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The Continuing Rise Of BroadcastAsia2014
The ever-expanding BroadcastAsia2014 conference and exhibition - a key player in the region's booming
broadcast and media sectors - returns to Singapore's Marina Bay Sands from June 17 to 20...

By Jim Evans
Contributing Editor

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his year, the exhibition will
see the return of some of the
industry's most renowned players
in their respective ﬁelds, including
Blackmagic Design, EVS, Grass
Valley and more. Together with
CommunicAsia2014, the event
can expect to welcome more than
50,000 attendees from over 100
different countries/regions.
Mr Calvin Koh, Assistant Project
Director of BroadcastAsia at
Singapore Exhibition Services,
comments: "As content becomes
more digitalised and the use of
connected devices becomes the
norm, the rise in demand for TV
everywhere is becoming more
dominant and relevant than ever.
With this in mind, we have designed
this year's exhibition and conference
to help businesses expand their OTT
capabilities, embrace innovation and
capitalise on growing consumer
demands for digitalised content.
"Not only will BroadcastAsia2014
showcase Asia's potential and
growth in the OTT market but it will
reﬂect a global perspective and give
us some insight into the future of
OTT broadcasting."
As well as exploring the OTT
business model, how it should
be implemented and how to
ensure sustainability and longevity
whilst monetising OTT, the first
day of the BroadcastAsia2014
International Conference will
also focus on the next wave of
technologies for television. Other
topics for discussion throughout
the agenda will include Broadband
TV, Connected TV, CDN, Cloud

broadcasting, DVB, File-based
workflow, Multi-screen, Multiplatform, Next wave of technologies
for TV, Social media / TV, Radio
broadcasting and more.
And also heavily promoted will be
the nascent 4K technology. Leading
international exhibitors such as
Canon, EVS, Grass Valley, Quantel,
Orad, Red Digital Cinema, Village
Island, Sony and many more will
be showcasing their cutting edge
4K/UHD products.
Orad will be highlighting its new
tapeless broadcast graphic and video
server workﬂow technology - Blend
4K Channel and Morpho 4K, to help
companies streamline productions
and maximise productivity and
broadcast workflows.
Its Blend 4K is billed as the ﬁrst
ever real-time 4K channel in a box
solution, offering a 4K clip server
in XAVC and XAVC-S formats. The
ultra HD XAVC uses level 5.2 of
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC which is the
highest level supported by that
video standard, offering colour
depths of 8-bits, 10-bits, and 12-bits.
4K, which promises to be the next
standard in broadcast quality, is now
offered in a single box, providing
a 4K server coupled with 4K realtime 3D graphics
Blend 4K also enables live video
insertion in 4K and HD resolutions,
providing the user with the freedom
on the one hand to maximise the
available quality, while on the other
to continue using an existing HD
source. Both video and graphics
are controlled from a single playlist

Orad's Blend 4K is billed as a real-time 4K channel in a box solution

The Sony booth

or manually, from GPI or by
external automation.
Morpho 4K is Orad's new powerful
yet affordable real-time 4K video
wall solution. Using Orad's unique
canvas concept, Morpho 4K outputs
can be arranged in different aspect
ratios and layouts according to
the shape of the video wall. Unlike
traditional video wall processors,
Morpho 4K offers both real-time
graphics and video capabilities from
a single system.
"By 2016 the Asia Paciﬁc Region
is forecasted to become the single
largest market for 4K TV, accounting
for 42 per cent of total world 4K
households," says Joel Lamdani,
President Asia Paciﬁc, Orad Hi Tec
Systems. "The Asia Paciﬁc Region
being a hub of consumer electronics
producers mainly in Japan, Korea,
China and Taiwan are pushing to
market new 4K TV as replacements
for old HD ones. Films are already
being shot in 4K and sports events
are now testing 4K productions with
the Brazil 2014 World Cup being a
big trigger. Content companies from
Terrestrial, Pay TV and Streaming IP

companies are also gearing up for
the distribution of this 4K content
and Orad is in the forefront of
this technology."
Pablo Rio is Quantel's high
quality colour correction and
ﬁnishing system that runs on highperformance PC hardware. Offering
real-time 4K 60p performance,
fantastic interactivity and throughput,
Pablo Rio "blends quality and
creativity in a package that delivers
the productivity needed to succeed
in high quality colour and ﬁnishing
today". Pablo Rio is available as
software-only or as a turnkey system
in a variety of conﬁgurations to suit
HD, 2K, 4K and 6K Red Dragon
real-time working.
New from Village Island is
VH4000 - 4K Multi-Standard Video
Decoder which gets its worldwide
launch at Broadcast Asia. VH-4000
is promoted as "the next generation
of decoders supporting 4K for HEVC
and legacy compression standards...
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Pablo Rio - Quantel's high-quality colour correction and ﬁnishing system

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