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Google: not Daleks Conference Analysis By Chris Forrester

Matt Brittin: “We should play and partner together”

Matt Brittin, Google’s president for Europe, delivered a fascinating Keynote to a packed Forum at IBC, and told delegates that he was no Dalek! (Dr Who is his favourite show). “Google is not some extra-terrestrial alien from another world,” he said, arguing that the world – despite its billion connected people – was barely at the dawn of the changes still to come. Brittin spent much of his session stressing that Google

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wanted to talk to the broadcast community, which he saw as potential colleagues and where Google-based technology was in place to aid the content community. “We want to help the large screen experience be as interactive and engaging as that on smaller, second screens.” He explained how products and services like Google Chromecast, the Android OS, and, of course, YouTube were in place to help consumers. “We should play and partner together,” he suggested. “We don’t know the future. But we can all see the trends. We can see what’s likely to be coming.

“Android will help drive innovation. It brings with it all the apps developed for it. Manufacturers such as Sony and Philips are working on new Android-ready displays. “I’d like to work together with you. Not everything will turn out the way we expect. We are a set of platforms, and we can put your content in front of the right user at the right time. We think we can help you connect with audiences, and we can help the manufacturers and the pay TV players with their business models and help them to innovate faster.”

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Shifting Gears: BBC Worldwide CEO and director global Tim Davie discusses his vision for the future of the BBC’s commercial arm Page 10

Visions of future broadcasting Professor David Crawford focuses on the IBC Future Zone and how exhibits make the cut Page 14

An IBC world’s first on the Big Screen In a world’s first, tonight’s audience will see Ang Lee’s Life of Pi with a clarity never before experienced Page 18 Audio world launch: Lawo’s mc²36 all-in-one audio console has made its premiere at IBC, unveiled at a high-energy launch that included a live audio over IP mix of German rockers Rammstein. “The mc²36 is the first production console Lawo has ever built that is designed as an all-in-one concept,” said Lawo’s senior product manager for Audio Production, Christian Struck (pictured). “It needs no external racks, as surface, I/O and DSP are all built-in, which makes it very compact.” He added: “The newly designed DSP micro-core with internal x port audio matrix and inbuilt Ravenna/AES67 connections make this console a fully networkable desk, and % future proof.” The mc²36 features onboard Loudness Metering and offers inch full HD touchscreens with touch-sensitive colour-illuminated rotary encoders. “We expect it to be used for broadcast operations of course, but the portability also makes it suitable for rental applications and we see it going into theatres and houses of worship as well. We’re looking into whole new groups of operators with this desk.” 8.C71

FTA Grand Alliance: The UK’s freesat, France’s FRANSAT and Italy’s TivuSat are coming together in an alliance designed to prepare for ‘nextgeneration’ developments, writes Chris Forrester. In the first collaboration of its kind, the FreeTV Alliance aims to promote the harmonisation of satellite TV services and technology across Europe. This will help drive the continuing rollout of compelling free-to-view satellite TV, benefitting viewers, manufacturers, broadcasters, retailers and service providers. The news emerged at an IBC press launch yesterday. Alberto Sigismondi, CEO at TivuSat and the Alliance’s first chairman, said: “We are hugely excited by the prospects. In putting together this Alliance we want to take the whole effort of free satellite TV to the next level. The TV manufacturers are already building in digital satellite TV tuners to their sets. In Germany, for example, almost every set has a double front end and can handle cable or satellite reception. In Italy, it isn’t quite so many sets, but we are getting the message out.” Pictured (L/R): Jean-Luc Deroudilhe, directeur général FRANSAT, freesat managing director Emma Scott and TivuSat CEO Alberto Sigismondi.

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Leaders face the future In exclusive research for IBC, global consultancy Deloitte asked executives from the broadcast and communications industries who were the top innovators. The answers were the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook – and only 5% named broadcasters. This was the reality facing the delegates at the IBC Leaders’ Summit, the invitation-only event for top business leaders in the industry. Their debate centred around the effects of disruptive technologies. “The aggregate of all these changes over the past decade is a television service which has retained audiences and grown revenues, despite the recent surge of digital and digitally-enabled services,” according to the Deloitte research. Average viewing hours had risen between and from three and a half hours to almost four hours, with television advertising revenues rising by 12% in the same period. In their closed-door sessions, IBC Leaders’ Summit delegates heard that short-form video clips, for all their billions of online views, would be a supplement to rather than a replacement for traditional long-form television.

Equally, while subscription services like Netflix will have a place in the new firmament, they will remain only a small part of overall viewing. But a Silicon Valley delegate warned against complacency, citing that after learning that, in the US, the average Netflix viewer was watching minutes of its content a day, it would be foolish not to be paranoid. The key message of the Summit was how quickly technical innovation, like the move to IP and new distribution platforms, could be implemented. A European broadcaster said: “I make it clear that we must innovate through the company from the cleaner to the chief executive.” Change must cover all processes such as the way rights are acquired, he argued. Certainly there is a continuing demand for premium content, not least sports rights which are rising at 14% a year. Continuing innovation, from IP infrastructures to the prospects for cord-cutting, will be certain to exercise delegates at the IBC Leaders’ Summit at IBC To find out more about the IBC Leaders’ Summit visit www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar

CION camera ready By Carolyn Giardina

AJA president Nick Rashby (left) and founder John Abt with the CION

Production models of the CION — the first digital camera from AJA — are on display at IBC and will soon be available for $8, “CION is so multiformat; people are looking at it for all applications,” AJA president Nick Rashby said, noting that this includes IBC keynote speaker Douglas Trumbull, who is developing a 3D, 4K fps exhibition system. CION supports 4K and fps. In fact, these features

have already been tested by NASCAR and Major League Baseball. At IBC, AJA revealed that its Raw CION camera format will soon be supported in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Said Rashby: “While CION enables a multitude of ProRes codec choices, and other direct-to-edit workflow options, customers who will want the ultimate in colour range and flexibility may choose to work with AJA Raw files in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.” 7.F11

AFP chooses Quantel for ‘Production Everywhere’ By Carolyn Giardina Agence France-Presse (AFP) has inked a deal with Quantel, which will provide the international news agency with a global news production system thought to be worth several million Euros. Scheduled to go into service in January, the AFP system brings together Quantel Enterprise sQ, QTube and revolutionQ technologies to provide a ‘Production Everywhere’ workflow. AFP typically produces video stories a day, with localised versions for six

different markets, all in TV and web formats, making a total output of around 1, unique pieces daily. The new workflow is expected to archive up to 3, hours of media every year. A fundamental requirement of the new system is to give users anywhere in the world easy, fast access to all archive media alongside current footage. The system will combine an Enterprise sQ production system at AFP’s Paris headquarters with support for 11 international bureaux and plus roving journalists via Quantel’s QTube technology.

The archive will be handled via Quantel’s revolutionQ software. The workflow also uses Alchemist standards converters from Snell, which Quantel acquired earlier this year. "We knew this was a very challenging project and, having researched some of the manufacturers in the marketplace, the only company that had the technology actually capable of delivering it without a major software development effort was Quantel,” said Philippe Sensi, AFP’s VP of technology. 7.A20

Party time at IBC! It was the first time at IBC for Scottish lighting startup Blind Spot Gear. Blind Spot’s Billy Campbell said, “IBC is by far the most outrageous but well-organised show in the film and TV world.” When asked what was “outrageous” about it, he smiled: “It’s in Amsterdam!” The Cisco team (top) enjoyed a break from a busy day. Cisco’s Bart van Daele said, “It’s been a splendid atmosphere, lots of interested customers and good interaction.” Eastern European delegates (above) unwound at the IBC party. Radoslav Markov of Bulgarian company Orphei said, “We are very excited to be at IBC. It’s where you can see all the new technology in one place!”

