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Tektronix Adds To Portable WFM Range
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ektronix has expanded its
awa rd-winning fa mily of
waveform monitors with the
addition of the portable WFM2300
Series designed for install and
maintenance applications.
The WFM2300 provides an array
of measurement and monitoring
features that allow engineers to
quickly isolate, diagnose, and
resolve system issues.
It provides Eye pattern and Jitter
measurement capability as well
as Cable simulator / margin tests,
Optical interfaces with SFP (Small
Form factor Pluggable) module,
Dolby E monitoring, Loudness
meter in addition to all the features
available in the existing WFM2200.
The instrument is extremely
portable (H 8.5 in. x W 8.2 in. x D 1.4 in.
and 4 lbs. with battery), engineered
for low power consumption with a
large bright LED back panelled LCD
screen and replaceable battery, as
well as being ideal for engineers
troubleshooting problems in the ﬁeld
or within facilities.
The Eye/Jitter measurement
feature helps identify issues in the
physical layer. The cable simulation
and margin test capabilities, only
available from Tektronix, assists
in determining the coax cable
margin of a system to ensure it

does not reach the "digital cliff"
where the transmission error rate
signiﬁcantly increases.
Engineers can also use a variety of
status displays to ensure compliance
to the standards and verify audio,
video and data speciﬁcations. The
video/audio test signals output from
embedded test signal generator with
Genlock capability can be used for
identifying the signal path through
a coax and optical interface.
The WFM2300 provides optional
features that can be tailored for
speciﬁc applications in each facility.
In addition to the SD/HD/DL/3GSDI, AES/EBU, LTC and composite
sync signal support as standard (
3G-SDI is option 3G), the optical
SDI interface option (opt. SFP) can
be selected to provide the broadcast
facility with capabilities to monitor
SMPTE 297 SDI ﬁbre transmission
system installations.
This eliminates the need for an
external optical/electrical converter
unit offering the user greater
ﬂexibility and reducing the number
of units an engineer needs to carry.
In a facility carrying Dolby E signals
the instrument offers an option (opt.
DBE) to monitor peak audio level
and metadata of the incoming
Dolby E signal to verify activity of
the channels without the need for

The Tektronix WFM2300 provides an array of measurement and
monitoring features

an external Dolby decoder.
Audio loudness monitoring is
a critical task to monitor within a
broadcast facility and the loudness
option (opt. LOUD) allows users to
directly read the audio level from
the numerical LKFS/LUFS units
displayed on the screen. This avoids
the need to deduce the loudness

levels from indirect measurements
such as audio bars.
The data option (opt. DATA) of the
instrument allows the engineer to
verify the presence of ANC data
packets and troubleshoot problems
within the facility.
The WFM2300 Series is available
worldwide in Q1 of 2014.

Capture The Moment And Enrich Live Sports
By Henriette S Sæther
Director Marketing & Communication,
Vimond Media Solutions

S

ports are all about being there
when it happens, which makes
this environment a natural ﬁt for

an edge-of-the-seat, interactive,
multi-screen experience.
When offered online, there's no
limit to the opportunities
for enriching this
emotion-driven, actionpacked genre. Whether

Vimond's Event Analyzer is available as a standalone service
that integrates with any platform and any player

it's enriched with metadata, polls,
live highlights, the ability to play
simultaneous streams, instant
playback, or the opportunity for
social interaction, passive watching
is simply not good enough anymore.
Your viewers want to engage
with your content: they want to
dive straight into the highlights,
see their favourite team score that
goal one more time, and share
these favourite moments with
friends and family.
Homing in on the content that
viewers want to interact with and
seizing the moments they want
to share can add a lot of value to
online TV. Unfortunately, for many
broadcasters it is a manual and
time-consuming task that can
be so painful, they give up and
don't try it at all. This leaves the
viewers with a one-dimensional,
passive TV- watching experience
just as traditional as linear TV,
and today, let's be honest, your
online viewers expect more.
To take the pain out of this
process, Vimond has launched
the Vimond Event Analyzer
this fall. A product which takes
advantage of years of experience
with the enrichment of online,

live events within the Vimond
Platform, Vimond Event Analyzer
is available as a standalone service
that integrates with any platform
and any player.
Regardless of the solution you
are using today, our system will
simply fetch your video stream,
let you annotate and enrich it,
and ﬁnally publish the complete
interactive experience.
The Vimond Event Analyzer lets
you capture the moment in real-time
without stopping the video, enables
synchronous and asynchronous
metadata annotation, has a fast
and easy keyboard focused
approach for maximum efﬁciency,
and is hosted in the cloud for your
convenience.
At Vimond, we have a passion
for designing and building highly
interactive and user-friendly
experiences, both for the front-end
users engaging with your content,
and the back-end operators and
editors curating it.
By launching the Vimond
Event Analyzer, we're letting you
embrace the future of engaging
and interactive online video
experiences - today.

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