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New Kahuna is “going to nail the competition”
Snell By Michael Burns
An all new Kahuna switcher lineup has been introduced, with added flexibility and 4K capabilities across the range. Snell said the Kahuna 4800, Kahuna 6400 and Kahuna 9600 offer more firepower and flexibility than ever before. Combined with Snell’s new flexible switcher control surface, Kahuna Maverik, the bolstered feature set of the new Kahuna switchers includes providing more power for Mix Effects (M/E) functionality and enhanced DVE resize engines. This enables chroma key capabilities on all keyers and 2.5D DVE on all models in the range. The Kahuna 4800 offers up to four M/Es and 16 keyers, the Kahuna 6400 offers up to 12 M/Es, 24 keyers while the Kahuna 9600 has up to 24 M/Es, 48 keyers. “We’re going to nail the competition,” claimed Robert Rowe, Snell’s managing director of Live TV. “These production switchers will be available at the beginning of October and are ready to buy at the show. There have been big jumps in processing technology, such that we can get much more power into a much smaller space, for a more affordable price point.” Further enhancements to
production workflows for social media are also now supported, allowing user-generated content to be directly uploaded to the switcher’s internal store and made ready for air. 8.B70
‘Explosive growth’ in IoE and M2M In Brief Conference Analysis By Chris Forrester
Ken Morse, Cisco’s CTO, along with his colleague Guillaume de Saint Marc, senior director, new initiatives, updated IBC delegates on the huge growth in connected devices – not least the ‘Internet of Everything’ and Machine to Machine – in terms of bandwidth demands. “It’s explosive growth,” said Morse. “As we extrapolate what’s happening now, we can see a future with 50 billion connected devices by 2020. That’s about eight for every person on the planet. Combine this with the growth we are seeing in video delivered to mobile devices, where we see two-thirds of the world’s data traffic expected to be video –
and that’s by 2015.” Morse cut through much of
the jargon associated with the technology, and helped translate the forecasts into what delivers “ease and convenience for us as consumers, and how service providers will manage the demand and monetise what’s available. “We are also seeing the impact of the Cloud, and what we are now calling the ‘Inter- Cloud’, and how operators can tap into analytics to really benefit from the assembled data and manage the exponential growth that we expect.” Morse delivered a list of the likely impacts, both in terms of growth opportunities but also potential cost savings that could be achieved in operating processes and improved yields “and ultimately making things better for everyone down the
Ken Morse: “We can see a future with 50 billion connected devices by 2020”
value chain. Even last year it has been estimated that $500 billion had been left on the table in terms of lost opportunity in this space.”
Atresmedia receives robotic refurb
Shotoku Broadcast Systems
By David Fox
Madrid-based broadcaster Atresmedia has bought a robotically-controlled camera system from Shotoku comprising seven TG-18 robotic pan and tilt heads and two 16-camera TR-T control systems, which will be used in Atresmedia’s re-launched and refurbished studio.
“Since the first test, we were satisfied with the overall capability of Shotoku's system, both operationally and technically,” said Fernando García del Rey, head of studio operations, Atresmedia. “The system works well, operators find it easy to use, and the
No excuse for 4K confusion Tektronix By Heather McLean
Manufacturers must stay on top of codec standard development in order to make the advent of new technologies an evolution for customers, not a revolution. Tektronix CTO for video
product line, Paul Robinson, told The IBC Dailythat although there is the perception that all the underlying technology changes for 4K are new, there was in fact
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a lot of advanced warning that these changes were imminent, with UHDTV first demonstrated at NAB back in 2006. Robinson commented: “Obviously the availability of 4K sensors and display panels has accelerated the drive towards 4K implementation, but we had prior warning of the development of higher resolution than HD video. Indeed, when developing the Tektronix WFM and WVR8000 series waveform monitors the internal architecture was implemented to handle 4K data
The TG-18 robotic pan and tilt heads in Atresmedia’s revamped studio
iSAT Africa chooses partners for free-to-air delivery iSAT Africa has selected Eutelsat Communications to partner on free-to-air delivery of African and international digital channels in Kenya and across East Africa in order to accelerate the move towards a fully digital broadcasting environment. iSAT and Eutelsat will use the African service area of the EUTELSAT 70B satellite to broadcast a platform of channels to digital headends and on a DTH basis to homes beyond range of terrestrial reception. The first channels were launched by iSAT on 1 September . They include Family TV and K24 which are multiplexed on a DVB-S2 platform and uplinked from iSAT’s teleport in Nairobi to Ku-band capacity on EUTELSAT 70B. iSAT Africa has also agreed terms with Eutelsat for use of C-band capacity on the EUTELSAT 3B satellite for contributing channels to the Nairobi teleport where they can be aggregated into the platform. The C-band footprint on EUTELSAT 3B embraces Africa, the Middle East, Europe and South America, covering a vast catchment area of broadcasters. 1.D59
support we get from Shotoku, with Datos Media [Shotoku’s newly-appointed regional reseller], has been excellent.” The Datos team worked very closely with the Atresmedia crew during installation and provided full training on-site once the system was integrated. The TG-18 takes a 56kg payload, ideal for any ENG camera/lens combinations in
rates, which has allowed us to implement 4K/UHD support as an existing product upgrade, rather than requiring a completely new product.”
He added that the biggest challenge of making 4K a reality for customers was not 4K itself, but staying on top of the ever- changing IP-based workflow standards.
Robinson explained: “There
are quite a few different standards being developed, so it’s about monitoring those developments and making sure we deliver the right products at the right time.” 10.D41
typical studio configurations including the usual accessories such as viewfinder, hand controls and teleprompter/preview monitor. It offers complete freedom for on-air adjustments from the control systems.
The completely configurable
screen layouts of the TR-T system supports 16 cameras, controlled by a single operator. 11.F40
Paul Robinson, Tektronix CTO, says manufacturers have no excuse not to be ready with 4K
Sound check on fly TC Electronic In a move that the company describes as a new approach to loudness adjustment, the aNorm algorithm has been launched at IBC. TC Electronic said the normalisation technology learns the incoming programme on the fly and adapts to hit user-defined targets for Program Loudness and Loudness Range (LRA). At the same time, it delivers uncompromised audio that has not been dynamically processed unless requested. aNorm applies dynamic loudness processing only if normalisation by itself is not enough to hit the Targets for Program Loudness and Loudness Range. TC Electronic has also debuted a new Loudness Processing Meter as part of aNorm. The Butterfly Meter displays content pre and post loudness normalisation using a graph that instantly provides an overview of how and why incoming audio is adjusted. 8.D56
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