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New workflow at MediaCityUK: dock10, the digital media service provider at MediaCityUK, has completed a new workflow around Avid MediaCentral, supporting the ‘Avid Everywhere’ strategy, to expand into the global media production market. The new workflow uses tools from Avid’s Artist Suite, including Media Composer Software and Pro Tools; Media Suite, including Interplay Production and Interplay MAM; and Storage Suite. It covers production and post, through archive and distribution. “With Avid Everywhere, we can greatly extend the reach of our business by collaborating with geographically dispersed teams, all working in realtime on projects housed in our highly resilient, secure, and protected space at MediaCityUK,” said Paul Clennell, CTO of dock10 and founding member of the Avid Customer Association. Pictured: Mark Senior, CEO of dock10 (left) and Tom Cordiner, VP sales international, Avid. – Carolyn Giardina 7.J20

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IABM: Challenges ahead Conference Analysis By George Jarrett The IABM’s annual market evaluation was a mixture of rude health and rude shocks. Market value is $40 billion, growing to $45 billion in , but this industry is playing catch-up. Under the banner ‘What future for broadcast technology?’ IABM CEO Peter White produced a mass of stats – the top user spend prediction is multi platform for content delivery, 69% of vendors are in profit, and the big companies take 85% of revenue – being just three of dozens. “The market is quite buoyant, but it is going to change,” he said. “There will be new players coming in and established names going out or being absorbed. We are still spending a lot on innovation and R&D, but

“Quantel and Grass Valley should be partners of Imagine,” said Charlie Vogt (far right)

is that roadmap aligned with market requirements? “If you are not into workflow management, managing assets, and providing that sort of service you are likely to be missing an opportunity,” he added. Price pressure is immense, margins pinched, R&D a risk or at risk, but the IABM’s evolving membership is so indicative of change. “We are not finding many large global members. There are a lot of small companies DutchView’s Michiel van Duijvendijk and EVS CEO Joop Janssen shake on the deal at IBC

coming in that provide IP network services and streaming,” said White. “A lot of the innovation is coming from the smaller players.” Dan Castles, president and CEO of Telestream, can sleep at night because 86% of users want to make ‘best of breed’ purchases. All the consolidation just makes people nervous. “I have been in this industry for 30 years and there has never been this level of vendor and strategy change,” he said.

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First sale for DYVI Live DYVI By Heather McLean EVS company, DYVI Live, has been selected by Netherlandsbased broadcast and production facility companies Dutchview and Infostrada Creative Technology to enable true realtime remote production in Europe. Dutchview and Infostrada Creative Technology specialise in providing integrated media acquisition, post production, broadcast IT and data services to major media companies, including Fox Sports, and have a long-standing relationship with EVS. The deal consists of two modular switcher panels and three IP-based servers from DYVI Live, the developer of what is claimed to be the world’s first fully IT-based production suite. Using industry standard hardware and optimised software, DYVI Live claims that DYVI signals the end of traditional hardware-based 04 theibcdaily

production switchers and opens up broadcast production to a more flexible, IT-based world. Scalable Video Systems (SVS) in Weiterstadt, a company formed by a group of production switcher experts, is the technology developer for the DYVI product line. Explained Peter Bruggink, CTO at Dutchview and Infostrada Creative Technology: “Infostrada Creative Technology started the transition to a full IP-based broadcast platform in With the acquisition of a DYVI Live production mixer platform and the recent investment in a new full gigabits per second-enabled core network, the company will further expand the capabilities of the highly innovative IP-based production platform of Infostrada Creative Technologies and Dutchview.” DYVI told The IBC Daily that a second customer deal will be announced next week with a large organisation in Belgium. F30

Ray Cross, executive chairman and CEO of Quantel, said: “Everyone is looking to do more for less, and if you help them do that you are going to be successful. The industry is coming of age.” According to Marco Lopez, president of Grass Valley, “customers are seeing a lot of change, and we want to ensure they are future ready. Investment in R&D is critical because the industry is making such an important shift.” Charlie Vogt, CEO of Imagine Communications and Gates Air, added: “This is an industry that’s a decade behind where it should be. A big part of this mess is the way the networks have been designed and built. We are going to see a lot more consolidation. “This industry has got to get to a common protocol, and that’s going to be IP. This is a community and we have to find a way to work better together. Quantel and Grass Valley should be partners of Imagine,” he added.

Kabel Deutschland has chosen Evertz Software Defined Video Network (SDVN), featuring 46Tb/s EXE Video Service Routers. Evertz said the EXE routers would be used to transition Kabel Deutschland’s uncompressed high-quality video routing to a future-proof IP network-based architecture, without compromising quality, reliability or resiliency. The company said that by

deploying two EXE routers along with SMPTEcompliant Evertz high-density IP-Gateway/IP encapsulator modules, Kabel Deutschland extends its uncompressed video routing capacities by the factor of The move also bridges the gap between the company’s video and IT-networks as the EXE routing core is completely network based and therefore format-agnostic. It can thus transport uncompressed video streams of multiple current and future standards such as UHD. 8.B40

MPEG software firm is acquired by DTS Digital surround sound company DTS has acquired Manzanita Systems, the developer of MPEG software applications for digital television, video on demand (VoD) and overthe-top (OTT) markets. According to DTS, the acquisition will enable the company to offer greater value to its customers in those markets. “We are committed to growing our business in the network-connected media ecosystem and believe that the acquisition of Manzanita Systems will help DTS further strengthen its position in the space,” said Geir Skaaden, senior vice president of digital content and media solutions, DTS. 2.B50

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Sparking the Lightbox flame: Spark New Zealand, formerly Telecom NZ, is making use of the Xstream MediaMaker video management platform for the delivery of its new OTT video service Lightbox. Lightbox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spark, is available as a SVoD service to all New Zealanders no matter what ISP they are using. It offers over 5, hours of episodic TV content and can be used across multiple devices, including laptop, desktop, iPad and Airplay on Apple TV. The Xstream MediaMaker and set of RESTFul APIs were key to the creation of the OTT service. Some core features in the OTT solution powered by Xstream MediaMaker includes advanced voucher integration and functionality and advanced parental control. Xstream MediaMaker also provides a transparent workflow management for content ingest, including an OTT loading dock service with screener application which is integrated with Gracenote and Technicolor, asset management, automated and scheduled publishing across devices and subscriber management. Pictured: Mike McMahon, CTO Lightbox and Peter Baungaard Holmelin, CTO Xstream. F15

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In Brief New LINQ product family is launched Clear-Com has introduced the LINQ product line. LINQ interfaces are compact devices that enable connection of two-wire partyline with call signalling and four wire audio over LAN, WAN or internet IP infrastructures. LINQ is available in twowire (LINQ-2W2) or four-wire (LINQ-4W2) options. The LINQ-2W2 is both Clear-Com and RTS TW compatible. The LINQ-4W2 can interconnect with devices, such as analogue ports of any matrix intercom system, analogue telephone circuits, two-way radio gateways and audio consoles. LINQ uses the OPUS highquality audio codec. The bitrate, bandwidth and delay can be changed without introducing any distortion or discontinuity in the audio. As a low audio latency communication link, LINQ can be used for natural intercom conversation, networked music performances and for audio signals that are transported via different facilities (transmission synchronisation).

