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BroadcastAsia2014 Key Trends Cont.
premium content they'll be able to
attract subscribers and advertisers.
OTT services are really opening
things up, so broadcasters are
also looking at ways to stand out.
4K is one way to do this as we
endeavoured to demonstrate at
this year's show," said Chris Grey,
General Manager, Broadcast &
Content Creation Solutions, Sony
Professional Asia Pacific.
Sony hosted six presentations
each day at the Sony booth, led by
renowned cinematographers Alister
Chapman and Den Lennie.
International exhibitors such as
Blackmagic Design, Canon, Grass
Valley, GoPro, Orad, Panasonic,
RED Digital Cinema, Village Island,
and many more promoted their 4K
/ UHD technologies, products and
solutions. Panasonic showcased
the world's ﬁrst digital single lens
mirrorless camera with 4K video
recording capability.
UK-based Digital Vision launched
the Bifrost Archive Bridge that
provides streamlined archive
workﬂow tools. Digital Vision also
demonstrated the latest 2014
versions of the Nucoda colour
grading suite, now with Tangent
Element support and including DVO
Classic image processing tools, and
the Phoenix range of ﬁlm and video
restoration tools.

Kelvin Bolah,
CEO, Digital Vision

feedback we
"...Thereceived has
have
been fantastic

The Bifrost Archive Bridge, also
launched at NAB 2014, provides
streamlined archive workflow
tools, enabling archive owners to
preserve and restore their precious
ﬁlm assets. Suitable for archives
of any size, it comprises various
workﬂow components that can be
utilised either as a complete endto-end solution or integrated into
existing infrastructures depending
on individual requirements.
Kelvin Bolah, CEO, Digital Vision,
said: "We're excited and proud
to introduce our latest tools and
solutions to the Asia Paciﬁc region.
We work hard to develop tools that
solve our customers' challenges,
and the feedback we have received
has been fantastic."
Riedel had a major presence in
Singapore. The MediorNet family
of real-time networks has been
expanded with the addition of the
2-RU large-scale MediorNet MetroN

Riedel's MediorNet family has added
the 2-RU large-scale MediorNet
MetroN core router

core router. In enabling Riedel's
networked approach to signal
distribution and routing, the new
MediorNet MetroN provides a realtime routing capacity of 64x 10G
ports. During BroadcastAsia2014,
Riedel demonstrated how, with
these capabilities, the new frame can
function within a larger MediorNet
installation, interfacing with other
MediorNet frames via fibre.
Riedel also presented the MN-STAL-2, the company's new MediorNet
expansion card for Studer consoles.
The MN-ST-AL-2 card provides
two ports, each with redundant
interfaces, for connecting Studer
mixing consoles via the Studer
A-Link protocol. In this way, the
consoles become an integrated
part of the entire signal distribution
infrastructure.
Clear-Com highlights included
the new ProGrid, the ﬁbre-based
infrastructure system that enables
users to transport and distribute
audio, intercom, video signals and
control data, and two new HelixNet
partyline user devices that expand
the digital network partyline platform.
ProGrid is based on the open
AES3 and AES10 (MADI) standards,
providing fibre-based transport,
routing and format conversion
as well as distribution of audio,
intercom, video signals and control
data with full management and
diagnostic capabilities over the
Optocore and SANE platform.

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Clear-Com highlights included the
new ProGrid system

HelixNet is billed as the industry's
first digital network partyline
intercom system, designed to
"provide exceptional audio quality,
flexibility, ease of use, and an
expandable platform".
Edmund Song, Regional Sales
Manager, Clear-Com, said: "The
HelixNet system is winning great
favour with customers who
appreciate the simplistic yet featurerich design of this much expanded
system. The new units offer more
user options for supporting certain
workﬂow or system setup."
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