Archive for January 31st, 2012

PRINCETON, N.J. — Jan. 31, 2012 — Triveni Digital today announced that CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster, has standardized on Triveni Digital solutions across all of its stations for metadata generation and management, as well as for multilayer monitoring and analysis of DTV streams. The network is using the GuideBuilder(R) metadata platform at its Calgary and Toronto facilities to provide nationwide centralcasting of Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data, and it has deployed StreamScope(R) RM-40 remote DTV transport stream monitors for CTV stations across Canada. more

SSL creates new senior marketing role

OXFORD, UK – Solid State Logic is pleased to announce that Bella McAvoy has joined the company as Marketing Communications Manager. McAvoy brings a multitude of experience to the table from her varied work in communications, as a broadcast journalist and as composer and songwriter. more

SALT LAKE CITY — Jan. 30, 2012 — NVerzion, a leading provider of cutting-edge tools for digital broadcasting and television station automation, today announced that KAIL-TV in Fresno, Calif., has upgraded its facilities to include the latest NCompass software platform to complement the station’s NVerzion playout automation software system. The upgrade allows KAIL-TV to manage automatically the processing and playout of file-based content received through content delivery systems like Pitch Blue and Pathfire(TM). The expansion, which also included upgrading the existing Harmonic video server for added storage, was performed by NVerzion without disrupting KAIL-TV’s normal, day-to-day operations. more

OSLO, Norway — Jan. 31, 2012 — Bridge Technologies has appointed Olli Tuomela as Regional Manager for EMEA. Reporting to Sales Director Philip Burnham, Tuomela assumes overall responsibility for sales activities in the region, with resource and logistical support for Bridge Technologies business partner sales. more

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Jan. 31, 2012 — Sencore, a leading provider of signal quality and video delivery solutions, today announced the launch of a dual-input DVB-T/T2 interface module that enables monitoring of DVB-T and DVB-T2 broadcast signals directly from an antenna. The latest member of Sencore’s VideoBridge(TM) monitoring family, the VB252 is ideal for use by broadcasters to monitor their own transmissions, or by cable, IPTV, and satellite providers to monitor the local broadcasts they receive for distribution. more

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – AKG introduces a new version of its WMS470 wireless system with revised operating frequencies for the European market at ISE 2012. WMS470 Band 10 operates on frequencies between 823 and 832 MHz known as the ‘duplex gap.’ This frequency range lies between the areas that will be used for upcoming high-speed Internet service for mobile devices, and will enable future proof, interference-free operation.

“In many European countries the frequency range between 823 and 832 MHz will be exclusively reserved for wireless microphones and In-ear monitoring - in Germany the range can even be used for free.” said Wolfgang Fritz, product marketing manager – tour sound, AKG. Band 10 operates with up to eight channels simultaneously, and compatible frequencies are stored in preset groups. Users can also manually program frequencies in 25 MHz steps.

Designed for total ease of more

Crystal Vision’s Safe Switch 3G provides clean and intelligent 2 x 2 switching between two 3Gb/s, HD or SD sources containing up to four groups of embedded audio and is the only way to guarantee a clean switch. The full framestore synchronizer on each input allows it to correct for any timing difference between the two inputs resulting in no disruption to the output picture when a switch takes place, while it can even lose the reference and not affect the output. It can be used for planned maintenance switches to manually re-route a good signal around broken equipment, or as an intelligent emergency transmission switch with the option of selecting from 16 different fault conditions to automatically trigger the switch. Available in two versions – as Safe Switch 3G and Safe Switch-L 3G – it provides a robust, one-board more