Recognizing the increasing demand for on-site reporting and the shift in the way news is gathered, Grass Valley and Dejero are collaborating to integrate Dejero’s LIVE+ Control monitoring and management […]
On the same day that Comcast finally launched the anticipated trial of its IP-based Stream TV service in Boston, the MSO’s video chief, Matt Strauss, laid out his company’s vision for video services to investors at the Wells Fargo Securities Technology, Media & Telecom conference in New York.
Sony Talks 4K Roadmap, HDR, Promise Of IP
It’s been a big year for Sony’s Professional Solutions Group, which made a splash at NAB 2015 and IBC with the release of the HDC-4300 4K/high-speed/HD camera system. In addition, Sony continues to roll out products for its end-to-end, live 4K production ecosystem, live HDR production and its IP live production system.
Exclusives
The emerging new technologies that promise to remake how television is made were in abundance at this year’s tech gathering in Amsterdam. For some, the prominence of IP in everything from production to distribution may have been somewhat of a surprise, but once on the exhibit floor or in the conference rooms there was no mistaking its broad — and still growing — influence.
The network is taking a big technological leap this fall, running its master control and routing functions with a cloud-based hybrid IP-baseband system with critical hardware and software products from Imagine Communications. While the network’s transition to a hybrid IP-baseband environment is profound, it will be completely transparent to ABC affiliates and O&Os, which will continue to receive a baseband signal via satellite as if nothing has changed. In the photo above, Disney/ABC’s Vince Roberts (l) and Imagine’s Charlie Vogt announced the decision to go IP at this year’s NAB Show.
Zaller: There’s No Stopping The Move To IT/IP
Devoncroft founder Joe Zaller says that the big shift from baseband video to IT files and IP infrastructure now underway will make other upcoming innovations possible for broadcasters. “What I do know,” he says, “is that the future is expensive and I need to find a way to be really efficient and really agile, and IT technology gives me the way to do that.”
JVC | Booth C4314 | Website: http://pro.jvc.com JVC Professional Video is unveiling the JVC Private MESH Video Network at the 2015 NAB. A solution for wireless, multi-camera coverage of sports, […]
Sony | Booth C11001 | Website: http://blog.sony.com/nab/ At NAB 2015, Sony is demonstrating an advanced 4K live over IP solution for live broadcasting. This solution centers on the world’s first […]
Ross Video | Booth N3906 | Website: www.rossvideo.com Ross Video and Embrionix jointly announced today that they will be showing openGear modules that provide SMPTE ST-2022-2/TR-01 compliant, JPEG 2000 (J2K) […]
To make the transition, Disney/ABC Television Group will use Imagine Communications’ VersioCloud, IP-enabled master control and playout software, replacing traditional broadcast master control that relies on various discrete pieces of technology, such as graphics and branding systems and playout servers. With this new cloud model, the network’s affiliates will continue to have the ability to do local inserts of their own news and other programming, commercials and promos.
IP, Workflow To Be Highlights At SMPTE 2014
With all of the convention buzz during the NAB Show and IBC that IP received as an alternative to SDI for transport and routing, it’s little wonder SMPTE 2014 would offer a technical deep dive into the underlying technology making IP routing and transport for broadcasters possible. “File-based workflows are another big topic, especially with the addition of IP as a factor as well as new regulations regarding closed captions,” said Sara Kudrle, one of the conference’s chairs. SMPTE image courtesy of Vizrt.
If IP workflows are to fulfill their potential, a commonly recognized standard for video over IP will be necessary. Otherwise, exchanging content between devices from different vendors will be difficult […]
Broadcasters, vendors and standards bodies are laying the foundation for an inevitable move to IP-based workflows in anticipation of when the serial digital interface, video routers and purpose-built devices begin to fade.
This year’s tech gathering in Amsterdam was one of those rare shows where the sense of a major changeover was palpable. It will likely be remembered as the breakout event for IP as the enabling technology for a new way of looking at how the human and technology resources needed to acquire, prepare and distribute programming should be organized.
Vendors Offer New Tools For Bonded Cellular
Now that bonded cellular technology has proved itself as an effective and reliable way to send back live video from the field, the top vendors have begun supplying software for managing and sharing all the incoming feeds.“Broadcasters have gotten over that bonded cellular hump,” says Ronen Artman, VP marketing at LiveU. “Now they want to take control of their devices.”
This summer, IPBS’s eight TV stations and nine NPR stations will connect over a single IP-based network to share, collaborate and distribute content. Once fully rolled out, Roger Rhodes, the group’s executive director, says the next step could be implementing a centralcasting model, similar to what PBS stations in New York and Florida are using.
