theibcdaily TV goes Nova with vuMedia
Visual Unity By Heather McLean
TV Nova, the biggest commercial television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, is using technology supplied by broadcast and multiscreen systems integrator Visual Unity, to power its live online streaming and video on demand service, VOYO. Having worked closely with
Visual Unity to launch and then transition VOYO to a subscription-only service earlier this year, TV Nova has
again relied on the
company’s consultancy and technical support to launch two new channels: VOYO Cinema, a subscription- based movie channel; and VOYO News, a free and continual online news channel that combines live streaming with video reports and advertising. Jakub Kabourek, Visual Unity’s CEO, commented: “The technical solution behind VOYO had to provide a solid infrastructure that integrated fully with TV Nova’s existing technology and business systems. It also
had to efficiently manage live and archived content in high definition (720p), enable editing of live News feeds in realtime and deliver a high quality service and experience to subscribers. VuMedia addresses all these requirements and more in a very effective way.
“The system incorporates anti-piracy protection (Playready) and uses traditional Silverlight technology to deliver encrypted video content and Flash technology for free video content. In addition, viewers can choose from
Making your own luck
The company’s philosophy is to provide operators with simple control of various upstream source equipment, explains Ian Prowse, director, Vortex Communications
Opinion
often with very little change – and having made them into what one could call proper products, many are on show here in Amsterdam for the first time, finished, working and already shipping. One of our projects was to provide a multi-channel
Ian Prowse: ‘We’ve been really busy’
It is our 25th year and while I am not in the habit of looking back, I did re-visit my IBC Daily Opinion contribution from last year where I commented that “trade was unpredictable.” Same today methinks; and maybe we’ve been lucky as things are really quite OK. But as I remarked then, the harder we work, the luckier we seem to be. On the basis of ‘whatever
we’re doing we should keep on doing it’, this year too, we’ve been really busy. Much of our work is project-based — not only in the broadcast world — and we invent lots of helpful ‘stuff’ by way of circuit boards and bits of software to do this- and-that which tend to get used only by us as part of our systems integration activities. This means that we have in our armoury solutions that could be helpful to others, if only they knew about them. It is clear that things produced for one market have their place in other arenas –
recording system where the archive needed to be 100% secure and traceable for compliance purposes. Having built our original version we were asked to provide a similar, fully-scalable system but this time, we produced our own recording engine with network- controlled hierarchy. This scaleable solution is probably far too large and over-capable for most applications but based
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VOYO using Visual Unity’s vuMedia
three quality options to suit the speed of their online
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on this, we have packaged a dedicated 4-channel version – our CAPUTURecord-4 Compliance Recorder – which is ideal for broadcast applications. Similarly, you can see our FLX
Production Timer, originally produced for the UK Parliament to time its debates. Based on networked wireless tablet computers with touchscreen capability for control, it provides multiple up-down timers with the possibility to show count times on network-enabled HDMI screens which can be configured to show any combination of timers, realtime clocks (including digital, analogue and multi-zone), ‘virtual’ On-Air lights and other studio indicators. Virtual-CP ‘looks’ like a hardware panel but on a
connection,” Kabourek added. 3.B60
computer screen – often a tablet. Push the button, the on- air logo switches and the light comes on. Push another button and the fade light comes on and the logo changes – just like the real thing.
Our philosophy is straightforward: to provide operators with a simple ‘Glass Cockpit’ which can control various upstream source equipment, routing switchers and downstream devices – integrated with signal measurement if required – with the emphasis on being able to do so without necessarily knowing the fine details of what is being controlled.
Come and see just how busy we have been; we think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. 11G11
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