Archive for December, 2007

“Big Brother” TV Series and Jerry Lewis Telethon Are Two Recent RBN Clients Who Depend on Niagara for High-Performance Streaming

PLANO, Texas — Dec. 4, 2007 — ViewCast Corporation (OTCBB: VCST), a leading global provider of audio and video encoding communication products, today announced that Real Broadcast Networks (RBN) is using ViewCast‘s Niagara® PowerStream Pro encoders to deliver state-of-the-art video streaming solutions to RBN customers. In a recent example, Niagara encoders provided high-quality and high-availability online streaming for the “24/7 Live Feed” feature of the popular “Big Brother” reality TV series. The encoders were also in action during the Labor Day weekend‘s Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Telethon, establishing a new benchmark for image quality of the production‘s live streaming video. more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Dec. 4, 2007 — da Vinci Systems, a leading provider of color grading, image enhancement, and image restoration products used in post-production facilities worldwide, today announced the appointment of Geoff Parker as regional field service engineer for the northeastern United States. Parker, a 25-year engineering veteran in the video industry, will cover the tri-state territory of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut for da Vinci. more

BURLINGTON, Mass. — Dec. 4, 2007 – Volicon, a leading provider of media monitoring, recording, archiving, and streaming solutions, today announced that the Defense Media Center (DMC) of the American Forces Network (AFN) has purchased the Observer® desktop monitoring system to log and monitor all of the facility‘s broadcasts. Observer will be the first broadcast system linked into the DMC‘s local area network (LAN) and will allow the center to review logging content over its IT infrastructure for the first time. more

In response to requests from key broadcasters and production houses, including SKY, ITV, the BBC and RAI in Italy, DK-Technologies is launching the MSD100C Loudness, which is designed to tackle the issue of the perceived loudness of audio signals.

There is no doubt that loudness is a hot topic for the broadcast and post production industries. As anyone who has ever reached for the TV volume control during a commercial break will know, today‘s sound processing can lead to remarkably high perceived sound levels without sound exceeding the maximum permitted signal peak levels.

DK-Technologies‘ new MSD100C Loudness is a stand-alone unit that incorporates ITU Recommendations BS.1770 and BS.1771, which specify the algorithms that should be used to measure audio programme loudness. It is able to display the loudness of the individual audio channels, as well as the sum of the left and right signals, and can be used in any broadcast or post production facility as a health check during production or prior to transmission. more

PRINCETON, N.J. — Dec. 3, 2007 — Triveni Digital, a subsidiary of LG Electronics (LGE), today announced that Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the United States‘ largest television broadcasting companies, is using the GuideBuilder™ PSIP (Program and System Information Protocol) generator in a redundant configuration across its station group. The group is now also beginning to integrate the company‘s StreamScope™ RM-40 systems into its television stations to ensure the quality of DTV streams for the station group. more