At NAB 2014, VITEC announced a partnership with Sony and offered a live demonstration of its new end-to-end 4K IPTV solution for real-time, multicast distribution of Ultra HD video at the Sony booth. VITEC’s MGES-6000 Blade encoder ingests 4K content from professional 4K cameras via four HD-SDI ports and encodes and streams it over IP. […] More
The various pieces of the 4K-workflow puzzle continue to fall into place, but hurdles remain. No stranger to the buzz, Ericsson addressed a significant hurdle — content acquisition and delivery — by showing live, real-time “true” 4K/Ultra HD television (4K UHDTV) video contribution at NAB 2014. “If the whole point of having Ultra High Definition […] More
Less than four months into 2014, Click Effects’ résumé boasts an impressive number of high-profile projects. The company recently powered the content delivery at AT&T Stadium in Dallas for the NCAA Men’s Final Four, using the full range of CrossFire, Blaze, and Backdraft systems already in place at the venue. Click Effects systems have also […] More
At NAB 2014, in addition to Cisco’s North Hall headquarters, where the company demonstrated advances in its Videoscape TV-service–delivery platform, Cisco’s Sports & Entertainment contingent set up shop in EVS’s South Hall booth. There, the two showcased EVS’s C-Cast at work within Cisco’s StadiumVision video– and digital-content–distribution solution, which uses the technology to make multicamera […] More
Less than a month after Harris Broadcast made headlines by splitting its business into two segments, one of those segments, Imagine Communications — responsible for creating software, IP-networking, cloud-based, and TV Everywhere solutions for the media and entertainment market — made its NAB Show debut in the North Hall. Visitors to Imagine Communications’ booth could […] More
Following the acquisition of Unicorn Media — a provider of cloud ad-insertion technology —this year, Brightcove formed its Media Group, aimed at helping media clients boost revenue and decrease costs using Brightcove’s products and services. SVG caught up with Albert Lai, who serves as CTO of the newly formed group, at the company’s NAB 2014 […] More
With its Central Hall booth located steps from the outdoor exhibits area, Image Video was in a prime spot to launch its newest tally system: the fourth-generation TSI-4000 tally controller. More powerful and compact than its predecessors, the 1RU TSI-4000 was built with the remote-production market in mind. At the heart of TSI-4000 is the […] More
Nevion hit the NAB 2014 show floor with plans to show how the company simplifies real-time content management and transport over long distances. By helping customers create dynamic and flexible infrastructure, Nevion facilitates transmission over legacy networks and paves the way for an increasingly IP-based world. In conversations with SVG during the show, Nevion UK […] More
This year, Nila replaced the existing tungsten and metal halide lights at the Reno Event Center in Reno, NV, for the 2014 NBA D-League Showcase. The upgrade was essential, not only for fans to see the court better but for CBS Sports to broadcast the event in HD. SVG met up with CEO Jim Sanfilippo […] More
Artel Video Systems’ DigiLink media-transport platform hit the show floor with enhanced functionality and support for HD-SDI, SD-SDI, DVB-ASI over IP networks using the SMPTE standard and JPEG 2000 compression. SVG sat down with President/CEO Richard Dellacanonica to discuss the company’s push toward uncompressed HD over IP, the state of IP-based workflows in broadcasting, and […] More