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Space-saving server The new Live+ Broadcast Server from Dejero comes in a compact, rack-mounted 1U package, and includes dual redundant power supplies and RAID hard drives for increased reliability when receiving video from fieldbased devices such as the Live+ 20/20 Transmitter, Live+ VSET, Live+ Mobile App, and Live+ NewsBook. “The Live+ Broadcast Server plays a critical role in the Dejero bonded wireless production chain by receiving video transmissions over IP links and then integrating them into the broadcast workflow,” explained Brian Cram, CEO, Dejero. “With the newest version, the server takes up less space in a facility's equipment room or in a mobile production truck where space is even more limited. News crews can save time and money getting live and breaking news on the air by transmitting high-quality video files directly to the Live+ Broadcast Server using our patent-pending bonded wireless technology.”

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Power Station hot to swap Atomos By David Fox Hot-swappable batteries can now be used with almost any type of camera or other portable equipment, in the form of the new Atomos Power Station. “We’ve been watching our customers with 5D Mark IIIs, etc, and they have so much to carry – always stopping and changing batteries. The more professional they become, the more devices they use, powering those devices becomes a big challenge, and this is the answer to that,” said Jeromy Young, CEO and founder of Atomos. “We bring our continuous

power, patented technology into a light, portable and easy to mount unit for any camera, monitor, recorder, lighting or microphone.” It can deliver up to 48W of power, which limits the size of lights or complex camera rigs it can be used with, but for most users this should be more than enough. It can power up to three devices, and has a built-in charger, with DC input, which charges one of the two included mAh NP-size batteries in one hour (or both in two hours). There are also two USB outputs. Available next month, it will cost €/£/$, and weigh about g including batteries. 9.D25

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Power on tap: Young shows off the back and front of the new Power Station

SCTE: Filling a dire need By George Jarrett

NewTek By Carolyn Giardina TalkShow VS, has been unveiled at the NewTek booth. With TalkShow, any television or live video producer can reach sources via Skype, which has an estimated million users and incorporate them as guest speakers into live programmes with full-frame Skype video calls. Built on Skype TX software from Microsoft, the TalkShow 1RU system can be used for initiating, receiving, monitoring and managing video calls. It also offers customisable settings for fully colour correcting live video calls (including features for

automatic colour balancing) as well as SDI-embedded audio, and compressor/limiter, equalisation, and adjustable head-room controls for further improving audio quality. It’s designed for use in any production environment, though producers using TalkShow with NewTek’s TriCaster multi-camera video production systems will be able to route Skype video calls directly to and from a TriCaster over a network connection without tying up an additional HD-SDI input. The TalkShow VS model is expected to ship in Q4 and is available to order now at an introductory price of $3, (international pricing varies). 7.K11

Remote 4K possibilities Bradley Engineering/ AltaSens By David Fox A compact 4K remote controlled camera has been developed by Bradley Engineering using a new Super 35mm CMOS image sensor from AltaSens, with digital processing by JVC (AltaSens’ sister company). It comes in three versions, but “the fibre back, we think, is going to be the one everyone goes for, because it’s 12Gbps,” said company founder, David Bradley. Using technology from Bluebell Opticom, the fibre back has a range of 10km, whereas the

Quad HD-SDI back has a limit of no more than 10m, and the HDMI back less than that, “and for a remote camera, that’s kind of pointless,” he admitted, although they will suit some applications. The 15W (v) camera was built around the Micro Four Thirds lens mount, as he wanted to make sure the camera would have a good choice of affordable lenses of sufficient resolution, and MFT was the best choice (with lots of adaptors available for other mounts). It will include remote zoom and focus, and will work with Bradley’s standard remote control panel. F41

SCTE, the Society for Broadband Professionals, started life in as The Society of Relay Engineers and has morphed its way through many technology eras to become agnostic with regard to content delivery methods. From radio wireless it saw TV arrive and reach remote homes via four twisted pairs. “About we decided to become Cable and TV Engineers (SCTE) and that went through several stages,” said president Roger Blakeway. “By the time we had gone through the 80’s with broadband TV being introduced by Margaret Thatcher (Hunt Report), the duopoly review took place and cable operators were allowed to provide switched telephony,” he added. “By , we were all cable operators putting in telephony overlays.” No longer cable TV, the initials stayed the same and the business morphed into cable modems and networks providing pure data. How does SCTE attract members? “We have always held that there is a dire need in this industry,” said Blakeway. “None of the universities or technical colleges teach installation of cable type networks, or even their design. “We saw that was an enormous gap, because those people being trained had no professional career path,” Blakeway added. “There was a need for an infrastructure, and like other learned institutes they

Roger Blakeway: “We saw an enormous gap”

can become Fellows. That is a career structure many technical people would not get any other way.” SCTE is seeking nominations for its individual and technological innovation awards, which recognise success in the broadband industry. These start with the Technician of the Year, the Richard Harris Member of the Year Award and the Tom Hall Award. The other awards, plus one for winner of the best overall submission, are for Best Broadband Network Transmission Solution, Best CPE Solution, and Best Digital Processing Solution. The awards ceremony will take place at SCTE's 70th anniversary dinner on 27 June, at The Tower of London. 8.F51e

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Q&A with IBC CEO Michael Crimp True TV What are your expectations for this year’s event in terms of numbers and the demographic of attendees? Last year, IBC was able to welcome 52, attendees, and while we are lucky in that for many of our attendees IBC is a firm fixture on their calendar, we never take that for granted. We listen to our attendees and we research the wider market, and this feedback drives us to constantly evolve and add new features. This year sees the debut of IBC Content Everywhere Europe, a focal point for the high profile and disruptive nature of IP connectivity and the second screen. As part of this, you will also see a brand new Feature Area, IBC Content Everywhere Cloud Solutions, which focuses on the impact of increasing amounts of content production processes and delivery being virtualised on remote servers and controlled by software. The implications of this will be profound. I would expect these

successfully adapting and generating new revenue streams.

Michael Crimp: “We listen to our attendees and we research the wider market, and this feedback drives us to constantly evolve and add new features”

initiatives to prove highly popular and help us bring in a new audience to the show. How well do you feel the traditional broadcast sector is applying itself to the changing landscape brought on by IP connectivity? Over the past 18 months the sector has seen considerable M&A activity and we can expect further consolidation. In some

respects this is simply a sign of a maturing industry and increasingly commoditised technology. The switch to IP and IT infrastructure is fundamental to change in the industry and I think that at IBC you will not only see the participation of many newer players to the broadcast market, but plenty of vibrant innovation from so-called traditional developers and service providers who are

How do you think IBC will reflect the industry in ? Where we once had the content is king mantra, we now have content everywhere. There is an unstoppable logic behind the demand consumers have to be able to watch what they want when they want on what they want and the march of technologies to enable this. What is increasingly apparent and visible around IBC is that the momentum does not stop there. Personal, wearable computers and sensors connected to everyday items from cars to temperature controls are creating vast amounts of data that will some day run our lives. The nexus of this Internet of Things is the home and the logical place for it is the giant-size Ultra HD screen in the living room. The potential is vast and is already being eyed by vendors and media organisations.

