Our time at IBC starts with a round of press conferences. For the kick off, Thomson took us to the Amsterdam Arena, the home of world famous Ajax soccer team. The connection here is sport, and Thomson cameras. The new LDK8300 shoots at three times frame rate, but also incorporate flicker reduction technology to deal with the problems that ac lighting causes when your not shooting at power frequency.

The IT-enabled Infinity camera adds support for 24P, opening opportunities to use the camera in “film-style” productions. Because JPEG2K codec is 10-bit, color grading can be applied dowstream, a key differentiator from the 8-bit MPEG record formats.

New developments in the K2 server line, again in the sports area. The new K2 Dyno slo-mo controller marks a broadening of the server apps away from straight playout into the production server space.

We left the stadium by very hot bus to the next hot venue (Amsterdam is hot and humid — very little air conn), the Harris press event. Story here was more 3 gig, as broadcasters look to future proof infrastructure investment. The NEXIO AMP platform in version 2.0, now 3Gb ready. For European broadcasters, Harris has returned to the transmitter market with ROHSS-compliant products with a new digital exciter range, software programmable for different modulation standards, and more efficient — saving on those huge power bills.