March 2014
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NT Live delivers 4K War Horse
By Holly Ashford
NATIONAL THEATRELive (NT Live) will present the world’s first live 4K theatre broadcast, War Horse, working in partnership with Sony, Creative Broadcast Solutions, NEP Visions and Links Broadcast. War Horse will be broadcast
on 27 February 2014 to cinemas across the world. The broadcast will be shown in Sony 4K at the Curzon Cinema in Chelsea, London, and the theatre production will be projected using a Sony projector. Creative Broadcast Solutions (CBS), with NEP Visions will work with Sony, using its F55 Super CineAlta cameras equipped with Fujinon Cabrio lenses to capture the performance. NEP Visions will provide the technical infrastructure and expertise to take the 4K content from camera to satellite, as well as recording and broadcasting a simultaneous HD version.
www.creativebroadcastsolutions . com
www.linksbroadcast.com www.ntlive.com www.sony.co.uk www.visions-ob.com
Next TV speakers announced
By Neal Romanek
TVBEUROPE HAS confirmed the first round of speakers for its Next TV Summit on 11 June at London’s BAFTA theatre. Next TV is the UK’s
premiere conference for alternative media delivery, including VoD, OTT and IPTV. Next TV’s line-up will include Ashwin Navin, CEO of Samba TV and founder of BitTorrent, the largest file- sharing network in the world; Edward Lee, VP content acquisition at streaming video powerhouse Roku; Mary Ann Halford, managing director, media and entertainment, at FTI Consulting; Jens Richter, former managing director of Red Arrow International and now CEO of Fremantle Media; Patrice Slupowski, VP digital innovation and communities at Orange; Charlotte Hargreaves, SVP marketing and business development at DRG/Modern Times Group, and Ashley MacKenzie, founder and
News & Contents Contents
1-13 News & Analysis File delivery made…simple? George Jarrett attended a recent DPP forum and discovered that striving for simplicity can be very complex
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14-19 Loudness Forum Philip Stevens seeks the views of a number of industry experts about the niggling question of Loudness 14
20-25 The Workflow The HDR revolution
The UHD debate revolves around getting a richer picture to viewers with implications for capture, post and retail. Adrian Pennington reports 20
(Clockwise from top left): Patrice Slupowski, Ashley MacKenzie, Edward Lee and Mary Ann Halford
CEO of leading digital rights management agency Base79. TVBEurope publisher Steve Connolly said, “With a line-up like this, Next TV is becoming the must-attend connected TV conference in the UK. These speakers are leaders in one of
the most rapidly developing sectors of the industry. And we’ll be making even more speaker announcements in the coming weeks.” Next TV Summit early bird
tickets are available at
www.nexttvsummitlondon.com.
Canon unveils 4K display By Holly Ashford
CANON HASmade its entrance into the production display market with the launch of the DP-V3010, a 30-inch reference display specifically designed for colour grading and 4K video production. The new display, together with
Canon’s Cinema EOS System, offers an input-to-output solution for 4K digital cinema and wider
Canon's DP-V3010 4K reference monitor
video production workflows. The DP-V3010 has been designed to deliver 4K resolution alongside accuracy in colour reproduction. The display is powered by a custom-developed image processor designed and manufactured by Canon. A 10-bit panel driver works with the processor to enable the display of 1024 gradation levels
for each RGB colour to deliver gradation characteristics across all content types. Kieran Magee, director of
professional marketing, Canon Europe said: “We’ve listened carefully to the needs of the market throughout the development of the display to deliver an exceptional product suited to even the highest quality productions.”
www.canon.co.uk
27-33 Systems Integrators Forum Systems Integrators from across Europe discuss topics that affect their business, by Philip Stevens
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34-43 The Workflow The word on the Street Philip Stevens walks one of TV’s most famous streets and reviews the history of the long-running soap, Coronation Street
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44-48 NAB Product Preview The first of our two-part show preview, offering a glimpse of what to expect next month
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49 The Business Case A new Avid for a new era Neal Romanek talks to Avid’s Tom Cordiner about the company’s new trajectory
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50 Cloud for Broadcast Hard edges in the cloud In the second part of this cloud computing feature, Miranda’s Ian Fletcher goes deeper into the issue of cloud tools for broadcasters 50
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