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“I worry about the European broadcasting community not moving fast enough to embrace the digital world for the new generation of consumers,” Erik Huggers told the 2020 TV session. Huggers, who spearheaded the launch of the BBC iPlayer, has spent the last several years in California working for Intel and most recently for Verizon, creating connected TV devices and services in response to a world that isn’t about purely linear TV anymore. “There is an opportunity for a


pure OTT, IP-only, live, linear catch up and any flavour of VoD


Bringing TV to ship crews


Vision247 By Monica Heck


KVH Industries and Vision247 have partnered to deliver up-to- date TV content to mariners at sea. Running on the Vision247 Perception multiscreen delivery platform, which was adapted to KVH’s requirements, the service delivers multiscreen entertainment to crews on ships. It provides access to themed TV channels including movies, news and sports, refreshed regularly over KVH’s IP- MobileCast service. Mariners can watch programmes on TVs, PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones through Perception’s interactive app. Content is transferred to ships via KVH’s multicasting satellite technology, that can deliver large amounts of video to many ships at once without impacting on-board data speeds or critical


communications channels. Programmes can be changed on a daily basis, providing up- to-date television and VoD for crews on long journeys. Content is downloaded over the IP-MobileCast service to Perception servers on-board vessels. The content is then auto-scheduled based on its metadata and presented to users as ‘live’ linear channels, complete with EPG and time-shift functionality. The service also provides a traditional VoD library. 14.H12


Spanish OTT deal: François Moreau de Saint-Martin, CEO of Viaccess-Orca (front left), and Tom Mohler, CEO of Olympusat (front right), signed a deal at IBC that will see Viaccess-Orca provide a turnkey end-to-end OTT IPTV solution for Olympusat’s Spanish language offering. It will include VoD and linear channels. “We placed huge importance on Viaccess-Orca’s stability and the maturity of their proven solutions,” said Mohler. 1.A51


SCTE Benelux Lecture on in-home architecture


The Benelux Group of the SCTE (the Society for Broadband Professionals) will hold its next Benelux lecture during IBC at 14.00 today in Room E102. Entitled ‘In-Home Architecture Issues’, and sponsored by ARRIS, this free event (open to all) will be moderated by Thomas Nogues, executive advisor for CableLabs, and will feature speakers from key players in the industry. Various topics such as 4K, Wi-Fi, the cloud and the Connected Home will be considered, as well as CPE virtualisation. The Benelux Group is one of a number of regional groups that are part of the worldwide SCTE organisation, the global non- profit body that aims to raise the standard of broadband engineering in the


telecommunications industry.


Presentations and speakers at the event include: • ‘Extending Service Assurance in the 4K Wi-Fi Home’ by Cornel Ciocirlan, chief technology officer, EMEA, ARRIS.


• ‘Getting to the Edge’ by Thomas Nogues, executive advisor, CableLabs.


• ‘The Connected Home’ by Hans van Elsen, CTO, Alcadis ISP Solutions. • ‘Making it all Work’ by Peter Simpson, VP Product Marketing, Pace. • ‘CPE Virtualisation – the New Way of Home Network Management and Services Enablement’ by Arkadiusz Kaliwoda, consulting systems engineer, Cisco Systems. Meet the SCTE on the Partnership Village, booth 8.F51e, outside Hall 8 during the IBC exhibition.


Amazon and Apple who think globally and can bring to bear innovations faster.”


Erik Huggers: “DRM is an evil technology that has held the industry back. It is anti-consumer”


all combined nicely into one experience,” said Huggers. “At that point the broadcasters will have a chance to compete with the coming onslaught of global digital companies like Google,


In terms of what 2020 TV will look like, Huggers thinks there will still be room for “aggregator brands to present a curated playlist of linear programming for people who just want to sit down and relax,” but he thinks that by 2020 the number of channels will fall. “All these channels make less and less sense.” Huggers also had some choice words for DRM, the standard for protecting content. “DRM is an evil technology that has held the industry back. It is anti-consumer in every way imaginable and it has held back use cases and portability. I would like to see DRM go the way of the dinosaur.”


Gearing up for the YouTube generation


Vitec Videocom By David Fox


Although best known for its camera support brands, Vitec Videocom is now “expanding our focus on a complete ecosystem around the camera, not just things that simply attach to it, but a broader vision of how we help content creators connect and distribute their visual media,” said its CEO, Matt Danilowicz. This was the thinking behind its recent acquisition of Teradek, which is the core of Vitec’s stand at IBC. Indeed, it now goes from acquisition, with its Camera Corps miniature cameras, to distribution with Teradek’s new Beam, as it adapts to the new ways people are working. “For example, our new Anton/Bauer batteries have a new focus on safety and affordable price points, recognising that more production is being outsourced and taken up by


Right on Q: Danilowicz is broadening the appeal of Vitec’s product lines


new content creators – the YouTube generation. We’re offering products at lower price points to appeal to these,” he said. “Also, we can’t afford the risk of producing anything that isn’t completely safe, which is why the batteries have crumple zones, so that if it’s dropped or damaged, it doesn’t explode.”


It is also adding accessory lines for its tripod brands (Vinten, Sachtler and OConnor) “to help make the most of our equipment,” and adding lower- end prompters (Autoscript). 11.E55


MPEG TS release:Wohler has launched its MPEG TS Monitoring and Analysis solution at IBC. The MPEG TS Monitoring and Analysis monitor gives the user the ability to monitor dual ASI, 3G/HD/SD-SDI, single IP and HDMI sources; decode MPEG-2 TS and H.264/MPEG-4 TS video, audio and metadata; analyse ATSC and DVB MPEG tablets PAT, PMT, PID and more. Carl Dempsey (pictured), CEO at Wohler, commented: “MPEG TS Monitoring and Analysis is another world first for us at this year’s IBC. This will decode and analyse MPEG data, and it is operator-friendly. We also have a handheld portable version as well, so technicians out in the field can decode MPEG data and see exactly what’s going on.” Dempsey added that the MPEG TS Monitoring and Analysis costs $8,000, compared to a traditional set of equipment that would be required to do the same job at around $50,000. – Heather McLean 10.B10


Live UFC delivery Zixi


By Monica Heck


Live video specialist Zixi LLC has announced a partnership with live events producer All Mobile Video Digital Media (AMVDM), formerly AEG Live. The partnership aims to offer enhanced services for customers using Zixi to deliver live productions over IP. Zixi and All Mobile Video have been delivering Ultimate Fighting


Championship fights, with closed captioning and slate insertion added by All Mobile video to the Zixi stream from the event.


In this workflow, the content gets delivered live to All Mobile Video for processing and is delivered back to a Zixi cloud broadcaster platform, where the files are transmuxed and transcoded into different formats, protocols and bit rates for delivery to multiple end points. Zixi says this partnership was a key piece that was missing from its delivery. 14.C05


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