Encompass Digital Media hit IBC 2018 fresh off announcing its plans to acquire Babcock International Group’s Media Services business. With the deal, Encompass will look to expand its footprint in the EMEA and extend its combined channel-layout, transmission, and digital-products portfolio, as well as adding international radio distribution to its suite of services. SVG sat […] More
Forbidden Technologies – developer and seller of Blackbird – was on hand at Microsoft Azure’s IBC booth, demonstrating its work station experience in the cloud. At the show, the company made two big announcements: the release of a Mac version of its Blackbird Edge cloud-based remote-video-editing/management platform (previously only on Linux) and the launch of […] More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolled out an army of demos at IBC this year focused media ingest, video processing and delivery, storage, content monetization, and – most notably – machine learning. ML coursed through the veins of AWS’s entire stand this year, especially when it came to sports. ML-fueled demos ranged from live clipping for […] More
It’s been more than two years since Cisco introduced its Media Blueprint, which charts a course for broadcasters to transition their operations to IP and the cloud. And with the popular sentiment at IBC that IP has officially arrived in the broadcast sector, Cisco appears to have some gained some genuine momentum in its push […] More
At the IBC Show in Amsterdam, Pliant Technologies rolled out the latest version of its CrewCom intercom system, featuring enhanced firmware and the system’s new Fiber Hub. The new Fiber Hub (CHB-8F) expands system capabilities by allowing up to eight connections using standard SFP-based ports along with a single copper port for interface to existing […] More
IBC 2018 marked the general availability of Video Indexer, Microsoft Azure’s (1.C27) AI-based advanced metadata extraction service. Video Indexer – which has been in a public preview since May – provides audio, speech, and visual-based learning models to enable emotion detection, topic inferencing, and facial recognition. In addition, Microsoft demoed how Azure Media Services can help […] More
The IBC Show floor opens today, but Evertz, Grass Valley, Harmonic, Imagine Comms, and MediaKind opened up the show on Thursday with their annual press conferences in Amsterdam. Here’s a recap of the big announcements from each company. Evertz charts IP roadmap, launches new low-cost DreamCatcher replay system At its IBC 2018 press conference, Evertz […] More
This year at IBC, Harmonic (stand 1.B20) is putting its VOS 360 Video SaaS platform front and center with the announcement of new dynamic ad insertion (DAI) and disaster recovery features, as well as an integration with Verimatrix’s new Viewthority content distribution platform. In addition,VOS 360 Video SaaS played a key role in the launch of a […] More
The concept of at-home production is nothing new for Riot Games, which has been leveraging its West Los Angeles esports-production facility in some fashion for its live productions around the globe for several years. However, over the past 18 months, the videogame publisher has been working on taking the productions to the next level with […] More
At SVG Europe’s Next Generation Audio Summit on 9 November, the session entitled ‘Remote Audio Production, Why, What and When?’ examined the practical, technological and economic benefits that could come from consolidating sports event audio production back at broadcast centres. The session also acknowledged the fact that it is still relatively early days for ‘true’ […] More