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Especially for the committed clubbers,Trouw opens its doors for a marathon session this weekend. On Saturday, Berghain’s Ryan Elliott and a list of local jocks – including Benny Rodrigues and Boris Werner – play their favourite techno jams. Headlining on Sunday is Moscow’s fashionista-cumunderground electro DJ Nina Kraviz with additional four/four joy coming from Steve Rachmad, Clone Records boss Serge, Awanto 3, William Kouam Djoko and curator Makam. Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September,Trouw, from on Saturday. For more information, visit www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar

The Judges’ Prize – one of IBC’s biggest awards – will this year go to FIFA TV for its coverage of ’s World Cup in Brazil. It will be presented during the IBC Awards Ceremony which takes place tomorrow night, in the Auditorium at All IBC attendees are invited to this free event. The FIFA World Cup in Brazil was hailed as both a sporting and a media success. It is estimated that close to a billion people worldwide watched the final between Argentina and Germany. This year the coverage included many innovations, including a remarkable multi-platform service, which gave viewers the option to

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look at alternative camera angles, direct their own slow motion replays, and collect statistics and additional information. All matches were, of course, covered in HD, with 34 cameras at each stadium. Some games were also shot in 4K Ultra HD and 8K Super HiVision. Some of the 4K footage will be seen at the IBC Awards Ceremony tomorrow. The award will be received on stage by Niclas Ericson, FIFA’s director of television. He said: “The global football audience is always hungry for more – for more cameras, for more detail, for more replays and for more analysis. In Brazil this year we worked together with our partners to provide

more engaging multi-platform content and to develop the language to cover football in high-resolution formats. It was an exhilarating team effort, and I am proud to recognise all those who contributed.” Ericson will be joined on stage by representatives of 14 partner organisations, led by HBS, the host broadcast organisation. Alongside them will be Sony, NHK, Telegenic, EVS, Deltatre, Eutelsat, Globosat, Eurovision, Netco, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Boxframe, Dolby and Fujinon. The IBC Awards Ceremony starts at tomorrow night in the Auditorium. Seats are free to all IBC attendees.

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By Ian McMurray Describing it as the realisation of its vision for the future of clouddriven TV experiences where TV is on any device and the experience evolves with the consumer, Ericsson has announced MediaFirst. At the core of Ericsson MediaFirst is the Ericsson MediaFirst TV Platform, a software-defined, mediaoptimised platform for the creation, management and delivery of next generation Pay TV. The new end-to-end cloudbased platform is said to embrace all content sources and delivery networks, equipping operators to deliver what Ericsson describes as the most cutting-edge large scale video services to the billions of devices forecast to be connected by The platform is offered as a software as a service and will be generally available in Q2 The Ericsson MediaFirst TV Platform is based on an open and standards-based approach and architected to be cloud-agnostic, enabling delivery on public and OpenStack private clouds. Key features include what Ericsson calls ‘True TV Anywhere’, in which the Ericsson MediaFirst TV Platform brings together the best of traditional pay TV and over-the-top content with the same user experience across all devices. Users can create their own profiles or share user profiles with other household members and receive tailored recommendations and content feeds based on data, including viewing history and trending content. Through personal device recognition, the TV recognises the viewer’s device and dynamically customises the experience. 1.D61

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Shifting Gears: BBC Worldwide’s media transformation strategy Conference Today By Chris Forrester How does the leader of a traditional media business go about devising a vision and strategy that will equip and safeguard it for the future? A plan that takes account of new distribution, new formats, and new entrants – be they new partners, new competitors, or both? BBC Worldwide, by any measure, is a broadcasting powerhouse although not without its critics. CEO and Director Global, Tim Davie, unveiled his vision for the future of the BBC’s commercial arm in October The threepronged plan involved increased investment in premium content; the launch of new channel brands; and a radical rethink of

its digital operations aimed at delivering scale and competitive advantage over new digital entrants. The past year or so has seen some unashamed ‘u-turns’ and a tightening of BBC-WW’s focus under Davie. In this Keynote, moderated by The IBC Daily’s Kate Bulkley, Davie will explain how the plan is delivering returns in the seven geographic markets in which it operates – returns that benefit not only the BBC, but also independent producers, and viewers in the UK. He will explain the challenges that faced BBC Worldwide and how they were overcome, and how the strategy is transforming the business. This important Keynote also sets the agenda for the third day of IBC in which we examine the potential impact of new entrants on established players, and explore how they are responding.

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Tim Davie: Digital strategies to combat OTT

Touch, Connect and Win at IBC If you are one of the lucky 10, IBC Content Everywhere Touch & Connect Club Members, and have one of our Touch & Connect Devices, you could be in to win amazing prizes. Touch & Connect is your key to additional information and to the remarkable IBC Content Everywhere portal and its networking opportunities. You can continue to debate the issues, and utilise information and contacts collected, inside this special community of interest long after you have gone home from IBC. As well as connecting you to

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like-minded people and great sources of information, your Touch & Connect device could also win you several prizes. First, just by wearing your IBC Content Everywhere Europe lanyard and device around IBC you could be spotted by one of our hostesses. They can hand out spot prizes, from jelly beans to conference passes, to lucky visitors. And at the end of each day, all those prize winners go into a draw to win a PlayStation Vita or a Nintendo 3DS XL. Downloading exhibitor information and connecting with

other users will build up points in your account, and each day the top points scorer will win an iPad Mini. One Touch & Connect registrant will have, unknowingly, a device with special prize powers, and one person who connects with the secret ‘Golden’

device will win an iPad Mini or PlayStation Vita. Finally, when the time comes to leave IBC, ensure you drop your Touch & Connect device into one of the collection bins near the exits. These will be synced for you, and one will be drawn at the end of IBC, and the

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Rising to the Top

The IBC Rising Stars initiative brings the brightest and best to IBC

To face the challenges of the multi-platform, multi-format, multi-content future, this industry needs to attract the best creative, technical and commercial talent. IBC plays its part through the IBC Rising Stars programme. This free initiative brings the brightest and the best to IBC. Students, graduates and new entrants to the industry have a tailored programme to help them understand the structure of the industry. The presentations will help them see where their talents can best be employed, and the networking opportunities help them get their foot in the door. Those chosen from the programme come from a wide geographical area, so they have plenty of experiences and understanding to share with each other. On top of that the programme includes networking opportunities with many of the influential people

who support the IBC Rising Stars programme. Delegates in the scheme have passes to key conference sessions. IBC Rising Stars Tom Wilkinson and Hannah Madsen said, “being able to go to some of the conference sessions for free was amazing.” The two-day programme includes special sessions aimed at newcomers to the industry, including how best to present skills and experience to attract an employer. There is also an IBC Rising Stars party night, with all the participants enjoying the Amsterdam nightlife. IBC is the window on the world of electronic media and entertainment. Through Rising Stars, IBC ensures the next generation of talent is drawn in. To find out more, go to the Forum or visit www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar

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Delivering HD to 8K with IP Move towards a fully IP/Ethernet infrastructure and take on the 4K and 8K challenge at reasonable cost urges Gaël Rouvroy, chief technology officer, IntoPIX UHD data rates get astronomical for uncompressed formats. A 4K video stream Baseband requires 11 Mbps, which is eight times the bandwidth needed for an HD video stream Baseband ( Mbps). The first and expensive way to take on this challenge is to get more bandwidth over the network infrastructure (from 10G, to 40G to G,…) or more SDI cables within the studios and broadcast facilities. But this is not cost effective, appropriate and scalableGbE ports, 3GSDI are commonly available, deployed and affordable today and will continue to be massively deployed in the near future. To answer the strong desire to manage UHD 4K and UHD 8K content in a practical and cost effective way on this existing infrastructure, a high quality HD/UHDTV

