dan Castles, president and CEO of Telestream, can sleep at night because 86% of users want to make ‘best of breed’ purchases. All the consolidation just makes people nervous. “I have been in this industry for 30 years and there has never been this level of vendor and strategy change,” he said.
Ray Cross, executive
chairman and CEO of Quantel, said: “Everyone is looking to do more for less, and if you help them do that you are going to be successful. The industry is coming of age.” According to Marco Lopez,
president of Grass Valley, “customers are seeing a lot of change, and we want to ensure they are future ready. Investment in R&D is critical because the industry is making such an important shift.” Charlie Vogt, CEO of Imagine Communications and Gates Air, added: “This is an industry that’s a decade behind where it should be. A big part of this mess is the way the networks have been designed and built. We are going to see a lot more consolidation.
“This industry has got to get to a common protocol, and that’s going to be IP. This is a community and we have to find a way to work better together. Quantel and Grass Valley should be partners of Imagine,” he added.
Kabel Deutschland link Evertz By Michael Burns First sale for DYVI Live DYVI By Heather McLean
EVS company, DYVI Live, has been selected by Netherlands- based broadcast and production facility companies Dutchview and Infostrada Creative Technology to enable true realtime remote production in Europe. Dutchview and Infostrada
Creative Technology specialise in providing integrated media acquisition, post production, broadcast IT and data services to major media companies, including Fox Sports, and have a long-standing relationship with EVS. The deal consists of two modular switcher panels and three IP-based servers from DYVI Live, the developer of what is claimed to be the world’s first fully IT-based production suite. Using industry standard
hardware and optimised software, DYVI Live claims that DYVI signals the end of traditional hardware-based
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production switchers and opens up broadcast production to a more flexible, IT-based world. Scalable Video Systems (SVS) in Weiterstadt, a company formed by a group of production switcher experts, is the technology developer for the DYVI product line. Explained Peter Bruggink,
CTO at Dutchview and Infostrada Creative Technology: “Infostrada Creative Technology started the transition to a full IP-based broadcast platform in 2006. With the acquisition of a DYVI Live production mixer platform and the recent investment in a new full 100 gigabits per second-enabled core network, the company will further expand the capabilities of the highly innovative IP-based production platform of Infostrada Creative Technologies and Dutchview.” DYVI told The IBC Daily that a second customer deal will be announced next week with a large organisation in Belgium. 10.F30
Kabel Deutschland has chosen Evertz Software Defined Video Network (SDVN), featuring 46Tb/s EXE Video Service Routers. Evertz said the EXE routers would be used to transition Kabel Deutschland’s uncompressed high-quality video routing to a future-proof IP network-based architecture, without compromising quality, reliability or resiliency. The company said that by
deploying two EXE routers along with SMPTE2022-6- compliant Evertz high-density 570IP-Gateway/IP encapsulator modules, Kabel Deutschland extends its uncompressed video routing capacities by the factor of 10.
The move also bridges the gap between the company’s video and IT-networks as the EXE routing core is completely network based and therefore format-agnostic. It can thus transport uncompressed video streams of multiple current and future standards such as UHD. 8.B40
MPEG software firm is acquired by DTS
Digital surround sound company DTS has acquired Manzanita Systems, the developer of MPEG software applications for digital television, video on demand (VoD) and over- the-top (OTT) markets. According to DTS, the acquisition will enable the company to offer greater value to its customers in those markets. “We are committed to
growing our business in the network-connected media ecosystem and believe that the acquisition of Manzanita Systems will help DTS further strengthen its position in the space,” said Geir Skaaden, senior vice president of digital content and media solutions, DTS. 2.B50
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Sparking the Lightbox flame: Spark New Zealand, formerly Telecom NZ, is making use of the Xstream MediaMaker video management platform for the delivery of its new OTT video service Lightbox. Lightbox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spark, is available as a SVoD service to all New Zealanders no matter what ISP they are using. It offers over 5,000 hours of episodic TV content and can be used across multiple devices, including laptop, desktop, iPad and Airplay on Apple TV. The Xstream MediaMaker and set of RESTFul APIs were key to the creation of the OTT service. Some core features in the OTT solution powered by Xstream MediaMaker includes advanced voucher integration and functionality and advanced parental control. Xstream MediaMaker also provides a transparent workflow management for content ingest, including an OTT loading dock service with screener application which is integrated with Gracenote and Technicolor, asset management, automated and scheduled publishing across devices and subscriber management. Pictured: Mike McMahon, CTO Lightbox and Peter Baungaard Holmelin, CTO Xstream. 14.F15
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