#IBC2022
77 Bill McLaughlin, Chief Product Offi cer, iedia What are the biggest
challenges facing the media and entertainment industry? In live media, it’s all about increasing content volume while minimising costs. Competition to gain audiences is very high, and audience segmentation means it takes more unique content to get a certain number of views. Content must be produced in an agile and effi cient way to make the economics work.
How is your company helping its customers address the challenges faced by the media and entertainment industry? Our core accessibility products for captioning and subtitling are a must for top-tier broadcasters. Helping broadcasters achieve accessibility effi ciently and cost-effectively helps them produce more content, without captioning becoming a limiting factor. Meanwhile, inexpensive subtitled language translation can help increase global viewers at a much lower cost than a separate audio commentary production.
What do you think are the main drivers in your market sector?
For captioning technology providers like Ai-Media, there’s an overwhelming need to deliver more live subtitles at a lower cost per hour, while using an innovative AI approach. If AI technology wasn’t progressing as quickly as it is, there would be no way to hire the needed skilled human operators. We’ve been able to fuel large growth in content hours, serviced with a much slower growth in operational staffi ng.
What are the main areas of focus for your company during IBC2022?
Ai-Media would like to show broadcasters and live event producers what our AI and hybrid captioning solutions, Lexi and Smart Lexi, can do for them. We’ll debut as a new, more global company thanks to our acquisition of American technology captioning leader EEG in 2021.
We’d like to demonstrate how our new products incorporate traditional European styles of subtitling workfl ows, where it’s more important to handle multiple languages and live binding of pre-prepared subtitle libraries to suit the local playout region. This differs from the United States and Australia, where Ai-Media is primarily based. In these regions, there’s generally a preference for more streamlined single language systems with embedded subtitle tracks, except when content is completely live.
Which trends or themes do you expect to emerge during IBC2022?
Ai-Media appeared at the 2022 NAB Show in April after a two-year absence from trade shows. Nearly every attendee who approached us asked how they can enable accessibility in virtualised and cloud live production, and they expected to use a software- focused and AI-friendly workfl ow chain to do so.
These transitions have gone from
being in the future to the present, or even often in the past. At NAB, our work with SMPTE 2110 and compressed video streams in AWS resonated much more than our on-premises or human-focused services. In the past, the European IBC audience has been ahead of North America on many of these trends, so Ai-Media expects even more of the same. 5. G26
VISIONXS ON BOARD FOR KVM-OVER-IP EXTENDER FAMILY Guntermann & Drunck BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON
The new VisionXS high- performance KVM-over-IP extender series is designed with low effort, fewer devices and smart application in mind. The “unique” IP extender series uses standard Ethernet networks with up to 10Gbit bandwidth and therefore requires much less compression at higher display resolutions.
G&D claims that bluedec, its proprietary lossless video compression technology, transmits pixel-perfect resolutions up to 4K60 and improves the user experience
Each VisionXS device is equipped with two transmission ports
many times over. Furthermore, the integrated IP-Mux function lets a
console device manage multiple target IP addresses from up to 20
computer sources without requiring additional hardware. For simpler applications, the on-screen display can be used to switch between different sources.
As an additional safety feature, each device is equipped with two transmission ports. This enables fast switching to the fallback transmission line. No additional hardware is required to use the transmission redundancy, because the second port can be enabled via software key – even at a later date. If the unit is connected to the KVM network via both transmission ports, switching quickly between both transmission interfaces is possible thanks to link aggregation. 8.B89
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