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FUTURE-PROOFING PROMINENCE FOR BROADCASTERS WITH DVB-I AND HBBTV
Christian Klöckner, Technology & Innovation Engineer at ARD/WDR, Chair of the EBU TV Platforms group
Making it easy for audiences to find public service media offerings is a key aim of the EBU and its members. The findability and prominence of public service media content will become an ever-greater challenge in the coming years. But there are solutions. Article 7a of the
EU’s AVMSD introduces the appropriate prominence of audiovisual media services of general interest, which can be perfectly realised with DVB-I. There are of course more good arguments in favour of DVB-I, which is the first metadata standard merging DVB broadcast with live-streaming and horizontal, platform-independent ecosystems. They all contribute to the futureproofing of the user experience for those purchasing TVs, and the inclusion of new audiences.
An important piece of the personalisation mosaic is accessibility for TV services,
“The findability and prominence of public service media content will become an ever-greater challenge in the coming years”
demonstrated at the EBU stand. 3Cat (CCMA), the Catalan broadcaster in Spain, is showcasing how the DVB-I and HbbTV standards pave the way to more accessible and engaging services for all citizens in a hybrid broadband-broadcast environment. This initiative aligns with the European Accessibility Act (EAA), ensuring equal access to digital products and services across Europe by multilingual subtitles, sign-language and clear speech. For content providers, the prominence of their regional programmes in particular
is a matter of the heart. This also can be easily achieved by means of DVB-I service list aggregation. DVB-I metadata enables functions to search, find and access content. One of the important tasks in the German DVB-I pilot (winner of the IBC2023 Innovation Award) has been the assembly of an A177- based aggregated service list, providing regional content embedded in a service list alongside nationwide programmes. ARD/ WDR and bmt are demonstrating at the EBU stand a common DVB-I service list of ARD programmes and commercial programmes with a ranking of ARD regional content dependent on the user input of a postal code. And finally, following an expansion of
interest in DVB-I deployments, Saorview (RTÉ) is demonstrating features of its Irish DVB-I pilot. 10.D21
EOS C400 GOES OFF BASE FOR LOW-LIGHT SHOOTING Canon Europe BY DAVID FOX
The EOS C400 is Canon’s first high-end RF-mount cinema camera, packing a lot of features into a more compact system. It uses a 6K full-frame backside- illuminated, stacked CMOS sensor (BSI), boasting 16 stops of dynamic range. It’s also the first camera using triple base ISO technology, aiming to provide cleaner results in low light. The three native ISO levels are 800, 3200 and 12,800 when shooting Canon Log 2 or 3. An automatic switching mode detects ambient lighting and adjusts the base ISO level accordingly.
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Base jumping: Canon’s EOS C400 cinema camera and CN7x17 cine servo lens
The RF mount not only supports a wide array of RF prime, zoom, hybrid, cinema
and VR lenses, including Canon’s new CN7x17 KAS T 17-120mm zoom lens (also available with PL
mount), but it also supports optional EF-EOS R mount adapters as well as a new PL-RF mount adaptor. Canon is also introducing its Dual Pixel CMOS AF II to its cinema EOS system, for improved autofocus that promises faster, more precise performance. It includes face/ eye/body tracking and animal detection and tracking. The EOS C400 supports several internal recording formats, from Canon’s scalable 12-bit Cinema Raw Light LT/ST/HQ, to 4:2:2 10-bit XF-AVC and the new MP4-based XF-AVC S and XF-HEVC S formats. 11.C40, 11.C41
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