UHD via satellite is the industry focus
Hipasat By Ian McMurray
UHD/4K continues to be a topic of significant interest to the industry, and exhibitor Hipasat is showing its channel designed exclusively for UHD broadcasting, Hipasat 4K.
The company says that its aim is to carry out tests and to foster the generation of content using this technology, in order to speed up development and make it available to viewers as soon as possible. Hipasat believes that satellite is the perfect platform for UHD services due to its large bandwidth, which is essential for high-quality transmission of such large amounts of data, and notes that its satellites can transmit this content thanks to a design focusing on DTH services.
Not long before IBC2014 opened its doors, Hipasat announced that it had contracted with SSL to build Hipasat 1F, which will be located at orbital
4K provider: Satellite is the ‘perfect platform’ for UHD
position 30º West. Hipasat 1F will replace Hipasat 1D and will give the company additional Ku band capacity in the Andean region and in Brazil. It will also expand Hipasat’s transatlantic capacity in Europe-America and America-Europe connectivity. Ka band capacity with European coverage will also be incorporated, in order to enable Hipasat to continue expanding its broadband service offer in the region. The new satellite will be built on the SSL 1300 satellite platform, with 11.5 kW power and a multi-mission payload. 1.A46
RTL augmented for news Egripment By David Fox
When RTL Netherlands was planning its new virtual and augmented news studio, it wanted to have flying camera moves, but the ceiling height didn’t allow it to use a crane, so it approached Egripment to install a ceiling-mounted system to keep the studio floor clear. Egripment already had some of what
RTL needed in its Virtual/ Augmented Reality Encoded System, but additional features were needed to ensure: smooth on-air movement of the dolly, head and telescopic column; integration with a Vinten Radamec controller; all axis encoding to integrate with Orad’s HDVG graphics platform; and full automation, so that presets or pre- recorded moves could be dropped into Sony's ELC studio automation software. It meant that Egripment had to enhance its Generic Tracking System to link up with other vendors’ systems. “To accomplish this we have used a fully IP- based platform, and through our custom designed Trackmen software we were able to build a bridge between Egripment, Vinten Radamec and Sony, as well as the graphics engine of Orad,” explained Richard Villhaber, Egripment’s sales director. As RTL wanted to control the Vinten Radamec pedestals and Egripment’s Tracking System using a single controller, “Trackmen wrote customised
software for this special application so that we could easily integrate within the VRC infrastructure through their EPI unit, making it possible to control all robotic cameras by one single controller. The most important reason for this implementation was to keep the workflow with Sony’s ELC as simple as possible. Sony’s ELC can now easily connect to the network and drag and drop stored presets and moves to a playlist that will be used for RTL’s news broadcasting.” 11.A21
The ceiling speaks: Setting up the new Egripment Tracking System in RTL’s new augmented news studio
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