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mezzanine compression is needed. JPEG is a perfect mezzanine compression. Following the VSF Technical recommendations, broadcasters are using JPEG wrapped in MPEG2-TS over SMPTE 1/2 for contribution for its low latency, visually lossless quality and robustness. The codec implemented in FPGA offers huge interest as it supports multiple bit depth, frame rate and resolutions. TICO is a new technology and is based on a marketdriven research for lightweight compression. It aims to enable a mezzanine 4K/8K workflow from to compression with no effect on quality and latency: it is visually lossless with only few pixel lines of latency. TICO makes it possible to map 4K over a single 3G-SDI, or 10GbE link: it offers a smart infrastructure upgrade to 4K at an equivalent price

and complexity than existing baseband HD operations. With its pixel-lines-basedlatency, it is easy to combine TICO with SMPTE 5/6 or Ethernet-AVB. Combination of a visually lossless and ultra-low latency mezzanine compression with future proof transmission protocols such as SMPTE and EthernetAVB over 10G infrastructure are the keys to bring about a cost effective solution that address the 4K and 8K challenge. The industry is moving on to what is sure to be one of the biggest technology trends over the next five plus years. intoPIX compression technologies combined with SMPTE or Ethernet-AVB on FPGA are great examples of how we are pushing the boundaries and contributing towards the move to full IP infrastructure supporting HD but also 4K and 8K. D31

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Visions of future broadcasting By Professor David Crawford, IBC conference executive producer The IBC Future Zone has become a jewel in the crown of the IBC Show. It is a fantastic collection of the latest cuttingedge projects and prototypes from leading R&D labs around the world, brought together into a single exhibition area in the Park Foyer, next to Hall 8. In selecting exhibits for the IBC Future Zone, we try to select ideas and technologies from all sizes of companies – from large multi-national organisations to the smallest start-ups – and we start from the premise that the craziest proposals may well be the best. There are only really four guidelines for the selection committee:  The exhibit must be interesting, innovative and valid

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 It must not be a product that is already on the market – these can be shown on company stands in the other exhibition halls  It should consist of a practical demonstration, with hands-on interaction where possible  Its presentation should have a ‘wow-factor’ (measurable on the Richter Scale), to encourage passing visitors to stop and discover more. This year’s IBC Future Zone exhibitors are truly international, with representatives from a number of Japanese technology initiatives in both broadcasting and communications, MPEG and European collaborative projects, Chinese broadcast science projects, North American industry developments and Korean media research. There are incredible exhibits from some of

the major players at the forefront of our industry, like NHK, BBC, Cisco and VRT. The practical demonstrations on the stands in the IBC Future Zone include: personalisation and enhancement of the viewer experience; highlights of the FIFA World Cup in 8K at fps; 4K Cloud services; future digital radio broadcasting; a day in our future ‘Connected Life’; new technologies for AV archive restoration; ‘smart’ convergent media; ° viewable 3D displays and more. The IBC Future Zone is a portal to view our future directions, rather than just a glimpse of the future!

It is also home to IBC Posters. These are the highly respected, rigorously peer-reviewed ideas chosen by the IBC Technical Papers Committee for their relevance to the subjects of IBC’s Conference Programme and their ability to startle your imagination. The Posters are displayed as two A0-size ‘snapshots’ of innovation, and this year we have created a great new viewing area with more of a modern ‘art gallery’ presentation style. This will enable visitors to view the displays more conveniently, and engage with the Poster authors in more open and attractive surroundings. We are especially pleased to

have attracted Poster presentations for IBC from many different countries around the world. The fascinating topics of international research that are being presented by the authors, from both industry and academia include: UHDTV-IP; HEVC in the studio; Perception of 3D audio; CGI and editing for 3D images; Crowd-sourced music; DTV mobile surveillance; Object-oriented storytelling; Visual quality metrics; 4K broadcast on a budget; Adaptive bitrates and cloudbased architectures for multimedia and more. The Future Zone is open to all, throughout the IBC Show.

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Q&A IT-based production switcher evolves Dyvi Live By Andy Stout Some interesting remote live production capabilities are being showcased by Dyvi Live during IBC, including realtime collaborative production between the RAI and an offsite studio located in Hilversum. The company is presenting the latest evolution of what it bills as the world’s first fully ITbased production switcher. The eponymously named DYVI features industry-standard hardware and optimised software, which the company says gives operators more scope for better creativity and access to more processing power and collaborative, remote operations in realtime – from anywhere to anywhere.

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Furthermore the DYVI switcher panel has been designed to offer a top end range of advanced and creative options, such as an unlimited numbers of layers, multiple keyers, real 3D and a flexible panel set-up. But it’s the ‘from anywhere to anywhere’ capabilities that will be attracting the most attention as remote workflows rise up the industry agenda. An integrated DYVI production system in Hall 10 at the RAI will be connected to an offsite DutchView studio located in Hilversum — naturally equipped with a similar DYVI production toolset — to demonstrate how the two locations can review and control media in realtime. Connectivity will be provided via a 10Gbps connection between the two cities. F30

Ben Davenport, director of marketing, Dalet Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? NAB was all about mergers, acquisitions and restructuring. Five months later, IBC is the ideal opportunity for visitors to see what benefits those transactions are bringing to their business. Having acquired AmberFin at NAB, we’re excited to show the enhancements AmberFin brings to MAM-driven workflows through our Dalet Galaxy platform, as well as new developments within Dalet AmberFin products. What do you think are the key developments in, or threats to, your market sector at the current

time? Dalet offers a broad range of solutions and applications to different areas of the media and entertainment business, but across all of these, there is a common theme – doing more for less. The best way to do this is through the exploitation of key technical and descriptive metadata to drive smart, well-integrated workflows, utilising the best IT practices and commodity hardware. Why should delegates visit your stand at IBC? The Dalet theatre plays host to a number of fascinating talks and presentations from broadcasters, media facilities and Dalet partners alongside educational

sessions with Bruce Devlin aka 'Mr MXF.' We also have 10 feature-packed demo stations on the stand showing everything from Dalet Brio, a compact, highdensity, integrated video server, to News Pack, a complete packaged, turnkey newsroom system. 8.B77

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Perfect Pi: An IBC world first Spacious: The second production and slomo area in Aret’s AR-6 14m OB trailer

All change for OB expansion Aret video and audio engineering By David Fox Aret’s latest demonstration outside broadcast vehicle, the AR-6, is the result of more than changes to improve its space, robustness, safety, ease of operation, time to operation, heat and acoustic insulation, ergonomics, easy maintenance and delivery time. The OB unit on show in the Outside Exhibit area is a 14m long double expandable trailer that is suitable for major

productions, such as premier league football. It has also been designed to be used in very hot countries, which is important, as Aret has just signed a contract for a major Middle East customer to provide a large OB trailer equipped with 16 cameras, one grip truck and two integration vans. Aret claims to be the only broadcast systems integrator that incorporates its own coach-building department. OE

IBC Big Screen Tonight you have the chance to see one of the greatest movies of recent years: Ang Lee’s remarkable Life of Pi. Better, you can see it in the greatest cinema experience yet created. Best, the screening is free to all IBC attendees. For the first time, anywhere in the world, tonight’s audience will see a full-length feature film using the high brightness, 14 foot Lambert, Christie 6P 2D and 3D. The sound is remarkable, too, as the IBC Big Screen Experience is also fitted out with Dolby Atmos immersive audio. This impressive installation has been built by the IBC Technical team, with the generous support of Christie,

Dolby Labs and QSC. Tonight will be a world first. Life of Pi won four Oscars in , including best visual effects and best music, as well as best cinematography for Claudio Miranda and best direction for Ang Lee. Leading American critic Roger Ebert said “Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is a miraculous achievement of storytelling, and a landmark of visual mastery”.

subject matter can be discovered. Matrox has been offering technology that promotes content delivery via traditional channels for decades. For the last few years we have been complementing this technology with products for new media delivery. For an increasingly important segment of the viewing public, both mediums are embraced, sometimes at the same time. Our live web streaming appliances are being used in markets and applications that our broadcast equipment never

reached. Our technology had long touched some of the most widely viewed content in the world but it is now also found in classrooms, basement studios, halls, theatres, gyms, research labs, houses of worship, law courts and sports venues. A viewing audience has never been so easy to reach. It is through this evolving experience that we see our industry. More people and organisations than ever now have a voice. IBC is an ideal place to learn how best to project that voice, how best to reach your particular audience.

