Monthly Archives: August 2014
Harman Professional systems for World Cup venues, broadcast workflows
Written on August 27, 2014 at 05:41, by David Davies
Eight of the major stadium venues in Brazil’s 12 host cities featured Harman’s wide range of audio solutions. In addition, a wide variety of Studer Vista consoles were used for […] More
Egyptian MPC goes tapeless with Imagine
Written on August 27, 2014 at 05:40, by Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
Egyptian Media and Production City (EMPC) has selected Imagine Communications’ Nexio AMP video servers to update six of its studios. Replacing EMPC’s existing bank of video tape recorders, the new […] More
New CROATEL OB 3 HD van rolls out with Grass Valley cameras, switcher and routing
Written on August 27, 2014 at 05:34, by Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
Croatian broadcast production and satelilite services company CROATEL has expanded its outside broadcast fleet to include a third van complete with high definition cameras, switchers, routers and other live production […] More
FOR-A to intro XT2000 video switcher
Written on August 26, 2014 at 13:55, by SVG Staff
FOR-A Company Limited will unveil its HVS-XT2000 video production switcher, the newest addition to the XT switcher family. A flexible unit allowing up to 40 SDI inputs and 22 outputs, the easy-to-use XT2000 includes powerful features unavailable in other switchers in its class. FOR-A will showcase the XT2000 in its IBC booth, Hall 2, Stand A51. […] More
VideoScanner seals long-term archive access
Written on August 26, 2014 at 13:18, by Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
NOA has announced VideoScanner, an ingest and normalisation solution that creates lossless video archives in a format to suit long-term access and preservation strategies. To overcome the lack of a lossless archive format with wide vendor support, NOA’s VideoScanner uses a combination of mathematically lossless formats based on royalty-free open source technology to create lossless […] More
BroadStream provides new broadcast HARBOR
Written on August 26, 2014 at 13:14, by Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
At IBC BroadStream will unveil HARBOR, the Company’s new master control solution. BroadStream hopes HARBOR will deliver the resilience of discrete master control, enabling precision switching of live events while leveraging users’ existing investment in switchers and graphics systems. HARBOR integrates automation with closely-coupled media management, and central storage with ingest and playout. HARBOR preserves […] More
Dolby prepares to get personal at IBC
Written on August 26, 2014 at 13:01, by Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
Making it possible for broadcasters to provide personalised audio services is a focus for Dolby at IBC this year as the company highlights the benefits of AC-4. A new audio compression format for distributing rich media content, AC-4 uses existing workflows and tool chains to make it possible for broadcasters and OTT service providers to […] More
Forbidden brings Timecode Buddy into Forscene platform via MovieSlate iOS app
Written on August 26, 2014 at 12:57, by Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
Forbidden Technologies has integrated Forscene with Timecode Systems’ Timecode Buddy via the MovieSlate iOS application. MovieSlate is an industry standard for production slates and the Timecode Buddy system lets users generate, sync and share accurate timecodes and metadata wirelessly over RF or Wi-Fi networks. The integration brings the three technologies together to allow people to […] More
EBU to promote new swimming Champions League
Written on August 26, 2014 at 12:28, by Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
Wohler taps Cooper for RadiantGrid EMEA sales post
Written on August 26, 2014 at 12:23, by Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director
Wohler Technologies has named David Cooper as a sales engineer for the company’s RadiantGrid business line. In this new position with Wohler, Cooper will serve as a technical resource primarily […] More