Sky TV in New Zealand has turned to DAMsmart, a Silver Trak Digital company, to digitise over 23,000 hours of sports footage from its archive of material accumulated over 30 years of broadcasting. DAMsmart NZ GM David Elder explained: “Sky didn’t just hold an extensive archive of All Blacks games and Warriors matches, but a […] More
The 2018 edition of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference (Venice, 9-12 October), entitled ‘The Archive’s Renaissance: Navigating the Future, Channeling the Past,’ is hosted by Italian public service broadcaster, RAI, and will bring together engineers, managers, strategists, technicians, researchers and service providers to discuss the latest issues surrounding the archiving profession. This year’s conference will focus […] More
Cloudian is a Silicon Valley-based file and object storage company specialising in S3 API storage systems. By contrast to proprietary, and often expensive, object storage products which came before it, Cloudian’s technology allows all sizes and types of users to realise the benefits of object storage in their own data centres. Our Sit Down with […] More
Media services specialist Liquid Media Hub has been appointed as a partner by ATP Media, the global sales, broadcast production and distribution arm of the ATP World Tour. ATP Media has approved Liquid Media Hub to supply a full range of content services, including ingest and digitisation of a large archive of historical footage, as well […] More
By Birgit Heidsiek Sportcast, the 100%-owned subsidiary of the Deutsche Fussball Club (DFL), is in the midst of another successful season as the host broadcaster for Germany’s Bundesliga. And the production continues to see increased demand from broadcasters around the world to not only broadcast matches but also create additional content around the matches. In […] More