Tonight you have the chance to see it with a clarity never before experienced, in this very special screening thanks to the generosity of 20th Century Fox. Doors open in the IBC Big Screen at located in the Auditorium, this screening is free to attend and is sure to be popular, so arrive early. To view the full IBC Big Screen Experience schedule, visit www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar

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Content for you The broadcast business is more diversified than ever and even has a new adage says Daniel Maloney, technical marketing manager, Matrox 'Content is King' continues to be the most basic tenet on which a video professional hangs their hat. When broadcast was the only medium for video content delivery it needed two principal qualities – good production values and mass appeal. The introduction of cable and satellite reinforced this tenet substantially. Content could be themed, making it easier to find a home, but high distribution costs still necessitated some mass appeal for it to be considered viable for broadcast. In the age of Web , where internet bandwidth and download caps are no longer a factor for many consumers, content aggregators may be on the verge of living by a second adage – 'Content for you.'

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Content with very specific themes, appealing to very narrow yet dedicated audiences can be offered on a shoestring budget. With web broadcasting, distribution costs shrink immensely, and potential viewers are worldwide. This provides an excellent opportunity for creators and producers to conceive of whole new classes of content, appealing to smaller, geographically and culturally diverse audiences. Mass appeal can take a back seat to targeted appeal and narrative. Content need only be compelling to a subset of consumers. In this environment, from modest beginnings, the next big ideas may be incubated, experimented with and perfected. New talent and fresh

Delegates attending IBC are more diverse than ever before. The ranks of video professionals are expanding as all aspect of video technology become more accessible. There are many people walking the floor and attending conferences with questions about how to adapt their business to the latest technological and commercial realties. Each will find their own answers, or at least many options, and it is these many options that fuel the vibrancy of our industry. 7.B29

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Always responsive to pressure Serge Van Herck, CEO, Newtec, comments on high throughput satellite and multiservice platforms Our customers are constantly seeking new innovations to improve service quality and network efficiency. The pressure is on us to provide reliable and highly efficient solutions. In the satellite broadcast industry, for example, we knew that as the industry moves from SD to HD and to Ultra HD (UHD) television, and the demand for more bandwidth technology increases, we had to develop new technologies to bring more bits per hertz. Consequently, we teamed up with DVB to help create a new satellite transmission standard, DVB-S2X, to enable reduced costs and increased speeds for operators, as well as new services and higher transmission efficiency for both the broadcast and VSAT industries. As demand for new satellite services, such as Direct-ToHome (DTH) UHD 4K broadcasting, grows, DVB-S2X will become an instrumental enabler. We have demonstrated transmissions to DTH terminals and the transmission scheme

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showed up to a 20% throughput gain, using an unaltered regular geostationary satellite transponder. We have also recently launched another new return transmission technology. Eliminating the headache of choosing between SCPC and MF-TDMA return technologies, our solution, Mx-DMA or CrossDimensional Multiple Access, combines the best qualities of both. On top of improved efficiency, Mx-DMA also enhances the signal availability, helping our customers further improve their service quality. The rise of High Throughput Satellite (HTS - be it Ka, Ku or C-band) is undoubtedly a blessing, creating a new momentum that enables our data customers to offer telecommunication services, in most cases, at a much lower cost. This is key when competing with alternative terrestrial solutions. The introduction of HTS has also had a major impact on the satellite industryâ€&#x;s business model and value chain. The first

US HTS were launched by technology companies that gradually became fully vertically integrated; they operate their own telecom services on their own satellites. This has had a profound impact on the profitability and viability of other service providers and satellite operators who used to be their customers and suppliers. Meanwhile, we start to see a new trend where the 'traditional' satellite operators launch their own HTS on which they sell 'MHz capacity'. Iâ€&#x;m convinced this trend will expand further, generating strong business opportunities for technology companies like Newtec. IBC sees the European launch of our new multiservice platform, Newtec Dialog. There is a constant shift in which applications are being used more and which are being used less. Broadcasting services will always remain key but, looking past that, we have seen trunking applications over satellite decrease due to more fibre roll-outs. Fortunately,

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consumer broadband, mobile backhauling, oil and gas and mobility applications on land, sea and air represent a major growth opportunity. Our new multiservice platform, Newtec Dialog, allows service providers to build and adapt their infrastructure easily as their business and the satellite market grows and changes. Its flexibility means it can support any type of application, from consumer and enterprise VSAT, to broadcast and mobile backhauling, all from one platform and with the most efficient modulation and bandwidth allocation. Newtec Dialog supports several return channel technologies, including our new Mx-DMA. 1.A49

Mighty mobile power ranges Beillen Battery Jiade Energy Technology By David Fox Two new ranges of lithiumion battery with USB output for charging mobile phones and tablets have been introduced by Beillen. The NE and NC series of batteries and the high-load HE and HC batteries both have the USB port and come in V-mount and Anton/Bauer versions. The NE and HE models have an LED power check indicator (with five LEDs for time remaining capacity), while the NC and HC batteries have a small LCD screen that precisely displays the remaining capacity, charge period, etc. The NE/NC range comes in four power capacities: 95Wh (weighing g), Wh (g), Wh (g) and Wh (g), with a standard power tap connector to power a camera light directly. They use nickel sheet in the construction (to connect the cell and PCM), which is unusual for routine production but has the advantage of minimising the voltage drop. There are also four capacities in the v HE/HC range: 93Wh, Wh, Wh and Wh (each at the same weights as the respective versions in the NE/NC range). They offer a maximum load of W, 15A. B52

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Q&A Dean Wales, head of marketing & PR, Screen Systems Ostapiuk: ‘Intelsat has delivered many of Latin America’s most exciting sporting events’

Bringing football to the new world Intelsat By Ian McMurray Televisa, TV Azteca, OTI, Univision, DIRECTV Latin America, TV Globo, ESPN Brazil, Fox Brasil, Megavision, Andina de Radiodifusion, Globecast, Overon America, Canal 13, Arsat TVN Chile, FF Work, Softbank for TV Asahi and British Media Communications for the BBC…these were among the leading news and sports programmers to use Intelsat’s global satellite services and IntelsatOne terrestrial network to televise the World Cup. Intelsat’s global satellite fleet supported contribution services within Brazil and distribution of the world feed to the Americas. Intelsat also supported the contribution, distribution and fibre back-up demands of sports and news organisations in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa on an ad-hoc basis using Intelsat’s occasional use service pool. The satellite services provided complemented existing full-time capacity arrangements used by sports and news organisations for news coverage emanating from the region, with programmers committing to approximately MHz of capacity reserved on seven satellites for full-time services for the duration of the games, which were used to distribute the World Cup matches throughout the Americas and Europe.

