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Junger Delivers Loudness For
Link Net Television Channels
P

T Link Net has chosen Junger
Audio’s Loudness control
technology to manage the audio
across 80 television channels.
Link Net, a Jakarta-based cable
television and Internet provider, is
a major player in the Indonesian
market, offering 110 StandardDeﬁnition and 30 High-Deﬁnition
channels, including one 3D
channel. As well as providing cable
television services, Link Net also
offers Broadband Internet and OTT
services to customers in Jakarta
Surabaya and Bali.
With numerous content streams
to contend with, Link Net needed
a reliable and consistent solution
that would allow it to automatically
adjust audio levels from incoming
content sources.
Desmond Poon, Link Net’s Chief
Technology Ofﬁcer (pictured with
Henry Indrawan), said: “Different

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c o n t e n t
providers
have different
incoming audio
levels and the
audio levels
within some
channels also
vary signiﬁcantly.
As a result, our
customers were
experiencing
varying audio
Desmond Poon, Link Net’s Chief Technology Ofﬁcer
levels when
pictured with Henry Indrawan
switching
between channels.”
speciﬁc requirements.
To solve this problem, Link Net has
Each C8000 system incorporates
installed ﬁve Junger Audio C8000
Junger Audio’s renowned Level
Digital Audio Modular Processing
Magic II algorithm, which is
systems, which comprise multiple
compliant with all current broadcast
DSP, I/O interface cards and frames
audio loudness recommendations
that can easily be configured
including ITU 1770 (versions 1
and 2), ATSC A/85, ARIB TR-B32
to provide broadcasters with a
customised system to suit their
and EBU R128.

JVC GY-HM600 Series Gets EBU Approval
J

VC Professional Europe has
announced that both the
recently released GY-HM600
ProHD and network enabled GYHM650 camcorders are now fully
EBU approved for broadcast use.

JVC
GY-HM600

These two new JVC ProHD
cameras have been designed
specifically to be in line with
European Broadcasting Union
(EBU) guidelines for broadcast use.
The EBU recommendations are
designed to provide a common
set of performance standards
for broadcast production
across Europe. Cameras
are independently tested and
approved by the EBU.
JVC’s GY-HM600 series cameras
(GY-HM600 and GY-HM650) are
now fully approved for journalism
use (Tier 2J). The cameras are also
approved for general long form HD
programming (Tier 2L), when used
with a suitable external recording

device supporting 50MB/s or
greater recording.
Gustav Emrich, European Product
Manager for JVC Professional
said: “We are delighted that the
GY-HM600 series has easily met
the EBU standard requirements for
broadcast use. We are pleased with
the reports for these cameras which
were designed to be innovative new
tools for mobile news gathering in
challenging situations. JVC believe
that the 600 series cameras are a
big step forward for both us and
our customers.”
The testing of the GY-HM600 and
GY-HM650 cameras was carried out
by Alan Roberts in accordance with
the EBU guidelines.

Smoothee For
Sci-Tech Awards
USA: Tiffen is to support the
upcoming Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts and Sciences’
Scientific and Technical Awards
in conjunction with the Oscars.
Tiffen’s Steadicam Smoothee
product will be given as the
exclusive gift for the awards
ceremony attendees. Smoothee
lets users shoot crisp, smooth, and
never shaky footage straight from
their iPhone or GoPro camera.
Tiffen is providing 450 Smoothee
Bonus Packs containing the
Steadicam Smoothee with mounts
for the iPhone 4/4S and GoPro
HERO/HERO2/HERO3.

Autodesk Honours
Future Filmmakers
USA: For the fifth consecutive
year, Autodesk sponsored the
Visual Effects Society’s (VES)
award for tomorrow’s filmmakers.
Held on February 5, Autodesk
supported the award for ‘Outstanding
Visual Effects in a Student Project’
presented in Beverly Hills, California.
Chris Bradshaw, Senior Vice
President at Autodesk presented
the honour to Jan-Marcel Kuhn
from Filmakademie for Natalis.
The award provides a unique
opportunity for students embarking
on a career in visual effects to gain
wide industry visibility.

GTC Announces
Awards Shortlist
GBR: The Guild of Television
Cameramen (GTC) has announced
the shortlist of nominee
cameramen for its 2013 Awards.
The nomination period included
programmes transmitted from January
1 through December 31 last year.
Presentations will be made
at an awards ceremony on
Saturday, May 11.

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