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Manhattan Center Studios
Extends Riedel Intercom
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anhattan Center Studios is
extending its Riedel intercom
system to tie together all of its
studios and performance halls, as
well as a new client news network,
Al Jazeera America, that will be
completed this summer.
Manhattan Center Studios has
one of the largest Riedel intercom
integrations in the Americas.
Marvin Williams, Director of
Engineering and Operations at
Manhattan Center Studios, said:
“There is no request a production
or client can make that we cannot
accommodate. Now that we are
completely Riedel - Artist matrix and
keypanels, Performer digital party
lines, and Acrobat wireless – the
whole system is a pleasure to use.
Investing in Riedel is one of the best
decisions we ever made.”
The Manhattan Center is known for
hosting extraordinary performances
and special events in which media
and entertainment come together.
The installation includes 64-port

and 32-port Artist digital matrix
intercom mainframes, both equipped
with redundant power supplies
and CPU cards and featuring ﬁbre
connectivity.
MADI Client cards allow the
transparent transport of up to 64
MADI signals through the Artist
infrastructure.

In addition, their Acrobat wireless
system was expanded with a new
CC-60 system controller, ten new
beltpacks, and additional antennas
to enhance coverage.
The Manhattan Center Studios
also added two commentary
control panels.

TV 2 Denmark Implements DIVApublish Workflow
anish public television station
TV 2 has integrated DIVApublish
mpx, Front Porch Digital’s softwareas-a-service (SaaS) publishing
offering, into its video delivery
workﬂow.
DIVApublish mpx manages online

Front Porch Digital’s DIVApublish

CAN: Miranda Technologies has been
awarded a US Patent for a process
invented to reduce audio latency.
Researched, designed and
manufactured at Miranda's
Grass Valley, California facility,
Miranda's NVISION hybrid routers
signiﬁcantly streamline television
infrastructures and eliminate
audio-to-video delay issues by
incorporating highly advanced,
integrated audio processing.
NVISION routers are able to reduce
the delay of the disembedder/
embedder (typically 20 lines), the
TDM audio crosspoint (typically
one or two audio samples), down to
as short as a one line delay (same
video format) and under three
lines with mixed video formats.
The technique has been hailed
as a huge advance in hybrid audio/
video routing.

Manhattan Center Studios master control room

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Audio Latency
Reduction Patent

publication of the broadcaster’s
short-form editorial video content,
and TV 2 plans to manage delivery
of premium content stored in its
DIVArchive CSM system in the
second phase of implementation.
The use of DIVApublish mpx will
speed TV 2’s time to market for new
online features and functionality,
such as Facebook sharing, to give
it an edge in the market.
TV 2 is Front Porch Digital’s ﬁrst
DIVApublish mpx customer in Europe.
“We had been using our own online
video platform that we developed
for that purpose years ago, but we

couldn’t move the platform forward
fast enough to implement the new
features and functionality our
viewers have come to expect from
a company like ours,” said Tenna
Gaarde Falkenby, technical lead of
TV 2’s online technical team. “We
have a long relationship with Front
Porch Digital and knew the company
had the expertise to help us keep
up with – and even get ahead of –
market demands.”
DIVApublish mpx controls
transcoding to multiple formats
in order to reach a wide
spectrum of devices.

PiXiE MPEG-DASH
Encoder / Decoder
USA: Path 1 has announced
that its PiXiE MPEG-4 AVC HD
encoder and decoder with MPEGDASH support are now shipping.
Path 1 say that PiXiE eliminates
the need for costly point-tomultipoint satellite links or
complex proprietary IP technology.
PiXiE simpliﬁes the transmission of
professional quality HD-SDI video,
allowing affordable transmission of
over any IP network to any device.

Tightrope Media’s
Cablecast SXHD LE
USA: Tightrope Media Systems
has announced the Cablecast
SXHD LE video server, a new
multiformat HD and SD video server.
Designed for small-scale
broadcast operations, the SXHD
LE is a single-box, 1RU solution for
video playout.

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