54 CREATE & PRODUCE Broadcast Solutions
BY DAVID FOX Grass Valley has signed a deal worth $31 million over fi ve years with Broadcast Solutions, the German OB truck manufacturing company and systems integrator. The agreement includes the development of new Grass Valley IP-based OB vehicles known as the Streamline series, set to be rolled out next year. As part of its cloud transformation, Broadcast Solutions’ Nordic team will also establish a new facility in
Helsinki based on Grass Valley’s cloud-based Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP). The new Grass Valley edition of
Broadcast Solutions’ Streamline IP OB trucks will support 12-24 camera set ups. The Streamline series has helped transform the manufacturing of an OB truck from a highly complex and planning-intensive project to a nearly off-the-shelf product. Stefan Breder, CEO, Broadcast Solutions Group, said: “Our worldwide customer base will benefi t greatly, both technically and economically, from the new Grass Valley IP Streamline OB vans. Utilising the expertise and knowledge in live content production, IP-based
INTERRA REVEALS CONSTELLATION OF ORION UPDATES
MANAGE Interra Systems BY DAVID FOX
Interra Systems has launched a host of updates to its end- to-end quality control and monitoring systems. Its Orion-OTT monitoring system for live and VoD streaming now includes comprehensive ad insertion monitoring plus detailed cue information; support for Dolby Vision and HDR; intuitive visual trending for QoS and QoE metrics; CPIX- based DRM integrations, and new audio/video quality checks for detection of video dropouts and audio clipping; triggered recordings for complete error duration; support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication scheme; and real-time monitoring of linear channels in IP-based delivery infrastructures,
The latest version of Baton, its ML- and AI- enabled automated QC platform now offers major
4K, MJPEG enhancements; new enterprise-level support for SAML authentication; Dropbox location and improved performance of LDAP sync process; ProRes 4K and Netfl ix supported test plans; Dolby Vision Metadata v4.0 validation; IMF Application 2 Extended; and PSE for HDR. It also offers new quality checks, support for new formats, ITU-BS loudness measurements, 1770-4 low pass fi lter, availability of REST APIs and enhanced foreign language support in the Baton UI. The Baton Captions caption
creation and distribution application has new support for subtitling, standalone subtitle fi les for QC, exporting captions in MacCaption Closed Caption (MCC) format, and adding tags for tasks. New features of Winnow, used for content classifi cation and identifi cation, include language detection of visual text present in video, enhanced accuracy for detection of explicit scenes, and more concise display of text on PDF reports.
technologies and modern workfl ows from both companies, customers can be sure that they can rely on an OB van that fulfi ls and exceeds their requirements and needs.”
Antti Laurila, managing
director of Broadcast Solutions Nordic, said: “The enterprise agreement strengthens our partnership with Grass Valley and supports our ambition to be the leader in the media systems integration and services market in the Nordics.”
Laurila hopes the deal will help customers “as they navigate a transitional period in the media and entertainment sector by bridging legacy and future technologies”.
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BROADCAST SOLUTIONS INVESTS $31M IN GV IP OB AND AMPP Grass Valley/
Breder: Customers “will benefi t greatly from the new Grass Valley IP Streamline OBs”
NEP UK INSTALLS SNP FOR FLEXIBLE HDR Imagine
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Communications BY DAVID FOX
NEP UK has installed multiple Selenio Network Processor (SNP) appliances from Imagine Communications in four of its largest outside broadcast trucks to provide an automated workfl ow for delivering 4K/UHD as well as HD, in SDR and HDR. The SNP is a software-defi ned IP and SDI signal processor. Each 1U device features four independent processing blocks, each of which can adopt personalities defi ned by
the software. Applications are available on individual licences, so users can defi ne the exact functionality they require and reconfi gure their SNPs as tasks demand, making them particularly suited to OB work. NEP UK has ordered a mix of licences for signal format conversion, including HD, 3G and 4K, as well as dynamic range conversion between SDR, HLG, PQ and Slog3. Many of the sports
broadcasters NEP UK provides facilities for offer UHD coverage as an option for subscribers, but they also have to maintain the highest quality HD output possible to serve the majority of viewers.
Chris Cannon, director of technical operations, NEP UK, said: “We have adopted the use of the SNP as a high- density signal conversion engine. Given the tight confi nes of an outside broadcast truck, we really appreciate we can get eight UHD conversion channels in just 1RU, and that includes signal format conversion, as well as SDR-HDR conversion, the latter through the built-in conversion pipeline or through customer-defi ned LUTs. We set and forget the SNPs: they perform well, take up little rack space, consume less power and deliver the full variety of HD, UHD, SDR and HDR outputs we need.”
Part of the SNP conversion pipeline: NEP UK’s Atlantic OB on location
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