August 2012
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SHOW 2012 GETTING READY FOR AMSTERDAM
IBC By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
IBC (INTERNATIONAL Broadcasting Convention) running 6-11 September 2012 is the premier annual conference and exhibition for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of electronic media and entertainment worldwide. Attracting 50,000+ attendees from more than 160 countries,
Bridge Technologies
Probe features new Bulk OTT Engine
By Ian McMurray By Carolyn Giardina
“2012 IS the year that OTT is becoming a reality for the wider industry,” according to Simen K Frostad, chairman, Bridge Technologies, “ and our new product launches reflect the urgent need operators have for comprehensive, highly-evolved OTT monitoring tools ready for deployment across the entire delivery chain. We’re also showing our ground-breaking solution for DVB-T2, the most complete of its kind for this rapidly expanding sector.” Among Bridge’s new products
is the new VB330, which the company describes as the industry’s most powerful media monitoring probe. Now featuring a new Bulk OTT Engine, the VB330 includes advanced OTT monitoring capabilities for high-traffic applications. The VB330’s 10GB architecture can deliver a massive 60GB monitoring capability in a 1RU chassis, and the new Bulk OTT Engine can be enabled on any existing VB330 to provide sophisticated monitoring of large volumes of OTT streams. The OTT engine tests manifest files, profiles, chunk
THE LATEST version 6.3 of Telestream’s Episode video encoding software has gained native x264 codec support. Version 6.3, which became
“OTT is becoming a reality for the wider industry,”says Frostad
download speed and many more parameters, to deliver, according to Bridge, comprehensive data on OTT service quality. The engine supports Smoothstream, HLS and HDS, and is M-DASH- ready. Designed for extremely high-density applications at points of maximum data throughput in today’s 10GB core networks, the VB330 with OTT option is said to offer telcos, network operators and digital media organisations a monitoring solution with the potential for scaling to match almost any level of throughput. 1.A30
available in late June, is also aimed at making it easier for filmmakers to access Episode by providing direct integration with Autodesk editing and finishing software, Smoke and Flame. “With this release, Episode
continues to add value in post production environments with its
Rhode & Schwarz DVS Strawberry Fields for SpycerBox By Carolyn Giardina
PROJECT SHARING and management software Strawberry from FlavourSys is now available as an option for DVS’ SpycerBox and DVS-SAN.
Its main functions include
searching for and exchanging projects and data as well as enabling collaborative editing using systems such as Avid
Media Composer, Apple Final Cut and Adobe Premiere. “With the newly integrated
software in our DVS-SAN and SpycerBox systems, our customers benefit from increased efficiency in their workflows,” said Henner Steinwede, DVS product manager. FlavourSys Product Manager
Marco Stahl added: “We developed Strawberry from the user’s perspective as we wanted to
Strawberry container: DVS’ SpycerBox
organise complex post production workflows in a simpler and more efficient way.” 7.E25
In the swim: Telestream’s Episode UI
high-quality format support and ability to easily create file-based deliverables, as well as digital
masters,” said Barbara DeHart, VP of marketing at Telestream. Episode’s integration with Smoke and Flame enables browsing, monitoring and transcoding directly from the Autodesk software. It also allows editors and digital artists to offload encoding tasks to other systems or to centralise functions on an encoding cluster. Episode’s design allows users to join Mac and PC computers together to share encoding work. 7.D16
the IBC conference and exhibition allows visitors to learn about the developments which are shaping the industry, interact with the latest technology, experience world first demonstrations and do business in a professional and supportive environment. Starting the day before
the exhibition is the six-day four stream IBC conference (6-11 September) guided by
industry experts. This year hear from keynote speakers such as Mike Darcey, COO, BSkyB; Roger Mosey, head of Olympics, BBC London 2012; Per Borgklint, vice president & head of Business Unit, Ericsson; Mark Hollinger, CEO & president, Discovery Networks and David Eun, executive vice president Global Media & CEO Advisor, Samsung Electronics. Over 1,300 exhibitors
covering 250 product categories Telestream
Episode 6.3 software gains x264 support
fill the 14 exhibition halls of the RAI Amsterdam. The newest hall this year (hall 14) is home to The IBC Connected World. Again TVBEurope will have its ear to the ground at IBC reporting on the new product releases and latest contract deals being signed on the showfloor. The IBC Daily team of writers has been busy collecting the news ahead of the show in our IBC product preview.
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