“Intelsat excels at bringing the world together to share in some of the most exciting moments in modern history,” said Peter Ostapiuk, Intelsat’s vice president, media product management (pictured). “From the Olympics in Mexico to the World Cup in Brazil, the Intelsat network has delivered many of Latin America’s most exciting sporting events to the rest of the world.” 1.C71

Has IBC come at a good time for the electronic media industry? Why? We think it has, yes. We’ve all noted the major progressive changes in the industry such as the 4K explosion. What we as a technology innovator find most interesting about the current market however and what we believe to be more of an opportunity for consumers and vendors alike at IBC is the current seismic shift towards OTT and second screen content in parallel with conventional broadcast. What do you think are the key developments in, or threats to, your market sector at the current time? Enhancing OTT. Bringing a sustained high standard to accessibility services for OTT and web content and streamlining the deployment of such services. Content watched away from the TV will continue to grow, further fragmenting the technology used to view programming. A core aim of Screen’s is to

increase the provision of broadcast quality, OTT subtitling through a technology/player agnostic solution thus minimising extra work required and simplifying delivery. Why should delegates visit your stand at IBC? Screen is very well known in the industry for its subtitling transmission solutions and subtitle preparation software but we’ve scaled and

extended our technology to provide new services. Spoken subtitles (including digitised Audio Description) and intelligent script extraction for subtitle preparation are all available to view on our stand. OTT/web subtitling including ‘live’ and a solution for the management and simple deployment of HbbTV services are being demonstrated. 1.C49

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RF peace of mind Satellite teleport performance issues concerning bandwidth and signal integrity are critical says Andrew Bond, sales director, ETL Systems With the steady growth rate in satellite industry revenues, the main drivers for ETL Systems are the increase in high throughput satellites (HTS), the increased HDTV in channels which require more bandwidth use and new higher frequency satellites such as the Ka-band fleet. We are currently working on a number of projects where both slope compensation and variable gain are required within high gain amplifiers in order to deliver the new Ka-band signals up to GHz. These drivers reflect the growing uptake of new technologies for

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consumer services in both the IPTV and handheld telecoms market, where streaming content is becoming more prolific. ETLâ€&#x;s fleet of RF distribution products continues to provide satellite teleports with high quality, high reliability solutions that can deliver the best signal for onward distribution to IRDs and decoders. Our customers design ultrareliable downlink and uplink RF distribution networks that provide peace of mind and 24/7 operations. ETL has therefore seen a huge increase in demand by our customers

for fully redundant RF equipment with enhanced monitoring facilities. The Brazil World Cup is a good example where ETL L-band matrices and splitters were used to distribute signals around the world to millions of customers. Reliable revenue generation is the key. As satellite teleports expand, in order to deliver new services, performance issues concerning bandwidth and signal integrity are critical. We are seeing growing requirements for short distance RF over fibre as it can transport RF signals over tens of kilometres without any

noticeable signal loss or phase distortion. ETLâ€&#x;s StingRay range of RF over fibre products solves the issue of long coax cable

runs and we are very excited to demonstrate it at this yearâ€&#x;s IBC show. 1.A33

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Opinion Systems integration for global market Peter Thomsen, deputy managing director, Danmon Systems Group, explains the company's rebranding and the background to recent international projects The past year has proved one of the busiest we have experienced in over three decades of supplying broadcast-related consultancy, systems and services. A key reason was our ambition to become a globally active group rather than concentrating totally on our Scandinavian base territories. The first step in this strategy was the acquisition of UKbased ATG Broadcast in September This was a merger that helped both parties, given ATG Broadcast's substantial presence in the UK, mainland Europe and the Asia Pacific region. More recently we have formed divisions in Asia (Danmon Asia Ltd, based in

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Hanoi), the Middle East (ATG Middle East, based at Dubai Media City) and Spain (Datos Media Technologies S.A, based in Madrid). We also have a close working relationship with our sister companies within the Dan Technologies group including the satcom systems specialist Hiltron GmbH in Germany and various Danmon partners across Scandinavia. To emphasise the integration and tidy up the labeling, ATG Broadcast officially rebranded ATG Danmon as of this IBC. This acknowledges the company's geographic base, just north of London, but will certainly not restrict its international capabilities. Amidst all the IBC-related talk about acquisition formats,

delivery channels, OTT, mobile reception and so on is the most important ingredient: good programmes. Without these, people stop watching television at home and listening to radio in their cars. The many flavours of catchup TV on the web have their place but are no substitute for professionally produced live reporting, well-researched documentaries and creative drama. Much of our activity is centred on designing and building the facilities to sustain this core of the entire television business. Among many successful projects since IBC, we have completed a green-field complex for LĂ o Cai Radio & Television, Vietnam. The

facilities provided include a studio stage with a multi-tiered auditorium, a news studio, a multi-function studio, news production control suite, post production suites and a continuity suite. Built around a full high definition core, the station can handle any signal format and any aspect ratio. The facilities we provided include dedicated outputs for terrestrial and satellite delivery as well as streaming both via video-overIP and to mobile viewing platforms. The new broadcast centre is equipped for live production as well as file-based editing, archiving and playout. We recently commenced work on a major contract to build a high-profile production facility in London for a major Middle-East-based news channel. This is a total newbuild which is scheduled to go on air just a few weeks from now. The project is being completed in co-operation with our ATG Danmon UK colleagues and will be a real

showpiece of modern filebased production, contentmanagement and playout technology. In Greenland, we have completed relocation of state broadcaster KNR's entire facility to new buildings. This project was managed in two phases over nine weeks and carefully co-ordinated to ensure that transmissions could continue as normal throughout. Working in partnership with Danmon Systems Group in its systems integration role allows new ideas to be implemented as real systems quickly and coherently. Come see us at IBC. We are happy to help. 8.B51

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Debut for Dialog Newtec By Ian McMurray Described as a scalable and flexible multiservice platform that

allows operators to build and adapt their infrastructure easily as their business and the satellite market grows and changes, Newtec Dialog receives its European launch at IBC

“The Newtec Dialog platform is designed to be used for every type of network, from the very smallest, to the very largest, and from single coverage to multispot High Throughput Satellite networks,” said Serge Van Herck, CEO of Newtec. Newtec says that Dialog is designed to give operators optimal modulation and

bandwidth allocation regardless of the application it is being used for. Newtec’s engineers have achieved this, according to the company, by inventing a new patented return link technology called Mx-DMA or CrossDimensional Multiple Access. Together with the new HighResCoding, it is said to combine the best of both

worlds, incorporating the best features of MF-TDMA and SCPC technologies and enabling services to run more efficiently than ever before over satellite — all while still providing the option to have the platform also run in either SCPC or MFTDMA. For dedicated capacity services, Newtec says that MxDMA typically brings two attractive options when compared to SCPC: save more than 35% bandwidth, or serve 54% more customers with the same bandwidth. Newtec Dialog supports multiple satellites, multiple frequency bands, and regular and spot beam satellites. It is said to be scalable from five to hundreds of thousands of terminals. Featuring what Newtec says is highly efficient DVB-S2 ACM and Clean Channel Technology in the forward link, the new product provides hierarchical QoS management with seven classes, advanced network management system capabilities, both GUI and API, including VNO support. Satlink Manager is provided for satellite resource allocation, reservation and automated link setup or teardown 1.A49

EBU takes Kyrion encoders ATEME The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has taken delivery of a total of Kyrion encoders from broadcast video compression solutions company ATEME. The EBU’s global video network carried all 64 World Cup matches in HD, with the round of 16, quarter final and final also carried live in 4K resolution. “ATEME is our encoder manufacturer of choice, most notably for the World Cup,” said Paolo Pusterla, head of procurement and network partnerships, EBU. “We are delighted to work further with ATEME to produce the live transmissions of the FIFA World Cup.” 1.D71

