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content and communications infrastructure award for its Robust IP Transmission with NA8000. The audio award went to Sennheiser for Esfera. In the competitive area of storage, the category winner was Ardis Technologies for its DDP superior shared storage solution. The system automation and
IABM winner: Lionel Bringuier, product manager for Elemental’s delivery line
By George Jarrett
A keenly anticipated IBC highlight, the IABM Design and Innovation Awards for 2014, have recognised an astonishing array of new technologies across nine categories. Operating to a revised structure this year, the awards celebrate those solutions
that offer significant benefits or new opportunities to the broadcast and media industry. The winner of the acquisition
and production category was Trimaran for GEORACING. In the post production category Quantel won for its Genetic Engineering 2 developments. NTT Electronics took the
BT links up for 4K Megahertz By David Fox
The first 4K Ultra HD truck in the UK, and probably Europe, has been built for BT TVOB by Megahertz. The truck, on show at IBC, has been used to cover numerous HD productions including Premier League football, rugby and cricket, as well as running 4K UHD trials. It will take part in the
upcoming Sky Sports 4K trials at the Ryder Cup in Scotland,
where it will deliver the output direct to Sky in West London and to BT Tower for BT’s internal monitoring.
Besides UHD and 4K, it can also deliver HD and SD, “so it’s a very, very capable truck. It can do two satellite uplinks in HD simultaneously, while outputting UHD via fibre,” said Neil Huggins, head of Occasional Use Services, BT Media and Broadcast. “We wanted to make the truck future proof. We want our infrastructure to be at the cutting edge. Our truck can do it, and
Huggins and Burgess with BT TVOB’s latest hybrid links truck for 4K and UHD
our fibre network can do it,” he added.
It is fitted with NTT 4K
encoders and decoders, as well as a Sony 4K monitor, 4K Evertz multiviewer and Phabrix test and measurement equipment. “Apart from that, the main difference
control category saw Vidigo score with its studio automation system. Elemental Technologies won the playout and delivery system section with its video delivery platform. Cube-Tec and its MXF- Legalizer took the test, QC and monitoring category prize, and in the services category it was Cambridge Imaging Systems that triumphed with IMAGEN. Celebrating a night when R&D came to the fore, IABM chief executive Peter White told the
audience: “The competition was really strong this year and we would like to congratulate all of the winners on their success. “The awards had additional categories this year to reflect the changes the industry is going through, and we were delighted to receive such an exceptionally high standard of entries, signifying the amazing level of talent and creativity in our industry today,” he added. The winning entries were judged and awarded by a panel of 22 independent specialists chaired by John Ive, IABM director of business
development and technology. All the winners will be put forward for the IABM’s Peter Wayne Award to be announced at the IABM Annual International Business Conference in December.
between it and the [four] other hybrid trucks is mostly configuration, because the UHD signal is comprised of four 3G HD signals, and the way this truck is done it is in quadrants,” one for each quarter of the picture, explained Megahertz CTO Steve Burgess. The 96-port Snell router is configured so that groups of four sources and destinations are locked together. “Keeping them together and timed is the key, so you don’t see the joins when they are put back together,” he added. With all the equipment and a highly redundant infrastructure, the truck cost about £500,000. 11.F20
4 Television’s
Expanding Universe Professor Brian Cox delivers today’s IBC keynote and gives his view on the future of TV
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IBCTV streams ahead at the show The new-look IBCTV has moved to a streaming service
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Ultra HDTV is getting close A panel produced by SMPTE asks whether we should adopt UHD-1 or wait for UHD-2?
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