theibcdaily DPP 1 October countdown By George Jarrett
Declaring the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) IBC event to be a shareholders’ meeting, chair Mark Harrison first celebrated the successful take up of AS-11 by UK broadcasters, before laying out plans for 2015. “File-based delivery: 16 days to go and we are going to hit that deadline with the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5,” he said. “We were not ready for what it was going to mean as a change piece. This move is probably the fastest, most highly coordinated change in a broadcast process that has ever happened.” The AS-11 project will
require an effort to join up metadata right from the start of the production process. The compliance program that DPP developed and shares with AMWA, and required the creation of a centralised testing facility, produced its first four pass mark vendors – Cinegy, Dalet, Telestream and root6 – and the DPP launched
Mark Harrison: “16 days to go and we hit that deadline with the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5”
Julien Decaix, general manager, Americas, Dalet, with Carlos Abrahao engineering manager, engineering projects & support division, TV Globo, and Julio Lima, projects director, TV Globo, on the IBC show floor
the cleverly edited booklet ‘10 Things You Need To Know About Digital Storage’ for independent producers. This is a handy taster for one of the upcoming attractions – an ultimate guide to storage accompanied by specifications, standards and associated policies for cloud. Also in the pipeline are efforts in the areas of international distribution, connectivity as a business opportunity, and UHD file delivery. This will require workflow and process changes, and the DPP is looking hard at new specs for
delivering commercials and music promos. Music clips may match with an interstitials spec. Harrison admitted that the DPP effort so far – based on producing and delivering in an efficient way, as encompassed in the Producer’s Guide to File Delivery – will have to grow if ambitions like the storage standards are to be set. “We could do a bit more,” he
said. “People want more from us and faster, which means increasing capacity. Thinking on this is advanced and an announcement will come in two months.”
HRT goes HD with XDCAM: Public Croatian broadcaster HRT has bought 44 Sony PMW-400 XDCAM camcorders on which to standardise its news production in HD. Signing the deal at IBC, CTO Dusko Zimonja said: “HRT is committed to moving towards HD content production and this agreement represents the realisation of our plan to move our news production to deliver outstanding HD news-broadcasts to viewers. By combining the high quality needed for HD broadcast within an efficient, established workflow, the PMW-400 gives us a powerful combination of price and performance that will underpin our transition to HD.” The investment also included two channel digital wireless audio with each camera equipped with Sony’s DWX wireless microphone package. Delivery was confirmed at the show through local Sony Partner Audio Video Consulting (AVC). Pictured: Dusko Zimonja and Koki Kato, senior manager, product planning and marketing development, Sony. – Adrian Pennington
openTruck to take cost out of sports coverage
Nigel Spratling: “Consistent production quality at a low cost” Ross Video By Heather McLean
Ross Video Broadcast Networks has delivered new mobile production unit initiative, openTruck, at IBC2014.
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openTruck is a collaboration between Ross Video and other manufacturers to create a system that makes local sports programming for smaller events more affordable. It is being showcased on the Ross Video stand in the form of a high-spec compact production unit, built
by Broadcast Networks to the openTruck standard. Nigel Spratling, marketing
product manager at Ross Video, commented: “Producers have a mission to get more and more event coverage as there is an increasing demand to get programming from more events. But to cover sports that are lower down the sporting hierarchy, you can only get a van and crew that are larger than requirement and expensive. “We created the architecture of the openTruck platform, working with partners to create consistent production quality at a low cost using the DashBoard protocol,” said Spratling. “Dashboard can be used to reduce set-up time before a match from 12 hours down to six by storing previous set ups for a particular stadium. It enables you to operate many controls from a single button, so you can use lower-skilled staff and less of them.” 9.B08
TV Globo to put Media Life in production control
Dalet By Michael Burns
TV Globo has used IBC to announce it is placing Dalet Media Life at the heart of its entertainment archive. The Brazilian media giant is deploying an end-to-end archiving and content preparation workflow using Dalet Brio for high-density ingest and Dalet AmberFin transcoding, all under the control of Dalet Galaxy enterprise MAM to enable the manipulation of digital files for archive purposes. The workflow covers all entertainment content, including telenovelas, produced at the network’s Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo hubs. The Dalet installation will also enable the distribution of content to internal and external users. TV Globo produces around 2,400 hours of entertainment
annually and reaches 99.5% of the Brazilian population through its network of 122 owned and affiliate TV stations. The organisation’s studio production base is located in Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janerio, and known locally as Projac. The solution at Projac is systems integrated by Sony Professional Services and architected to extend TV Globo’s file-based workflow from ingest into archive. Sony selected Dalet Media Life, which includes a broadcast-specific Business Process Management workflow engine, advanced production and media preparation tools and a single and centralised content repository for housing multimedia content. The complete solution also includes Dalet Brio for ingest acquisition and QC playback as well as Dalet AmberFin for transcoding. 8.B77
Unicast win at Deutsche Glasfaser : German fibre-to-the-home (FttH) network provider Deutsche Glasfaser has selected the ABOX42 M-Series SmartSTB platform, which includes the company’s advanced DVB feature-set, to power its new ‘DGTV’ service. The service is expected to launch in October 2014 and will include around 100 SD channels, 50 HD and 100 radio channels. It’s understood Deutsche Glasfaser is one of the first major operators to deliver a full live IPTV service using unicast technologies. “This approach enables Deutsche Glasfaser to avoid the set-up and operation of a costly and complex multicast network for its TV service,” explained ABOX42 CEO and MD Matthias Greve. The ABOX42 technology offers Deutsche Glasfaser a modern HTML5 user interface, HLS adaptive bitrate streaming with multiple audio tracks and subtitles, HbbTV (Red Button) services, support for major German VoD services and third-party smart TV applications. Pictured: Martijn van Horssen (24i) and Matthias Greve (ABOX42). – Monica Heck 14.J13
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