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By Ian McMurray Uniting all the functions of KVM extenders and KVM switches as well as monitoring and management functions in one system, the ControlCenter-Digital (CCD) digital KVM matrix from Guntermann & Drunck enables access to all computers independently from any network or operating system whether in TV or broadcast stations, post production, video editing, control rooms, studios, technical operating rooms, desk workplaces or server rooms. And: when using optical fibre, says G&D, users are able to access their computers in a connection even over distances up to 10, metres. The ControlCenter-Digital matrix also provides

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numerous variants of user modules and console modules. Connected in any combination, these modules are ready to adapt to any individual requirements, G&D says: thus, combining and transmitting signals like VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, optical fibre, CAT, USB, RS, audio or PS/2 has never been easier. For the first time at this year’s IBC, G&D is presenting

Well connected: KVM systems can gives users access to computing resources 10, metres away

modules to transmit DisplayPort signals in high resolutions using the matrix. The components enable resolutions up to x @ 60Hz and even Ultra HD resolutions up to x p at a reduced refresh rate of 30Hz. 4.B60

A first time exhibitor at IBC, Amsterdam-based app developer 24i creates TV apps from the first concept to deployment and maintenance, for any screen: smart TVs, STBs, game consoles, tablets and mobiles. During the show, 24i is showcasing its portfolio of TV apps created for international customers like RTL, Pathé, Nubeox, FOX Sports and many others. The 24i TV apps come in three product lines. Smart Apps are fully custom-built applications for broadcasters and media companies to

distribute to all major TV platforms. The Smart Builder is a template-based app engine allowing content providers to easily access and manage the connected TV marketspace at competitive cost. Finally, the Smart Operator is 24i’s TV Everywhere solution, which launched at the show introducing Deutsche Glasfaser as its launching customer. The Smart Operator offers a unified interface for OTT platforms on all devices. 24i operates worldwide with offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Buenos Aires. Remaining true to its roots however, the company is running a daily happy hour, with traditional Dutch bitterballs at L05

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Automation in a virtual environment Simply taking legacy systems and re-hosting them within a virtual environment won't work argues Tom Gittins, sales director, Pebble Beach Systems Computer and storage clouds promise to supplement and ultimately replace todayâ€&#x;s media factories, but for these implementations to be truly beneficial, the applications and solutions they deploy must be designed for the virtual environment and offer maximum flexibility and control. Playout automation touches every area of a broadcast television or video service distribution facility, and a successful solution will need to keep pace with evolutions across the board. Control systems that accommodate the need for broadcasters to work across SDI and IP/VM environments provide operational benefits during this transition by isolating the operational staff from the underlying system architecture. Whilst the first channels to migrate to IP delivery will be those that are highly scheduled and non-reactive, demands on the control system will inevitably increase as more playout is hosted in the cloud. Automation solutions which incorporate the ability to drive all channel variants including those with a high proportion of live content and late breaking events, or that optimise the number of channels a single operator can manage, are poised to offer the most complete solution. The importance of media validation is thrown into even sharper focus as broadcasters move their content into

virtual environments that may be at remote sites and have to rely on delivery across WAN. In such installations the operator needs to know that the output of each channel is secure, regardless of its geographical location. Based on standard IT technology and hosted within a distributed architecture which is capable of being virtualised, Pebble Beach Systemsâ€&#x; flagship Marina automation lends itself to cloud-based systems for channel origination at the edge. Its highly intelligent user interface and flexible list manipulation deliver operational efficiencies. Irrespective of where the channels are hosted and regardless of the delivery platform, operators at a central location know whether content has been delivered and every event is safe and ready to play. While broadcasters can now quickly and cost-effectively launch multiple IP channels, there is an inevitable growth in the volume of information that requires monitoring and processing. The challenge becomes how to manage multiple channels efficiently without a corresponding increase in the number of operators. A simpler method of displaying potential problems has to be found. Our ‘Lighthouseâ€&#x; monitoring by exception tool is designed to alert Marina operators by highlighting critical issues such as validation errors, timing

anomalies or missing media alerts, allowing them to focus in priority sequence on upcoming problems. Lighthouse aggregates all lists within and across multiple systems, displaying a dashboard of the next problem on any channel, and enabling early intervention and resolution. The tendency in the past has to been to introduce new technology as islands within a larger infrastructure, resulting in

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Cases prove sound investment Porta-Brace By David Fox Four new audio cases have been introduced by Porta-Brace, including: a dedicated carrying case for the Zoom H5N recorder (the AR-ZH5); an Audio Organizer Case for the Sound Devices mixer (AO); another for the Sound Devices mixer and CL-6 Input Expander (AO-4WT/); and a redesigned AOXB Audio Organizer, which can take many different makes of mixer and recorder. All are constructed of durable,

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abrasion-resistant Cordura, with clear vinyl windows over display screens and controls, and provide full access to controls and audio inputs/outputs without sacrificing protection. The audio organizer cases have a rigid plastic frame and interior padding in the main section and pocket, and can fit wireless microphones, transmitters, batteries, cables, connectors and other equipment. Both sides of the AO series bag are fully detachable side panels that allow easy access to all mixer inputs and outputs. B65 In the mix: The re-designed Porta-Brace AOXB Audio Organizer in use

the heterogeneous systems we see in many facilities today. Virtualisation and abstraction offers a way forward to streamline and tackle this problem, but we cannot simply take legacy systems and re-host them within a virtual environment. Software and systems must be built from the ground-up to be fully distributed to be able to maximise the benefits of this technology. 8.C71

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The broadcast emergency service

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How do broadcasters ensure that their Disaster Recovery strategies are really secure? Lee Sheppard, director product management, SGL, provides the answers Disaster Recovery (DR) is a broad term that encompasses a range of scenarios, from catastrophic disaster (for instance, the complete destruction of a whole facility), to operational disaster such as a transmission server failing. The ideal strategy for rescuing a situation in the event of a disaster is the seamless continuity of business under all circumstances with no assets being lost. Being off-air for longer than a few seconds, or a minute at most, is a disaster in itself and with content now being delivered globally, broadcasters have even greater responsibility to ensure that channels stay on air. There are also strong financial drivers with rigorous service level agreements (SLA) for channel partners with regards to airtime and compensation for lost or clipped ads. So how do broadcasters ensure that their DR strategies are secure enough to continue broadcasting in any situation?

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The DR utopia includes multilayered safeguards against the unexpected, using automated content replication systems to provide synchronised, mirrored or like-for-like asset duplication, across the same site or at geographically disparate locations. At the most basic level, this can be accomplished by duplicating tapes in the main archive and then moving those tapes to remote DR storage. LTFS works well in this environment as any LTFScapable system can read a tape created by any other, and can identify and retrieve the files stored on it. This means there is no requirement for a second archive system to simply read those files. At the other end of the scale, a fully automated DRconfigured archive can be connected to a remote facility with either a robotic tape or disk storage. In this configuration media assets can be automatically copied across the network and synchronised with

the remote site. Automated site redundancy is important and can be achieved by using rules-based implementations, providing fully automated data duplication across multiple storage layers and locations. Multi-site operations can be mirrored and data synchronised across the globe. If one site becomes inoperative, it can be rebuilt entirely from data that has been replicated at other sites. More sophisticated archive management systems are able to offer completely customisable rules-based data duplication, through which content can be automatically copied as it is archived across disk and tape layers and, where required, different locations. SGL has many archives installed around the world where DR workflows are either in use or can be made DRcapable quickly and easily. Its scalable FlashNet architecture provides broadcasters and content owners with a clustered system of multiple servers, or

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