Recent Posts by Jason Dachman

IBC Q&A: Pliant Technologies’ Rosen on how CrewCom changes the game for comms

At NAB 2016 in April, CoachComm launched professional-products division Pliant Technologies as part of its effort to differentiate its production-intercom portfolio with its well-known coaching-comms products. Pliant’s first product, CrewCom, is a highly scalable, distributed-architecture platform that aims to reimagine the way live-production teams think about intercom operations. According to Pliant, CrewCom’s distributed architecture, which […]  More

IBC Q&A: Pliant Technologies’ Rosen on how CrewCom changes the game for comms

At NAB 2016 in April, CoachComm launched professional-products division Pliant Technologies as part of its effort to differentiate its production-intercom portfolio with its well-known coaching-comms products. Pliant’s first product, CrewCom, is a highly scalable, distributed-architecture platform that aims to reimagine the way live-production teams think about intercom operations. According to Pliant, CrewCom’s distributed architecture, which […]  More

IBC Q&A: Pliant Technologies’ Rosen on how CrewCom changes the game for comms

At NAB 2016 in April, CoachComm launched professional-products division Pliant Technologies as part of its effort to differentiate its production-intercom portfolio with its well-known coaching-comms products. Pliant’s first product, CrewCom, is a highly scalable, distributed-architecture platform that aims to reimagine the way live-production teams think about intercom operations. According to Pliant, CrewCom’s distributed architecture, which […]  More

IBC Q&A: Pliant Technologies’ Rosen on how CrewCom changes the game for comms

At NAB 2016 in April, CoachComm launched professional-products division Pliant Technologies as part of its effort to differentiate its production-intercom portfolio with its well-known coaching-comms products. Pliant’s first product, CrewCom, is a highly scalable, distributed-architecture platform that aims to reimagine the way live-production teams think about intercom operations. According to Pliant, CrewCom’s distributed architecture, which […]  More

IBC Spotlight: FileCatalyst President John Tkaczewski on NBC’s Rio Efforts and Central v3.7

FileCatalyst arrives at IBC 2016 in Amsterdam on a hot streak, having played a key role in NBC Olympics’ production of Rio 2016 as a high-speed file-transfer tool between Rio and the U.S. At IBC, FileCatalyst is demoing FileCatalyst Central v3.7, which was used by NBC Olympics in its coverage of the Games in Rio and two years prior in […]  More

IBC Q&A: Cobalt Digital’s McAlpine discusses ImmediaTV acquisition and the future roadmap

In an effort to accelerate growth of its IP product line, Cobalt Digital announced on the opening day of IBC 2016 its acquisition of Silicon Valley-based video-compression/transport/processing supplier ImmediaTV. The move doesn’t come as a total shock, as both companies are openGear vendors and have teamed up in recent years to create bundled solutions for mutual […]  More

IBC Q&A: Cobalt Digital’s McAlpine discusses ImmediaTV acquisition and the future roadmap

In an effort to accelerate growth of its IP product line, Cobalt Digital announced on the opening day of IBC 2016 its acquisition of Silicon Valley-based video-compression/transport/processing supplier ImmediaTV. The move doesn’t come as a total shock, as both companies are openGear vendors and have teamed up in recent years to create bundled solutions for mutual […]  More

IBC Q&A: Encompass Digital Media’s Walters talks CONCACAF, CloudStream, and strategic evolution

Encompass Digital Media hits IBC 2016 on a high note after its Atlanta facility served as the technical-operations and quality-control center for CONCACAF’s Copa América Centenario operation. At IBC, Encompass is highlighting its latest cloud-based platforms — most notably the Cisco-powered CloudStream, which enables content providers to quickly create broadcast-quality multiscreen streams, and ChannelReady, a […]  More

IBC Q&A: Telestream’s Murray on acquisition of Vidcheck and the live-streaming explosion

Telestream arrived at IBC with a new acquisition in hand, having announced a deal for QC specialist Vidcheck prior to the show. Telestream aims to pair that company’s flagship product, Vidchecker file-based automated QC, with its own Vantage media-processing platform to create a more efficient transcoding solution for the market. In addition, Telestream is introducing […]  More