Archive of the IPTV Category

New eight-channel production server facilitates end-to-end studio production workflows

April 16, 2012 - Today, at NAB 2012, Orad unveiled its new VJ production server (stand SL4524). Designed to facilitate tapeless, end-to-end ingest to playout workflows for studio productions, the new VJ production server is ideal for a wide-range of studio productions, including news, live events, soap operas, and talk shows. The Orad VJ flexible architecture supports up to 8 input /output channels that can be configured in a variety of combinations.

VJ also supports industry-standard codecs, including Panasonic DVCPRO, DVCPRO-HD, and Avid DNxHD, as well as the widely used wrappers QuickTime and MXF. Ingested media are immediately available across the production chain for previewing, editing, and archiving, facilitating fast-turnaround production and post-production workflows. VJ seamlessly integrates with industry-standard NLEs, including Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP), Grass Valley Edius, and Adobe more

Grass Valley, California, 15 April 2011 – Ensemble Designs and ImmediaTV will feature a technology demonstration of remote IP monitoring for broadcast feeds during the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, 16 – 19 April 2012. The technology demonstration will be featured at Ensemble Designs’ booth N2524.

The ImmediaTV MPEG encoder output is integrated into the Ensemble router control system so that video and audio can be monitored from any location. An SDI output from the router is fed to the ImmediaTV encoder which delivers an MPEG stream via TCP/IP to the facility’s house network. That stream is recognized by the Ensemble Avenue router control system and is embedded into the router’s web-based control window.

This integration could be used by a chief engineer at a transmitter site, or even at home, to remotely more

LAS VEGAS, APRIL 16, 2012 — RadiantGrid Technologies, the developer of leading-edge transcoding, transformation and New Media Automation™ service platforms, and Cinnafilm® Inc, a specialty engineering firm recognized for excellence in file-based image optimization and standards conversion, will demonstrate a solution that offers unprecedented processing speeds for standards conversion and transcoding at the 2012 NAB Show (Booth SU7919). The Cinnafilm Tachyon and Dark Energy plug-ins for the RadiantGrid New Media Automation Platform offer faster-than-real-time processing speeds for standards conversion, noise removal and transcoding by leveraging RadiantGrid’s TrueGridTM technology and Cinnafilm’s multi-GPU processing capability. As a result, the Cinnafilm plug-ins are able to scale both vertically and horizontally into RadiantGrid transcoding farms, offering better quality and faster processing times than other transcoding and standards conversion software platforms on the market today. more

OSLO, Norway — April 11, 2012 — New Zealand’s first DVB-T2 platform, built by Kordia for the new IGLOO TV service, will use a Bridge Technologies end-to-end monitoring and analysis system for advanced digital media monitoring of its transmission services. The components were supplied to Kordia by Magna Systems & Engineering, a Bridge Technologies reseller. more

Asia TV USA to implement Actus Rating Analyzer multi-module, multi-national, monitoring system and automatic advertisement detection; Latest Actus installation connects monitoring for Zee operations around the world

Tel-Aviv, Israel – April 11, 2012 – Actus Digital, a developer of web-based media monitoring, content repurposing and verification solutions for broadcasters, cable and satellite providers, IPTV, media and monitoring agencies, governments, regulators and content producers announced today that Asia TV USA, a distributor of Zee TV channels in the USA, has selected the enterprise Actus Ratings Analyzer solution to automate monitoring of ratings performance across multiple channels. “Zee TV has been a longtime Actus customer, ordering its first fully digital TV compliance and rating analyzer system several years ago,” comments Sima Levy, CEO, Actus Digital. “Based on the success of the existing installation, its USA channel distributor, Asia TV USA, purchased an Actus system, totaling many more